New Better Controls

[harvesting dude 3000]

i heard and saw the controls for the game i saw it on youtube japanese version i like the new controls but the haters are acting like pricks over the controls i'm looking forward to money glitches on this one too!

[Syvle]

glitches are annoying and destroy the fun of game itself <_<
anyway, money is easy on island, esp if you can get your hand on tons of pink diamonds and alexandrite inside mine
but lot of things cost much money too, like upgrading animal barns and refrigerator

[Emurii]

The controls are so bad. They are SO BAD.

And I mean, I'm used to them now, but objectively, they are SO BAD. If you were to, say, lose your stylus, you would no longer be able to play this game. (Although, tap-selection, that is amazing. I do appreciate being to tap what you want to pick up, and it actually picking up the correct thing, even when something else is on top of it.)

[malon212]

The controls are so bad. They are SO BAD.

And I mean, I'm used to them now, but objectively, they are SO BAD. If you were to, say, lose your stylus, you would no longer be able to play this game. (Although, tap-selection, that is amazing. I do appreciate being to tap what you want to pick up, and it actually picking up the correct thing, even when something else is on top of it.)

wow-awesome you say the controls suck but the only reason you give is because you have to use the stylus? could you give another reason why the controls are so bad?

[Emurii]

wow-awesome you say the controls suck but the only reason you give is because you have to use the stylus? could you give another reason why the controls are so bad?

Valid point

It's hard to explain if you haven't played it. As I believe I mentioned, the stylus is basically the entire game -- the only thing you DON'T use the stylus for is using tools. This (1) makes it very confusing to drop things on the ground: in all previous HM games, A button gave or threw the item. In KimiShima, using an item you hold will make you eat it, or try to eat it. You have to somehow understand that you're supposed to drag it onto the ground to put it back. This sucks for when you accidentally pick up an item you did not mean to pick up.

It is also (2) annoying to run at times, because you need to somehow navigate your stylus to the corner of the screen and make yourself run, and yet, there's the menu for what you're holding, in the corner of the screen. This happens to me a lot leaving Chen's shop.

(3) While I do agree that it is convenient, I don't really like the fact that you can give something to someone from across the screen. It loses that homey, one-on-one, close up feeling of gift giving in Harvest Moon.

(4) Once you select an item to hold (item as opposed to tool), you have to click on something else to hold to unselect it. So if you don't want to be carrying a fish or something around when you've accidentally tapped it, you sometimes have to go into your rucksack, equip a tool, and tap it, just to put the fish away -- because if you just click on the fish again, you automatically eat it, no "Eat? Yes/No" option.

(5) This isn't really controls, but things don't stack automatically, and you can't set them to. This is ANNOYING_AS_H.ELL and requires constant reorganization of the rucksack.

I mean, I love this game, I'm really into it -- don't let these issues sway you from purchasing the game. But the controls, they are _far_ from perfect, and you guys should know that, is what I'm saying.

[harvesting dude 3000]

I SAY the controls are easy just like zelda i mean how could they suck

[harvesting dude 3000]

1 more thing if you lose your stylus just use you finders are another stylus from something else just think stupid geez

[Ithonya]

Just wondering what is the gold glitch?

[Emurii]

1 more thing if you lose your stylus just use you finders are another stylus from something else just think stupid geez

1) Way to be a « Sheep Squeezer »

2) If you lose your stylus, the presumption is that you don't have another stylus. Otherwise, you wouldn't really have the problem. Using your fingers smudges up your DS screen like woah, and in KimiShima -- which, by the way, you have not played, and I have, so I think I know a little better here -- your fingers would be far too large to use as a stylus -- there's REALLY precise touch-select. I once accidentally threw a fish on the ground instead of giving it to Danny because of a stylus problem.

[harvesting dude 3000]

ok i misspelled fingers one THINK you must have no creativity wanna know why i lost my stylus many times playing zelda phantom hour glass did that stop me no i just use a lead pencil there we go ready to play again cause if you play zelda ohantom hour glass then harvest moon island should be no problem unlike ppl (you) you are just acting like a straight out d.umbass now call me somethin else i will crack on you like it's the end of the world

[harvesting dude 3000]

nails you your freaking nails like you have to use your FREAKING HEAD ppl like you dont get far in life really

[harvesting dude 3000]

(sry to other of constant posts but) ok you threw down a fish by mistake THATS ONE MISTAKE GO CATCH ANOTHER ONE IS IT REALLY LIKE TAKING THE S.A.T.S TRYIN TO CATCH A FISH REALLY cause if so i really wanna know

[Icewings]

The controls are so bad. They are SO BAD.

