Harvest Moon: Animal Parade for Wii and Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands for DS add new features to the Harvest Moon series and will both be playable at E3.
Today, Natsume officially announced two new Harvest Moon games that will be released before the end of the year. Harvest Moon: Animal Parade for Wii will be released in the fall, while Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands for DS will be released this summer. Both games will be playable at E3 in June.
Both games will continue the general Harvest Moon storylines, but with new characters and features added in. Animal Parade will utilize WiiConnect24 and enable players to share photos. It will also domesticate previously wild animals, such as penguins, pandas, and monkeys. The Harvest Moon staples, such as farming and courting, will still be present.
In Sunshine Island for the DS the player must raise the previously sunken Sunshine Islands by collecting Sun Stones. By doing so, new characters and places will be unlocked, furthering the story and expanding gameplay. Sunshine Island will retain characters from last fall's Island of Happiness, and introduce new characters as well. Once again, all of the standard Harvest Moon gameplay features will be there.
