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problems

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i still don't know where i can find the boat?they gace me just a few information...they said the boat is hiding somewhere..but i still can't find it!and there just only two kind of the animals that i can buy from the farm ove the other island!only cows and horses!everytime i tried to buy some chickens and sheeps!
is anybody can tell me what is going on?

Harvest Moon 3

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Harvest Moon 3 is the bomb game! You have to befriend the people inntown, and they don't always say the same thing OVER and OVER again. The only thing is you have to get your own boat if you want to go to the market. Things can get kind of boring, but the events are fun! Plus you don't have to build the barns and you can have up to I think 8 animals of each! I'm really 13, but this game is for ALL ages! The best game so far for Harvest Moon is Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.
Hope you have fun with yours because I lost mine,
anonomous

Wow! The hardest (but still good) HM yet!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: July 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've been a big fan of the Harvest Moon series all along. But when I came across a used cartridge of this game, I just had to buy it. Harvest Moon is what I would cal; "A whole other door into RPG fun". The idea of raising a farm sounds stupid, but once you play this game- you will be hooked.

Graphics (4/5) If you have played HM2, you'll notice a similarity in the graphics. They are still the same, with small details within the weeds, stones, etc. A good option for this game is that you can choose the farmer's clothes... suiting to your liking of the graphics. I find this system really neat! Overall, the graphics are the standard ones, but I love changing the colors of the outfits!

Controls: (4/5)- Alright, since this is a GBC game, the controls are simple simple simple. Hold B to run, and A to use tools. Its that easy to control your farmer! The only thing is that choosing the tools involves pressing select, then pressing A, then pressing select over the tool you want, then pressing B, and press select to close the menu. Also, you have to hold B and a direction to run, which gets your finger hurting and can damage your GBC/GBA in minutes.

Gameplay (5/5) I find the gameplay in this game just terrific! Farming may not sound so great, right? But it is amazingly addicting!

Also, this game has a big change from the other gameboy games. To start, you can get married to your partner who you were trying to help out. Also, there is a totally different island to go on that is for shopping, watching movies, etc. There are a number of cutscenes, and I like the fact that they mean something- rather than just to have fun.

Crops are another feature that differs from the other games. In HM3GBC , you have a shovel in which you can dig a pond and spring up. You can use this shovel to make waterways in your fields so you can plant the one of a kind crop- rice.

Now animals take the spotlight. A new animal is avalible in this game- a horse. But not just one, but eight of them you can own. This game also offers a unique breeding system. Instead of a miracle potion, you have to put two opposing gendered animals in this corner of your barn. Basically, breeding is free and efficiant to raising a successful farm.

Finally, instead of slowly upgrading your house and starting with furniture, it is the other way around. You buy furniture for a huge house... but at a costly price. In this game, you gotta work hard to succeed, or else you will fail.

Replayability- (3/5) Most Harvest Moon games have great replay value. However, this game wouldnt have what I consider "hours of replay". There are tons of upgrades for your house and everything, but once you get all of the upgrades, the idea of farming is useless. What does the money go to? Buying seeds. Where do the seeds go? In the bin to make a profit. When you have everything, though, what is the use of a profit.

Overall-(4/5) Overall this game is worth every penny. With over 50 new features, this game is a total blast. I would highly recommend this for long car trips, as the gameplay lasts for 30+ hours. If you ever see this game on amazon or at another retailor, pick it up. This game is VERY VERY rare and hard to find nowadays, as very few copies were made. For those of you who haven't played the series, and are looking for a challenge, get this game for sure!

Harvest Moon 3

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: October 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Harvest Moon 3 is a great game compared ta the other HM games on game boy. In this game you get ta choose different animals like 3 different dogs, a pig, and a eagle and you can more then 1 hoarse amd race them in different racing competions. Theres a new tool the shovel and allows you to dig the ground. Theres a new mini-game snowboarding. Theres an aquarium to see the fish's you have caught and theres a movie theater. You are able ta use a knapsack(just like Harvest Moon:BTN).

A great Harvest Moon game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best Harvest Moon game I've ever played. I had HM1(harvest moon) HM3 and the N64 Harvest Moon, but this one was probably the most enjoyable.
Most people who hear about this series are like, "A farming game? You're kidding, right?" But it really is fun and addictive. This game is fun, unlike any other type of game that you look back at after you've spent over 50 hours of your life playing and think, "Why did I play that? I had a ton of things that I coulda been doing istead," but this one is worth it. I think that this one (HM3) has an advantage over the platform ones like "Save the Homeland" and HM64 by letting you actually choose whether you are a boy or girl.
You get to have your very own farm with sheep, horses, cows, and chickens. The girl mainly takes care of the animals and the boy does the crops.
They both can feed the animals and gather eggs and work in the fields. If you leave your chickens outside overnight, they sometimes get eaten and all you find is a feather. How cruel!
The only big disatvantage of being the girl is that the game ends when you get married. For the boy, you can keep going forever and have two kids. The boy's tools can get upgraded as he uses them more, which in my opinion is slightly unfair. For example, instead of only being able to hoe one square, he can do three suqares to sow crops on as it gets upgraded. If you play the girl, you can tell the boy to work in certain areas, but at first you end up doing more than half the work yourself if you want it done right. If you're playing the girl, never let the boy plant seeds because he wastes them on places where he hasn't hoed.
Most descriptions of the game say that it's great how you can get married, but it makes your game end for the girl, but not the boy which is totally unfair. (I thought that needed to be restated)
It is nice, however, how you can even catch lots of different types of fish and travel to places like the woods.
This game is probably worth buying if you can find it at a pretty good price, or if you have already played harvest moon. Get this game if you like animals or farms or outdoors, or ANYTHING because it is really fun and lasts a long time.
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature is totally cool as well, much better in almost every aspect compared to the N64 version, although they're both very good.

