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Obviously what you wouldn't expect from a harvest moon game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: January 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

How would I even describe this game.

It's basically a race to see who can harvest the most from a square of soil.

You and your opponents have to use various items semi-randomly appearing in the list in the side to make the plants grow and harvest them.

When you plant seeds you gain possession of the square allowing you to gain a head start in the chance to harvest it when it ripens (based on other items applied to the square.)

You can of course steal each others squares, the first method being an Othello/Reversi like method, the second using the horse (one of the several animal options) that may be available from your list of usable items.

Even the beginner level computer players can be a little on the difficult side, and the pace is near frantic. This may discourage many younger players. Some player ages 13-19 may have trouble seeing past the "storybook appearance" to see there is an actual difficult and fun game. Of course, these are the same players that would have missed out on the fun of the other Harvest Moon games.

All in all, this is a very fun game, but it seems to have a drastically different game-play style than the other Harvest Moon games, and has obviously not had as much time invested in it. That's not to say it's not a good game, it's just to say don't expect a slow paced Farming Sim out of this game.

cute game, needs storyline...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased Puzzle de Harvest Moon brand new for $[...], and I'm not entirely sure it's worth more than $[...]. While I'm a sucker for anything Harvest Moon, PdHM has very little to hold your attention, having no storyline and very few of the endearing qualities the other HM games have had.

It's basically a screen-scrubbing game; you play as one of twelve characters (Pete, the male protagonist, Clair, the female protagonist, and any of the ten normal bachelor(ette)s: Doctor, Rick, Kai, Cliff, Gray, Elli, Popuri, Mary, Karen, or Ann). You're given a selection of items (seeds, watering can, fertilizer, basket, the occasional animal) and a plot of land that all four players share and try to milk the most out of in the time limit. If four minutes isn't enough frantic scribbling for you, there are several amounts of time you can set it for.

There are four seasons, and you play through all four, planting and harvesting different crops according to season. (Unlike Friends of Mineral Town, the crops from the last season can be harvested in the current one.) You plant a seed, water it, dump fertilizer on it, and then harvest it by either rubbing it repeatedly with your stylus or using a basket for an instant harvest.

Unfortunately, your crops are open to any of the four players to harvest. They only get half the points for it, but they do get something, which is rather annoying if you've been frantically raising crops and a CPU steps in with a couple of baskets and snatches them all up. (If you're feeling lazy, this can work in reverse, as stealing your opponent's crops can be very satisfying.)

The animals add a (sometimes) welcome element of surprise; having a CPU put a golden dog on the screen will prevent you from harvesting any crops there for a set amount of time (the dog normally guards a 2x2 plot, but gold animals take over the screen). This can be either good or bad, as the easier CPUs don't seem to realize that this is their chance to take over the world, or at least the little plot of land you're all fighting over.

There are several modes of play: Normal, Team, Quota, and Survival, all of which involve the same basic principle: harvest, harvest, harvest! Again, there's no storyline, so it can be a bit dull at times.

Pros:
- Really cute art (I play as the Doctor!)
- Fast pace
- Easy to learn
- Catchy music
- C'mon, it's Harvest Moon!

Cons:
- Music doesn't change much (as far as I've played) so it gets repetitive after a short time
- No storyline
- Frustration tends to set in after your crops are stolen for the hundredth time
- Lots and lots of stylus work (hurts your arm, wears out your screen fast)

So... if you're a real HM fanatic, and you've got nothing else to do, go ahead and splurge on PdHM. I just don't recommend paying more than $[...] or so for it.

Don't buy this game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love harvest moon and I love puzzle games.

So what could be best? a harvest moon puzzle game... it was like they made a game just for me... not!

this game sucks. what you have to do is take the stuff that scoll down on the side (like tetris), you will have a seed, a watering can, fertilizer bag or basket.

you have a board that's a garden. you are always playing against someone that's also using the same board.

you plant a seed and then water it twice and fertilize it twice and then it grows to a vegetable. then you have to rub it to "gather" the vegetable you just made.

your vegetable is only locked (meaning only you can rub it) for a few seconds than anyone you are playing against can rub it. well there are other things like animals show up on the tetris side bar thing that can mess you or your oppoent up.

i found it really hard to keep track of my vegetables because you don't want to put them too close together because when an animal shows up it could take up only a 2x2 square and if you have them close all your vegetables could be locked up. then you forget about vegetables because everything happens so fast so you just lost a batch.

what i figured out which is the only way i see winning the game is just rubbing the screen as much as possible, in hopes a vegetable from your opponets will unlock and you can grab it, since the AI sucks in this game, it's really easy to do that, I usually win by with double the next person score.

It gets really boring to just rub after a while, so it was only really playable for about 1 hours (20 minutes figuring how to play and win).

Do not get this game, there are a lot of other fun games out there, in fact why don't you just wait a month for the new harvest moon to come out.

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