All posts tagged in Story of Seasons
Oct 11, 2019
Harvest Moon Mad Dash has been announced a while ago, the playable demo at E3 and some more information from Natsume and Rising Star Games left me wanting more. The cute twist on puzzle games with the charm of Harvest Moon games make this game unique.
For the ones who don’t know yet, Harvest Moon Dash is considered a spin-off the once popular Harvest Moon series. Natsume describes the game as “This different take on the Harvest Moon experience will let players enjoy the classic features of the series in a new and exciting way!”
In Mad Dash you can go solo or take along a few friends with you to harvest, fish, milk, and more as you complete orders to advance to the next level. Of course there will be plenty of obstacles to overcome in this fast paced puzzle game.
Harvest Moon Mad Dash Early impressions have left fans pleasantly surprised and considered it a fun twist on traditional puzzle games with a cute Harvest Moon like theme.
Harvest Moon Mad Dash will release on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on October 29th for $29.99, just in time for the spooky season! If you are looking for more games to play this Halloween check out this list of not so scary video games!
- Oct 8, 2019
One of my favorite aspects of any classic Harvest Moon or Story of Seasons game is the ability to marry your choice of several candidates. It’s a lot of fun to start courting a character by giving them their favorite gifts, triggering events such as going on dates, and having a partner for the festivals. Therefore below, I thought it would be interesting to see who you would best get along with IRL by asking a few questions about a theoretical relationship that will correspond to what we know about these characters throughout the series.
There are roughly a total of 60 choices ranging from the first Harvest Moon on the SNES back in 1997, to the most current iteration on the Nintendo 3DS; Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns. Some recurring characters have been combined and simplified to give more varied choices. I hope you enjoy this short little quiz and share with us your results!
To see how the marriage candidates are coming along in the new and improved Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, check out our article here.
- Sep 18, 2019
Story of Seasons is coming to Nintendo Switch this fall and I couldn’t be more excited. Nintendos latest console is the perfect home for farming and simulation games. Story of Seasons Reunion of Mineral Town is a remake of the much beloved and highly praised Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town and today Marvelous Games revealed a first look at the secret marriage candidates!
Marvelous, who will be handling the publication of the game in Europe, revealed the remake will be heading to Nintendo Switch in Asia on October 17th, a western release for the game has also been confirmed and is expected to happen sometime after the official launch in the east this fall.
Check out the secret candidates below! Marvelous recently announced that more remakes could make its way to Nintendo Switch.
In other related news Chucklefish is currently working on Witchbrook the Stardew Valley of magic that will also feature relationships.
- Aug 29, 2019
If you have ever played games like Stardew Valley or Story of Seasons, you will feel right at home in Harvest Town. The game combines farming and dating with a cozy relaxing gameplay we come to love from our favorite farming-sim games.
In Harvest Town players will start out with a tiny farm living the cozy country life. But things are about to change quickly as you start building your farm and befriend the many villagers you will get to meet across town. Once you cut down all the weeds and cleared your plot you are good to start expanding your farm.
What makes it special!
Harvest Town offers a variety of livestock that you can raise. Besides the traditional chicken, cows, ducks and even horses you will also have the opportunity to adopt a cute furry friend such as a kitty cat or a doggie! The developers claim that this adds more realism and freedom to an already rich gameplay.
The game also features a sense of an open world and invites the player to go exploring whenever your busy farming schedule allows. Caves with mysterious treasure chests, puzzles and a wide variety of easter eggs are spread throughout the town.
You will also get to befriend the many NPCs that populate Harvest Town. Make friends and even get married to your most favorite villager. You can even play with real life friends and join them in an online race or trade items through the market.
Start Playing Harvest Town
Harvest Town has everything and more that you come to expect from a farming simulation game such as Stardew Valley or Story of Seasons. The game is now available on Android mobile devices, we have reached out to the developers to find out if and when Harvest Town will come to other platforms.
More Farming Games!
If you love life simulation and farming games, check out this list of wonderful Farming Games currently available!
Animal Crossing Holiday Envelope!
There is an adorable Animal Crossing Themed Gift Envelop with stickers and a super cute card, check it out here.
- Aug 28, 2019
About a week ago, we gave a sneak peek at the final bachelor (male marriage candidate) in Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. Though not officially revealed to us by Marvelous, a screenshot of ‘Brandon’ came out at the ChinaJoy convention. Brandon and the final bachelorette…a brand new character…have now been officially revealed! You may now formally be introduced to Brandon and Jennifer. (Names not final until localizer XSEED confirms them.)
Mystery candidates no longer a mystery!
Brandon is an artist (and seems to specialise in wood sculpting) and a brand new character to this remake, not in the original Friends of Mineral Town. Jennifer is a wandering artist who wants to be in tune with nature. Perhaps for that reason, her home appears to be a tent. Will she find a permanent home in your town? At the very least, we believe she is a free-spirited young woman who lives at her own pace.
Marvelous Japan also put up a new trailer where these two new candidates and various other new things were shown. It’s in Japanese, but sharp-eyed viewers have still managed to spot lots of interesting things in it, such as upgraded tools and what looks to be the chocolate cow wandering around in the barn, and many other things. You can see the video right here!
The full line-up
And with this, all known candidates have been revealed. The line-up of candidate silhouettes Marvelous showed us at the beginning has now been filled in.
