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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! I finally baked a cookie recipe that grandma had typed out, though she still made it a challenge...
Oye jeez, that's a massive amount of ingredients! Three pounds of peanut butter and 18 cups of oatmeal?! Her instructions simply state to mix everything together but then didn't disclose how many eggs were necessary. Luckily, some quick sleuthing around the internet pulled up the same recipe from other grandmas, where they had noted that 12 eggs was the missing ingredient.
I mixed up half a batch, could barely fit everything in my largest mixing bowl (the oats were spilling out all over the place), and had leftovers even after packing a lot of them up to send to my cousins and cookie box recipients. 
Thanks grandma!
This week, Natsume announced one more special bundle for farmers preordering Harvest Moon: One World in North America, scheduled to be released on March 2, 2021.
The Harvest Moon One World Collector's Edition from Limited Run Games is available for both Ps4 and Nintendo Switch. The CE comes with a physical copy of the game, the floofy chicken plushie, and a musical diorama packaged together in an extra-fancy box.
This little goodie plays a song from the game called "Spring on the Beach," and includes little animals and the two protagonists, which magnetically attach to the base. When the music platform is powered on, the animals will rotate and the music plays. So cute!
This limited edition package will open for preorders on January 5th on the LRG website for $99.00 USD. It's also mainly for Natsume's publish region (North/South America). It's up to Rising Star Games whether they want to have any special bundles for the European/PAL region release.
Natsume also released an updated trailer of the game, featuring the various areas, crops, and gameplay functions!
The video showcases some of the old hybrid crops like Sunset Corn and Tall Wheat, petting the wild animals, and the expand-o-farm that allows players to simply pick up their farm and move it to a new area! And of course, we learn that THE MAGNIFICENT DOC exists in the game as the player's little menu helper. The video also showed the artwork for all 10 marriage candidates, some of which we haven't officially met yet. Plus lots of animals like chickens, Jersey cows, normal cows, sheep, and rideable animals like a reindeer and a black horse.
And then there's that strange girl with her large backpack again at 1:09 in the video. That bag seems so familiar...
The galactic farming game, One Lonely Outpost, now has a page on the Steam Store. You can check it out at the link below to add the game to your Steam wishlist:
Aurorian Studios has also confirmed that OLO will support co-op online multiplayer when the game is officially released in 2022. The game's next alpha build is expected to be available on December 21 for Kickstarter backers that supported the appropriate tier.
All of the available retailer-specific preorder packages in Japan have been revealed on Marvelous JP's official Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town website. We can now see what the tote bag and lunchbox looks like for the most-expensive bundle, the Famitsu DX Pack, priced at at 9,878 Yen (~$95 USD).
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The Steam version of Sails has all the quality-of-life enhancements from the Exploration update, Foundation update, and Completion Update. These improvements have not been added to the console versions. The original version of the game is also on sale in the Nintendo eShop.
Until next time!
- Cher
(No Farm'n Friday next week because it's CHRISTMAS! Enjoy your holiday and Merry Christmas to all!)
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