Harvest Moon: Back to Nature Rated for PS5 and PS4 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 October 2022 / 3,449 Views
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature has been rated for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 in Taiwan by the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee.
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature originally released for the PlayStation in December 1999 in Japan, in November 2000 in North America, and in January 2001 in Europe.
With the game being an original PlayStation title, there is a good chance it will be part of the Classics Catalog that is available for PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers.
Read the description to the rating below:
Experience Harvest Moon: Back to Nature originally released on the PlayStation console, enhanced with up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters. It’s a different kind of RPG for the entire family!
Key Features:
- Non-linear, real-time game play allows for a wide assortment of events!
- Compete with villagers in challenging festival mini contests!
- Add a kitchen and collect recipes. Women love a man who can cook!
Thanks, Gematsu.
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Did they manage to get back the Harvest Moon trademark from Natsume?
Otherwise, it’s weird that they’d confuse the Story of Seasons branding. Especially when Natsume is releasing these cheap knock-off games under the Harvest Moon label that look like rush-budget mobile games from 2011.
Natsume probably did retain some rights to the older games that they published under the Harvest Moon name, at least for a limited time,.They did re-release HM64 in 2017, three years after they lost the rights to publish new games in the original series.
Although I'm guessing that at this point the copyrights are messy enough to keep both the SNES and N64 games off of NSO.
Such a shame too given “Harvest Moon” was such an unlikely classic given that it came out post-generation.
Anyway, a brief summary of what happened (for anyone reading who isn’t aware). The original Harvest Moon was developed and published by Marvelous Interactive (then called Pack in Video). They had no means for localization and foreign distribution, so they partnered with a localization company called Natsume for the English translation and Nintendo for the worldwide distribution. Natsume registered the English trademark in the US “Harvest Moon”.
In 2004, Marvelous expanded abroad creating the companies Rising Star and XSeed. While the details aren’t public, it appears the US courts decided Natsume legally owned the Harvest Moon trademark, and therefore was in charge of licensing—which means they could demand sizeable chunks of the profits. The games had to be rebranded as Story of Seasons, and Rune Factory had to drop the Harvest Moon branding.
The funny thing is the spirit of trademark law is to prevent product confusion. Natsume began publishing cheap knock off games with the “Harvest Moon” label, creating mass confusion (including many people on this site, who were so invested in the branding that they refused to understand that “Story of Season” were the authentic Harvest Moon games while the newer “Harvest Moon” games were the imitations. How Natsume got away with this trickery is really strange.
One of my favorite games of all time
Hopefully this means Harvest Moon 64 is coming for Switch. Already looking forward to SoS: A Wonderful Life HD.
It is coming to NSO next year, but only in Japan just like that SNES Harvest Moon.
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