Natsume’s E3 lineup featured eleventy billion new Harvest Moon games, all due out this year for just about any Nintendo platform you can think of. Here is Harvest Moon: My Little Shop, but check out for my reviews of Harvest Moon: Animal Parade, Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands and Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming.
Harvest Moon: My Little Shop (WiiWare, Q3 2009)
Congratulations! You are the proud owner of a brand spankin’ new shop in Clover Town, set in the Harvest Moon universe. The town is filled with many familiar Harvest Moon faces from the series, and you can interact with them. Decide what you’re going to sell and build you business to help the town grow and prosper. Will you make fruit juice? How about ice cream? Maybe decorating eggs is more your style.
In order to assemble your products, you have to play a variety of minigames. To make juice, you knock down the ingredients your customer has requested from a moving conveyor belt, then blend them to their desired consistency. Do a nice job and you’ll have a content customer (and some cash).
Use the money you make to buy loads of stuff to improve your stores and your products. Buy seeds to grow different fruits for newer and better juice mixes and tools to help improve your shops.
If you’ve explored all of the possibilities of Harvest Moon: My Little Shop and find yourself wanting more, you can download additional chapters via WiiWare.
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