Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness DS to celebrate its publisher's ten-year anniversary
Special edition announced by Natsume
Harvest Moon from developer and publisher Natsume has been going now for ten years, and to celebrate it's making another entry in the series.
Isn't that a bit like celebrating the end of the working week by going to work? Possibly, but who are we to complain when it means DS is getting a new Harvest Moon game.
Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness is it and as ever it sounds packed with good wholesome farming and family-making. This time, though, the game takes place on a deserted island which the player has found themselves shipwrecked on, and they're tasked with building up a desert island paradise from the humble tools of an abandoned farm and a handful of seeds.
That sounds like more than enough work to us � we'd just be concentrating on making a fire to attract someone's attention and get us off the island. Fast.
Anyway, players will need to harvest crops, raise animals, mine for precious gems and then attract settlers. Eventually, they'll end up with a town filled with people, businesses and eligible bachelors and bachelorettes.
Actually, maybe it doesn't sound so bad after all.
The game will apparently be the largest portable Harvest Moon yet and players will be able to compete against other over wi-fi.
There will also be a Wii game released at the same time called Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility (pictured).
Just to get into the anniversary-celebrating spirit, when the game is released later this year it will come complete with special packaging, plush toy pre-order gifts and a DS Lite kit which includes a protective cover, stylus and screen wipe amongst other things. What more could you ask for that's not a big tractor to make your life in the game easier? Click 'Track It!' to be kept up to speed on the development of the latest Harvest Moon.
