The Ushi No Tane websites specialize in information, FAQs, and guides about the Nintendo console versions of the Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, and Legend of the River King video games. These game genres are created and published in Japan by Marvelous (JP). In other regions, you'll find Natsume, XSeed Games/Marvelous (USA), Marvelous (EU), and Rising Star involved in the series' release.
The latest version of the mainstream farming series that have been released in various regions of the world are:
- Japan: Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (January 2023)
- North America: Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos (September 2023) and Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (June 2023)
- Europe: Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos (October 2023) and Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (June 2023)
The latest version of River King, in all regions of the world, is River King: Mystic Valley (JP 2007, NA 2008, EU 2009).
Since 2000, Ushi no Tane has been run by a grouchy old lady who happens to be fond of video game agriculture along with two feline helpers: Intern Captain Bootu and Intern Hondo Mewnaka. The website is not officially affiliated, sponsored, endorsed, or employed by the developers of Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, or River King. This is simply a fan site.
Latest Farming Video Game News
MAQL Name Change and New Comic | Posted at 12:57 PM 05 July 2014There still isn't much news to report on in the Harvest Moon frontier at the moment. Neither Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley nor Story of Seasons have set release dates yet, so those involved with their development are still toiling away at their projects.
From Japan, on July 1st Marvelous AQL has completed their name conversion they announced earlier this year. Now instead of Marvelous AQL, the company is simply known as Marvelous. The North American group is still Marvelous USA, so no changes there. The new logo for the company is:
In the August edition of Nintendo DREAM, the magazine lists Tsunagaru Shin Tenchi as having sold over 222,000 copies since its release. The game's producer, Yoshifumi Hashimoto, even mentioned that he wants to let everyone know that the overseas version of the game is going to be called "STORY OF SEASONS" (in all caps, too!).
Nintendo Life also has an interview with Hashimoto-san about the localization of Story of Seasons. In general:
- They aren't sure if they're going to implement the StreetPass feature in the EN version yet, but they're hoping to include it.
- References to older versions of the Harvest Moon series will be on a case-by-case basis such as changing the name of the Harvest Goddess to something else.
- Working with XSeed allows them to tweak the game for the North American audience (e.g., difficulty level or clarifying confusing areas).
- They toyed with the idea of having tractors, but decided it wasn't right for the series.
- When they tried to add fantasy to it they ended up with the separate series, Rune Factory. If they make a modern-theme farming game, he expects to give it a different name too.
The StreetPass feature in Story of Seasons isn't terribly exciting anyway, so you're not really missing much if it isn't in the North Amercian localization of the game. The only person I've ever StreetPassed was the representative at XSeed's booth during E3. The 3DS version of Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns has StreetPass, but a StreetPass hit happens so rarely that it may not be worth the localization effort in Story of Seasons to include it. In Tsunagaru Shin Tenchi, all the StreetPass does is gets you the passee's farmer wandering around Oak Tree Town, and you can then walk up to the person and see their farm statistics. The wifi feature will be there though, which allows you to trade items and increase the Star Rank of the hosting farmer's crops and lowers the stress of the farmer's animals.
Here's Nintendo DREAM's August 4-col comic!
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