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5 Responses to “Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands”

1. As I am sure most who read this review, I know, Harvest Moon is a series that over ten years old and includes many platforms (mostly elderly) is. It has a strong following, but the games are not hard to get into for newcomers. But before I continue, those of you who like immediate gratification and / or aversion to repetition would do well to stay away. Basically, one starts with a plot, with the weeds, rocks and logs is covered. Your task is to clear out and plant crops to make money and improve your farm in general. There are four seasons with 30 days in each, and harvest crops with the seasons, plants and water them when the time is ripe.

   But there is still much more to the game than that! The focus of the game collects stones, so as to increase new islands. One of them is the Volcano of Iceland, which allows you to me, and another is the Animal Iceland, where you wild animals that feed resources can collect for you. There is much to do, of which some net Sun Stones: You can chop wood and use it to update your company (with such upgrades as a chicken coop, a barn and a kitchen), protects the residents throw new islands the marriage through the collection according to Steiner, to get animals to care for your business and earn from resources, cook, collect recipes, fish, mine, give festivals and much more. These things take time, but if you plan right, you can continually improve and find your business to fill new things in your time on the islands. But this complex game to be played without a solution, I suggest searching the Internet for a good guide. (No need to pay money for a game guide, are readily available online good!)

   To do even with all this stuff, the game can get slow, especially in winter if you do not plant crops. Therefore, go in winter, a pretty good time, fisheries and mining, as they both use up stamina, which would otherwise be used for agriculture. It is to catch 143 fish, and if you catch many different fish depending on how often you fish, what time of day you are your location and the fishing. The actual act of fishing is basically just waiting to appear for an exclamation point on the head of your character and quickly press the “Y” key, but in a way it’s still fun. (Keep these reflexes sharp!) Do I have to say not too much, mining, except that it is an exercise in frustration if you do not do pack enough food to keep your stamina high.
   < br /> The care of your pets is pretty funny. Feed them, brush them, take them to milk, shear them, and they occasionally PET with the stylus. The horse and dog have their own little festival mini game that you can for practice.

   The graphics of the game are a nice step from HMDS and HM Cute, go for a DS-friendly occur instead of the GBA-style graphics from the others. The sound has a nice melody, merry, it is not memorable, but fortunately, does not get repetitive. The controls work very, controls you an option to traditional button controls and stylus. I find that a combination of them works great.

   To this sum, HMSI is a game that will be long time fans of the HM series of cheap and probably for open-minded newcomers, it is too much fun. Repetition does occasionally rear its ugly head, but long time fans will not be disturbed by this obvious, and newcomers who have done their research to rely upon such. Happy farming!

   S. Gibson
   April 15th, 2010

2. This game is so much better than Iceland of Happiness. You raise Collet sunstone specific islands, the characters open their doors. [Island fungus, animal island volcanic island, etc.], you will make friends of sun stones villagers and earn their trust. A nice feature is that animals come in different colors-

   Chickens: Black, White
   cows: Black & White, Brown & White
   Sheep: white, brown

   
   
   Dog: light brown / white, brown and white
   Cat: black & white have
   White Pig: black & pink, pink
   Horse: white, brown />
   
   

   N. Wellsfry
   April 15th, 2010

3. I’m a fan of the Harvest Moon series for ages. And I was very satisfied with Iceland of Happiness disappointed. But this game is a huge improvement. You must NOT use the stylus (you can use it if you want). Very funny, new characters, old characters. It is basically a remake of John iii. So, if you hated Iceland of Happiness, you will not be disappointed! When you decide whether you should get this or Iceland of Happiness. Go for Harvest Moon: Island Sunshine.

   Katie Young
   April 15th, 2010

4. My opinion is biased, as I have played just about any of these games.

   Pen Tool In contrast to Iceland of Happiness, you are not bound to the pin, which was annoying. BUT! You must go to in and out of it, and if you’re used to how it works in IOH, it seems somewhat pointless.

   Otherwise, it is almost the same game, only with even more stuff and without trouble, every single person (that was a good experiment, to find bad in practice) and they give you wheat and rice in order with the cook top. It as everything is fixed, that many things were angry at IOH, but they feel like an extension and not a remake.

   It is still not as good as older titles, but it is a wonderful addition to the series.

   Nicole Peters
   April 15th, 2010

5. The game follows the Harvest Moon formula without deviating much, for better or worse. Fishing, mining, animal and friendship systems are simple and unimaginative. These include the minimum of interaction, and while the characters are more attractive than ever before, is the character development as poor as ever. The few highlights are the stylus-based mini-games with the animals that give their flavor to care for them, and the more complicated weather for crops, which are necessarily accompanied by a FAQ if you have something growing on the most hope simple cultures.

   The gameplay is extended and significantly slowed by artificial barriers, such as unprecedented high prices for services (such as house and home upgrades, new development areas and the like) and one point for agriculture, mining and fishing. The Harvest Moon games are, at their heart, management games, and for me the fun is always the knowledge that if I plan well enough – to use every square inch of space on my farm have been efficiently and diligently to build friendships – I can get ahead. That can not happen in this game. No matter how well you do, you have to crawl into the game’s pace and accept that you will not be able to until you’ve met before the game the system any point.

   If it is not doing a whole lot right, but it does not do much wrong. It’s done, play for me, although it rather dull with the series, and the slow pace of works for a portable game, because you can leave it for a few days and collect it later, to forget and not worry what you were doing. It pays to play for a fan of the series and can provide for someone that likes the style of the game great, but has nothing of the past Harvest Moon games played, and so can not see the features that the previous games and improved were in the left.

   The one black mark against the game I have really is racism. It is unintentional, but it’s there. It is an exotic Asian woman in expensive clothes from the mysterious “Far East”, where “everyone dressed like this.” And is one of the two dark-skinned people in the game a primitive savages who speaks broken English, lives in a hut and wears tiger-skins and spends his days hunting. (Think from a cross between an old racist cartoons Buschmann and Native American, as you might see in an old 50s movie.) Most of the players might not notice, but it made me uncomfortable and I could have done without him. < br />

   Iris L. Parker
   April 15th, 2010