Story of Seasons Sequel is Coming Soon to 3DS in Japan

I'll wait for the inevitable Harvest Moon: Story Mode by Natsume and
Telltale Games.

I would DEFINITELY preorder a Story of Seasons sequel as I bought the first one last Friday and it is AMAAAAAZIIIIING!

I can NOT recommended this game any higher.

I'm still seeing people on the Internets being confused about this, so once more: Story of Seasons is not the same franchise as Harvest Moon anymore. The Harvest Moon franchise is now fully owned and continued by its former publisher (and the "Harvest Moon" games have REALLY taken a dive in quality since then), while the series' original developers have rebranded their games as "Story of Seasons" in the West. Thus, Story of Seasons IS the real continuation of Harvest Moon, even if it isn't named as such. If you want the good old Harvest Moon you've known and loved, you should be getting the Story of Seasons games instead.

Cool, i'll have fun with that when it reaches Europe in they year 2020 or so... :3

I am going to get this without a single doubt if ... this will come over to Europe. But it will be a must buy for me.
Story of Seasons gave me the feeling of playing the original Harvest Moon which is a rare feeling I haven't had for fifteen years.
I'm very much looking forward to this game.

Good to see Marvelous not taunted by Natsume. Thank you, Marvelous and XSEED, for bringing the ACTUAL games to us.

Wonderful.

Intrigued by the three village setup, makes me immediately think it's going to tie into shipping and trading. Also makes me think they're going pretty big with this game for the anniversary. Hope that includes making the mine huge again, that was a major disappointment for me last game. Three more locations is also a chance to have a bigger dating pool and maybe one village can be big on fashion and clothing and have shops you can buy and sell?

Ooh, better stop my imagination lest I end up disappointed with the final product.

I just started playing Story of Seasons today on the train and I love it!
I'm glad a sequel is on its way, even if I won't see it for years and years here in Europe lol. As long as I get it eventually I'll be happy at this point!

Hope it gets localized in time for the anniversary!

This looks great. Bring it to America!

Jeepers still playing story of seasons. I'll get it day one but it will likely be a year or two before I pick it and play up.

I'll be buying this the second it comes to NA. I'm very interested to hear more details though. The 3 village thing could be interesting but I find too many things to do can be overwhelming in these games, mostly because I still play the old games a lot and am used to their charming simplicity. Renting the fields and competing with the other farmers to own them in the last one is an example of that, I really never even did any of it as it was just far too much for me, at least in the beginning of the game. Also too much competition in these games kills the relaxing vibe of it for me. I'm sure I'm in the minority here though, so I'll just hold my tongue and hope for the best!