What's the point of playing this when stardew valley exists?

But it's literally the same game right? How is that legal?

>Japan makes Bokujou Monogatari (Seasons Story)
>Localized by a company in America with the same name as JP publisher as Harvest Moon
>American Natsume starts getting really cunty and literally removing content to ship out HM games faster
>Japanese Natsume tells them to go fuck themselves and stops giving them the rights to their games.
>American Natsume says "WELL GO FUCK YOURSELVES TOO" and starts commissioning fucking terrible shovelware games and calling them "Harvest Moon."
>Japanese Natsume starts calling Harvest Moon "Story of Seasons" to differentiate it.
Harvest Moon up to A New Beginning is Story of Seasons. Harvest Moon post A New Beginning is bootleg shit.

Thank you.

>who created the SNES and N64 title
No, it's just that they share the same name as NatsumeAtari, who were the publishers in Japan at the time. The games were developed by Victor Entertainment, which folded into Marvelous, and thankfully got to keep the rights.

JP Natsume doesn't fuck with that shit anymore. It's just US Natsume being cunts.

The intentional brand confusion on Natsume-America's part is so bad that Wikipedia put aside its usual autism and decided to intentionally redirect people who look up the Harvest Moon series to Story of Seasons with a disclaimer at the top about Natsume's in-brand-only sub series.

It's only 3 points below the original on metacritic, which seems pretty reasonable considering the price. It was always a niche series.

What did Back To Nature do so right that it got two remake/ports?

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Mineral Town is still one of the best Harvest Moon games.

I should be able to have ten babies, as per the true farming experience.

the real question is why another port instead of a new game that pushes the genre forward?

It's the most bitch basic version that's also good. 64 is a bit more weird, and AWL is a very strange game. BtN/FoMT is the core experience.

Maybe people still haven't gotten over the fact that you die at the end of A Wonderful Life

Stardew Valley was always fucking disgusting. And somehow even with this remake being the ugliest Harvest Moon/SoS game ever made, Stardew Valley still manages to be even uglier than it. A lot uglier too.
Stardew Valley also has the worst fucking writing and the most disgusting characters and characterizations.

Stardew Valley is garbage and it pains me that they were so fucking late with putting Harvest Moon or Rune Factory on PC.
The only and I mean the ONLY reason Stardew ever even saw a small hint of success, is because the PC audience was starved for an easily accessible Harvest Moon game that didn't involve emulation hoops that normalfags dislike and for that reason they ate this garbage up. If the real games had been on Steam then Stardew Valley would have been failed completely.

Based anime mormon.

to be fair, Harvest Moon is far from a literal translation of the original series and is rightfully Natsume's localization genius

the gameplay is infinitely more engaging and fun than any harvest moon though, and it's more comfy and accessible than any rune factory

Some of the DS/3DS games were uglier.

I think Marvelous is trying to finally burn it into people's heads that Story of Seasons is Harvest Moon.

That's like saying NoA should own Blaster Master. Fuck off.

You say that, but wikipedia's autism goes both ways, in this case it was just successfully argued that Story of Seasons, as a game line, was not broken and so it stood to reason that it would be the primary page when searching for games under its old moniker.

Get over it

Technically, yeah, but even if it did break down in some way they would have argued to fadangle it. I say this mostly because for a few years it didn't actually cut them up like that. The autists finally yielded once it became clear how scummy Natsume was being.

People will remember the farming simulator as being pioneered by Stardew Valley and Farmville. SoS / Harvest Moon will both be obscure games because Marvelous was so fucking incompetent.

Stardew is shit, that's why. Steam needs an actually good Harvest Moon game.

Nah, even lil zoomers know Harvest Moon was the OG. It had the benefit of being a big deal on the SNES, N64 and PS1. It will never die as a brand, which is why Natsume can even keep selling their shovelware.

>tfw you realize Natsume is anything but Serious Fun anymore
My life is a lie.

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Stardewvalley is a very good game but the art work for characters are fucking ugly.
I miss the cute things that you have in harvestmoon

If Stardew Valley was made by a Jap and otherwise the exact same game as it is now, you'd be fucking creaming yourself about how much of a God-tier game it is. Weebs are fucked in the head.