By today standards, Stardew Valley may have more to offer, but Friends of Mineral Town is a classic game that inspired similar games to be made in later console generations. Story of Season is the continuation of the series. It has a simpler gameplay. Current gen Harvest Moon games are not great as they are not made by the original developers.

I keep returning to this game because of how darn good it feels to achieve its goals in different ways and at different paces.

Not a great Harvest Moon game. I stile like it though. I'm stile waiting for that great Harvest Moon game for a portable system. The 3DS seems pretty promising. Anways about the game. Well the story is your family takes you out of the city and into the country. While your there you get lost, and find yourself on a farm/ranch. The farmer asked you if you were lost, and finds your phone number in your bag. He calls your parents, and once they find you the farmer askes you do want to stay here. Your parents say yes. Then you start playing on the farm/ranch and you enjoy it. You also meet a girl. Which I don't know who it is. Once you leave you start writting letters back and forth to each other. You and the farmer, and when he stopped writting you go back to the farm to see what was going on .When you get there the mayor tells you he's dead, and that this farm belongs to you because the farmer left it to you in his will, and you just stay there. Once the game begins you relize it's just like a portale Back to Nature. The music, and graphics are wonderful, but the game get really boring after about a couple of hours. That's a problem if that's the only game you bring on a road trip. You can't even atend the 1st festable because your dog is to small. So lets just say it's good, but not perfect.

This was a decent and unique harvest moon. The characters were memorable and the storyline was pretty intersesting. It sometimes can be hard to tell how much the girl likes you. It is fun to figure out what they like since there is no instruction book. I like it better than all the harvest moons on the DS. I recomend this to any GBA role playing/ strategy game fan

When I first saw this game I was having difficulty on if I should buy it or not. I was thinking since it was an older game that was made in like '06-'05(some where around that time) that I was not going to like it since I'm very use to the ps2 and the more current DS versions, and those platforms had better quality and graphics. I ended up buying it and I was right, the graphics were to be expected for that time period it was made by, but surprisingly I found myself barley able to put down my DS(yes, i played this game on my DS because i gave my SP to my older brother)! Granted I had to take some time and get use to the new controls and the lower quality of graphics, but that happens when you change gaming platforms. X3 The sound quality is pretty good, but I can live without it. The character design is also pretty good, and I like how they set up the town. The only thing I wasn't to happy about was the controls. I sometimes when I mean to, lest say, switch objects in my rucksack(when I'm already holding something) I sometimes end up throwing the item I was holding away and onto the street. >x< Over all though, this game is very good and very addicting.X3