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Release Dates:

US: 26 August 2008
EU: 12 December 2008

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Nintendo DS

PALGN: Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness Review

236 days 6 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | Cyrus365

PALGN writes: " We'll take this opportunity to admit that right off the bat, we haven't had a lot of experience with the Harvest Moon series, ...

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WorthPlaying Review: Harvest Moon: Island of Ha...

262 days 1 hour ago | Nintendo DS | Review | Shmammy

WP writes: "I never really understood the appeal of the Harvest Moon series - you plow a field, chop wood, and partake in other manual labor a...

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NowGamer: Harvest Moon: Island Of Happiness Review

275 days 5 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | Jack007

Imprecise controls mar the enjoyment slightly, otherwise this is one of the brightest Harvest Moons ever

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InsideGamer: Harvest Moon: IoH Review

321 days 16 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | BIoodmask

Harvest Moon is now ten years old and to celebrate Natsume has released Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness. After ten years, the concept remains the...

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324 days 11 hours ago | Gaming | Article | kevco33

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RandomNPC: Harvest Moon: IoH Review

325 days 19 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | BIoodmask

Island of Happiness, while it does some things differently, remains a Harvest Moon game and as such is unlikely to change anyone's mind about the s...

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Games2C: Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness Review

326 days 20 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | BIoodmask

There's plenty of attempts at giving the characters personality; but the mix of 2D and 3D, the clunky dialogue, the annoying stylus interface and a...

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ONM: Harvest Moon: Island Of Happiness Review

342 days 20 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | Cyrus365

ONM writes: "Harvest Moon first arrived in the UK ten years ago and although it has since been usurped by Animal Crossing, this series steadfa...

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The Creator Of Harvest Moon Inside Harvest Moon

344 days 2 hours ago | Nintendo DS | News | meepmoopmeep

Yasuhiro Wada, the man behind the Harvest Moon games and current President of Marvelous Interactive, cleared time out of his day to make a cameo in...

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Pocket Gamer: Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness...

367 days 2 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | Columbo

Life, it has often been observed, is not fair. If it were, lawyers wouldn't exist and then where would we all be? The particular unfairness in ques...

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Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness Comes to Europe

405 days ago | Industry News | News | kevco33

Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness, the second Harvest Moon release for NintendoDS which is published by Rising Star Games and distributed by Ninten...

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GamesRadar: Harvest Moon: IoH Review

412 days ago | Nintendo DS | Review | BIoodmask

Everything from movement to tool use and menu navigation is done via the stylus. It's all executed very nicely but surely the option for a D-pad-an...

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The Escapist: Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness...

425 days 12 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | Columbo

The only thing that may put a damper on your experience is the game's over-reliance on the DS' touch screen. Everything in the game is controlled u...

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Crispy Gamer: Harvest Moon: IoH Review

433 days 15 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | BIoodmask

The joy to be found in Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness is more like the joy of playing tic-tac-toe -- minimally interesting at first, but quickly...

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Diehard GameFAN: Harvest Moon: IoH Review

435 days ago | Nintendo DS | Review | BIoodmask

Island of Happiness would come easily recommended, but as it is, this will most likely only appeal to the same fanbase of gamers who like the other...

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GameZone: Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness Review

436 days ago | Nintendo DS | Review | skynidas

GameZone writes: "You would think that a game about looking after livestock, growing vegetables and working the land with a pickaxe would be i...

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CSM: Harvest Moon Island of Happiness Review

441 days 21 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | Jack007

CSM Writes: "While this simulation seems interesting at first, your jobs quickly become tedious and repetitive. And the new content unfol...

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Gamespot: Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness Review

442 days 17 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | Columbo

It was over 10 years ago that the first Harvest Moon game came out on the SNES, and in keeping with the series' sports-game-like longevity, Natsume...

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Natsume Hosts Drawing Contest in Honor of Harve...

449 days 1 hour ago | Nintendo DS | News | Catastrophe

IGN reports: Natsume, a worldwide developer and publisher of family-oriented video games, announced today that in celebration of the 10th anniversa...

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Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness Review at Che...

451 days 6 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | mmccc

CheatCC says: "This farming sim has been around for more than ten years, and it shows no signs of slowing down any time soon! This installment...

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1UP: Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness Review

453 days 17 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | BIoodmask

The Animal Crossing-like touch-screen controls (drag the stylus in the direction you want to move and pick up items by tapping the screen) are hard...

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Game Informer: Harvest Moon: Island of Happines...

454 days 22 hours ago | Nintendo DS | Review | TheWickedOne

Game Informer writes,"Farming, raising livestock, marrying people – none of this is a big surprise. What's different? I liked the idea of deve...

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First Harvest, a look back at the Harvest Moon ...

462 days 12 hours ago | Multi | Interview | macalatus

Natsume is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Harvest Moon franchise by releasing Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness for the Nintendo DS on Aug...

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