Lotsa fun but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Highly addictive game! I really enjoyed this game, but the booklet they provide isn't very informative. I've never played the series before, and I finally had to go online to figure out what my game objectives were. I mean, your biggest objective is to get married, and it's not even mentioned in the booklet!

I liked this gme!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty neat!! You can have 8 horse of different colors, 8 cows of different colors, 8 chickens (tho they are ALL white they change gold after a while!) and eight sheep of all the same color tho... But you can get married have two kids ( a boy first and then a girl ) you can tell when shes going to be pregnant when she says she has a dream about a stork. then he announces she is gonna be pregnant a few days after the dream!! Then she cant work for two months.. :( I have never played the old ones but this one is great!! It gets a lil boring after you play it five times and then it says like "oh sorry were gonna have to sell the farm!!!" i got SO mad but than like i tried again and it gets better every time! You make more money being the girl but if you get pregnant than you cant play and you dont have power ups like the boy does....... I LOVED IT!!!

Harvest Moon 3 "Farming at its Finest"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 52 / 58
Date: July 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well all you Harvest Moon fans out there are in for a treat. This fall natsume plans to realese the third Harvest Moon game in the exciting trilogy. With great new features like the ability to marry, new shops and items are available too. Guess what, farming fun is just getting started because there are many new townfolk to interact with as well. Yet another plus for the third outstanding game in this trilogy is, it allows more entertainment on the home front(with more animals to raise ,like horses, and new tools like the horse brush, this game has picked the Natsume standard up a notch.) On top of that the carpenter may have a few suprises for you as well. New areas to explore are a small treat compared to the joy you'll have exploring them. New annual events keep you on your toes(or should I say thumbs,) along with the classics. If you're looking for a game everyone will take in their hearts and love forever, this is the one. Moreover, you can upgrade your gaming experience by playing on the brand spankin' new GAMEBOY ADVANCE! If you're ready to get your hands dirty and dig in to Harvest Moon 3, it just might be your pick of the fall gaming crop!!

The Best Harvest Moon Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 29 / 29
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the best harvest moon game ever.I got the game as a Christmas present.You can choose to be a boy or a girl and the other one will be your partner.If you are a boy you can harvest crops,clear fields,water plants and more stuff in the field.If you are a girl you can feed animals,milk cows,sheer sheep,and gather eggs.You have a better farm with two crop fields,A bigger house,Horse,Cow,Chicken and sheep barns,wood shed,shorage shed where you store produce, a spa that you will have to dig,and more.Your house is bigger and has more stuff like two beds,a telephone,a bookshelf where you can read books,and a table.You can buy more stuff for your house like a TV,rugs,a crib,flower pots.You have a better town that you can Talk to people and give them stuff and sometimes they will give you something like a fishing rod.There is a ferry there that takes you to the mainland where to can Buy stuff,watch a movie,Sell your produce at the farmers market,The shopping mall is where you buy your seeds,Home inprovements,Eat at the restarant,buy farm stuff, and more.There is a another store called the Farmers Union and this place sells animals,Grass seeds you can Get a part time job here,
there is a bank where you can put money in and take some out as you need it and this store buys your produce.the telephone in your house is how you sell your produce.And there are more crops like rice and wheat that you can grow.Other places include grasslands where you can Pick berries,chop wood,and you can snowboard here in the winter.other places are the cliff where you can Take your girlfriend on dates and sometime you can get married.The forest is where you can go fishing.And the other place is the mountians but I have not figured it out yet.And One more place on the mainland is a aquarium where you can donate your fish that you catch.And you can go see them.And one more thing. you can Build your own boat.This is a fun fun game and thats why I rate it 5 stars.

I love harvest moon!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 22
Date: July 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In this version of harvest moon, an evil corporation is trying to take over the farm. you say you will take care of the farm and you are told that you will have a partner to work with you (depending on whether your a boy or a girl is what your partner will be). The girl take care of the animals, but can also do work in the fields, but isnt as fast as the boy. when you start out as a girl, you have one adult female cow in your barn. dont forget about her or she will die after 3 days of neglect! when you are the boy, you dont have any animals to start with. the girl and the boy have some of the same tools, and some different tools. But best of all, you can get married in this game and have kids! ive heard you can have 2 kids in this game. and unlike harvest moon 64, you can have up to 8 horses of various colors and you can ride all of them! you can have 8 of each animal (sheep, cows, horses, and chickens) and there are new tools you can buy like a mayonaisse maker, cheese maker, sweater maker, yarn maker, and butter maker! and there are new crops like wheat, rice, sweet potatoes, watermelons,asparagus, and many flowers. you can get a part time job at the farmer's union on the mainland, and if you make friends with the fishermen in the village, they will give you your own boat which you can use for sailing, fishing, going to the mainland, and eventually visiting marla the mermaid in her cave.... have fun!!!

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