Natsume Talks About its Future Plans for the 3DS

I'm tempted to get Story of Seasons on 3ds since its on the spring sale deals. Has anyone played it?

I honestly have no hooe for Harvest Moon as a franchise with Natsume running it. They are not good at making games that people have come to associate the title Harvest Moon. I could care less for this new eyesore. It is a good think Bokumono (I believe is the Japanese name) belongs to Marvelous. Because even if the name isn't the same, we can still get Harvest Moon quality games from them.

Why is anyone confused that one of the games is coming to WiiU but not 3DS? Why did fans suddenly establish this "rule" that they have to appear on both? It's not like it's ever worked that way before.

That's good to hear...

Except that the 3DS isn't really missing out with Seeds of Memories, in my opinion

@Dankykong I think it's a bit odd in this case, considering the game is being developed mostly for smart devices. Why port it to Wii U?

@Platina

Yeah those graphics are garbage ( seriously it looks like a bad flash game)and Lost valley didn't exactly inspire confidence in their ability to make good game...

-dodgy controls
-half the amount of marriage candidates compared to most any harvest moon game.
-no village
-etc.

Also IIRC the game is free to play which could easily make for a frustrating experience with not enough stamina/money or whatever unless you pay up...

Also the dialogue in a new beginning was mind numbingly dull. Xseed is a much better localizer if rune factory 4 is anything to go by...

Meh. Natsume is busily running the "Harvest Moon" brand name into the ground. Without a game or two that actually pulls its weight, I wonder how long they'll stay afloat.

...So, what about Rune Factory? They said they were gonna try and keep that series going. :c

I'm still waiting for Seeds on Memories on Android... I kinda think the WiiU game will take even longer to come out.

@Mr_Zurkon it's a great game even if it drags on for too long, I'd say it's well worth the sale price.

@MitchVogel from what they said originally, the WiiU game is not a port of the mobile game, but a different version of the same game... Like... A real console game.

Then again, they haven't shown anything yet.

@MitchVogel Natsume ran a poll asking fans which platforms they'd like to see the next Harvest Moon game on the most, and mobile & Wii U came out on top.

I would be more than happy if they finally released Harvest Moon 3 GBC (3DS VC) in Europe...

also on ios i think better in the console,because mobile aren't good enough to play hours... console more improved and more good graphics... In the mobile version just limited.... everything limited if you see the stars of this game is bad... actually the game was responsibly good...

I haven't played any of their games but if they're moving away from the 3DS, that can't be good.

In all honesty, it'd be better if a port of Stardew Valley was made, it's pretty much overtaken Harvest Moon in terms of fun and quality at this point.

I'd have bought it if it would have come out on 3ds, but oh well. I still don't have a Wii U and have no plans to ever buy one. I have an iPad but don't want the game on it, at least for now. I think it's $10 USD and I won't pay that much for a digital game.

@Churchy
Several Wii U indie developers have contacted the Stardew Valley guy to ask if he'd like help with a Wii U port, but I haven't heard about 3DS.

In any case, the game is built in Microsoft's XNA framework, so it's likely to be a lot of work to port it to any of Nintendo's platforms.

@Pod Wasn't Terraria also built in Microsoft's XNA framework too? Even though it's not an easy port, I think it may be worth porting this over as well due to its increasing popularity.

Although at this point, it might be worth a port to the NX if it's possible (it's a hypothetical situation as we still don't know what the NX will be capable of).

@Megumi

Rune Factory doesn't belong to Natsume.

@Churchy I would love to play a Stardew Valley port on my 3DS XL. That colourful and expressive sprite-work!

Wooboy I really need them to change that artstyle. Even the 3ds game had this weird looking chibi deformed style. I don't mind chibi but this is BAD chibi.

@ikki5 .....facepalms Just remembered, that's Marvelous, bleh. lol

@Grawlog the mobile version of the game is completely devoid of micro transactions, it was one of their selling points.

I really like the Reel Fishing franchise. I'm glad it was mentioned here.

@tsukipon The Lost Valley is a good game that everyone seems to dislike just because it's not from Marvelous. Capcom made 2 Zelda games and they were well received. Stardew Valley has been very well received and it's not even a HM game. I hope Natsume continues the terraforming aspect (and evolving it) for future HM games. It's a really great feature. I am not very interested anymore in the true HM series. I stopped after ToTT.

I bought their Vita Reel Fishing game recently (it was on sale) and it's pretty good.

What I would like to see?? I would like to see Natsume put Snes POCKY & ROCKY 1 & 2 on Wii u VC!!!! What's the problem??

@Freelance I disliked The Lost Valley because it was bad. I didn't even know it wasn't actually from Marvelous or that Marvelous was actually the dev and not Natsume at the time.

Also, their Hometown Story was awful too but forgetting that, I don't know or care if they are good at making other games, they aren't good at making Harvest Moon games.

@Churchy
I did not know that about Terraria.
For the NX, I'm not sure many indie devs have access to information yet. The kits that have allegedly been shipping out are likely to have gone to bigger studios that Nintendo want to get back in favor with.