Topic: The tangled web of Harvest Moon

[idolminds]

Marvelous develops a farm game series in Japan called Farm Story (translated). Natsume translated and published these games for the US and titled them Harvest Moon. Marvelous has done some acquisitions and mergers and now has their own teams to translate and publish the games themselves in the US. Trouble is Natsume owns the rights to the name Harvest Moon so the next true game in the series will have a name change to Story of Seasons. To make things even trickier, Natsume has announced their own internal development of a game that will be titled Harvest Moon.

I don't know how Rune Factory factors into all this.

[idolminds]

Well...turns out Natsume is making Harvest Mooncraft.

Which...not a terrible idea. Minecraft is super popular and isn't on 3DS so you might get some kids to check it out.

XSEED released this video for Story of Seasons.

ITS NOT HARVEST MOON BUT ITS TOTALLY HARVEST MOON WE JUST CANT SAY HARVEST MOON!

And here is the Japanese trailer for Story of Seasons so you can see the difference: