Remember. This is the REAL new entry to the Harvest Moon franchise we all know and love, not "The Lost Valley." Natsume owns the rights to the "Harvest Moon" name, so it can't be used for the localized versions of the Bokujo Monogatari franchise by Marvelous Entertainment. Just making sure everybody knows by now. :)
Oh wait, the original name is Bokujo Monogatari by Marvelous Entertainment and Natsume did the localisation and published it in the west, and that's why they created and own the Harvest Moon name. But, now Natsume doesn't publish the Bokujo Monogatari games by Marvelous anymore, they still own the name "Harvest Moon" so the localisation by the new publisher (XSEED) cannot be done under that name any more.. Right?
+Warren Chan Because publisher-developer split. The publisher (Natume) still keep the right for "Harvest Moon" title and made their own ugly iOS "Harvest Moon" game while the actual developer continued with this.
For anyone confused: This is the next Harvest Moon game. It can't be called that in america because Natsume - who had done most of the awful LOCALIZATION (translation errors galore) of harvest moon games since they started - ran out of time on their contract, and has never done any of the actual game development. Story of Seasons will be published by XSEED, who also published the third and fourth Rune Factory harvest moon games. Natsume, however, is shady, and kept the rights to the name itself. Their new game could be considered a spiritual successor but it's by no means an actual harvest moon game regardless of the title.
This is a Harvest Moon game that's under a different name. So no one is "copying ideas". This is made by the HM developers. They know what they're doing I'm sure.
Reminds me of Harvest Moon as well, but with some improvements, the best I see so far is farming the game does not seem as hard and does not take forever to tile the soil, plant seeds, water the plants and harvest them. Not sure if I will buy it. Need more info first...
***** Any games from Natsume under the title of Harvest Moon beginning with Lost Valley is entirely without the original developers. From here on out, the original series will be going by the name Story of Seasons and XSEED are the publishers taking Natsume's place. XSEED is quite popular when it comes to localization so you should also pay attention to their other games.
someone else saw all the influence that this game got from rune factory 4? yeah i know they are from the same developer(have been playing all rune factory games and some harvest moon) man i wish we get some news on rune factory 5 soon....... do i need to say that i will get this just to get mah turnip fix while i wait for waifu factory 5?
Assuming it still happens. Neverland (RF Dev) did shut down, but there was news that some of their developers were picked up by Marvelous afterwards. I'm hoping though they will be able to still make RF games though also, but I'm not going to let it kill me if they can't considering the situation.
jiLiIsAliveAndSleepy i do know that neverland went under, but the franchise belongs to marvellous, and ruen factory had a good fanbase in japan, so maybe they are just letting the series rest for a little bit, maybe a reebot....... maybe forbidden magna X rune factory, you know because forbidden magna had some farming things that were remooved due to the low budget, etc. i for one know that the series is still alive and kicking because they arent crapcom.
Vanillup well, i was talking about the fast paced gameplay, harvest moon never had a way to do fast harvesting untill this one, nor the hoe charge to plow 3x3 , etc..... or maybe i just havent played that much harvest moon at all....
OMG I've been waiting over a year for this. I heard about it releasing in Japan last year and I have most of the harvest moon games (ds and 3ds) and technically this is Harvest moon just with a different name sadly but I'm 100% getting this. 😄 so excited
heheeeeeeeey, another rune factory fan out there, well i'm still playing rune factory 4 and frontier, will get this one because this "harves moon" looks more fast paced. man i wish to get news on rune factory 5 at the end of the year..... or a wii u HD version for frontier.
being someone who grew up with Harvest Moon 64 for the most part... it's really sad how casual they make games. I mean, they just throw everything to you. It's exactly what happened to other games, like World of Warcraft. They start taking out every little "inconvenience" in the game, to a point that games are just going to be movies in the future. Did no one see how ridiculously stupid that farming was? Don't even need to carry vegetables, they just all fly into the bin?
As someone who has never played any of the Harvest Moon series - should I wait for this one to be released or play one of the older series to see how I like it first? From reading the comments below - I already know that I should not get Lost Valley ha ha
I'm surprised with the amounts of people who are still confused about which is the real Harvest Moon (which is SoS of course) and which is a cheap knock off (TLV) . . .
According to Gamestop, it comes March 10, 2015, but who knows if that's concrete. It was set out to come February 10 previously.... and December before that...
Adylure It was never set before. Factually, Gamestop always makes up placeholders to be able to convince consumers that they are in the know of what's going on in the industry. They do this to drive in sales as they talk it up. The mention of March is literally the only concrete time frame ever given so far, straight from the developers themselves. Where as previously it was only stated to have been a 2014 release due to guesswork. There was never a month or day mentioned for 2014.
