Harvest Moon's New "Cozy" Bundle Slightly Delayed For Switch

But... they're both terrible, as with all Harvest Moon games after 2013.

The Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar remake looks far more interesting.

The strange behavior from Natsume recently was almost never shown the trailer of their upcoming Harvest Moon, instead they shown their physical games pre-order several months before the games will be released.
We still have no idea what will be look like the Remaster of these two Harvest Moon games from 3DS and what new or changed in this Switch version.
But anyway, I still looking for this remaster.

The games just may not be complete. After all, we're not talking about a sophisticated developer.

@Erigen yeah Story of Seasons is a much better series.

Don't buy these. Buy Story of Seasons instead. They're the REAL Harvest Moon games.

@Erigen considering how unhinged the definition and usage of the word "terrible" is among gamers, that doesn't say much. But it can be morbidly amusing to see Natsume's in-house Harvest Moon entries recurrently distract the fandom from barking at the similarly recent Story of Seasons games themselves.

@nhSnork
Terrible as in just plain bad. The original 3DS games already looked and felt like a generation behind. These are not remakes but just "enhanced" versions. If you take a look at the official screenshots, 99% of comments are negative, pretty much saying it looks like minecraft on N64 hardware, and practically no new content.

Story of Seasons aren't that great themselves with little innovation and recent trend of just remaking old titles, but at least they truly are remade from the ground up with added new features and content the originals never had. Even with the lack of innovation, it's pretty much a guarantee that you'll get a quality product.

I'll stick to Story of Seasons instead. These games look so horrible and generic... Sad times.

Sad that these are better than any Story of Seasons game.

Ah how odd, you'd think these would be easy to put out. Well, if it's for the best then so be it.

I am in the small group of people who loved these titles back when they came out. In fact, and don't hate me for it, I enjoyed The Lost Valley far more than anything Marvelous released on the 3DS and Switch (The only exception being Tale of Two Towns, which is actually a DS game anyway). And just to be fair, I also enjoyed it more than any of the following games by Natsume as well, until Winds of Anthos which was great.

.... So, as much as I hate the "Cozy Bundle" name (which they don't mention in the message, so please tell me they dropped it), I'm definitely getting them!

@Erigen "99% of comments are negative, pretty much saying it looks like minecraft on N64 hardware"

Ah yes, from the talents that brought you "N64 trees in Pokemon SwoSh". And "plain bad" holds the same value and authority as "terrible" in fanspeak. The genre is an evergrowing trove by now, most of the experiences mundanely familiar enough to make up the background for the more outstanding specimens like Rune Factory, Harvestella or Stardew Valley (as is the big picture of pretty much any other genre) - but none of them qualify as "plain bad" on the mere basis of thespianly saturated audiences stigmatizing the very notion of legit/alleged mediocrity. All the less so in the day and age where we all witness neural networks abused for the purpose of actual low effort ripoffs.

@nhSnork
Uh... over-thinking and over-analyzing much...? Chill.

@Erigen

Two terrible games that years later look to run like complete trash.

Why even bother?

Well, finally the official trailer.
Natsume should announce the gameplay trailer first before announce the physical games pre-order as without the trailer, it will put the audience into the limbo with unsure situation.
Btw, looking at those games 10 years ago I was Nah with those Harvest Moon games.
But now me in 40 years old, saw Harvest Moon + Minecraft style of farming = Looks okay.
I will consider those bundle.

@nhSnork I agree with this. Either way the genre is overcrowded. I'm baffled by the sheer ammount of "harvesting lite rpgs" that come out every year

@Sambuc @Erigen That's because the actual Harvest Moon games are Story of Seasons. The games that released in this series after 2013 is just a copycat because the people who owned the rights to the series refused to let the devs actually have them.

Also, after seeing the trailer it amazes me that this is even being delayed in the first place. It's just ports of two really bad games that run poorly.

@VoidofLight
Yeah, I know about the whole Natsume localisation guffaw. Hence why every game after that year was donkey butt.

This collection really shows how lazy they are with pretty much just a port of two of their worst games with little effort and pretty much no new content added.

Yeah, I think Natsume is making a mistake bringing this two less than stellar "New HM" instead of striking while is hot and making a quick Switch 2 edition of Winds of Anthos, by far their most beloved and interesting post split HM and one they could use to really steal the thunder from Marvelous.

I wasn’t really checking for this bundle, but I’ll never understand why so many companies wait until mere days before the street date to announce a delay. They almost never give any substantial reasoning either. Delays are fine, but being vague doesn’t go very far if they’re hoping to encourage patience or understanding.

Yup they still look like TLV and SV alright.

I would’ve been more interested in hearing what’s different from the 3DS releases. If anything has been changed or improved. But getting anything at all is nice I guess.