Set up shop in the first Harvest Moon for WiiWare
by JC Fletcher 
{ Mar 5th 2009 at 1:45PM }
Players can choose the type of business to run, design the look, and then man the store, making and selling the products. In the magazine scans, we can see a soft-serve ice cream shop, in which fresh milk is used to create ice cream, which is then dispensed and sold; an Easter egg shop (yeah, that's a little weird), in which the player decorates and sells eggs, and a juice shop in which you can turn the farm's fruits and veggies into juice, which you presumably sell back to the farmers.
Ranch Store goes on sale in Japan April 28 for 1,500 Wii Points. We feel pretty confident Natsume will bring it over here.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tim @ Mar 5th 2009 2:06PM
MMV should just revoke the license from Natsume and release Harvest Moon themselves, seeing how MMV is slowly realizng its mistakes for outsourcing their games.
SoshiKitai @ Mar 5th 2009 2:39PM
1) "slowly realizng" :P ... I wanna' see what happens when they're fully-realized
2) :( It's gonna' be odd for me to see all future Harvest Moon games to not have a single "Natsume" tag on it... I grew up seeing it as "Natsume", so...
Joshua (Not the original poster) @ Mar 5th 2009 3:30PM
They can't, as Natsume owns the Harvest Moon name, they were asked about this a bit ago!
Tim @ Mar 5th 2009 6:32PM
All Marvelous has to do is to rename the series outside Japan; by then, they could just potentially exploit that loophole.
PixelHustler @ Mar 5th 2009 3:32PM
I was a big fan of the 64 version, especially how it was ®NATUME on the title screen.
Kia @ Mar 6th 2009 12:36PM
Sure, it'll come out here. Pointlessly censored, maybe, but hey. Who cares about the little things!
Nope, I'm not bitter about the Best Friend system being taken out of one of the DS Harvest Moons, no sir. I do like being seen as "too racy" for puritanical American audiences, after all. Can't have them there womenfolk havin' no -relationship-, y'see!
chispito @ Mar 6th 2009 4:40PM
I've never gotten close to finishing a HM game. As soon as I have production capacity to really build wealth, I'm overcome by the tedium of actually building it.