Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town remake announced for Nintendo Switch

[buny]

looks so cute omg, never played this series, but i'll probably give this a try! the animals are so adorable

 

[Mr. Cat]

Oh. I went through a really obsessive Harvest Moon phase as a kid and haven't played any of the recent ones since I've heard they're awful. I played HM SNES, HM 64, DS, DS Cute, Magical Melody, A Wonderful Life, Innocent Life, Back to Nature, Rune Factory 1-3, and Island of Happiness (quit at this one). My mom bought me Friends of Mineral Town off of Ebay and the data was corrupted so I couldn't save it. Now I guess I finally can, so that's good news to me.

 

[Chipl95]

I might get this when it comes out! I LOVE FOMT so much and still play it sometimes.

 

[Ossiran]

The Official Twitter Account has been updating with news and videos. There's quite a few videos on there that give us a look at some of the features and locations, as well as the Spring, Summer, and Fall season themes. They haven't posted any Winter videos yet.

 

[Breath Mint]

The Official Twitter Account has been updating with news and videos. There's quite a few videos on there that give us a look at some of the features and locations, as well as the Spring, Summer, and Fall season themes. They haven't posted any Winter videos yet.

I was gonna ask you for a link but I didn't even notice you included one until I quoted your post. Anyway, I like what I see so far

 

[Eevees]

This looks so amazing! Dif going try get this one to play!

 

[Ossiran]

The official website now has all of the redesigns up for the bachelors and bachelorettes (excluding the two new characters).

Females: https://www.bokumono.com/series/saikai/character2.html
Males: https://www.bokumono.com/series/saikai/character3.html

The Harvest Goddess and Kappa were shown in early screenshots, though it's currently not known if you can marry them this time. Hoping they include them, since they were worthy goals. No clue about Gourmet and Won from the Girl version either.

 

[Breath Mint]

Too bad I can't understand a word on those pages lmao. The bachelorettes look considerably different from what I remember. I had to scroll down and see all 5 of them next to each other before I realized the one in the boat picture up above was in fact Elli.

 

[Sweetley]

Didn't even know a new Harvest Moon game is coming out for the Switch. Looks quite good so far.

 

[Ossiran]

Marvelous released a new "Friends of Mineral Town" remake trailer yesterday here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MpEnVC0iFk

The new marriage candidates are Juniper and Brandon. Both appear in the trailer.

 

[Circus]

Kinda wished they would make a remake of Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life.

I never played Friends of Mineral Town but it sounds interesting. I may check it out.

Also, I thought 'Harvest Moon' is now 'Story of Seasons'? Or did I misunderstood something?

The two companies that made the Harvest Moon games (up to New Beginning) split, and Natsume is still making "Harvest Moon" games, while XSeed is doing "Story of Seasons". I'm pretty sure that XSeed is doing this one, so it won't look so much like minecraft (Natusme's new harvest moon games legit look like minecraft now.)

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Is this true? I?m excited but at the same time sceptical. I hope it doesn?t have the trashy art styles the new Harvest Moons have. The game boy sprite work on mineral town is tough competition.

I think the people who make the Story of Seasons games are working on this one, and I've already seen some of the sprites and they don't look like the ones from the latest harvest moon games. They're actually pretty cute.

 

[Ossiran]

I think the people who make the Story of Seasons games are working on this one, and I've already seen some of the sprites and they don't look like the ones from the latest harvest moon games. They're actually pretty cute.

Yes, they are. This is Marvelous making it. The Natsume Harvest Moon games don't get Japanese releases these days. Only one of them ever got a Japanese localization. If you see a Japanese trailer, it's a safe bet that it's not Natsume.

As I've mentioned before, XSeed did confirm this game is being renamed "Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town". They said this in a press release. Although the game will get a western release, a date has not yet been set.

 

[mogyay]

mineral town was basically my childhood so i know i should be excited but idk, from what i've seen i can feel like a little bit of the charm has been lost tbh.. i'm sure it'll be good if it's marvelous but i'm not 100% convinced based on the trailer atm, will have to research it a bit more before buying it.. i might just be being unfair bc it's just so nostalgic to me

 

[Eevees]

Marvelous released a new "Friends of Mineral Town" remake trailer yesterday here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MpEnVC0iFk

The new marriage candidates are Juniper and Brandon. Both appear in the trailer.

The more I see of this the more I fall in love ♥

 

[Breath Mint]

This game is going to take over my life and I can do nothing to stop it

 

[Ossiran]

We got a better look at the Harvest Goddess, Won, Kappa, and Gourmet.

 

[Ossiran]

The game is out in Japan now. It came out a couple days ago. I saw some people streaming it and it looks really good so far. There's lots of information out now that you look for if you want more info on the game.

Unfortunately it does not look like there's a release date set for the localization yet.