Harvest Moon 3D: The Lost Valley - Haters gonna hate
It´s a Harvest Moon title. But it´s still not a "real" Harvest Moon title. Quite confusing huh?
Oh dear...I just checked for some news updates about Natsume´s upcoming simulator/RPG 3DS game "Harvest Moon 3D: The Lost Valley". And i ran into a wall of hate. Comments such as:
"Hey this looks awful and doesn't look anything like a Harvest Moon game."
"What the actual fu**? The graphics look so shitty. I'm gonna buy Story of Seasons not this piece of crap."
Not the best of starts perhaps. But then again. From what i´ve heard, Harvest Moon 3D are not even considerd to be a "real" Harvest Moon title by the fans (kind of like the case with Tony Iommi´s "Seventh Star" album. It´s not considerd to be a "real" Black Sabbath album).
Because the REAL Harvest Moon game would be Xseed Games "Story of Seasons" (which was released for the 3DS in February in Japan). So what about Harvest Moon 3D then? All bad news? Well, i did find some good comments that brought some light over the confusion at least:
"Just a reminder guys this is NOT the mainline Harvest Moon game. The series we have known all these years is going by the title Story of Seasons and is being done by XSEED. I am interested in seeing how this game will work but I am upset at Natsume for trying to pass this game off as the next Harvest Moon game. Thankfully XSEED made a trailer explaining what they are doing is the true Harvest Moon." - Gammalad
"A lot of people here are misunderstanding one very important thing. Marvelous is the original developer for the Harvest Moon (or Farm Story in Japan) games. Natsume has never made any of these games (until now,) they have only published them in America. However, since Natsume is the publisher, they own the name. That's why Story of Seasons is the actual Harvest Moon and this is some other game with similar elements under the same name." -Gabriel Cuddy
So when will Harvest Moon 3D be released then? The North American release will take place on the 21th of October. There´s no EU or UK date at this time i´m afraid.
