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         (.#)     Ushi No Tane         
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May 20, 2004

This morning the Japanese forums are a buzz with the news of the 
AWL4G release date. While there is nothing official on the MMV 
site, the fans are saying it will be released on July 8th. That's 
not too far away! On Matsuyama*-san's site, he says there will be 
a CD sound track packaged with the game as well. They've only 
packaged stickers with the GBA release in the past, and there 
wasn't any extras with the original AWL game.

(*Igusa Matsuyama is the man who does all of the HM artwork 
you're familiar with)

The price for the game will be the same, even though it's just a 
rehash of the Boy version. There will be three bachelors to marry 
(no word on which ones yet) and more voices heard. You can change 
your clothes depending on the season (finally!) but there's no 
mention if the villagers also change their clothes. You might 
also earn new outfits if you trigger certain events.

Your child is a girl this time instead of a boy.

Rumor of Freeplay :) only after you finish playing through the 
entire AWL4G game though. No word if you play as your daughter or 
if you play as yourself as an old lady. It's important to note 
that Freeplay was never a wild rumor prior to their AWL release 
like it was for the English release, probably because they knew 
it didn't exist :) If it's being mentioned now, there's a good 
chance that it will definatly be in the game.

Connectivity to FoMT is obviously there. Supposably you can 
connect to *both* versions of the Gameboy game, not just the Girl 
version. 

There are a few screen shots floating around. The girl "hero" has 
short, brown hair. You can find some screen shots at
http://www.the-sugoi.com/compose.php?Ndate=17052004&Nnum=5

Who knows how much of this stuff will still be in the game by the 
time this Winter comes around and the game is released in 
English. I doubt the sound track bundle will appear with the 
game; we'll probably all get stuffed cows again instead. Ya never 
know though....


Until next time!


- Which job is a cow most suited for?
-- Baker, because they're making cow pies regularly.