Video Games : Farm Life (Nintendo DS)

Rating: - good creative fun
I bought this game for my 9 yr son, (a farmers son!). He loves playing this game, it is quite versatile in the way you can create the sort of farm you want. He bought all the tractors and implements as soon as he had earned enough money to do so. I am about to buy this game for my 8 yr old niece who will be buying all the animals she can. My son spends more time playing this game than any other he has.

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Rating: - Farm Life
This game is very addictive. Having played the Harvest Moon series in this game you get to have a tractor plus you get different awards for everything you achieve in the game.

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Rating: - Boring - A Very Basic Game
This is the type of game you keep playing because you are sure things will get better having just spent over £20 on it. Having played it on 6 short train journeys (well there was nothing else to do) I have had enough.
There is a severe lack of depth and flexibility. You basically have to follow a set of rules but you are not really given the chance to break the rules either. For example you can plough a field that you have just planted with seeds and it will not affect it. It is not possible to release any animals from their barns and the same cow gets sick every time. You cannot get off your tractor unless you take it to the garage.

You cannot turn the music off. The instructions are quite difficult to follow.

Thinking that something must be good I decided to try the two player element where you can visit another player's farm - what a waste of time. You can walk around their farm, which looks a lot like your own - not surprising with the lack of content I guess.

I would not recommend this game to anybody. Harvest Moon was better, and I beleive there is a new version of that coming out soon. Don't waste your money on this game.