Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley (launching in NA on November 4)

[ThomasNLD]

The editing option like in A New Beginning is really a great addition for me, but I truly hate the look of the game.
I just can`t buy that. I hope Story of Seasons is better then this (and gets released in Europe before hell freezes over).

For me, playing A New Beginning has raised the bar of what I expect from Harvest Moon games. Even though there are a lot of things that can be improved, the game had a real good feel over it, when it comes down to kinda leaving footprints in the community and leaving your design mark on the place.

Spoiler maybe for new players of A New Beginning, (kinda raving and ranting over an otherwise great game).

Spoiler

But like Oath said, not being able to use great yarn ball when you need regular, is just freaking stupid. Why would I want inferior sheep on the farm? Not to mention I want more control over laying roads, not just 3x3 patterns. Also agree on same sex marriages. I also don`t like the balance between marriage and what it adds to your farmlife in A New Beginning. I wish she was more part of your life. Let her bring new ideas for your farm, house upgrades, decoration tips, being able to help on the farm, etc. So many things could have been thought of.

Which doesn`t take away that I love A New Beginning btw.

In short, this trailer is disappointing, but nowhere near as disappointing as not getting Rune Factory 4 in Europe. (GRRRRRR)

 

[Nami]

The lost valley looks piss poor :/ literally, I mean the graphics. I try my best not to judge based on that alone, as I wound up loving magical melody, but this is just a bit much. They all look 5 years old. I hate the chibi look I suppose. Anyway it depends on how deep the story line goes and how much depth the characters have. AnB did pretty good with that, but could have been better. This looks like it'll be pretty shallow and more aimed towards children only. Could be wrong, this is just the impression I get from trailers and gameplay.

 

[Libra]

In short, this trailer is disappointing, but nowhere near as disappointing as not getting Rune Factory 4 in Europe. (GRRRRRR)

Well, we'll be getting Rune Factory 4 one day, we just don't know when yet.

 

[mdchan]

Harvest Moon meets Minecraft in a game of epic fail as Natsume goes solo...

Nope, I'll take my $29.99 and save it for Story of Seasons. I don't like Minecraft, and if I wanted to play a Minecraft-like game, I'd just buy Minecraft. Not to mention that Lost Valley starts you off in Winter; the worst/most boring/most frustrating season in HM games.

 

[ShinyYoshi]

watched some let's play of this game and I'm quite disappointed....
I used to loveeee the HM franchise but it's been getting worse and worse
not sure if it's because I'm getting older but it just seems like this new game is for really young kids
with the amount of tutorials and guiding that are explained endlessly

I have to agree with this. HM64, HM: Friends of Mineral Town, A Wonderful Life, and DS Cute were extremely fun games for me but A New Beginning and Sunshine Islands came out and I was really disappointed. I felt the games had taken a turn to more for little kids in general.

I'll probably still end up buying the new HM game and the Story of Seasons game to see which one I like more. I just love the franchise.

 

[oath2order]

I have to agree with this. HM64, HM: Friends of Mineral Town, A Wonderful Life, and DS Cute were extremely fun games for me but A New Beginning and Sunshine Islands came out and I was really disappointed. I felt the games had taken a turn to more for little kids in general.

I'll probably still end up buying the new HM game and the Story of Seasons game to see which one I like more. I just love the franchise.

I loved HMDS. In retrospect it was the weirdest HM game and there were so many glitches. I loved it though/

 

[ShinyYoshi]

I loved HMDS. In retrospect it was the weirdest HM game and there were so many glitches. I loved it though/

I can't even play the HMDS game I have. It glitches so bad I have to turn it off within a few minutes of playing. My character was also never able to see heart events (I have no idea why) and even though Muffy was at a red heart, I had the full house expansion, and saved all the needed sprites, she wouldn't marry me.
Then I started another file and whenever I gave anyone gifts, my friendship would never grow. It was so weird.

They fixed a lot of that in HMDS Cute though. Such a good game :')

 

[Cuppycakez]

I searched Rune Factory 4 and that looks a little fun!

