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 in EU, RF4 Collab, and New LDC Characters | Posted at 11:13 AM 29 June 2018Happy Farm'n Friday! The blueberries are ripening on the bushes in the backyard here at the urban Fogu "farm," which are being enjoyed by the native wildlife. Wish I could train the birds and tree rats to eat the whole berry before moving onto nibbling on another one! There are little bird beak marks on many of the blueberries. The berries are plentiful this year and I don't mind sharing with the critters. The tree rats have not bothered the dahlias at all this year, so they are free to enjoy the berries on the lower branches of the bushes.

Light of Hope EU Release

Farmers across Europe can now play Harvest Moon: Light of Hope along with those of us in North America. Huzzah, more farming for everyone! The promo items included in the RSG special edition physical bundles is different than the NA version: a Harvest Moon coffee mug, a Harvest Moon tote bag, a season pass for all four DLC packs, and a fancier lapel pin set, all combined in a barn-shaped collector's edition box. The NA version contained a CD soundtrack, the chocolate cow plushie, a hard-bound farmer's notebook to write in, a lapel pin set, stored in a box printed with the game's characters. Doc's theme song is track 18 on the CD soundtrack, just in case you needed more Doc or someth'n... heh...

Rune Factory 4 Mobile Game Collab

The Japanese mobile game Ordinal Strata is about a shrine maiden searching through time to find the lost souls of the God of Time, Resetia. In the game you pick a party of characters to participate in turn-based mission battles against the game's enemies. Naturally being a mobile game, it has random gacha rolls for weapons, equipment, and party members. In collaboration with Marvelous, the protagonists Lest (with an earth-based attack) and Frey (with a cure ability) from Rune Factory 4 will be available as weapon/party members for a limited time in a special in-game mission. Players will have to complete the stage mission to obtain the special Ventuswill weapon. Since the battle characters in Ordinal Strata are voiced, so too are Lest, Frey, and Ventuswill as played by their original Japanese voice artists. The official Twitter account for the mobile game is having a retweet-and-win contest where participants can enter to be chosen to receive autographs of the Rune Factory 4 voice artists Chiwa Saitou (Frey), Kouki Uchiyama (Lest), and Satomi Akesaka (Ventuswill).

LDC Character Updates

This week Marvelous revealed two more characters from Yasuhiro Wada's latest game, Little Dragons Cafe. The game is scheduled to be released on August 28 in North America (Aksys Games), August 30 in Japan (Marvelous), and sometime this "Summer" in Europe (Rising Star Games).

• Meil is a fortune teller with a great confidence in her ability to predict what's to come. Unfortunately she's more famous for her predictions not coming true. One day she predicted that the world would end, though she's the only one making a fuss over it.
• Ranche is a girl who travels with a lot of bats. She may look like a little kid, but in actuality she's an 800-year-old vampire! She seems to be on a journey in search for someone specific.

These are the character names in the Japanese version; their actual English names haven't been revealed yet. Until next time! - Cher (Didn't get to play Light of Hope last weekend. Spent it updating the website to https instead. Work before play!) Feedback: Add | View (1)

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