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Title: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on March 04, 2009, 08:17:48 AM
Harvest Moon sees some big changes in its WiiWare debut.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=17878

 The latest issue of Famitsu Weekly reveals a new WiiWare Harvest Moon title by the name of “Bokujou Monogatari Series: Makiba no Omise”, which roughly translates to Harvest Moon Series: Ranch Store.    


    As the name suggests, instead of managing a farm players will now manage a store instead. As a male or female character, players will be able to manage a variety of stores such as a juice shop, an ice cream parlor, or an Easter egg shop. Famous characters from past games will show up at the stores as customers.    


    Bokujou Monogatari Series: Makiba no Omise will be released on Japanese WiiWare on April 28th, with a price point of 1500 Wii Points.

Title: Re: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: AV on March 04, 2009, 04:40:05 PM
hmmm I always enjoyed the Harvest Moon games and this seems like a nice way to update the franchise. it's becoming harder and harder to pick up the games when so little advancement has come to play in the series, but downloading them for $10 or something that seems fair.
Title: Re: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: KDR_11k on March 04, 2009, 04:47:45 PM
Reminds me of Recettear, an indie game about running an item store in a fantasy world including the dungeon crawling necessary to get those items and the subsequent hagglign over the price of the items.
Title: Re: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 04, 2009, 05:11:15 PM
Animal March looks like a blast.
Title: Re: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on March 04, 2009, 05:39:49 PM
Sounds like a boring idea in my opinion and the only Harvest Moon spin off that won me over is Rune Factory.
Title: Re: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on March 04, 2009, 08:01:12 PM
If this is like Torneko's chapter in Dragon Quest IV... awesome.  That would mean some chances to venture outside the store to collect items (to be sold) and complete other quests.
Title: Re: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: broodwars on March 05, 2009, 01:50:16 PM
Ok...so they're basically turning Harvest Moon into the Retail Shop mini-game from Theme Park?  Meh, if I want to play a Harvest Moon game these days I'll check out the latest Rune Factory.  What is this?  Harvest Moon: City Folk?
Title: Re: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: Stratos on March 06, 2009, 03:49:50 AM
Quote from: Jonnyboy117 on March 04, 2009, 08:01:12 PM
If this is like Torneko's chapter in Dragon Quest IV... awesome.  That would mean some chances to venture outside the store to collect items (to be sold) and complete other quests.

I could see something like that work really well within a Harvest Moon framework. Gather items and material and perhaps negotiate shipments of goods. They could even go on a similar route as Rune Factory where you could fight monsters and such to acquire rare goods.

If you stock certain items then you could attract specific women. The plant loving girl would be drawn to the store with flowers. Pets and pet food would draw the animal lover.

There could be a surprising amount of depth in a game like this. I hope they spend a lot of time to flesh the idea out.
Title: Re: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: Stratos on March 07, 2009, 04:34:12 AM
Here is a scan from a magazine for the game.
(http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww295/SuperStratos/harvestmaybe.png)

Looks a little Paper Mario-esque in the art department.

A WiiWare World article expounds a bit more about how you play mini-games to create products for customers.
http://www.wiiware-world.com/news/2009/03/harvest_moon_coming_to_wiiware
Title: Re: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: Kairon on March 07, 2009, 03:36:37 PM
Oh god DO WANT. I love this artistic decision (also technical decision). It seems a wonderful blend of both WiiWare restrictions and the creativity to still make a game "pop." Also, 2D harvest moon art >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3D harvest moon art.
Title: Re: New Harvest Moon for Japanese WiiWare
Post by: Stratos on March 07, 2009, 06:15:49 PM
Quote from: Kairon on March 07, 2009, 03:36:37 PM
Oh god DO WANT. I love this artistic decision (also technical decision). It seems a wonderful blend of both WiiWare restrictions and the creativity to still make a game "pop." Also, 2D harvest moon art >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3D harvest moon art.

I really liked the N64 art.

N64 HM>2-D HM>other HM 3-D

Though weren't those characters just 2-D in HM 64 similar to Mario RPG and Ogre Battle 64?