GamesRadar - Harvest Moon: On an Island With You [import]

New Moon rising (Feature)

Jun 11, 2007

With more hoeing than Father Christmas, the Harvest Moon games have been providing fine farming fun on Nintendo consoles for ten years. We caught up with creator Yasuhiro Wada to ask him about the series. How did the original idea for Harvest Moon come about? Yasuhiro Wada: I was born and grew up in the countryside, so I wanted to show the appeal of that lifestyle to other people - at the time, there was no such game that showed how good it was to live in the country, so that was one reason. ...

Cow-tipping with Harvest Moon (Feature)

Apr 17, 2007

Yasuhiro Wada sowed the seeds that would grow to be Harvest Moon, the successful and long-running farming simulator that's been flourishing ever since its 1997 SNES debut. Still going strong in 2007, the series has made the jump to DS and PSP, and there's even one on the way for Wii. Happy to discuss his work, Wada flew to the UK to see our sister site CVG for a quick chat. Harvest Moon may look like a child's game but it's a deep, complicated challenging affiar. What's your philosophy behind ...

Harvest Moon: On an Island With You [import] (Review)

Mar 12, 2007

Lets get this straight. Weve been shipwrecked, were forced to run the only farm on the island - and were the only ones visibly purchasing anything from anyone, which means that were single-handedly maintaining this islands economy? Thats a lot of pressure. Then, to rub sea salt into the wounds, other people gradually arrive and move onto the island out of choice, and at no point does anyone say “Hey, where were you headed before the shipwreck? Perhaps I can give you a ride?” Oh no - ...

Harvest Moon: On an Island With You [import] (Screenshots)

Mar 12, 2007