Finally!! They finally got it coming to North america. Can't wait to do the safari and get those cute fluffy bunnies! Also visit other people's farms hand help them grow with my wand ^_^
Has there been any info on the release date? Also, there's probably some purists crying over it, but I like how much faster the farming looks. And since xseed is localizing it, I'm hoping for better translation.
pwnedsocks Spiritual successor implies it's an entirely different series continuing another's legacy. This is in no way spiritual. This is the actual Harvest Moon series simply under a new name due to localization now being handled by XSEED instead of Natsume. cynda wu As with all Harvest Moon games, this will have marriage. This is after all a Harvest Moon game. Which will be going by the name Story of Seasons from now on.
Can someone please explain to me what has happened between Harvest Moon and Natsume? Im a bit confused. Also I feel like this game might bring the franchise back since personally I feel there hasn't been a real HM game since Animal Parade :P
Well. Natsume was a distributor for the same for along time but the company decided to change the distributor from natsume to Xseed. But Natsume knows the name "harvest moon" and because of that they had to "rename" it story of seasons. Natsume will be releasing games under the name harvest moon but has nothing to do with the orignal company that makes the game. Hope you understand
haha. well i pretty much said the same thing as everyone else but im glad my explanation helped you. Dw i didn't get it either and watched a long youtube video that explained it all haha.
XSEED confirmed on their localization blog this game will get a physical release, and this is listed as a Nintendo 3DS game and not a Nintendo eShop game, so I assume it will still be available at retail.
Bills use of "eShop Exclusive" was certainly worrying during the Direct, but XSEED has already announced a pre-order bonus so I dunno what's going on anymore
There is a physical retail version and it is already available for pre-order with the bonus. No worries, Nintendo Direct just got it mixed up or something.
DisturbedKoala I hate that people will forever associate Plague doctors with that character, SCP 049 and whatever other media they appear in. At least it was a good game he was in.
Remember. This is the REAL new entry to the Harvest Moon franchise we all know and love, not "The Lost Valley." Natsume owns the rights to the "Harvest Moon" name, so it can't be used for the localized versions of the Bokujo Monogatari franchise by Marvelous Entertainment.
Just making sure everybody knows by now. :)
Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh...
Right. Thumbs up for you... 'n stuff.
Watching it I was like "A harvest moon rip off?" But then I remembered "Oh wait, it Is Harvest Moon!"
?? what? is this made by the original Harvest Moon devs?
Ummm wait im confused lol Why cant they use the "Harvest Moon" name?
Oh wait, the original name is Bokujo Monogatari by Marvelous Entertainment and Natsume did the localisation and published it in the west, and that's why they created and own the Harvest Moon name.
But, now Natsume doesn't publish the Bokujo Monogatari games by Marvelous anymore, they still own the name "Harvest Moon" so the localisation by the new publisher (XSEED) cannot be done under that name any more..
Right?
This is the real Harvest Moon. The other Harvest Moon coming out won't have any of the original devs because they kept back way too long.
Awh man, I just hope they'll be successful since so many people don't know they had to change the name :|
Fernanda It's actually doing good! :) 100,000 copies sold!
+Fernanda why did they have to change their name??
+Warren Chan Because publisher-developer split. The publisher (Natume) still keep the right for "Harvest Moon" title and made their own ugly iOS "Harvest Moon" game while the actual developer continued with this.
Finally a game to wash out the bad taste The Lost Valley left.
THAT HARVESTING THOUGH.
Ez harvest XD
The music is so lovely
Super excited for Story of Seasons and already pre-ordered my copy!
I'm so excited for this! I preordered this game SOOOOOOO long ago!
Hope this game will be better than A New Beginning was. Though, I can't imagine that takes much.
For anyone confused: This is the next Harvest Moon game. It can't be called that in america because Natsume - who had done most of the awful LOCALIZATION (translation errors galore) of harvest moon games since they started - ran out of time on their contract, and has never done any of the actual game development. Story of Seasons will be published by XSEED, who also published the third and fourth Rune Factory harvest moon games.
Natsume, however, is shady, and kept the rights to the name itself. Their new game could be considered a spiritual successor but it's by no means an actual harvest moon game regardless of the title.
I've been waiting so long for this!
KEEP ON! Loved Harvest Moon games and love this one
Ohhh the bunny at the end is so cute!
I want the game! X3
There's actually a plush of the bunny as a pre-order bonus from gamestop!
Skraaaaaaaeeeee! Turns into a murderous space dragon
I can't wait for this game! So excited! ^O^
This is a Harvest Moon game that's under a different name.
So no one is "copying ideas". This is made by the HM developers.
They know what they're doing I'm sure.
Reminds me of Harvest Moon as well, but with some improvements, the best I see so far is farming the game does not seem as hard and does not take forever to tile the soil, plant seeds, water the plants and harvest them. Not sure if I will buy it. Need more info first...
