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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:
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.
Happy Farm'n Friday! Late last summer at the farmer's market, the veggie-crop folks were selling purple broccoli seedlings at their booth. Touting how tasty the crop was, she gave a convincing sales pitch on how well the plants will over-winter. When spring comes around, the vendor explained that there would be lots of tasty purple broccoli to harvest! Oh boy!
Based on the awesomeness of their broccoli, I brought some plants home and put them in the front yard.
Of course, they did not grow into the magnificent stalks as described by the crop vendor. They were snacked on by cabbage butterfly larva and barely doubled their size. They did indeed over-winter beautifully as she said they would! Not her fault my front-yard soil turned out to be craptacular.
So yesterday afternoon, while we were preparing the front-yard area for the new raised garden beds, I was surprised to find that one of the plants had a tiny crown of purple broccoli on it. It really is a pretty gem of a crop. Maybe I can convince the niece to give broccoli a try if I give her this one little piece and explain to her it was my entire harvest for the season.
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town is still selling in Japan, the only region where we get some sense of how well the game is selling week-by-week. Famitsu.com reports that the game sold another 6,100 physical copies for the week of March 22 to 28, bringing the total physical copies sold in Japan to about 262,500. That's an amazing number of sales for a BokuMono game.
The sales numbers from Famitsu typically don't include the digital copies sold directly from the Nintendo eShop. But last week, Marv JP issued a press release announcing that PoOT has shipped over 700,000 copies of the game in Japan, Asia, North America, and Europe. Marv's 700k number included both physical and digital versions of the game. The press release also confirmed the ongoing collaboration with Tencent Group for the region-specific mobile game.
Marv JP also confirmed the company intends to continue its relationship with Three Rings by forming a capital ($$$) and business alliance with them. Three Rings Inc. is the production company that planned, wrote, and programmed PoOT for Marvelous, as noted in the game's credit roll.
We're still waiting for the to-be-determined updates to the game. North America/Europe will get the first expansion pass bundle on April 29.
Development of the topical island farming game, Coral Island, is still progressing forward at Stairway Games. The crowdfunding campaign funds allowed them to hire additional developers to fine-tune the residents' in-game models and improve their house interiors.
Backers who joined in the campaign with an alpha-access reward will be able to try out the game starting in July. Updated versions of the alpha build will be released in August and September, with an early-access (beta) release later in Quarter 4 (Oct/Nov/Dec) of this year.
Coral Island has also added Dutch and Italian as supported languages along with English, Spanish, Portuguese, Bahasa, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, German, French, and Russian. Whew!
Those who have alpha access to Roots of Patcha have been sending feedback to developer Soda Den. They've made changes such as contributing multiple items to the settlement and withdraw an item you may have accidentally added.
Soda Den has also started adding the cooking mechanics to the game and fish drying and fermenting to the food processors. Roots of Patcha has a 2022 planned release window.
New social events are scheduled to take place this month in the online browser-based version of Bokujou Monogatari in Japan:
Until next time!
- Cher
(Seriously ants, you appear, you go away, you come out again; make up your mind already...)
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