History VideoGame / HarvestMoonDS

** There are 134 recipes to discover that will either require experimenting with ingredients and six utensils (including the no utensil option) with the fully stocked kitchen that requires a house upgrade and all of the channel two shopping network items.

* CosmeticAward: The Goddess (or Guts, if she hasn't been rescued yet) congratulates you for completing milestones. These include completing the Shipped Items, Fishing, and Mining lists, but they also include the repeated acts of shipping items, catching fish, and even taking steps, ranging from 10,000 to 10 billion for each one. Each time, the congratulator remarks [[LampshadeHanging that they have no reward for you]].

** One event in ''Cute'' has your friend, Mimi, telling you how she envies you. She married for convenience, whereas you married for love. She wishes she had as nice and romantic a man as your husband. What's so odd about that? She decides to rectify this by announcing that she's going to have [[YourCheatingHeart an affair with your husband]]. Your character performs the HeroicMime equivalent of giving her three "Oh-no-you-di'—n't!" snaps, and she tries to cover herself by claiming she was joking. And this isn't the only adultery joke in the game, oddly...

** In ''Cute'' Rock asking you if you would like to hang out with him at the beach. You are married and he is not. When he realizes that you and him are the only two on the beach, he begins to get a few ideas...but quickly decides against the beach. You are married and he is not. When he realizes that you and him are the only two on the beach, he begins to get a few ideas...but quickly decides against it since he doesn't want your husband angry at him for the rumors about you having an affair that could get around.

* GayOption: The first and only one so far, referred to as "Best Friends".[[note]] i.e. "best friends" as in [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha NanoFate]]. You can't marry a male character after you've "befriended" a girl, and you raise a child together with your companion. Not helped by the fact that the whole thing is referred to as "marriage" anywhere but the best friends ceremony. Supposedly, the codes for these bachelorettes are directly ported from the boy version.[[/note]] However it is only featured in the Japanese version of ''DS Cute'' and it's for the Special Bachelorettes.

''Harvest Moon DS'' was the first ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' game to be released on the Nintendo DS in 2006. The game can be summed as ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife A Wonderful Life]]'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature Friends of Mineral Town.]]''

* AwesomeButImpractical: Golden Lumber is one of the four materials you can use for buildings (along with Grass, Normal Lumber and Stone.) It is the most indestructible material you can use, however it has a huge price tag and you can only get it from Gotz (who charges it 100,000G '' '''a piece''' '') or from Thomas' Winter Event (which only happens once an in-game year). Subverted if you make millions a ''day'' with the DiscOneNuke, making buying Golden Lumber extremely trivial.

* DiscOneNuke: ''DS'' has ridiculously exploitable mines. By using savescumming techniques, it's entirely possible to (on the first day of the game) get all of the cursed tools, any (or all) of the cursed accessories, and a huge amount of rare gemstones that can be sold for massive profit. By the end of the second game day, it's possible to have the legendary sword, several million G in the bank, and accessories that give you infinite working potential and twice as much time outdoors to work. Generally players are expected to take several game years to get this sort of bankroll and equipment spread.

** The Sprite Casino.

* DiscOneNuke: Probably the biggest example in the franchise. SaveScumming repeatedly at the mines allows you to get, among other things, millions of G, all the legendary tools, and the best crop growing area within the first 2 in-game days of playing.

* {{Eyedscreen}}: Used extensively in cutscenes

* RetroUniverse: Despite being set a hundred years after ''A Wonderful Life'' and ''Friends of Mineral Town'', there is very little change, other than buying a DVD player from Van.

** The game begins a whole century after ''AWL''. Strangely, a lot of the characters seem way too similar to their ancestors.

* GayOption: The first and only one so far, referred to as "Best Friends".[[note]] i.e. "best friends" as in NanoFate. You can't marry a male character after you've "befriended" a girl, and you raise a child together with your companion. Not helped by the fact that the whole thing is referred to as "marriage" anywhere but the best friends ceremony. Supposedly, the codes for these bachelorettes are directly ported from the boy version.[[/note]] However it is only featured in the Japanese version of ''DS Cute'' and it's for the Special Bachelorettes.

** Growing a Level 100 Poison Toadstool, then submitting it to the Harvest Festival will cause you to poison everyone, ''[[TooDumbToLive including yourself.]]''

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] in the intro sequence. Thomas, the mayor, greets you before the game starts proper. You can either return the greeting, or tell him to go away. Returning the greeting leads to him openly insulting your farm (despite having ''just started out)'', which your character will take very poorly. In retaliation, the PC will swing every gardening instrument he has at Thomas, who dodges every blow and accidentally backs into your now-pissed-off dog. At this point, you have the choice to call off your dog and save the mayor or let your dog have him. Doing the latter will [[NonStandardGameOver end your game right then and there]]. If you just tell him to fuck off, he'll do precisely that, and you don't have to go through ''any of this.''

''Harvest Moon DS'' was the first ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' game to be released on the Nintendo DS in 2006. The game can be summed as ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife A Wonderful Life]]'' [[XmeetsY meets]] ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature Friends of Mineral Town.]]''

** Marrying any of the Special Bachelorettes count too, they have more requirements that needed to be fulfilled.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Golden Lumber is one of the four materials you can use for buildings (along with Grass, Normal Lumber and Stone.) It is the most indestructible material you can use, however it has a huge price tag and you can only get it from Gotz (who charges it 100,000G '' '''a piece''' '') or from Thomas' Winter Event (which only happens once an in-game year).

** Having any or all of your buildings made with Golden Lumber. Look above why it is the case. By the time you have acquired enough funds to build it, you may have buildings already made with plain Lumber or Stone. (The latter being more sturdy, while normal Lumber is weaker but cheaper.) That's if you don't decide to exploit the Billion Gold Fish cheat.
** Marrying any of the Special Bachelorettes count too, they have more requirements that needed to be fulfilled.

* GayOption: The first and only one so far, referred to as "Best Friends".[[note]] i.e. "best friends" as in NanoFate. You can't marry a male character after you've "befriended" a girl, and you raise a child together with your companion. Not helped by the fact that the whole thing is occasionally referred to as "marriage" by the bachelorettes. Supposedly, the codes for these bachelorettes are directly ported from the boy version.[[/note]] However it is only featured in the Japanese version of ''DS Cute'' and it's for the Special Bachelorettes.