So, this is like Fantasy Life meets Harvest Moon?
Also, I wish farming was like that in real life.
No, this is Harvest Moon. Natsume owns the rights on the name, but they aren't publishing Marvelous' games anymore.
DrakyrusGunther So Harvest Moon 3DS is from a different developer?
***** "The Lost Valley" is, yes. And probably any future games with the 'Harvest Moon' name.
No, it's Harvest Moon finally being a HARVEST MOON game.
***** Any games from Natsume under the title of Harvest Moon beginning with Lost Valley is entirely without the original developers. From here on out, the original series will be going by the name Story of Seasons and XSEED are the publishers taking Natsume's place. XSEED is quite popular when it comes to localization so you should also pay attention to their other games.
someone else saw all the influence that this game got from rune factory 4? yeah i know they are from the same developer(have been playing all rune factory games and some harvest moon) man i wish we get some news on rune factory 5 soon....... do i need to say that i will get this just to get mah turnip fix while i wait for waifu factory 5?
Ikr?
Well this game is "Harvest Moon" just Natsume owns that name and made their own "non-legit" version.
Assuming it still happens. Neverland (RF Dev) did shut down, but there was news that some of their developers were picked up by Marvelous afterwards. I'm hoping though they will be able to still make RF games though also, but I'm not going to let it kill me if they can't considering the situation.
jiLiIsAliveAndSleepy i do know that neverland went under, but the franchise belongs to marvellous, and ruen factory had a good fanbase in japan, so maybe they are just letting the series rest for a little bit, maybe a reebot....... maybe forbidden magna X rune factory, you know because forbidden magna had some farming things that were remooved due to the low budget, etc. i for one know that the series is still alive and kicking because they arent crapcom.
Vanillup well, i was talking about the fast paced gameplay, harvest moon never had a way to do fast harvesting untill this one, nor the hoe charge to plow 3x3 , etc..... or maybe i just havent played that much harvest moon at all....
That opening movie was really charming.
I hope this gets released in Australia around the same time. Omg. Ive been waiting for this.
Can't wait to play this one. :D
OMG I've been waiting over a year for this.
I heard about it releasing in Japan last year and I have most of the harvest moon games (ds and 3ds) and technically this is Harvest moon just with a different name sadly but I'm 100% getting this. 😄 so excited
SO excited for this! I LOVE Harvest Moo- I mean, uhh... whatever you call the series now...
Now this looks like harvest moon. It has the same feel and depth Q.Q I've never been so confused.
Even though I enjoy the Rune Factory series more. I'm looking foward to this one.
heheeeeeeeey, another rune factory fan out there, well i'm still playing rune factory 4 and frontier, will get this one because this "harves moon" looks more fast paced. man i wish to get news on rune factory 5 at the end of the year..... or a wii u HD version for frontier.
Can't wait till February 10
Hey, 1:00 minutes in the blue dress is Elli ? O_O-
Farming can never be more epic than this, LOL
being someone who grew up with Harvest Moon 64 for the most part... it's really sad how casual they make games. I mean, they just throw everything to you. It's exactly what happened to other games, like World of Warcraft.
They start taking out every little "inconvenience" in the game, to a point that games are just going to be movies in the future. Did no one see how ridiculously stupid that farming was? Don't even need to carry vegetables, they just all fly into the bin?
I agree, Harvest Moon 64 and Rune Factory Frontier where my favorites of these types of games and this new game doesn't look nearly as good.
This is exactly what a Harvest Moon nerd like me needs! ♡
I'm pretty excited for this game. I can't wait til I get a new 3ds xl so I can buy this game and many other 3ds gems. :)
So hype.
Can't wait! Has there been an official release date? I didn't see any in the trailer...
And here I thought this was an epic RPG. Boy, was I wrong.
It's Harvest Moon with a deceptively strange description by ESRB. lol
As someone who has never played any of the Harvest Moon series - should I wait for this one to be released or play one of the older series to see how I like it first? From reading the comments below - I already know that I should not get Lost Valley ha ha
im sold.. i want it!
I want this game so bad!!!
I tempted to get either this or Rune Factory 4. I can't decide
+Mr Cat Get Stardew Valley instead. It hits all those roles for $15!!
+Taylor B I would get Stardew Valley in a second if it was on 3DS.
Rune Factory Frontier on the Wii was the best one IMO and luckily for me I can still play it on my Wii U.
*shakes screen* waa I want this game already.. and of course the console
I'm surprised with the amounts of people who are still confused about which is the real Harvest Moon (which is SoS of course) and which is a cheap knock off (TLV) . . .
Well, the characters certainly look a lot less stupid than in the recent Harvest Moon games.
theres been let's plays of this game already
Did they nail down a release date during the Nintendo Direct? I don't really have the time to watch it.
No just said to be March
According to Gamestop, it comes March 10, 2015, but who knows if that's concrete. It was set out to come February 10 previously.... and December before that...
Adylure It was never set before. Factually, Gamestop always makes up placeholders to be able to convince consumers that they are in the know of what's going on in the industry. They do this to drive in sales as they talk it up.
The mention of March is literally the only concrete time frame ever given so far, straight from the developers themselves. Where as previously it was only stated to have been a 2014 release due to guesswork. There was never a month or day mentioned for 2014.
Finally!! They finally got it coming to North america. Can't wait to do the safari and get those cute fluffy bunnies! Also visit other people's farms hand help them grow with my wand ^_^
Looks kinda fun, I played one of the ds harvest moons and wanna try it again :p anyone know the release date?
i am sold on the fact that i can be a cat
Has there been any info on the release date? Also, there's probably some purists crying over it, but I like how much faster the farming looks. And since xseed is localizing it, I'm hoping for better translation.
Yeah, I heard it's coming to the US sometime in March, and in Europe the release date hasn't been announced yet.
Can you marry people like the past Harvest Moon games? If yes, I will buy this game
Yeah of course this is the spiritual successor! :)
Well this game is "Harvest Moon" just Natsume owns that name and made their own "non-legit" version.
well thats what makes Havest Moon famous so yes a thumbs up to marrages
pwnedsocks Spiritual successor implies it's an entirely different series continuing another's legacy. This is in no way spiritual. This is the actual Harvest Moon series simply under a new name due to localization now being handled by XSEED instead of Natsume.
cynda wu As with all Harvest Moon games, this will have marriage. This is after all a Harvest Moon game. Which will be going by the name Story of Seasons from now on.
Typical girl gamer....
With no release date for Europe yet, it feels like someone is afraid of making more money -_-
I'm kind of bummed that this is more OG Harvest Moon than Rune Factory. ):
Can someone please explain to me what has happened between Harvest Moon and Natsume? Im a bit confused. Also I feel like this game might bring the franchise back since personally I feel there hasn't been a real HM game since Animal Parade :P
Well. Natsume was a distributor for the same for along time but the company decided to change the distributor from natsume to Xseed. But Natsume knows the name "harvest moon" and because of that they had to "rename" it story of seasons. Natsume will be releasing games under the name harvest moon but has nothing to do with the orignal company that makes the game. Hope you understand
unhappylife94 Ah I see. That is probably the simplest explanation to this question so far. I actually understood the entire thing lol
haha. well i pretty much said the same thing as everyone else but im glad my explanation helped you. Dw i didn't get it either and watched a long youtube video that explained it all haha.
will it be released in germany ? :)
Is this a Eshop Exclusive?
XSEED confirmed on their localization blog this game will get a physical release, and this is listed as a Nintendo 3DS game and not a Nintendo eShop game, so I assume it will still be available at retail.
Bills use of "eShop Exclusive" was certainly worrying during the Direct, but XSEED has already announced a pre-order bonus so I dunno what's going on anymore
There is a physical retail version and it is already available for pre-order with the bonus. No worries, Nintendo Direct just got it mixed up or something.
***** Saria from The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
the way of growing and harvesting corps O_O
I wanna buy this. But i don't have money. ;( And in Brazil don't have Nintendo. ;(
Will it come out for europe?
Most likely.
Is there anyone else whose upset that the release date is getting pushed back AGAIN?!
YES :'(
I wish Licorice had the female MC character design. She would've been a 10/10 bachelorette instead of a 9/10. Oh well, I'm still marrying Licorice. :)
Is this harvest moon? Cuz it looks like it
Wait where is my beloved Pink Haired Lady Best Haired Lady?
Plague Knight?! Is that you?
DisturbedKoala I hate that people will forever associate Plague doctors with that character, SCP 049 and whatever other media they appear in. At least it was a good game he was in.
for me it's the childish lady that i like, popuri katie etc etc.
azzzanadra They are usually second for me. In New Beginnings, I passed on Michelle because she seemed cocky and married Tina, Tina's so cute >:3
hehe, oh well, at least there is an alternative.
We Dekans that you release the game in Europe!!! Pretty please q-q
This is just harvest moon
Id plpay this
Is this harvest moon ????
Yes, it is. It's under a new title because the Harvest Moon name is owned by Natsume.
Wtf i watched Linandko's playthrough of this already Y u h8 evrything xcept Japan Nintendo
This isn't Rune Factory 4 at all... LOL...
Typical XSeed games.
inb4 they add runeys and ruin the whole game
Want this in german!!!! ;v;
Is there gay marriage in this HM game or no? :(
headfangs in one of the previous version and was exclusive for japan
You guys should go work on a real farm instead, at least you're getting payed.
You're suprisingly the second person I've ever seen that completely misunderstand the point of this simulator.
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***** LMFAO