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Video Games : Categories : Nintendo DS : Games : PC & Video Games,  Nintendo DS,  Type of Game,  Role Playing Games
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Square Enix
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Square Enix
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Nintendo
While gentler games like Nintendogs and Animal Crossing: Wild World have become the best selling games on the DS, the Harvest Moon series has been ploughing very much the same field for nearly a decade now. As always the game starts with you inheriting a farm and most of the game revolves maintaining and growing your crops of vegetables and herds of animals. You have to work pretty hard at it too, planting crops, watering them and then harvesting them. Animals have to be watered and feed too, eggs collected from chickens, cows milked and sheep shorn.Once you've tired yourself out with your daily chores though there's a whole village to explore around you, as you collect wood to make new buildings or harvest fruit and other rare items to sell at the shop and expand your business. Your main goal in town though is to find yourself a sweetheart and woo her enough so that she'll agree to marry you. As fun as all this is though it's exactly how the Harvest Moon games have worked since the original SNES game and this version takes almost no advantage of the DS.
The touch screen is used merely as an inventory and as a means to pet your animals - other than that it's almost entirely superfluous. Even worse, the graphics seem identical to a GBA game and not even a particularly good one at that, with some very poor animation. There are a few new features, such as a mini-casino run by the harvest sprites, but it's not nearly enough to tempt you if you have one of the more recent GBA versions. If you haven't though, it's a reasonable, if unambitious, introduction to the series.
HARRISON DENT
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Square Enix
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS A2: Grimoire of the Rift is a strategy and tactics game with battles, missions, swords, and sorcery, set in the universe of the hugely successful FINAL FANTASY series. Alone in a foreign world, Luso befriends a motley crew of monks, mages, archers, and soldiers. The only hope you have of finding your way home is to turn your ragtag group of misfits into a finely tuned fighting force. As you gain experience and reputation, your job options grow as well as the rewards. But after spending some time in Ivalice, you may never want to leave!
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Square Enix
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Nintendo
Princess Peach takes centre stage in this girl-powered platform game! Bowser has finally done the smart thing and kidnapped Mario, whisking him (and Luigi, too) away to his castle hideout on Vibe Island. But Bowser hadn't reckoned on Peach taking it so personally... Armed with her trusty parasol, Parry, Peach can whack Bowser's bad guys if they get too close for comfort, though she also has more womanly wiles to save the day. She can channel her emotional feelings into special abilities, allowing her to float on air when she's happy - handy for bypassing hazards. She can also set fire to flammable objects when she's riled. Even turning on the waterworks is a weapon for Peach - her tears can make plants grow huge. Climb up the newly grown vegetation and maybe you'll discover a new area! With classic side-scrolling action in the style of a Super Mario Bros. adventure, you'll collect coins and hunt out imprisoned Toads as you explore the 8 worlds, each containing 5 separate stages. But the game also makes use of the DS' capabilities, letting you interact with your environment using the stylus and touch screen. You can also build up Peach's Vibe powers by collecting gems, or by feeding stunned enemies to her magic parasol to absorb their powers. Koopas, Bullet Bills, Cheep-Cheeps and more infest the colourful locales of Vibe Island - look out for some amazing boss battles! Of course, whatever comes your way is no match for Princess power...
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Atari
In a nutshell:
The Tamagotchi craze looks like it's about to start all over again as the cute little critters start up in business on the DS, running dentist surgeries, flower shops and bakeries as they show the friendlier side of capitalism.The lowdown:
Despite the name this isn't really a virtual pet game, instead you pick one of three Tamagotchis to go into business with in one of 11 different shops. Each one has its own mini-game so that in the beauty shop, for example, you're given a photo of what the customer wants to look like and you have to apply make-up and accessories to get them as close as possible. The more you work the more "gotchi points" you earn to buy furniture, clothes and accessories for your Tamagotchi's house. The mini-games do get a bit repetitive in the end but the graphics, by the designer of PaRappa the Rapper, add a heavy dose of charm to proceedings.Most exciting moment:
The best mini-game is the dentist one, where you have to soothe toothaches, fill cavities and drill teeth. There's even a special Dental Salon shop to unlock that works like the Beauty Salon where customers ask you to give them special glazes or diamond studded pearlies.Since you ask:
In Japan Connexion Corner Shop has become the best selling DS game not published by Nintendo themselves, with over one million copies sold so far. A sequel is planned for this year.The bottom line:
Help the Tamagotchi pets pay their way in this simple but fun mini-game collection.
Harrison Dent
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Square Enix
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Nintendo
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Sierra
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Square Enix
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Konami
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Rising Star Games
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Rising Star
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Ubisoft
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Nintendo
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Konami
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Disney Interactive
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Game Factory
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Nintendo
