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LordSloth posted:What the hell is Harvest Moon: My Little Shop? The little video on Nintendo's site makes me think it was a horrible idea that shouldn't have seen the light of day. It's more like Cooking Mama than anything else, except that the minigames don't work properly. Don't bother with it. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King will definitely scratch the Harvest Moon itch so get that instead.
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yellowcar posted:Are there any pre-order bonuses this time around? Tale of Two Towns comes with a plush llama, from memory. Dunno about Tides of Destiny.
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The 3DS version of Tale of Two Towns has been delayed indefinitely due to slow 3DS uptake. The DS version is still coming on schedule.
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Aug 26, 2011 04:20
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RF3 is leaps and bounds better than the other games, and the upcoming console game (Tides of Destiny, Wii/PS3) is worth looking at too.
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Revol posted:What the gently caress?! What about the 3DS owners who have been waiting for this? That's so unfair. Yeah, I looked this up and the sites that said it was delayed "indefinitely" edited their posts to reflect the October date. I don't know what a month's wait will do for sales, but whatever. For what it's worth the 3DS version is basically just the DS version in 3D, with some extra StreetPass stuff.
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Aug 28, 2011 07:53
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LordSloth posted:Edit: On DS vs 3DS version: http://www.fogu.com/hm10/ds_vs_3ds.php The DS version was always gonna have a lower resolution, the screen is smaller. Also, I daresay this began its life as a DS game and the 3DS version is the port.
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Not directly related to HM/RF but it seems appropriate to post here: I just put in an order for Fishing Resort on Wii (which HM/RF fans might wanna check out, incidentally - open-world fishing, light RPG/management elements) and I was reminded of those River King games that Natsume releases every now and again, and how I've never actually played one. Can someone give me an overview of how these work, and which is the best to get? From what I recall they're more RPG-ish than Harvest Moon inasmuch as there's turn-based combat and levelling and whatnot, yeah?
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Nov 23, 2011 08:32
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Hometown Story will be out in the interim, too, maybe that'll be worth a shot.
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Shirec posted:Too bad the e-shop never surprises anyone and releases stuff early. That is the only thing I miss about getting a physical copy. It kinda does in PAL-land... GAME lets you buy eShop codes for certain retail games (first-party stuff, mostly) and they have a habit of accidentally selling the codes before the physical copy is available.
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Dragongem posted:I'm super pumped for RF4 because the series actually did the "Let's make the game more fun every iteration" and didn't do the Harvest Moon style of "BLEGH WAGH LET'S REMOVE AND KEEP STUFF RANDOMLY AT WILL" They still do that for the console versions!
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Oct 1, 2013 16:12
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Another Hometown Story trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KECC3WBo7ws You'd think they would have waited a little longer after RF4 to release the game, but whatever. I guess they picked the date long before RF was delayed.
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Oct 9, 2013 11:01
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If that was the case, maybe they could have just bought the studio instead of letting it die and siphoning all their talent? Then again, they don't own Lufia, so who cares.
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Nov 30, 2013 09:46
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Bad news, PAL dudes:quote:“We regret to inform you that the European release of Rune Factory 4 for Nintendo 3DS has been cancelled.
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Crosspost from the 3DS thread: Rising Star Games have announced that they'll finally be releasing Hometown Story in PAL-land on May 2, and they've made a bunch of changes based on feedback from the NA version: quote:Hometown Story is nearly here and I’m happy to say we (Rising Star Games) have been paying attention to the feedback from the US release. Wada-san and Rising Star Games expressed a desire to rectify these issues for the European version of Hometown Story which have now been achieved. As the European version had a longer development time due to translations we utilised this extra period to give Wada-san (Toybox) the opportunity to make these enhancements. Let's hope the other versions get patched, too.
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Posted in the 3DS thread, but it's worth posting here, too: The latest Harvest Moon game (Connect To The New World or whatever the subtitle translates to, I forget) will be published in North America by XSEED, but because the "Harvest Moon" brand is owned by Natsume USA, XSEED and Marvelous AQL are rebranding the game and the series as "Story of Seasons". Same developer, same games, different name, different publisher.
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May 28, 2014 15:27
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It's worth noting that Natsume still owns the Harvest Moon name and will probably continue to release games under that name, but whether they'll be any good (or be given the time to become good) is anyone's guess.
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May 28, 2014 22:03
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Story of Seasons will be out "winter 2014", according to XSEED. The Natsume Harvest Moon game that showed up on retailer listings a while back was dated for early October, guess we'll learn about that one at E3.
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May 28, 2014 22:12
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They allegedly "fixed" a lot of things for the PAL version of Hometown Story which came out a few weeks ago, but I'm still not game to buy it and find out whether it's really improved. (It's going on sale this week, in PAL-land at least...)
