Harvest Moon: Skytree Village screenshots, art, fact sheet
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Natsume has released the first official screenshots and art from Harvest Moon: Skytree Village. Additionally, a fact sheet has been distributed. We have all of that in the gallery below.
Natsume on how Harvest Moon is always evolving, divide with Story of Seasons, more
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Later this year, Natsume will be bringing out Harvest Moon: Skytree Village. It’s the second game in the series following the split with Marvelous over the Bokujo Monogatari titles, which Natsume previously localized. Harvest Moon now refers to the games that Natsume makes internally.
Polygon spoke with Natsume vice president of operations Graham Markay about Skytree Valley at E3 last week and the franchise as a whole. He commented on how the series is constantly evolving, the divide with Story of Seasons, and more.
Head past the break for some of Markay’s responses. You can read Polygon’s full article here.
River City: Tokyo Rumble will have a limited edition physical release
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Initially, River City: Tokyo Rumble was only going to be distributed as a digital title. But while an eShop release is still planned, Natsume vice president of operations Graham Markay has now confirmed to Polygon that a limited edition physical release is in the works as well.
Markay told the site:
“[Tokyo Rumble] was going to be digital-only. You don’t have to sell to retail or try to explain or try to get the physical product placed on store shelves [with online exclusive releases]. That gives you the ability to take a few more chances.”
“When we announced [Tokyo Rumble], there was an outcry of, ‘It better be physical.’ So we’re going to do a limited edition physical release.”
River City: Tokyo Rumble is scheduled for release this year.
More off-screen River City: Tokyo Rumble footage
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Another round of footage has emerged showing River City: Tokyo Rumble’s E3 demo. Have a look at the latest gameplay below.
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Off-screen Harvest Moon: Skytree Village footage
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A few minutes of off-screen footage from Harvest Moon: Skytree Village’s E3 build has come online. Continue on below for the video.
Off-screen River City: Tokyo Rumble footage
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River City: Tokyo Rumble is playable at E3, and GameXplain recorded some off-screen footage. Check out their video below.
Harvest Moon: Skytree Village details
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New details about Harvest Moon: Skytree Village have emerged from the game’s playable demo at E3. Read up on some information below, courtesy of Nintendo Life.
– Town has been in a downward spiral of sorts lately
– It was previously green and thriving, but it’s now taken on a somber tone
– The town has experienced an extended drought
– Ever-waning presence of the Harvest Goddess
– Play as a plucky local farmer
– Play as a male or female
– Restore the town’s seven Skytrees
– Bring back the Harvest Goddess through a combination of diligent farming, attentive animal husbandry, and item-based courtship
– Engine/style similar to The Lost Valley
– Terraforming your farm returns
– Natsume listened to feedback with the previous game
– Moved away from chibi character models
– Character models are conventionally proportioned
– Uses 3D character models instead of character portraits in dialogue scenes
– Terraforming now significantly faster and easier
– Can now work with more than one cube of earth at a time
– Hold down the ‘A’ button and the selection cursor will grow from one square, to three, to six, to nine, depending on how long you keep it held
– After choosing a size, you can move that selection as you like, and act on all selected tiles at once, either raising the earth or digging them down as a group
– The adjustable selection is also used for all your other tools in Skytree Village
– Tilling, planting, watering, and harvesting all benefit from the efficiency boost
– Expand the selection range as you upgrade your tools
– 2 new views
– There’s the standard 3rd-person free-camera perspective from The Lost Valley
– Also a faux-2D overhead view and a locked-in ‘Farming mode’
– Farming mode: variant of the overhead angle where your farmer will hold her stance and let you strafe along to water, till, or plant in tidy rows
– Press ‘Start’ to cycle through the three views
– At least six bachelors and bachelorettes
– Melanie: red-headed, hot-headed tsundere tailor
– She will turn your fur into fabric
– Jeanne: green-haired, bespectacled herbal doctor who’s brilliant and talented in her trade, but not very confident interacting with farmers of the opposite sex
– Elise: an outgoing blonde chef from out of town who’s written with a French accent
– Dean: buff florist; has a combo of tulip apron and boundless horticultural enthusiasm
– Gabriel: gentle, kindly livestock salesman who’s more at ease with animals than people
– Cyril: ponytailed aristocrat from far off lands who’s visiting Skytree Village as part of his grand tour
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Rising Star Games publishing Harvest Moon: Skytree Village in Europe next spring
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Natsume is handling Harvest Moon: Skytree Village in North America. But in Europe, Rising Star Games will be publishing. The company has announced that PAL regions will have the game sometime during Spring 2017.
Rising Star Games was also in charge of 2015’s Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley in Europe. The publisher said it saw success with that title.
Source: Rising Star Games PR
Harvest Moon: Skytree Village E3 2016 trailer
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Natsume has released the very first Harvest Moon: Skytree Village trailer in celebration of E3 2016. Watch it below.
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Natsume’s E3 2016 lineup
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Natsume has made its E3 2016 lineup official. The recently-announced 3DS games Harvest Moon: Skytree Village and River City: Tokyo Rumble will be at the expo, along with the PS4 release Wild Guns: Reloaded.
Natsume will hold booth 513 in the South Hall at the Los Angeles Convention Center. E3 2016 runs between June 14 and June 16.
Source: Natsume PR
