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ILikeStrawberries wrote:Honestly, as much as I'd love to see a pre-order plush from XSEED for SoS, it's very doubtful we'll get one. XSEED themselves has directly stated they can't be sure of anything yet. However, if we DO get one, I'll most likely be ecstatic (I say most likely, because when I got my Hometown Story plush, it had a hole in it ). As long as it's good quality, I'll be satisfied.

Ronin19 wrote:Man, I wish my boyfriend was as into Harvest Moon as your partners are Kirie and Mai.

The plushies are cute; I own the chicken from Sunshine Islands and the yak from A New Beginning (the yak is adorable!). Maybe we'll get the rabbit, but I do think it's a bit early to be talking about preorder bonuses when the game was just announced in less than a week. (I'm also surprised this thread exploded!)

Melody Muse wrote:

ILikeStrawberries wrote:Honestly, as much as I'd love to see a pre-order plush from XSEED for SoS, it's very doubtful we'll get one. XSEED themselves has directly stated they can't be sure of anything yet. However, if we DO get one, I'll most likely be ecstatic (I say most likely, because when I got my Hometown Story plush, it had a hole in it ). As long as it's good quality, I'll be satisfied.

That is horrible! And here I thought plushies were the one thing Natsume did well.

Taniyama Mai wrote:

Ronin19 wrote:Man, I wish my boyfriend was as into Harvest Moon as your partners are Kirie and Mai.

The plushies are cute; I own the chicken from Sunshine Islands and the yak from A New Beginning (the yak is adorable!). Maybe we'll get the rabbit, but I do think it's a bit early to be talking about preorder bonuses when the game was just announced in less than a week. (I'm also surprised this thread exploded!)

lol we actually became friends because we both love HM, and after talking about the series in more detail I made the comment that she'd make the perfect girlfriend (and she agreed ;P) and here we are two years later

you might could get him into it, but that's prolly the best you'd be able to do bar finding a new boyfriend, which I doubt you want to do =P

I have them all(or at least very close to it starting from the games that came after the original AWL) it is a little early, but at the same time, I kinda want to figure out what I have to do before they're all gone =P

ILikeStrawberries wrote:It was the Ember plush. He had a giant hole between the inside of his wing and his back.
Not a huge deal, though. At the very least, the stuffing wasn't falling out.

Taniyama Mai wrote:

RopeMaidenKirie wrote:Since they are very early in the localization process we're probably not going to hear very much news until later on in the year. Next big thing will most likely be the demo at E3.

You can bet people will post any new info though as it comes though. I might transform my general discussion thread into a tumblr/twitter/fb faq thread for people who don't have a lot of time to keep up. I did that with RF4 and people seemed to like it.

yea, most likely, unless someone asks just the right question and gets something else interesting, though I think we've asked all the big things so-far.

plus it's a new month which means corocoro will be coming out soon with (hopefully) more info about the new pokemon games so I'll most likely go back to focusing on that until we get more interesting info here.

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Anonymous Fish wrote:
I am aware of all of the 'emotional domestic abuse' situations you know. But comparing them to the personality of a fictional character is absurd. It's not like Allen seriously means everything he says, perhaps if you had just given him a chance you would be aware of this.

Also, I never said you were the one attacking people, I actually meant the people that were attacking you and sending you death/rape threats over tumblr which is what I meant by 'viciously'.

One more thing, why would someone stop playing just because of Allen? They aren't required to talk to him, why complain about a character you hate when you didn't even try to know the guy completely? I brought up Michelle since her personality is by far the worst out of all the ANB characters and was baffled by the amount of hate Allen gets in comparison to her.

And before I forget, I wasn't 'derailing' the discussions from abuse survivors at all. When did I do that? It just seems silly to me that someone would get so angry over a fictional character who was never intended to be an 'abusive husband' as many put it.

Also, to add to the discussion of the topic, I really hope we at least get some sort of a pre-order bonus. Even if it's just that rabbit strap.

um, comparing the words and actions of actual abusers to the words and actions of a character is absurd? really now? could you please logic for just a few minuets, it'd make things so much easier. or ya know, google it for yourself because it is not my job nor is this the place to be educating you on something so simple.

I'd also like to point out 'not meaning something' and 'it was a joke' are both things abusers claim when called out on their abuse.

really? you weren't? then boy did you word that horridly I must say, though if what you say here is the truth, I appreciate that.

see, thing is, he's very hard to avoid, and once triggered(aka, once he's made you remember a traumatic point in your life) even just seeing him can be enough to set off more triggers and make it nearly impossible to play the game. (and it doesn't even need to be him himself. he wasn't overtly triggery for me, though he did bring back bad memories, but what his psycho fans did to me did cause triggers and I couldn't even see him anymore without being reminded of them) if you want to change your hair at ALL you *have* to talk to him. it's not that easy to just completely avoid any character unless they come later and you can just not make their house so they can't move in. sadly, allen is not one of those characters, though michelle is(and I will say if she's anything like allen, she's not worse, she's most likely just as bad, and you've not noticed it because you like him)

I wasn't saying you were, I said don't. should survivors be talking about how allen makes them feel, you can bring her up and talk about how she makes you feel and how it upsets you that she's not talked about as much as he is, but don't completely take the convo away from the fact that allen is upsetting to a lot of people. I guess we're even now for misunderstandings/bad wordings.

also, as far as "not intending to be bad", it doesn't really matter. just last night someone was asking for lesbian characters in a series I like and someone replied "she's not a lesbian! she's a strong female character with a secret she doesn't want people to know." they didn't intend it to come off as lesbians can't be strong female characters, but that's what she said and she couldn't tell me what it was she actually meant by it (because there's really nothing else one *could* mean by that) but just because that's not what she intended doesn't make it suddenly ok. if people are calling him an abusive husband, regardless of how he's intended to be that's what he is, to us at the least.

Also, to add to the discussion of the topic, I really hope we at least get some sort of a pre-order bonus. Even if it's just that rabbit strap.

was it a strap? I thought it was a plush. I'd prefer the plush and I'll be greatly disappointed if we don't get it. didn't Japan get it?

also, @centen and blue: .......... *ew*

as both a pescitarian and a lesbian, this person greatly offends me on many many levels.

they're pretty obviously a troll, an « Mr.Gourmet's hat », and XSEED is smart enough to recognize not only that but also that they (very obviously looking at our last conversations with them) do not represent the fandom in any sense.

and can you all stop replying for a second so I can get my post through! urgh! >3<

The answer to your question is that it is absolutely, 100% impossible to use previous names or similar names to represent Bokujo Monogatari under XSEED.

Taniyama Mai wrote:I'm not even going to dignify such bullcrap with a response. not here, at least.

make an account and show your face (or at least actually back up your claims) or get over it and move on before you get the topic locked.

I will not dignify any more anons with a response on this topic any longer. anyone who wishes to continue can send me a message like an adult.

as for the actual topic, apparently Hatsuu was asked about the name, and after making it very clear they did all they could to try and get the name "Harvest Moon", Hatsuu had this to say:

The answer to your question is that it is absolutely, 100% impossible to use previous names or similar names to represent Bokujo Monogatari under XSEED.

so that "Harvest Story" that was brought up before wouldn't have worked if similar names are off the table.

plus, I could see not wanting to go that way because let's be real, how many times have we seen a knock off of something with a really similar name to a known product? if they went too close it could easily come off as a crappy knock off (with oddly nice art for a rip off) trying to build on the success of this well established series.

"Story Of Seasons" is most likely the best name this could work under, all things considered (which apparently, were considered)