As anyone who’s ever played a Harvest Moon game will know, having a surfeit of vegetables is rarely an issue - certainly to begin with. Yet that’s precisely the problem in Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming, a puzzle-based twist on the green-fingered series we all know and love. (And sometimes hate.)

It’s set in the world of the most recent DS release - the excellent Island of Happiness - and most of the game’s key characters are present, as they attempt to gather matching vegetables from the ever-growing crop (sounds like GM gone mad to me). It looks to be something of a tile-matcher with a few tweaks to the standard three-in-a-row formula - which Natsume’s press release unfortunately fails to detail.

Players can pick one of twelve characters, with the game’s story mode changing according to who you choose. There are Mission, Score Attack and Free Play modes, multiplayer options, and bags of unlockables including some adorable/chundersome character art, depending on which side of the cute/puke fence you sit.

It’s out in the US this May.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 at 9:06 pm by Chris Schilling
Cutesy, DS, Forthcoming titles, harvest moon.