Puzzle de Harvest Moon (DS)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 2.0 stars Mediocre
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 4.0 (2.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Frank Provo
• Reviewed on: 11/26/2007
• Released on: 11/06/2007
• Originally published on GameSpot: Puzzle de Harvest Moon (DS) Review

Puzzle de Harvest Moon tries to make a competitive puzzle game out of the sorts of farm-related activities that normally occur in the Harvest Moon role-playing games. Up to four players compete to see who can plant, nurture, and harvest crops on a small plot of land. The game is very simple in that each step takes just a second or two and requires only a couple taps of the stylus. Unfortunately, the designers took the simplicity too far. There's hardly any depth or strategy involved, so the whole thing is really just an exercise to see which player can scribble the fastest.

The puzzle board on the touch screen contains a plot of land measuring seven squares wide and five squares high. To the right of the puzzle board is an action menu that contains five randomly generated items, such as seeds, watering cans, fertilizer bags, buckets, and farm animals. When you tap one of these items and then tap a space on the game board, you perform that action on that space.

To represent the four seasons, matches last four rounds, and players score points by harvesting crops during each of those rounds. To create crops, you first have to plant seeds on one of the board squares then water and fertilize them. When you want to harvest a square, you can use a bucket item to grab the veggies automatically or rapidly scribble the stylus back and forth on the touch screen to haul in your crop. If you drop an animal on the game board, it will harass other players by eating their seeds or slowing their harvesting efforts. Players have to share the same game board and everything happens at breakneck speed in real time.

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