Nastume Mobile Game Announcement

[midnighttherabbit]

It looks like Natsume are releasing a new Harvest Moon game in August, something I really wasn't expecting. The announcement comes pretty late, only giving them a few months to market, but that makes me think they learned something from marketing Winds of Anthos, when they were just posting stills of the sky for six months.



The premise is pretty interesting, I like the idea of a town that isn't super welcoming the second you arrive - having to earn people's trust could be a fun mechanic.
I also wonder what this means for the Marvelous showcase tomorrow - maybe we'll hear news about the SoS mobile game that they forgot they announced lol. (As much as I think Natsume's games have jumped in quality, I'm still kind of iffy on their need to put games out at the same time as Marvelous. I think they'd earn a lot of good will if they... didn't do that, considering how many people accuse them of getting sales from people who are still confused about the difference between the SoS/HM brands.)

[JustABeautifulGuy]

I just realized the release month is just 2 months away! That is a very short marketing period but with how bare minimum their promo roll out has been for their games; it is definitely the perfect amount of time. I liked Winds of Anthos and the premise itself sounds really nice but I don't think I can hype myself up considering the fact it's a mobile game. I guess I'll wait till more information is available. At least this time we won't have to wait months just to get a first look at the game.

[StormFire]

I’m slightly intrigued. It was surprising for me to open up my social media and see their announcement for it first thing, but I just hope the controls/gameplay are good. I don’t normally play mobile games because of that aside from visual novel/otome type games. It makes me curious as to why they chose mobile only, and not console too, though…

[simside]

I also don’t love mobile games, but I loved Seeds of Memory. I thought the smaller scope really suited the content of their games. I’ll probably be playing this.

I should have not gone into the Reddit thread for this game… folks speculating about microtransactions and PTW, plus all the little Natsume haters over there. No one has played Seeds of Memory! At least all those people accusing them of releasing this game at the same time as the new SoS are Wrong On The Internet now.

[JustABeautifulGuy]

I don't understand the fandom on Reddit at all. From what I saw on r/harvestmoon, majority there actually liked Winds of Anthos but then they still go on to say "Natsume bad. Natsume can't make good games". I'm cautious of this but it's not because it's Natsume, it's simply because it's a mobile game and I think those people over there who enjoyed WoA can simply say this rather than going all the way to diss Natsume out of nowhere.

This game can actually turn out decent if they do things right. Judging from their press release, I think this game will follow more of a classic formula a la Light of Hope but with OW and Winds of Anthos' cast. A bite sized HM experience on mobile doesn't seem too bad atm but I do hope it's more fleshed out than Seeds of Memories. I wonder if this is Natsume's way of pleasing the classic HM formula fans so they can continue experimenting with their console games. I am starting to eat my words up, I actually am more curious about this now but Natsume is painfully greedy about sharing much information about their games so I guess I'll just simply wait till August now.

[Shan O 123]

There’s another one? I just bought Winds of Anthos last month. DLC in all. Give me time to play this one lol

[JustABeautifulGuy]

This looks very nice. Seems like it has Winds of Anthos graphics but with top down-ish angle and I really love it. The world doesn’t look empty! Another Natsume game that seems promising, I wish this was a spin off release on all the consoles though!

[Mikodesu]

Oh wow, screenshots are looking great! If the camera angle is fixed I imagine that's helping a lot with optimizing graphics, but either way Natsume has come a LONG way graphically. Probably also helps not being constrained by the Switch. Phone hardware is generally a lot more powerful.

I wonder if mobile is a good opportunity to try some new (or twists on old) game mechanics. Not sure if I can get myself to play on iPad though (only functional mobile platform I have). Downloaded the Ghost Trick demo on iPad years ago and didn't end up playing it till the rerelease on PC.

[greensara]

It looks promising, definitely better than their last mobile try. I still need to play WoA first though.

[FarmingForDaysMan]

Ooh :0 It’s amazing to see how the graphics remain pretty faithful to WoA. New outfits, too? Nice! I wonder if there’ll be more clothing options than there were in WoA. xD

Edit: Oh, did y’all see these? Harriet is so pretty

https://x.com/natsume_inc/status/180634 ... 89220?s=46

https://x.com/natsume_inc/status/180634 ... 11958?s=46

[Kross lover/fan]

This looks very interesting. I just hope my iPod can play it. I refuse to get a smart phone. Might have to brake out my tablet if this is the case but we’ll see. Any speculations on how much data this might take up?

[midnighttherabbit]

I like the look of it so far! I don't play many mobile games but it's usually because they're full of microtransactions, so knowing this doesn't have any I'll probably give it a try. I kind of want to know how much it'll cost, though.

[FarmingForDaysMan]

I’m gonna guess $29.99

Edit: JK, Light of Hope on mobile cost $14.99, so maybe this new game will be about the same price? $30 is expensive for a mobile game, anyways.

[simside]

Wow, this does look good! I just got a new phone, and though I hate playing anything on it, I'm curious to try this. Looks great.

I still haven't played WoA, but I played a ton of One World. The Braden appearance makes me wonder if the bridge in the one screenshot is modeled after the one outside his town in OW. Which is fine, I really liked the maps in that game.

[JustABeautifulGuy]

Just remembered that this is releasing this month! Actually, we’re almost half way into this month, and we still have no exact date on when this is dropping. I guess they wanted to get that OW special edition out first?

So many farming sim games releasing back to back yet I’m stuck being busy with so many duties in life Hopefully, I’ll find some time for this and all the other games I have to catch up on!