The promotional video for the game Bokujō Monogatari: Tsunagaru Shin Tenchi (Ranch Story: Connecting New Worlds) for Nintendo 3DS has bagun by MarvelousAQL last Sunday. The video includes customizing characters, basic farming, harvesting and raching gameplay. Various animals also appear in the game such as dogs, chickens, cows and sheep which the player can raise and cats, deer, alpacas and Angora rabbits. Also the game allows the players to raise different types of animals which is introduced by the new "safari" ability.



According to the October 24th issue of the Enterbrain's Weekly Famitsu magazine, the newest Bokujo Monogatari or Harvest Moon game will be released on February 27th for Nintendo 3DS. Like Harvest Moon: Boy & Girl, players were also allowed to choose the gender of their character. There are also new villagers included: a girl by the name of Lilie and a woman named Veronica.

There would be an improvement in working on the field making the process easier but the basic mechanics are still the same. In fact, players are allowed to go to a "safari" and take care different animals and can even interact with wild animals. Most likely, the has two times more animal varieties than the past games. Trading of goods with other countries through the Trading Post are also applicable, besides more goods can be sent to another countries when the player's popularity increases. It also features a mini-game wherein players can play in the river and catch fish.

The previously released game, Bokujo Monogatari: Hajimari no Daichi (Ranch Story: The Great Earth of Beginnings) was shipped in Japan for Nintndo 3DS in February of 2012 and was released in America and Europe as Harvest Moon: A New Beginning later. Bokujo Monogatari: Tsunagaru Shin Tenchi is available in Japanese stores for 4,800 yen or about $46 USD; added to that, it would include an Angora rabbit strap for the first press editions.


via Anime News Network