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.

Latest Farming Video Game News

LoH DLC #2 and LDC Chars and Pre-order Bonuses | Posted at 10:48 AM 22 June 2018Happy Farm'n Friday! It's now officially summertime in the northern hemisphere. On the bright side, the weather will be great for growing crops. On the downside, the days are going to start getting shorter until the Winter Solstice in December. Shorter days means Christmas Light Extravaganza TIIIMEEEE! Woo!

Light of Hope DLC #2 Released

This Tuesday the second download content for Harvest Moon: Light of Hope was released for the Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch versions of the game. This bonus content brought the arrival of two additional marriage candidates: Shirlock (for girl farmers) and Michelle (for boy farmers).

• Shirlock will be unlocked by walking into Beacon Town, where you'll startle the poor chap. After calming down, he explains that he has arrived to be Naomi's assistant. Since he also dabbles in a bit of sleuthing, he also plans to investigate the three mysteries of Lighthouse Island. An earthquake-causing eel? Well that is a mystery to be solved!
• Michelle is unlocked by going to the mountain area, where you find her searching for Doc. You won't find out who she is until you visit Doc's laboratory and bump into her again. Turns out Michelle and Doc collaborated together at the same research lab until one day Doc suddenly up and disappeared. Michelle wants to continue her time machine project, so she hunted down Doc and his genius brain to help her with it. Yipee to science!

It's nice to have more Doc-isms in the game, ya? I may have to start a boy file and play through to get to the closest thing we have to a Doc marriage candidate. I was able to finish my girl file story on Summer 10, which took about 11 hours. The unexpected addition of 2 Milk required in the SE version to make Delicious Feed added to my weeny attempt at a completion speed run.

Bokumono Character Goods

Starting on July 7 in Japan, a graphic art shop called GraffArt (short for "graffiti art"), located on the fourth floor of the P'Parco shopping mall in Tokyo, will start to sell Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns accessory items. The shop will be selling iPhone cases, card wallets, key cases and key chains, coin purses, tote bags, pen cases, pin badges, and even a masking tape dispenser. All of these will be printed with stylized Bokumono characters and farm animals. Auu, so cute!

New LDC Characters

This week Marvelous' website for Little Dragons Cafe introduced two more characters who come to visit the little restaurant.

• Ginji thinks of himself as a great thief, though he seems to be worried about something and can't stop tapping his fingers on the table. He claims to only steal from bad guys.
• Celis is a magical witch who is found passed out in front of the cafe. Despite being helped, when she awakens she treats the cafe staff poorly and feels that humans are inferior to witches.

Pre-order bonuses are now available in Japan at select retailers. LDC currently has 11 pre-order bonus options depending on the retailer Japan players decide to order the game through, which seems about the same with what Marvelous did with their prior Bokumono releases: 7 pre-order bonus options for the Japan release of Tale of Two Towns last December, and 13 pre-order bonus options for the June 2016 release of Trio of Towns. The Japan select retailer bonuses include digital wallpaper (at Amazon.jp and Rakuten), a keychain (HMV), a lapel pin (Animate and Takarajima), scented writing pens (Geo), and even cookie macarons (Joshin). None of which are as cool as the North American Limited Edition being published by Aksys Games that includes a dragon plushie, a CD soundtrack, and physical art cards. Until next time! - Cher (The Junco eggs hatched! Now I can sneak in and water the hanging basket while the parents are out fetching baby food.) Feedback: Add | View (2)

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