hibikihojo:

there’s an info post about this on plurk, but i’ll try to relay the info the best i can:

• so if you’ve played a harvest moon game or two, you’ll recognize the company natsume. wikipedia lists them as a developer for harvest moon. this is not true.
• natsume is the localizing company for the harvest moon games - and they’re pretty bad at it tbh, considering all the translation issues and the bugs the games have. the actual harvest moon series is made by a company called marvelous.
• marvelous recently ended their contract with natsume, and gave the rights to the series to a company they recently acquired, xseed. you might recognize them from corpse party and a few other games, but most notably, they were the company behind rune factory frontier and rune factory 4.
• BUT.
• natsume still holds the rights to the title “harvest moon”.
• so while they don’t have the rights to the games anymore, they could still make a game and call it a harvest moon game.
• which is exactly what the lost valley is. it’s a shitty knockoff farmsim made to trick people into buying it because it says it’s a harvest moon game.

TL;DR - DON’T BUY IT, NATSUME IS TRICKING YOU INTO THINKING IT’S A NEW HARVEST MOON GAME. if you really love harvest moon and want the next game, please buy xseed’s “story of seasons” game, that’s the actual next game in the series. 

Hey, instead of telling people you don’t like a game because it was made by a different company than the one that normally makes it, why don’t you let people make their own decisions. 

Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean others won’t.