Natsume is celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the Harvest Moon franchise* in the best possible way: with new Harvest Moon games. They released new screens today of the Wii farming game Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, which feature all the best parts of Harvest Moon: planting stuff, caring for animals, riding around on an ostrich -- wait, what? In case all the tomato-growing hadn't quite lured you into the world of Harvest Moon yet, maybe the allure of awkward livestock vehicles may do the trick.
*They say it's the ten-year anniversary, but Harvest Moon came out in Japan in 1996 and the U.S. in 1997. It is the ten-year anniversary of the PAL release of Harvest Moon SNES, so it still counts!
[Via press release]
Harvest Moon: Ostrich of Mobility
Posted Jul 7th 2008 6:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Screens
Tags: farming, harvest-moon, marvelous, natsume, tree-of-tranquility, victor
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7-07-2008 @ 6:31PM
meist3r said...
I was looking forward to this game but now that it looks like "Harvest Moon: My Life as a Farmer" I don't really care about it anymore. Don't know what exactly I was expecting but I really thought it should look different. That sounds awfully contradictive but I would have wished for an even more comic style approach. But I'll wait until it is released to make up my mind.
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7-07-2008 @ 7:49PM
James said...
It has a fairly big map from what I played. Call me weird but I wouldn't like "A wonderful life" all over again as long as it was just much grander in scale. I loved the mechanics for that game and the peoples evolving storylines...but then all that just stopped and there was no reason to play any more.
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7-08-2008 @ 2:51AM
SoshiKitai said...
Awwww - people hated the farming-feel for Harvest Moon?
I LOVED-LOVED-LOVED A Wonderful Life! (not the PS2 version... for some reason, that was REALLY SLOW... like, glitchy slow)
I think it's mainly because I've enjoyed a simple life before, and loved every hour-like second of it. So a game where you don't do much except for "live", seemed beyond amazing to me. (A Wonderful Life is definitely in my top-ten games)
*sigh* Ahhh~ loved that game.
This game? Hmmm... seems definitely interesting, but A Wonderful Life is definitely a hard buzz to kill for me. The only Harvest Moon I loved as much as A Wonderful Life, was the original version. We'll see if this stacks up to it (I doubt it... since this has more of a "STORY" to it... the more stories in a Harvest Moon game, the more it feels like an RPG and less of a SIM).
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8-01-2008 @ 5:34PM
Saria the Cat said...
Holy crap, that ostrich just upped the awesome factor by 10 notches. TEN notches!!!
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