Harvest Moon Heads to WiiWare

[Rock Raiyu]

Information coming from the latest issue of Famitsu…

Harvest Moon Series: Ranch Store

- focus on shop management
- play as boy or girl
- create your own shop
- create different types of shops
- design interior/exterior
- take a picture of your shop and send to friends via Wii message board
- types of shops discussed in issue: Juice Shop, Ice Cream Parlor, Easter Egg shop
- Juice Shop: turn fruits/vegetables into juice
- Ice Cream Parlor: turn milk into soft cream
- Easter Egg: use eggs from your chickens (along with stickers and paint) to create Easter Eggs
- unlock stickers and paint through other portions of the game
- juice and ice cream are created through mini-games
- past Harvest Moon characters visit your shops
- fulfill their requests correctly to build a relationship
- hits Japan on April 28th for 1,500 Wii Points

News Source: IGN

 

[raulpica]

This is AWESOME! I love HM.

I hope it arrives in Europe too

 

[ChaosBoi]

No farming? No HM game would be the same if it didn't have any farming elements in it >_> .

 

[ricky23i]

No farming? No HM game would be the same if it didn't have any farming elements in it >_> .

I agree. what about the marriage?

 

[cocomonk22]

It isn't the same without harvesting during the time of the Harvest Moon.

 

[Midna]

I knew a good wiiware game was too good to be true. Harvest Moon implies "Harvesting". It's just a spinoff.

 

[Issac]

disappointment

Can't people seriously start making good games for wiiware? when the best release is tetris, you have to wonder...

 

[sepinho]

disappointment

Can't people seriously start making good games for wiiware? when the best release is tetris, you have to wonder...

I suppose you haven't played Lost Winds, World of Goo and Mega Man 9 then? Or the Art Style series, Bomberman Blast and Maboshi? Granted, I haven't played the latter three yet, but they're supposed to be really good. There's plenty of good WiiWare games, afaic.

 

[Hadrian]

disappointment

Can't people seriously start making good games for wiiware? when the best release is tetris, you have to wonder...

I suppose you haven't played Lost Winds, World of Goo and Mega Man 9 then? Or the Art Style series, Bomberman Blast and Maboshi? Granted, I haven't played the latter three yet, but they're supposed to be really good. There's plenty of good WiiWare games, afaic.

There are more than those, check the essential thread. Haven't updated it in a month or so though but there are quite a lot of good WiiWare games, sure it gets a lot of cheap crap but then so does Live Arcade & PSN.

This game...dunno.

 

[GeekyGuy]

When I heard the news, I was very glad. It's way weather worn -- at least the main franchise is. I think offering more HM as a downloadable game folks won't have to invest a lot of money into sounds like a good match for the series. Of course, we don't know the extent of what we'll be getting. Still, it was good news to me.

 

[Issac]

disappointment

Can't people seriously start making good games for wiiware? when the best release is tetris, you have to wonder...

I suppose you haven't played Lost Winds, World of Goo and Mega Man 9 then? Or the Art Style series, Bomberman Blast and Maboshi? Granted, I haven't played the latter three yet, but they're supposed to be really good. There's plenty of good WiiWare games, afaic.

Oh yeah.. I actually forgot about all the good titles

my bad!
However, the art style series, and maboshi are turndowns for me

atleast maboshi... it was too plain for me... tetris or lumines fills my need for those "simple" games...
but the rest