 

[Eldin]

I searched Rune Factory 4 and that looks a little fun!

It's amazing, I sunk way too much time into that game.

Anyways, no plans on getting The Lost Valley. The graphical style looks like that of an Android game and it seems like the main draw will be customization (when I'd rather have genuinely good gameplay). I might grab Story of Seasons when it comes out, I enjoyed A New Beginning (even though it has it's annoyances like any other HM game) and it seems to have improved a lot of it's features.

 

[Solaeus]

Oh gosh, I'm so excited for HMLV, I pre-ordered the rabbit plush too. I'm so psyched * *!

 

[Cou]

Ermm yeah, if this is legit I'll most likely wait for the reviews and beat my other HM games before getting this one (how do you even beat HM lol). It does look a little.. off though compare to the previous and latest HM games... but the story of seasons looks nice. I can't wait for it.

 

[RiceBunny]

At first I was confused as to why this game looked so terrible compared to the previous one. It looks like an amateur shot at making a Harvest Moon game. Then I found out this isn't made by the same people, that the TRUE Harvest Moon follow-up is actually called Story of Seasons. Which I've seen gameplays of about 6 months ago.
Now knowing that, I don't feel so bad about not wanting to buy/play it.

 

[Eldin]

Ermm yeah, if this is legit I'll most likely wait for the reviews and beat my other HM games before getting this one (how do you even beat HM lol). It does look a little.. off though compare to the previous and latest HM games... but the story of seasons looks nice. I can't wait for it.

HM is one of those games, similar to Animal Crossing, that you don't really "beat". As there is usually no ending (with a few exceptions, Hero of Leaf Valley, Magical Melody for Wii, etc), and you can just keep living on your farm for years if you'd like. There are many goals to complete like catching all fish, growing all crops, finishing shipping lists, getting married, having a kid, and many others. But they're pretty open-ended games so I wouldn't say there's really a way to technically beat them.

 

[Silversea]

Is anyone else noticing how often they are throwing out so many Harvest Moon games? It feels like too many, and not all of them are even good...

Don't get me wrong I like Harvest Moon but it seems like it is getting out of hand.

 

[Holla]

Not really interested this this one sorry Natsume! I'm saving my money for XSeed's Story of Seasons. It love the style of it and watching a Japanese Lets play of it has me sold!

 

[Prof Gallows]

I'm not going to be getting this one either. Seems like this one was just kind of done as quickly as possible and thrown out to have something in the gap between the release for Story of Seasons.

Plus the art style for it looks.. odd.

 

[Libra]

Natsume’s latest farming outing apparently won’t eat up too much of your 3DS’s memory, as today it was announced that Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley will only take up 635 blocks or around 80MB of system space. The game is due out today in North America and in 2015 in Europe.

Source here.

 

[starlark]

As many people have said, I'll be missing out on this one. IMO, the series is just getting worse and worse, even if this one isn't a direct follow up it gives a bad name to the franchise.
It seems Natsume are getting lazy-they're re using the sprites and mechanics from IoH and not making a very good job of it.
Grand Bazaar is the only acceptable one, I think, since it has a decent, original element added to it.
I traded in my glitched ACNL cartridge for ATOTT and I'm just glad it was glitched. Once I see a game I like, I'll trade in ATOTT for it. I don't feel like they took time to pick out decent bachelors I can obsess over either :L

 

[Emily]

I adore harvest moon but i never feel like i have enough time between game releases to complete the games. Heck, im still on the ds titles even though i have the 3ds ones. I feel so behind when it comes to my beloved harvest moon that its not worth it to buy this game when it comes to eu since hyped for story of seasons really. I have never played minecraft bc im not into that kind of thing so this game wont suit my gaming habits really :c

 

[starlark]

just looked SoS up and I'm going to say right away the bachelor choices are...:^)



I am praying we get an EU release, even if i have to wait two years, because there is no way I am missing out on cafe boy