New Harvest Moon announced for DS and 3DS
Natsume has announced that Harvest Moon returns in a new title for the DS and 3DS in Harvest Moon: The Tale of the Two Towns, scheduled to hit shelves this summer (from Nintendo World Report, complete with press release). This game was released in Japan last summer under the title Twin Villages, but the more Dickensian title is on the English version, the first to hit the 3DS.
The crux of Two Towns is a rivalry between the Western-themed livestock-focused town of Bluebell, and the more Asian-looking crop-growing town of Konohana, which translated to English, means something along the lines of "this flower." Although I'd get a kick out of a slightly darker turn for the series in which the rivalry turns into a feud the goal is the ultimate union between the estranged towns. So much for my hopes for agricultural espionage and a Machiavellian web of political and relationship intrigue.
Friday Flashback: Shatterhand
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World hits theaters today, and to celebrate a game with an endless stream of video game references this week's Flashback is going to look at the game behind one of the most obscure references: Shatterhand. In the comics, Scott's band was originally called Sex Bob-Omb, but changed its name to Shatter Band, after the NES game Shatterhand.
While it never became particularly popular, Shatterhand was awesome from the moment it hit American stores, from its ridiculous box art of a chubby biker punching the logo with his cyborg hand to its Ninja Gaiden-meets-Bionic Commando graphics. The game was developed by Natsume, which also produced the NES non-classic-but-still-great Shadow of the Ninja, which itself played like Ninja Gaiden meets Bionic Commando.
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