Story Of Seasons: Mobile Has Its First Trailer, And It Puts Pioneers Of Olive Town In The Shade

What little has been shown looks interesting. I'm not into mobile games, but I would buy this. Marvelous: You've got your developers on the wrong assignments. This team should have designed Pioneers of Olive Town.

I guess this explains why Olive Town was outsourced and looks pretty crap.

Yep One look at that and now i'm depressed. It looks gorgeous.
Sadly I wouldn't touch a mobile game with a barge pole even if I had a smart phone.
waaaatttt!!?? she doesn't have one?!! so edgy I know.

Wow. That puts the Switch version into shame. A mobile game that’s looking better than a console game that’s more expensive. Guess, we really need a Switch “Pro”.

@Lando_
Not the switch's fault on this one I don't think.

@nessisonett Actually, both games were outsourced. Shows how much Marvelous cares about this series.

Mayor Thomas, you went from 90% hat to 90% belly!

Looks lovely indeed, but is it as deep?

@Burning_Spear So... what are they working on then 😂

@nessisonett Exactly.

I don't know. I think it's really hard to tell from just one trailer. I wonder how much freedom there really is. Can players really walk from place to place and visit all those sites, or are those just scripted scenes?

I certainly wouldn't want to have to pay microtransactions to speed up harvesting of crops and things or buy extra items. I know Pioneers of Olive Town has a lot of issues, but I still enjoy it.

Eh, it's a mobile game being made by Tencent with Asian markets in mind. I would not get too excited for now. I might not even release here at all!

The art style of the characters (in-game) reminds me a bit of Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee. Too bad this is just a mobile game

Admittedly that does look a fair bit better than Olive Town, which was quite frankly a little bland in the visual department.

This is a mobile game, however, so I wouldn't count on anything else being high quality.

I am really having a hard time telling the difference between this and harvest moon. the two games look almost the same now. I wish Harvest moon would go back to its old look.

Probably with real time crops growing and the like eww. Imagine having to wait for 25 days for watermelon to grow for that 500 yen profit per watermelon T.T

@tkdboy1889 mobile games recently been stepping up their games. I mean everyone knows about genshin impact.

Ouch and I just docked myself 50 bucks for Olive Town... This hits even harder with the ongoing Pocket Camp vs New Horizons updates drama.

Why are we paying top dollar while mobile gets the better games?

Hehe it beats out POOT hehe

@tntswitchfan68 Harvest Moon isn’t really harvest moon.
From Wikipedia “ Due to Natsume keeping the rights to the Harvest Moon name when Marvelous decided to have their own American division, Xseed Games took over North American distribution, and the newer titles in the series had to be renamed to Story of Seasons”

Artstyle is different (note different not better or worse) but other than that no real improvement shown over Olive Town post patches. Especially since they went back to the 4x4 planting grid which limits your planting space. Also why so many coops?

That being said I hope it does well. The more money Marvelous makes the more games they can churn out.

Wish it was the opposite. I'm not much of a mobile gamer.

@nessisonett @Burning_Spear The main team was developing Rune Factory 5, which honestly needed to be the focus out of the two since it has at least three times the content that Story of Seasons usually offers.

That being said, I'm saddened that Olive Town ended up being what it was, even with the promise of QoL patches in the horizon. The game at it's core needs adjustments that a few patches for loading times and new dialogue just won't fix.

Wow this annoys me

Maaaaan, this looks better than Olive Town by a mile! 😱 Why can’t we have this lovely art style on Switch? 😭

@kducky11 Thank you for clarifying.

@Kelnos True, but its unappealing visual presentation notwithstanding, Olive Town has game-play flaws and omissions that could have been avoided had a little more oversight and input been exercised. The concept and structure should have been more finely defined before it was shipped off to Three Rings, and Hashimoto certainly could have subtracted some time from Rune Factory to provide guidance.

@nessisonett I'm hoping Rune Factory, I love story of seasons, but the added fighting and partner system in Rune Factory helps me love the characters more. More time to interact with them is always great.

@Wordbonder because mobile games are designed to get people actually addicted to them, did you see who made this? Tancent, even if it is pretty, it's going to hurt a lot of wallets around the world way more then a video game ever will.

If it's not a pay-to-play and a one time buy like stardew valley mobile was then I definitely want to play this. It looks amazing! Not the top down/uggo generic big eye/no dialogue mess that olive town has been...

Tencent? And people are excited? Wooow, gamers have taken a new form of idiot besides being generally terrible whiny people. Educate yourselves and research all the controversies surrounding Tencent, LOL.

i am f*king done with these souless jerks, i am just up to here,...- i really thought they weren't going to go mobile like animal crossing, but no......this explains everything; why pioneers of olive town turned out this way, why the original dev team, creators weren't working on their own game, why the game pioneers of olive town didn't feel like a story of seasons game..- man this is the most grotesque move ever.

edit i found out that this was developed by the biggest greedy google, Activision, ea, Chinese "game" company Tencent...and disturbingly i found out they own some of marvelous...so this is why this was made...and it's disturbing because marvelous sold out...you do not work with a company like Tencent because you will be used a milk machine without a care :s...

this right here proves that they don't care for console players, the ones that gave them the amount of support, love for their dang franchise - nope screw that we want to milk in cash now...this is gonna be another new horizons were the dev team don't care for animal crossing at all just what's inside your pockets.
they've already shown it through how they act with the actual game.

my gosh i am so dang upset - done ...not gonna support a company like this, - this is part of the reason why i stopped playing new horizon been collecting dust because everything that new horizon originally was gonna acquire, was thrown out the trash can for money..these people don't care anymore.
Man at least rune factory 5 developers; lost everything, starting up from scratch and haven't gone mobile, but i'll see how long that will last..this is just disgusting crap.

Another monetization, give me money, then the endless amounts of zombies..man i am just tired of this type of treatment they do to us core player base..like you are already making profit out of the game itself -w-why?...greedy.

@MidnightLaces Ok, boomer