harvest moon sunshine islands sun stones

A lot of the islands are good money-makers for your character, so there’s a genuine incentive to raise them. The premise of the game is that the Sun Stones are missing and finding them raises the various islands which were magically sunk. I was just longing for the days of the earlier games where that wasn’t the case.

The intro cutscene at the start of the game is boring as usual, wasting your time with villagers greeting you at your new farm. With slow text, the game would be more boring. Occasionally I feel like it pops up too fast and I press A so early that I end up missing what the villager was trying to say. Another immediate improvement over Harvest Moon DS is that the text scrolls much faster, like it SHOULD.

At least the game lets you use the buttons and Control Pad to name things if you so choose. This game reminds me of Magical Melody a little with the character designs and 3D graphics, but it’s got two major problems that are a constant annoyance the tool upgrade system, and the new weather system.

Harvest moon sunshine islands sun stones