midnighttherabbit wrote: ↑Nov 26, 2022 6:00 pm
Maybe a little early to be thinking about it, but I wonder if there'll be preorder bonuses outside of Japan? I haven't seen any here in Europe, despite the special editions being available to buy already. ;.; I'm like 90% sure I'm not going to get the special edition at this point but I like to collect things lol
So far, other than the Limited Edition set for EU and AUS that you were referring to, they haven't said anything about any other bonuses. That has some minor extra physical bits though, like stickers and a notebook. Nothing has been said about NA as of yet. And it's still not even actually available for order in AUS, among other areas advertised, from what I could tell... unless it was so limited that I missed it. But I'd imagine they'll want to release more versions with pre-order bonuses too, seeing as how they mentioned in that recent interview that the AWL games were very popular in the west. So, I have no doubt that they will want to milk us like a round cow.
There was a new pointy-eared dog plushie that the director, Rika Hoshina, was holding in a photo seen in said interview. It isn't a part of any of the long list of JP pre-order bonuses so maybe that'll come with one of ours but that's in no way confirmed yet. It's something that crossed my mind though and I believe Cher even brought it up as a possibility in one of her previous Farm'n Friday updates. Daiki Yamashita has also been posing with it on multiple occasions while promoting BokuMono Radio on the weekends too. So, if plushies are your thing then maybe...
...but if you're asking strictly about the in-game costumes as download bonuses then none of the EN PR teams have confirmed one way or the other what will be released outside of Japan yet.
Anyways.
As for the updates: these past two days they've simply been showing off the same festival screenshots that I posted a couple of days ago, which came from the recent website update, so I decided not to post them here again. If anybody wants to see them that maybe hasn't done so already, you can go back to my last post on the previous page. But Monday was the New Year's Festival and, earlier today, they put out the Fireworks Festival.
One detail that I forgot to mention in my earlier post is that you're apparently asked to bring a cooked dish to Romana's villa for the New Year's Festival, almost like a Cooking Festival from previous installments. So, the Spring festival has you bring a dish, the Autumn festival has you bring an ingredient, the Summer festival is a family night out and the Winter festival is always a romantic date.
They'll likely continue to fill this week's updates with the remaining two festivals, so it'll probably end up being a pretty uneventful week. Unless it gets saved by that final fifth upload day or if the EN storyofseasons Twitter handle posts something, although their uploads are usually on Mondays and they seem to have chosen not to put any news out this week, unfortunately. They still might surprise us though so it's hard to say, really.