Harvest Moon: Light Of Hope Sets New Sales Record, Several New Natsume Games On The Way

but its crap no? its not even made by original developers Marvelous (Story of Seasons). They just kept the name of the franchise. In the age of Stardew Valley (that cost just 15$) why would someone buy that?

@dimi but doesnt stop people buying it, and then realising just that. But the game dev just sees it as a sucess because money is coming in.

hopefully whatever it is that they have in store, is better than light of hope.

If I'm not remembering wrong this is not the same devs that made the old games? and these new ones are rubbish.

Sorry, Natsume.
Dragon Quest Builders 2 has STOLEN my heart by the building aspect, farming aspect, raising farm animals aspect, doing requests for villagers, etc. 😍

Also, Re:Legend, My Time at Portia, Summer in Mara, Farm Folks have STOLEN my heart too. 😍

So....
Harvest Moon by Natsume is just like piece of crappy jokes.

I love Harvest Moon, but personally, I prefer the Marvelous Story of Seasons brand.

That's so awesome. I love the Harvest Moon series.

@michellelynn0976 remember this is not the real Harvest Moon series though.

@IHateTombs Same here; I dropped and then deleted Stardew Valley after I got hooked on this. I found it very enjoyable.

The game is so good, there is no review, no posts, nothing about it on this site.
The average Metacritic of all platforms (since it released for PC first long time ago) hovers at a 5.0.

That's interesting considering I was barely aware of this game's existence. (I'm not bashing it, I genuinely heard almost nothing about it.)

Good to hear but I hope for a rune factory or lufia this year as well

I'm not able to look at this game graphics and design and not be utterly disgusted, so I guess playing it won't be a pleasant experience for me. It looks so uninspired . I'll stick with Stardew Valley, which in my opinion is a better representation of what Harvest Moon used to be.

Can we get Medabots on Nintendo Switch? And hopefully use the Nintendo Switch Online app? With new Medabots, etc? Please?

@Arnold-Kage Not likely, since they're not the developers in that case. Rune Factory AND Lufia are both developed by Neverland, and the franchises in Japan are owned by different publishers; Marvelous AQ for Rune Factory, and Taito (Square-Enix) for Lufia.

Natsume may have bought the western rights to the names, but it'd be up to the original devs (and the Japanese publishers) to put out something authentic first.

Competition is good. If Natsume can garner sales based on the good will of brand recognition then Marvelous will have to push even harder with bokumono. Can’t wait for the new one.

And here I am still longing for the next Story of Seasons

Yeh I also heard the game was not that good, so I just stuck with Stardew Valley.

Here`s hoping their next games are at least fun...

@dimi Average Mainstream gamer is not going to know the back door workings of the HM/BM franchises. I also doubt that a clerk is going to be like "but wait!!!" and try to tell them the difference. Also if they find it fun at all that to them is worth playing a game that exists (HM) verses not having anything to play (BM). Not everyone is going to care about Stardew either as it is indie often digital and 16bit.

To me this looks like garbage compared to previous games.

Good for them, I'm glad they're doing well

@HikaruKitsune

Pitty. Still maybe they make some new ips. As I can't think of any is besides harvest moon that they own if this is the case

The game is so unbalanced that farming is waste of time compared to other financial choices.
I think the game just got caught in post-Stardew hype.

Quite surprised they're doing so well with Stardew Valley on the same platform at a lower price and the original dev team gone. Not saying another team can't make Harvest Moon great but this was a title I kind of anticipated being a flop.

I watched a decent amount of DangerouslyFunny's content on this game when it came out, and it looked playable, but clunky and dull, with boring graphics and mechanics. He's got a playlist on it on YouTube, if you want to see some gameplay and a review. Also about any piece of Stardew Valley related content you could imagine. Myself, I'd rather play a New Beginning again on the 3DS if I was hell-bent on replaying a Harvest Moon game again. But at this point, I've put over a hundred hours into Stardew Valley over about 2 years and am still enjoying it.

@Oscarzxn that's true. Still happy though.