Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming

Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming
Developer(s)Platinum-Egg Inc.
Namco Networks (BlackBerry)
Publisher(s)
Namco Networks (BlackBerry)
Director(s)Takashi Miyasaka
Masato Takano
Producer(s)Yoshifumi Hashimoto
Hikaru Nakano
Yoji Yano
Artist(s)Igusa Matsuyama
Composer(s)Yukio Nakajima
SeriesHarvest Moon
Platform(s)BlackBerry, Nintendo DS, iOS, Android
ReleaseiOS[1]
  • NA: August 7, 2009
Nintendo DS[2]
  • NA: August 25, 2009
  • EU: December 3, 2010
  • AU: December 23, 2010
BlackBerry[3]
  • NA: March 31, 2010
Genre(s)Puzzle

Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming is a farming puzzle video game developed by Platinum-Egg Inc. It was released for Nintendo DS and iOS on August 25, 2009.[4] At E3 2011, Natsume announced the game would be ported to Android in Summer 2011.[5] The game features twelve playable characters along with Download Play Multi-Player for the Nintendo DS version.[6]

Plot

The players compete to gather vegetables to fix a mysterious glowing tower that is causing vegetables to sprout at random all over Sunny Island. The story is told through the point of views of twelve characters: Mark, Chelsea, Vaughn, Pierre, Sabrina, Elliot, Natalie, Shea, Lanna, Julia, Denny, and Witch Princess. In the end, all the crops disappear; Witch Princess's story reveals that she had touched a stone slab that controls the tower, which in turn deactivates it. In the end, a festival is held as a celebration.[7]

Reception

Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming received mainly positive critical reception upon release. Lauren Ronaghan of Nintendo World Report praised the game's puzzle elements, calling the game "immense fun", and while GamePro's Aaron Kohn agreed on the strong puzzle gameplay, he noted the game's unequal distribution in difficulty.[9][11] Nintendo Power and Official Nintendo Magazine gave the game an 8 out of 10 and 75% respectively. GameZone's Derek Buck concluded that although Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming does not offer much in innovation, the gameplay is where it excels.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming iPhone Release Date". Gamespot. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
  2. ^ "Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming DS Release Dates". Gamespot. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
  3. ^ "Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming BlackBerry Release Date". Gamespot. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
  4. ^ Harris, Craig (2009-06-04). "E3 2009: Harvest Moon Comes to iPhone". IGN. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  5. ^ "Natsume E3 2011 Brochure" (PDF). Natsume. Retrieved 2011-07-19.
  6. ^ "Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming Ripe For The Picking At Retail" (PDF). Burlingame, California: Natsume. August 25, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 3, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
  7. ^ "Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming for DS". GameFaqs. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  8. ^ a b "Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming for DS Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
  9. ^ a b Kohn, Aaron (2009-08-25). "GamePro review". GamePro. Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
  10. ^ a b Buck, Derek. "GameZone review". GameZone. Archived from the original on 2009-10-11. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
  11. ^ a b Ronaghan, Lauren (2009-09-27). "NintendoWorldReport review". NintendoWorldReport. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
  12. ^ "Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming for DS". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
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