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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:
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.
Happy Farm'n Friday! So, how are everyone's local situations going? I hope you are all staying safe in these rather bizarre circumstances. Locally here, the outside has become much quieter. There aren't a lot of young kids in the neighborhood, but there are a lot of dogs. Lately, the pups have been staying indoors with their owners and aren't barking all the time. Even the busy street a block away from the house has less traffic. Usually, I can always hear cars going by during the daytime, but not so much anymore.
One of the local garden nurseries will now bring plants out to drive-up customers. They are also taking online orders whereby customers submit what they're looking for, and the workers pick out the best flowers and plants that match the request. Since we're discouraged from going out if we don't need to, it is a nice way to get some flowers planted and bring a little bit of cheer. Yardwork can go on!
Marvelous EU has announced that the French, German, English, and Spanish versions of Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town will be available on July 10, 2020. Woo!
Marvelous EU has a website where they are noting the names of the retailers that have opened up pre-orders for the latest SoS game. Eventually, farmers will be able to pick their country, and the site will forward them to the correct website:
The North American release is managed by XSeed Games (Marvelous USA). The publisher will reveal a release date once they are able to give one.
When the game was released in Japan, there wasn't an overall pre-order bonus like the capybara or bunny micro-plushies from the previous Story of Seasons releases. The bonuses that did exist were retail-exclusives like stickers and tote bags. There were also the in-game costumes that were only available at specified stores. We'll have to see if North America will get something spiffy.
Silly me built the Fogu guide using the classic names, so I'll have some updates to make this weekend!
This week, Nintendo aired a new Indie World Showcase video, promoting small-developer games scheduled for release on the Nintendo Switch. There were two games featured that include farming components:
Summer in Mara is an ocean-exploration adventure game by Chibig where players sail the Mara Ocean to discover islands, solving mysteries, locating treasure, and helping the local villagers. The protagonist, Koa, will be fishing, farming, crafting, diving, questing, and having all sorts of fun. Though, there's a sinister corporation looking to take over Mara...
This game is a timed exclusive to the Nintendo Switch, scheduled to be released sometime this Spring. The game will eventually be released on Steam/PC, Ps4, and Xbox One.
The other game is The Good Life, the countryside-themed RPG located in the farming community of Rainy Woods I mention every so often. Originally the game was not expected to be released on the Nintendo Switch, but developer White Owls has moved forward with releasing the game on Switch at the same time as the Ps4, Xbox One, and Steam versions. The game has also been delayed again; last summer, the game's release schedule was Spring 2020, but now The Good Life is planned for the "second half of this year." White Owls writes that the new delay is unrelated to the Switch release, but because they need more time to finish the game on all available platforms.
With a lot of us staying home, to keep ourselves healthy as well as keep others around us healthy, there are lots of new discounts available on farming video games:
North America
Europe
PC/Steam
Speaking of Stranded Sails, this week's update from LemonBomb states that the Exploration update will be released for consoles (Ps4/Switch/XboX) soon. The game update has been submitted to the appropriate console parties, and now it's just a matter of waiting for each publisher to give it their a-okay to release on their platform.
Until next time!
- Cher
(I hope the office plants are doing well without me...)
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