This entry in Natsume's long-running series once again takes players to a
tropical island, this time asking them to save the day by recovering
"Sun Stones" and raising the Sunshine Island chain that sank during a
powerful earthquake. True to the series' pastoral roots, the fabric of
success is ultimately woven not through direct missions, but through
hours of courtship and husbandry. As gamers expand their farm, tend to
their livestock, befriend wild animals, and take on mini-games to hone
their skills in cooking, fishing, and mining, they will run into, and
perhaps marry, many familiar characters from Harvest Moon: Island of
Happiness.