

If you get the love bangle from the Harvest Sprites 'Casino', one can see how much affection points each gift is worth for your future wife. For some of the bachelorettes, certain things are required in order to meet them so you can eventually marry/befriend them. There are fifteen eligible bachelorettes in all. Buildings built out of golden lumber are indestructible. Buildings built out of stone may collapse after storms bad enough that you cannot leave your house, but are quite sturdy in most cases. Buildings built out of wood can collapse after rain. Buildings built out of fodder are susceptible to unprompted collapse. Not only do you choose where to place the building, but what material to build it out of, a factor affecting your building's sturdiness.

Some new features include the ability to choose where on your land you would like to build your barn, lumber shed, etc. The game makes use of the Nintendo DS' touchscreen capabilities for accessing the backpack, diary and other handy features as well as a few minigames. Harvest Moon DS reuses character sprites from Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town for those returning characters, but includes new sprites for characters from Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and the town from said game. You must rescue the Harvest Sprites, the Harvest Goddess, and break the Witch Princess's spell. The Witch Princess has banished the Harvest Goddess to another dimension along with the valley's 101 Harvest Sprites. While doing all this, there is another task you have to complete. While doing this you also befriend the local townsfolk and woo one of the town's girls, eventually marrying her and raising a family. Your job is to build upon this farm by growing crops, milking cows and building different structures that ultimately help gain more money. Like most Harvest Moon games before it, you take control of a young man who owns a run down farm in Forget-Me-Not Valley.
