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The split from Natsume to xSeed meant that a new title for the series was needed. They went with "Story of Seasons" as everyone knows. What would you have preferred?

In my opinion, it's an okay title but I don't think it has much of a twang to it. "Harvest Moon" was honestly such a perfect name for the series. Harvest moons bring to mind farming and comfy rural feelings, plus it's catchy and easy to remember. "Story of Seasons" doesn't flow off the tongue and honestly it doesn't make much sense. I get the idea, the games are a "story" spanning "seasons", but it seems more convoluted than anything. Not the worst name out there but it's not particularly amazing.

If it were up to me, I'd likely just go with something simple like "Ranch Story" or "Farm Story". It's more or less a literal translation of the original name and it's admittedly bland, but at least it leta you know it's a farming game and it is fairly simple. If anything, it goes with "Hometown Story", which was set in the same universe (I'd like HS to be a series but I am doubting we'll get a sequel).

Ranch Story and Farm Story are already copyrighted, which is why natsume went with Harvest Moon in the first place

i probably would've kept the untranslated japanese title, with a loosely translated subtitle. so, like, i woulda called the first game Bokujou Monogatari ~My Farm Story~ or something (with like accents and stuff as part of the logo, so people who don't know any japanese can get a sense of how to pronounce it). since i'm never able to avoid a pun, the 'My' in the subtitle is 'cause 'boku' is a personal pronoun (though not in this case, of course). but that would make adding on game-specific subtitles annoying, which is why i'm not consulted on these sorts of decisions

It's honestly a bit hard to come up with a good name when there's so many farming games on mobile and stuff.

They basically have all the names you can come up with.

Leaving the Japanese name would make it even more niche if you ask me.

I don't mind Story of Seasons. I have thought it would be nice for it to be called by its Japanese name or a closer translation to it. But it doesn't really matter and I don't think those would work out too well anyway. Story of Seasons is doing its job. I just wish Natsume would use some other title cause calling their games "Harvest Moon" just confuses people, but I guess that's what they wanted.

I think Story of Seasons is a perfectly fine name, so it doesn't bother me.

As for what I would've called the series if it had been me in charge of coming up with the new name at the time, Harvest Adventures, maybe? I don't know, I'm horrible at coming up with names .