And I mean, I'm used to them now, but objectively, they are SO BAD. If you were to, say, lose your stylus, you would no longer be able to play this game. (Although, tap-selection, that is amazing. I do appreciate being to tap what you want to pick up, and it actually picking up the correct thing, even when something else is on top of it.)

[harvesting dude 3000]

wow-awesome you say the controls suck but the only reason you give is because you have to use the stylus? could you give another reason why the controls are so bad?

Valid point

It's hard to explain if you haven't played it. As I believe I mentioned, the stylus is basically the entire game -- the only thing you DON'T use the stylus for is using tools. This (1) makes it very confusing to drop things on the ground: in all previous HM games, A button gave or threw the item. In KimiShima, using an item you hold will make you eat it, or try to eat it. You have to somehow understand that you're supposed to drag it onto the ground to put it back. This sucks for when you accidentally pick up an item you did not mean to pick up.

It is also (2) annoying to run at times, because you need to somehow navigate your stylus to the corner of the screen and make yourself run, and yet, there's the menu for what you're holding, in the corner of the screen. This happens to me a lot leaving Chen's shop.

(3) While I do agree that it is convenient, I don't really like the fact that you can give something to someone from across the screen. It loses that homey, one-on-one, close up feeling of gift giving in Harvest Moon.

(4) Once you select an item to hold (item as opposed to tool), you have to click on something else to hold to unselect it. So if you don't want to be carrying a fish or something around when you've accidentally tapped it, you sometimes have to go into your rucksack, equip a tool, and tap it, just to put the fish away -- because if you just click on the fish again, you automatically eat it, no "Eat? Yes/No" option.

(5) This isn't really controls, but things don't stack automatically, and you can't set them to. This is ANNOYING_AS_HELL and requires constant reorganization of the rucksack.

I mean, I love this game, I'm really into it -- don't let these issues sway you from purchasing the game. But the controls, they are _far_ from perfect, and you guys should know that, is what I'm saying.

wow i use my fingers all the time i mean if these are common problem for YOU then you must reallt suck on the DS really cause these are no problems for whatever game i play useing my fingers if i had misplaced my stylus i mean serioulsy way to be a « Sheep Squeezer » you the one acting like it CAUSE YOU SUCK GET OVER IT « new farmer » (on the DS)

[Icewings]

wow-awesome you say the controls suck but the only reason you give is because you have to use the stylus? could you give another reason why the controls are so bad?

Valid point

It's hard to explain if you haven't played it. As I believe I mentioned, the stylus is basically the entire game -- the only thing you DON'T use the stylus for is using tools. This (1) makes it very confusing to drop things on the ground: in all previous HM games, A button gave or threw the item. In KimiShima, using an item you hold will make you eat it, or try to eat it. You have to somehow understand that you're supposed to drag it onto the ground to put it back. This sucks for when you accidentally pick up an item you did not mean to pick up.

It is also (2) annoying to run at times, because you need to somehow navigate your stylus to the corner of the screen and make yourself run, and yet, there's the menu for what you're holding, in the corner of the screen. This happens to me a lot leaving Chen's shop.

(3) While I do agree that it is convenient, I don't really like the fact that you can give something to someone from across the screen. It loses that homey, one-on-one, close up feeling of gift giving in Harvest Moon.

(4) Once you select an item to hold (item as opposed to tool), you have to click on something else to hold to unselect it. So if you don't want to be carrying a fish or something around when you've accidentally tapped it, you sometimes have to go into your rucksack, equip a tool, and tap it, just to put the fish away -- because if you just click on the fish again, you automatically eat it, no "Eat? Yes/No" option.

(5) This isn't really controls, but things don't stack automatically, and you can't set them to. This is ANNOYING_AS_H.ELL and requires constant reorganization of the rucksack.

I mean, I love this game, I'm really into it -- don't let these issues sway you from purchasing the game. But the controls, they are _far_ from perfect, and you guys should know that, is what I'm saying.

wow i use my fingers all the time i mean if these are common problem for YOU then you must reallt suck on the DS really cause these are no problems for whatever game i play useing my fingers if i had misplaced my stylus i mean serioulsy way to be a d.ick you the one acting like it CAUSE YOU SUCK GET OVER IT « new farmer » (on the DS)

There's no need to say they suck.