Harvest Moon Wii details

By Ellie Gibson Published 10 August, 2006

DS sequel already planned.

New details have been revealed of how you'll play Harvest Moon using the Wii's remote controller - along with news that a second DS instalment in the series is on the way.

According to an article in Famitsu, partially translated by IGN, Harvest Moon Wii is set on an island this time. It was once home to the Harvest Goddess and a great tree, but one day she disappeared and the tree dried up.

With the help of the friendly Koropokuru sprites, it's your job to make the island all lush and beautiful and that, so that the Goddess will return and the tree will come back to life.

Which, of course, you'll do by giving it all Archers on your very own farm. You'll swing the Wii's remote like a hoe to plough fields, or tilt it towards the ground to use the watering can. You'll also wave the remote about to fish and to look after your animals. The d-pad will be used to switch tools, and by pressing down you can deactivate them - to avoid any risk of flooding your farm or hacking it to bits.

Famitsu also revealed that a second Harvest Moon DS game is in development - despite the fact that the first one isn't even out yet. Titled Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On, it'll let you experience what life's before you become a farmer.

You'll live on an island with your mum, dad, brother and sister. You'll be able to grow rice, and the touch screen will be used to move your character while the d-pad controls your tools. The game will link up with Harvest Moon Wii - but there's no word on how this'll work just yet.

Nor on when either game will be out - but the first Harvest Moon DS title is due to reach Europe by the end of the year.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • dk_rare #1 6 years ago

    Foist!

    Harvest Moon rules, Wii rules...

    I rule!

  • Golgo #2 6 years ago

    Hooray!

    The return of another franchise that allows you to fill your leisure time with a simulation of all the inescapable drudgery, grind and repetitiveness of real life. Mortgage, gardening, shopping, grooming...I'll display this proudly next to Animal Crossing and Nintendogs.

    ;)
    Edited by 1 at 10/08/06 @ 13:37

  • ManicDrunkMonk #3 6 years ago

    I'll be getting a Wii, but this series ran out of ideas after it's first incarnation.

  • Ginger #4 6 years ago

    "giving it all Archers"

    \o/

  • JSD124 #5 6 years ago

    "I'll be getting a Wii, but this series ran out of ideas after it's first incarnation. "

    Meh, hasn't stopped me coming back.

  • thehat #6 6 years ago

    it'll let you experience what life's before you become a farmer.

    ???

  • bunglebonce #7 6 years ago

    You'll swing the Wii's remote like a hoe to plough fields, or tilt it towards the ground to use the watering can. You'll also wave the remote about to fish and to look after your animals. The d-pad will be used to switch tools, and by pressing down you can deactivate them - to avoid any risk of flooding your farm or hacking it to bits.

    In my opinion this does not seem to be innovation encouraged by the hardware, but a game having to shoehorn its gameplay to fit the hardware. Which is what I feared when the details of the controller were announced publicly.
    Edited by 1 at 10/08/06 @ 18:11

  • Chim_chimma_nee! #8 6 years ago

    The maggot bloated zombie of connectivity rears its' maggot bloated head once again. Damn you Nintendo. DAMN YOU.

  • MadMirko #9 6 years ago

    bunglebonce, you make no sense.

    Harvest Moon has always been about hacking, plowing, fishing, feeding, etc. The use of the Wiimote will make that more intuitive for (currently) non-gamers, and more imersive for everyone. The gameplay is not shoehorned or changed in any way.

  • DWJE_216 #10 6 years ago

    Harvest Moon is a great series and it is great to see how the wiimote and the touch screen on DS can keep the series fresher. Even if they have 'run out of ideas'

    I am looking forward to the first Harvest Moon DS game but lets hope they are a bit more adventurous with the graphics for the second one.

  • chupachups #11 6 years ago

    "Harvest Moon has always been about hacking, plowing, fishing, feeding, etc. The use of the Wiimote will make that more intuitive for (currently) non-gamers, and more imersive for everyone. The gameplay is not shoehorned or changed in any way."

    I know, but is there really a "right" way to use a watering can? Do we really need it simulated in 3D?

    Fishing might be fun, but digging stuff doesn't sound like it involves any skill at all, and is a waste of the new controller.