Marvelous opens Japanese website for Story of Seasons’ 20th anniversary
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In 2017, Story of Seasons (otherwise known as Bokujou Monogatari) will be celebrating its 20th anniversary. Marvelous has now opened a special website for its Japanese audience here.
Bokujou Monogatari was previously known as Harvest Moon in the west. However, after Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning, the series switched names to Story of Seasons, and was directly handled by Marvelous / XSEED in territories outside of Japan.
Natsume always held the rights to the Harvest Moon name, and started making its own farming titles beginning in 2014 with Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley. The company will also be bringing out Harvest Moon: Skytree Village later this year.
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North American Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns boxart
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Amazon has posted the North American Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns boxart. Take a look at the packaging shot above.
You can pre-order Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns here. The 20 percent discount is now active, meaning Prime members can save $8.
More details on Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns’ first week Japanese sales
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Earlier this week, Media Create data revealed that Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns sold 100,000 copies in its first week in Japan. Per usual, the sales tracker has now followed up with a report that offers more insight into the title’s debut.
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns sold through 61.29 percent of its initial shipment. It didn’t live up to the original game in both first week sales (131,000 units) and sell-through rate (73.07 percent). On the other hand, retailers have noticed that fans who’ve picked up the game are noticeably in their 30s, so it is suggested that there is a strong core fan base that has loyally followed the series through its 20 years.
Looking at the past 3DS releases of Story of Seasons (total sales 286,000 copies) and Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning (287,000 copies), both had managed a stable sales volume. Media Create is therefore observing whether Trio of Towns will be able to keep the same sales volume in the future.
An hour of Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns footage
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Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns is now available in Japan, and players are starting to record footage from the game. View an hour of gameplay below.
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns screenshots and art show pets
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Marvelous issued several new Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns screenshots (and a few pieces of art) today. The full set, posted below, shows off the various pets in the game. We also have a full listing of dogs, cats, and capybaras available in the game after the break.
Off-screen Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns footage
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During E3 earlier this week, XSEED was showing off Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns. View some off-screen footage below.
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns details and screenshots – Inari’s gender, characters
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Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns is once again featured in Famitsu. Similar to last week, there’s a lot of recap, but some new details as well.
Probably the biggest thing we learn pertains to Inari’s gender. The reason why players of both genders can marry the character is because its gender will change depending on the gender chosen for player. Picking the male player character will result in a female Inarie, and vice versa. Also notice that the male Inari has sharper-looking eyes.
Other than that, we also have the following information about other characters in the game:
Story of Seasons series will be getting same-sex relationships in the future
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Story of Seasons doesn’t have same-sex relationships… yet. It’s definitely something Marvelous is keeping in mind, however.
Producer Yoshifumi Hashimoto told Polygon:
“It’s not like we’re not thinking about [same-sex relationships]. We know that it has to be there sometime in the future. If we have to allow same-sex [relationships], we have to put more characters who are the same gender. As a game, it’s going to be so much more volume, two or three times more. It’s going to be a little difficult.”
When Polygon brought up Stardew Valley, which has a variety of relationships, he said that Story of Seasons will catch up “sooner or later.”
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns E3 2016 trailer
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The E3 2016 trailer for Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns has arrived. Give the video a look below.
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, Mario & Sonic Wii U pre-load live in Japan
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Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns can now be pre-loaded in Japan. It requires 5,393 blocks of free space, or 674MB.
Marvelous is also running a special discount in Japan. Between June 8 and July 6, the digital version’s asking price is 4,838 yen. It’ll go up to the standard 5,393 yen pricing after this.
Also, just like Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, pre-loading for Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games for Wii U is live on the Japanese eShop. That one requires 2,863MB of free space.
