RF is literally part of the Harvest Moon series, or it was before the Harvest Moon brand was stolen by a western company. That's why RF1-3 have the "a fantasy Harvest Moon" subtitle.
Natsume who localized the games owns the Harvest Moon name. When the jap developers decided to switch localizes they had to rebrand for the west. That's why there's now Story of Seasons which is from the original developers and modern Harvest Moon which is Natsume's rip-off
Story of Seasons was the continuation of the Harvest Moon series after the name was stolen.
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I forgot the specifics but basically a company that localized the Harvest Moon games in the west pulled some legal frickery and now owns the name Harvest Moon and started making their own shitty Harvest Moon games in-house. As a result the actual Harvest Moon series is now called Story of Seasons in the west and Rune Factory can no longer have Harvest Moon as its subtitle.
>series is called "Bokujou Monogatari" in Nippon >in West published by company Natsume as "Harvest Moon" >Natsume and JP dev split up >Natsume make their own games and keep releasing under their copyrighted name "Harvest Moon" >JP devs make the real HM/Bokujou Monogatari games but have to rename them and choose "Story of Seasons" >SoS games started of well received while fake HM were trash >years later fake HM is still trash but SoS also goes to shit >Rune Factory was a spinoff series by the same JP dev as Bokujou Monogatari and when published in the West marketed as "Fantasy Harvest Moon" or sth to increase sales >RF was never part of the BM/HM/SoS franchise and the subtitle was dropped in the West
Story of Seasons was the continuation of the Harvest Moon series after the name was stolen.
>the Harvest Moon brand was stolen by a western company
QRD?
I forgot the specifics but basically a company that localized the Harvest Moon games in the west pulled some legal frickery and now owns the name Harvest Moon and started making their own shitty Harvest Moon games in-house. As a result the actual Harvest Moon series is now called Story of Seasons in the west and Rune Factory can no longer have Harvest Moon as its subtitle.
It makes sense cause Stardew outside the entire franchise and is the only "decent" rpg farming game right now. Every recent iteration of Rune Factory, Harvest Moon, and Story of Seasons is fricking garbage. I have no idea how these fricking companies are this fricking incompetent. is it a brain drain thing? Did the talented employees get poached away? holy FRICK
>is it a brain drain thing? Did the talented employees get poached away?
Yes. The actual developer went defunct after the massive bomb that was Lord of Magna.
Yay another thread for the same Squeenix game. Do they pay you that well?
Yay yet again a farming game (if this is even a real one) compared to the MUSTAHPIECE Starisraelite Valley despite looking and playing nothing like it!
I usually avoid game journalism garbage like this, but holy shit. There's so many different farming games at this point not everything is fricking Stardew. This would be like describing Hollow Knight as "Dark Souls meets Super Mario Brothers".
>site for idiots references popular game so casualscan actually recognize it
>Ganker pretends to get angry
>pretends
Isn't Stardew Valley just a Rune Factory clone but with bad combat?
so it's just a rune factory clone?
Isn't rune factory just a harvest moon clone but with combat?
RF is literally part of the Harvest Moon series, or it was before the Harvest Moon brand was stolen by a western company. That's why RF1-3 have the "a fantasy Harvest Moon" subtitle.
>the Harvest Moon brand was stolen by a western company
QRD?
Natsume who localized the games owns the Harvest Moon name. When the jap developers decided to switch localizes they had to rebrand for the west. That's why there's now Story of Seasons which is from the original developers and modern Harvest Moon which is Natsume's rip-off
>series is called "Bokujou Monogatari" in Nippon
>in West published by company Natsume as "Harvest Moon"
>Natsume and JP dev split up
>Natsume make their own games and keep releasing under their copyrighted name "Harvest Moon"
>JP devs make the real HM/Bokujou Monogatari games but have to rename them and choose "Story of Seasons"
>SoS games started of well received while fake HM were trash
>years later fake HM is still trash but SoS also goes to shit
>Rune Factory was a spinoff series by the same JP dev as Bokujou Monogatari and when published in the West marketed as "Fantasy Harvest Moon" or sth to increase sales
>RF was never part of the BM/HM/SoS franchise and the subtitle was dropped in the West
Then what is Story of Seasons?
Story of Seasons was the continuation of the Harvest Moon series after the name was stolen.
I forgot the specifics but basically a company that localized the Harvest Moon games in the west pulled some legal frickery and now owns the name Harvest Moon and started making their own shitty Harvest Moon games in-house. As a result the actual Harvest Moon series is now called Story of Seasons in the west and Rune Factory can no longer have Harvest Moon as its subtitle.
No, it's a My Time at Sandrock clone.
>60 fricking dollars
>stardew valley
>not moon harvest
Zoomers are shit.
It makes sense cause Stardew outside the entire franchise and is the only "decent" rpg farming game right now. Every recent iteration of Rune Factory, Harvest Moon, and Story of Seasons is fricking garbage. I have no idea how these fricking companies are this fricking incompetent. is it a brain drain thing? Did the talented employees get poached away? holy FRICK
>is it a brain drain thing? Did the talented employees get poached away?
Yes. The actual developer went defunct after the massive bomb that was Lord of Magna.
Finally Rune Factory is going to be avenged
Yay another thread for the same Squeenix game. Do they pay you that well?
Yay yet again a farming game (if this is even a real one) compared to the MUSTAHPIECE Starisraelite Valley despite looking and playing nothing like it!
I usually avoid game journalism garbage like this, but holy shit. There's so many different farming games at this point not everything is fricking Stardew. This would be like describing Hollow Knight as "Dark Souls meets Super Mario Brothers".