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Jun 4, 2014 00:10
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Natsume USA has confirmed that Wada/Toybox is not working on the new Harvest Moon game - it's being made internally by a new Tokyo studio, and has been in development since early last year.
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Jun 4, 2014 03:33
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http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/multiverse-studio-announces-2014-harvest-moon-deluxe-plush-lineup/ A glimps at some of the Lost Valley animal designs, via the new plushies.
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Jun 9, 2014 04:34
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No official reports yet, but Natsume's new in-house Harvest Moon game is apparently gonna feature Minecraft-esque mining elements. Hmm. Here's how the characters look, at least: 
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Jun 11, 2014 03:09
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...and here are the first screenshots:     
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Jun 11, 2014 06:14
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They've already confirmed a European release, which is nice. Who knows how long it's gonna take someone to bring Story of Seasons.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:38
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Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP7NMd5P-EE
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You might wanna close this thread and start a new one,s eeing as it's a million years old and you're gonna have to explain the whole HM/Story of Seasons thing anyway.
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Oct 4, 2014 12:21
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I'm not a huge HM aficionado but I really liked Save the Homeland and I always wished they'd do a new one with that sort of focus.
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Oct 5, 2014 05:52
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Natsume opened pre-orders for Lost Valley on their website, so I guess November 4 is the official release date. Seems like Story of Seasons probably won't make 2014, either.
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Fantasy Life has multiplayer but I think it's all sidequests, I don't know if you can progress the main game that way. (3DS, out in Europe now, out in America next week) Story of Seasons has some sort of multiplayer, but I don't know if it's real-time or if you can just trade items or whatever, I forget. (It still hasn't been released outside of Japan, either. 3DS.) Animal Crossing has a ton of multiplayer, of course. PaletteSwappedNinja fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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The game is being developed by a new Japanese branch of Natsume USA, one that has nothing to do with the pre-existing Natsume company in Japan (Natsume Atari). Natsume's genealogy is confusing. When they say they have experience, what they mean is they've been localising the games for so long that they think they understand what people want, I don't think they mean to imply they're working with real Bokujo veterans or anything.
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Fantasy Life is Rune Factory for people who don't care about the moe harem bullshit, play that instead.
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Flynn Taggart posted:so what is the word on lost valley? i'm on an extremely tight budget and i cant afford another hometown story blunder. No-one knows and we probably won't know until sometime after release. Is Natsume even sending out review codes? Someone must have played it by now, surely.
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Yeah, from the sounds of things you never get to visit the village where everyone lives, they'll either show up in/around your house on a set schedule or appear around the valley for quest-specific stuff. When they said back to basics they were talking Game Boy basics, I think - the farming seems okay and the minecraft parts are fun but everything else has been massively scaled back.
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Just going on what I'm reading online, people do seem to genuinely like the way the farming works in this game and the valley is really big so you can go all-out if you want to, but the marriage/socialisation elements have definitely been marginalised, to put it nicely, so if you're into modern Bokujo/Rune Factory etc and see all that stuff as the primary drawcard then you probably needn't bother with Lost Valley, but if you're more into the pre-HM64 games you'll probably dig this one. Like, it's not another Hometown Story, they actually did okay on this one, just don't jump in without knowing what you're getting.
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Corridor posted:lol it seriously is i have no idea wtf is wrong with the devs Well in this case it's not even the same devs so they had to start from scratch in a lot of ways.
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$30 is the standard price but Natsume's not shy about sales, so it might be worth waiting for one if you're on the fence.
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Nope, and XSEED says they don't wanna say anything until it's 100% locked in, so it might be a while before we hear anything more about it.
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In Lost Valley's case it was a new team starting from scratch so I'm just relieved they managed to get as much right as they did. I don't blame people for skipping it in favour of Story of Seasons but I do think Lost Valley proves Natsume has a chance of being genuinely competitive on their own. They said they're gonna start talking about updates/DLC next month, so I guess that's when we'll find out whether or not they're listening to peoples' complaints/requests.
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FrickenMoron posted:Is there really no chance for a new RF game under the new company owners? I really enjoyed my time with RF4, its so packed full of content compared to the other handheld RF games, it probably has as much as oceans/frontier but without the bullshit slow paced gameplay of those titles. I'd say it's inevitable. The developers went bankrupt but the publisher still owns the IP and they hired a lot of key personnel from the old studio; there's no way they're just gonna let it die. Maybe they'll hire Natsume to make the next one!
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Met posted:It was on my calendar for the 10th. Did it get pushed back three weeks at some point? They never officially gave a date until now. The March 10 thing was a retailer placeholder, I guess.
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Lost Valley's getting some DLC today, I dunno what it is, it may already be out, who knows!
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