took the opportunity to develop their own series of Harvest Moon in North America and Europe beginning with the release of Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley.
In 2012, Marvelous discontinued licensing the series to Natsume Inc.
The first game in the series, Harvest Moon, was released for the Super NES in 1996. Over a period of time, the player tends to crops and livestock, befriends nearby townsfolk, and eventually marries and starts a family. The main objective of the series is to rebuild a dilapidated old farm and turn it into a successful one. In 2015, Nintendo published the first game under this title in Europe, Story of Seasons. announced that the latest installment in the series would be localized by their American publishing brand Xseed Games under the new series title Story of Seasons. oversaw the English translation and distribution of the Bokujo Monogatari series in North America, where the games were released under the series title Harvest Moon. Story of Seasons was the first game to be released under the new international series title of the same name.įrom 1996 to 2013, Natsume Inc.
Story of Seasons, known in Japan as Bokujō Monogatari and formerly known as Harvest Moon, is an agricultural simulation role-playing video game series created by Yasuhiro Wada and developed by Victor Interactive Software (acquired by Marvelous Entertainment in 2003, now Marvelous Inc.).
