Farm Life: Manage Your Own Farm - DS/DSi

In Farm Life, you are charged with developing and running your own farm, as you begin with just the basics: a patch of bare land, 'start-up' money, and a pair of work gloves. To grow your farm into a large-scale, self-sustaining enterprise, you'll need to decide how to best manage your time. Your farm must be profitable, its products must be prize-winners, and it must be well maintained and pleasing to look at. Sowing and reaping a variety of crops is the order of the day, along with looking after the hens, goats, cows and pigs.

There are all kinds of improvements you can make along the way. You can invest in your farm by upgrading buildings to bigger and better versions, all of which will increase your growth capacity. You can nurture your crops and animals and turn them into world-beating assets. You can also take up tools such as the hammer and paintbrush to ensure your buildings are in a good state of repair, and add a little glamour and panache with decorative but useful objects like a gazebo or statues.

Maintain balance, and your farm will thrive. Get the balance wrong, and, well...you'll reap what you sow. more