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December 10, 2004

Mr.SolidSnake sent me a link this morning to an article on IGN's 
site about a *NEW* Harvest Moon Gamecube game. The new version 
is labeled "Song of Happiness" (shiawase wa uta) and will be 
released in JAPAN in 2005. The IGN article mentions the game is 
already 65% completed (way to sneak it past me MMV!).

http://cube.ign.com/articles/572/572349p1.html

The article mentions the game will allow you to play as a boy OR 
a girl. The need for fences around your animals are back to 
protect your animals against wild dogs, and you can grow plants 
outside of the fields. The game will bring back character's your 
familiar with.

The feature I like the sounds of is the fact that villagers will 
move in and out of your town depending on how you play the game. 
Yipee!

I have yet to find much information (or images) on any of the 
Japanese sites I visit, but Matsuyama-san does have a little 
blurb about it in today's journal entry on his site. He mentions 
the world-view being small and cute, with characters who have 
short legs. I'm guessing the graphics are going to be very 
"chibi". He then suggests you and check out page 36 (he thinks) 
at a local store, but he doesn't say from which magazine ^^ 

Turns out he is referring to Famitsu magazine, because someone 
has so nicely already scanned the page 36 article. (thank juuu!) 
The Famitsu scan shows the game's graphics to be *very* 
Animal-Crossing-like. The characters and animals are all very 
small and cute ^^ Some of the old characters listed are Nina 
(Snes), Dia (Sth), Tim (Sth), Nami (Awl), Udo (??), 
Duke (btn/fomt), Blue (??), and Shin (??). The magazine scan 
also shows animals like cows, sheep, a horse, dog, cat, and pig. 
Naturally you can fish ^^

Just keep in mind that this game never may reach the English 
fanbase. There's been no word on any sort of translation, and 
with Natsume staying hush-hush lately, we may not know for a 
long time if it will ever be published by them. 

I uploaded the scans to the Fogu site

http://www.fogu.com/hm6/041012_famitsu1.jpg
http://www.fogu.com/hm6/041012_famitsu2.jpg

Until next time!


- What do you get if you cross a goat with a sheep?
-- An animal that eats tin cans and produces steel wool


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