Natsume Stops Teasing, Reveals Harvest Moon: A New Beginning

..and Europe doesn't want this?

Europe wants this very much, but Natsume doesn't publish games over here. Hopefully Rising Star will bring this over but at the moment Europe's looking at A Tale of Two Towns as its next HM game

Dying to hear a release date for both this and Rune Factory 4. I'd better start saving up!

I've been waiting for A Tale of Two Towns, only a month to go now. This looks awesome, too

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooray!!!!!! I love me Harvest Moon.

Now we get to wait 18 months after the US release for Rising Star to pick it up!

Would this have been anything else. Hopefully it hits before AC.

Great news, but I guess this means a longer wait for the next console HM.

A farmer carrying a house around? Bah, that's nothing! Why I bet Vay could carry two mansions around, one in each arm! Anything's possible with ab power!

Why did I think it would be anything else?

Why?? I was excited, but now it´s just another Harvest Moon!
Seems like we get 2-3 Harvest Moon/Rune Factory games every year, and the quality is constantly dropping. Who is able to beat them all anyway?
With that kind of hype behind it, I expected more. Can only hope that this is the definite Harvest Moon and not just another slowpaced slog with annoying additions.

hope this makes it way to canada soon

@zenarium Not this again!

And its using Nintendo Network. Anyhow, looking forward to it.

@L4DYK0M1C
Well any online game on a nintendo platform will be using nintendo network.

@zenarium
Oh! You must have the game. Please, enlighten me.

Another Harvest Moon... I really liked this series a few years ago, but now I'm kind of sick of it. They need to really change the game around before I try one again. Perhaps in a few years I'll change my mind and buy one, but probably not this one.

I only have the Gamecube version so this might convince me to get another one even though I really haven't played it much tbh.

@Deeda: Nevermind him.

I love Harvest Moon but this time I'll wait for your review NL, if I get too excited about the game I'll start to look for info about it and I'll spoil everything.

man this looks like the first harvest moon open world game

The characters are adorable. Definitely getting this!

@zenarium Vintage troll. Please, please shut up.

As for the topic at hand, my body is ready. Definitely a day one for me, depending on when it comes out.

I might get this...then again every I try to buy a Harvest Moon game Natsume ALWAYS announces a new one. Please don't happen with this one.

I've been really hankering for a portable Harvest Moon lately. Maybe I'll hold off on getting one of the many existing DS entries (and the 3DS port) and get this.

Very sweet, a nice addition

Hurray! A harvest moon whose protagonists don't look like five-year-olds! I'm looking forward to this game. However, I hope they change the grass texture. Chroma key green would get nauseating after a while. On another note, I REALLY want that llama thing at the end.

Glad it was Harvest Moon! I'm pretty sure Rune Factory 4 is already coming over stateside.

@SKTTR , I agree. Although I like the Harvest Moon series, it's becoming oversaturated. There was a time when I'd look forward to a Harvest Moon release. Now I simply don't care.

Finally!

Here's a link to the press release that reveals some features that haven't been discussed before, such as the addition of llamas and yaks. I'm not sure if I like the idea of being able to move your crop fields after you've planted them. This game has always rewarded good planning and punished poor planning; I don't know about having a virtual "undo" button for your farm. I might have to ignore that feature when I play — some of the old-school rules still make sense! Also, for the sake of clarity, this game is already out in Japan, and the above trailer was released months ago, though in smaller snippets.

http://www.natsume.com/news/news_pdffiles/pid_95_NatsumeHMNorthAmericaFinal.pdf

Oh, I'm so psyched for this!! I was following their Twitter hints persistently... frequently replying to tell them "Why don't these sound like HM (Land of) Beginning!?!" so I was relieved that it was! For those saying "Bleh just another HM," as a longtime series fan since the original SNES game, I can assuredly say that the quality has been down lately, with the exception of Animal Parade on Wii... Tale of Two Towns was, to put it lightly, a huge boring let-down. This one looks to be more like the console games than the handhelds usually are, so I'm hopeful that it can breathe some new life in~!

my love must be blind, because i want this one soooo much. i love me some harvest moon. playing AToTT can get a bit repetitive, but there are enough events to keep me playing. for those of us who adore the hm games, it does become quite addictive: just play one more day to get to (whatever), then, ok, just one more day...

i must be the odd man out, because i prefer the handheld games to the console ones.

NOOOOO! RF2 Took 2 years years to surface to europe A YEAR!!! And so did RF3!! now we have a tale of two towns this month.TOTT looks like a ds game. sadly, i've never owned a console harvest moon. i've always wanted the gamegube game "AWL" because i just loved the graphics. now we've got the equivalent of "AWL" (the HM game i've ALWAYS Wanted) coming to the 3ds. that's good news but we're probably gonna get it late ;(