The Ushi No Tane websites specialize in information, FAQs, and guides about the Nintendo console versions of the Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, and Legend of the River King video games. These game genres are created and published in Japan by Marvelous (JP). In other regions, you'll find Natsume, XSeed Games/Marvelous (USA), Marvelous (EU), and Rising Star involved in the series' release.

The latest version of the mainstream farming series that have been released in various regions of the world are:

• Japan: Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (January 2023)
• North America: Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos (September 2023) and Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (June 2023)
• Europe: Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos (October 2023) and Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (June 2023)

The latest version of River King, in all regions of the world, is River King: Mystic Valley (JP 2007, NA 2008, EU 2009).

Since 2000, Ushi no Tane has been run by a grouchy old lady who happens to be fond of video game agriculture along with two feline helpers: Intern Captain Bootu and Intern Hondo Mewnaka. The website is not officially affiliated, sponsored, endorsed, or employed by the developers of Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, or River King. This is simply a fan site.

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XMas Season Sales, Two Towns+, and Classic 4-col Comic | Posted at 01:18 PM 24 November 2017Happy Farm'n Friday! I hope everyone in the US enjoyed their Thanksgiving dinner last night and will be enjoying the mounds of leftovers for the next several days! I'm still working on the Christmas light install, although I hope to be finished next weekend.

Weekend Discount Sales

There's a few farming game price discount sales going on to kick of the holiday shopping season:

• The first Story of Seasons game is part of the North American Nintendo eShop Cyber Sale. The downloadable version of SoS1 is discounted to $14.99 USD (originally $29.99) and $17.49 CAN (originally $34.99). This sale ends on December 11. Trio of Towns is not on sale.
• The new game Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is still on sale for 10% off ($26.99 in the US). The Steam Autumn Sale will end on November 28, and also includes Stardew Valley (33% off) and Farming Simulator 17 (40% off)

Speaking of Light of Hope, a 1.02 update has been released today that enabled cloud saving and a default keyboard key to open in the in-game map.

Tale of Two Towns+

Marvelous has launched a new page on their official website for the 3DS game to explain what is "plus" about the 3DS version of their upcoming release of the existing 3DS game. The six points covered are:

• the expanded game viewpoint to fit the 3DS screen.
• a personality type feature that you choose at the beginning of the game, similar to what is built into the character creation in Story of Seasons: Tale of Two Towns. You can pick to be an Animal Lover (wild animal friendship is higher at the start of the game), Fisher (I'm assuming this is higher star-rank fish caught from the start of the game, as there is no fishing skill in ToTT), Tycoon (Have more money at the start of the game), Charmer (Have a higher flower level with the villagers), and Normal (No special benefits).
• There is a farm animal petting mini game to raise friendship with your livestock and poultry faster.
• Post-marriage illustrations of the marriage candidates.
• Streetpass support.
• Controller updates such as using the circle pad to run. In Japan's original DS version, farmers had to hold down the left-shoulder button to run. Natsume's English localization changed that to a toggle in the DS version (press left shoulder once to run, press again to walk), while running was the default speed when using the circle pad on the 3DS version, with the walk mode dedicated to the directional pad. Marvelous also plans to support additional download content.

So there are a few new things added to the 3DS version we already have: personality types, the post-marriage art postcards, and the DLC. I will admit that the future download content has piqued my interest a bit...

Older 4-col Comic

And here's the Nintendori comic from March 2012, back in the ANB days before I knew these were printed! Until next time! - Cher (I forgot the cranberry sauce at the mother in law's house. Can't make leftover cranberry crisp without it!) Feedback: Add | View (1)

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