It is unknown as of yet if the ‘secret’ candidates in ‘More Friends of Mineral Town’, Gourmet, Kappa and Won, will be returning as marriage options in this remake. At the current time, it seems that they are not. Up until now we only saw a very quick, blurry image of Kappa, now sporting a beret and long hair. We did, however, get a very quick (and tiny!) look at Won at the end of the video. A screenshot of Gourmet was also recently uploaded to Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Towns official (Japanese) site.
And a few other characters, too
Also revealed on the official site are villagers Gotz, a carpenter, and Zack, who in the original Friends of Mineral Town, took care of of shipping your goods for you. He also gave you your first fishing rod! We wonder if events will follow the same path in this remake.
Did you spot anything intriguing when watching the video or perusing the official site? We’d love to hear about anything that caught your interest!
If you’re looking forward to Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that Doraemon: Story of Seasons will be out on October 11th.
- Aug 20, 2019
Information has come out about Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. This reboot is to be the first Bokujo Monogatari game for Nintendo Switch. (It is the official remake of Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.) Please note that None of this has been revealed to us by Marvelous themselves. Rather, we gathered this info from Reddit, from u/arehi_wnl. The information comes from two separate interviews with Mr. Nakano.
More remakes in the future?
ChinaJoy is a Chinese gaming convention that you could think of as their equivalent of E3. Some Chinese journalists interviewed Mr. Nakano, of the development team. They spoke of the upcoming Bokujou Monogatari game, set for release in Japan on October 11th. Some big news was revealed in this interview, including the fact that Marvelous will consider remaking more Bokumono games if this remake is successful.
New game still in development!
It was also revealed that a NEW Bokujou Monogatari game is still in the works. Those of us who have been pining for a brand new farming adventure can rest easy! The brand new Story of Seasons game we’ve been hoping for is indeed already in development.
And if that weren’t enough…
We even got a sneak peek at the final bachelor! Up until now, we only had the silhouettes of two brand new characters to go by, but a screenshot of the male candidate has surfaced. His name, it seems, is Brandon. He will live in Gotz’s house and may be the his apprentice. (From the picture we think he might actually be a sculptor, but the reddit post suggests that he is an apprentice. Maybe he is both an apprentice carpenter AND a sculptor?)
Many more juicy tidbits!
Between the two interviews, we got quite a lot of information. Here are some highlights:
- The “Best Friends” system used in DS Cute for special characters is being brought back for SoS: FoMT, but in a bigger way. You will be able to choose to make a life-long best-friends bond with any character who is the same gender as your character.
- It is not a straight remake of Friends of Mineral Town. SoS: FoMT is bringing together a few aspects of Back to Nature, DS Cute, My Little Shop, and newer games like Trio of Towns.
- Some of Back to Nature’s events and festivals will be in SoS: FoMT
- You will be able to choose ‘seedling’ or ‘veteran’ mode, as you could in Story of Seasons and Trio of Towns.
- There will be no online connectivity.
- Mines will have pitfalls instead of staircases.
- There will be character customization.
- Making money will be easier.
- Animals from Harvest Moon: My Little Shop, with specialty products, like the chocolate chicken, chocolate cow and strawberry cow, will be in SoS: FoMT.
- Some of the additional houses will have lightened requirements to unlock.
- Rare crops will be just as rare as in the original.
- Your inventory will have a larger capacity.
- SoS: FoMT may have DLC (it’s under consideration)
- There will be no motion controls
As far as we know, Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town will be exclusive to Nintendo Switch. If this game is of interest to you, check out our initial coverage!
- Aug 13, 2019
For the ones who are not familiar with Doraemon Story of Seasons, it is a crossover game that combines the best out the beloved farming sim Story of Seasons and the more adventure driven Doraemon. The game was already released in Japan back in July and received overwhelmingly positive feedback from fans. Today Bandai Namco announced that Doraemon Story of Seasons will finally release in the west on Nintendo Switch and Steam for PC on October 11th!
Playing as a young boy named Nobita (who also features in Doraemon’s orginal manga and anime), the Story of Seasons aspect of the game sees players growing crops, raising animals, and improving their farm, which is located in a town called Shizen Town. The game also features the Harvest Goddess and other regular characters from the Story of Seasons Franchise, as well as Doraemon and his friends.
Check out the latest trailer for Doraemon Story of Seasons below! For more Story of Seasons related news, make sure you get caught up on Story of Seasons Reunion of Mineral Town – the remake of the much beloved Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town is finally coming to Nintendo Switch this fall!
- Aug 8, 2019
Last Week Marvelous revealed the redesigns of four key characters in their reboot of Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town. The game is not due for Japanese release until October 17th, but they have unexpectedly revealed another two new characters in this short amount of time! This time we have Ann and Kai. Both are ‘candidate’ characters who can be romanced and married by the main character.
According to the Marvelous, Ann is a chipper girl who works at her father’s inn. She is a foodie and a skilled housekeeper. Kai is a friendly traveling merchant with a relaxed nature. He is from the city and only in town during summer.
Now that we have seen Ann and Kai, there are only two marriage-candidate characters left to be revealed. The two mysterious new characters that we got a glimpse of in Famitsu. Who could they be? Are they visiting characters from other Bokujou Monogatari games, or are they completely new?
Unknown characters who will appear in Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town In addition to revealing Ann and Kai, Marvelous has also shown us how Ann’s father, Doug, will look. Duke and Manna have also gotten their debuts. What do you think of these reboots?
Doug 
Duke 
Manna
Also, please note that because this will be a new localization, names are not final until XSEED confirms them. We are using the names these characters were known by in the original release. These images and more have also been added to the game’s recently updated official site.
