Harvest Moon Twin Villages, Scans and more! Options

[Alhanalem]

Harvest Moon
Twin Villages

As the name suggests there'll be two villages that are at the feet of a mountain, each one with a respective mayor and villagers, and, unfortunately, you can only chose one to live but there's a possibility that you can move from one to the other, but you'll have to return to the one you choose at the beggining of the game to sleep, save...
There are the European themed Bluebell, and the Japanese styled Konohana
That choice is up to you, and it'll be affected by what exactly you want to do in this game. Bluebell is primarily focused on animals and livestock;
Konohana is much more involved with crops, meanwhile, from rice to fruits and vegetables.
It'll be your job to become successful in whatever you decide to concentrate on.
You'll be able to have a Rice field in Konohana or make sweets in Bluebell!
You'll be able to have your own owl, and you can be invited to go on a date!
You only have one kind of clothes for Konohana and one for Bluebell.
You'll also be able to communicate with another DS and play minigames.
And that's not the only news! You'll be able to rise alpacas (llamas)!!!!!
You can also select your protagonist's gender, here are they:

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Main characters

The game's due out on February 25 of 2010.

And here's the official site:
http://www.bokumono.com/series/futago/

Scans:

Full
Part 1
Part 2

Screens:

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Konohana - Foot of mountain

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Konohana - Zip Line

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Bluebell - Sweet Factory

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Bluebell Farm - Animal Barn

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Bluebell Farm - Animal Field

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Konohana - Cliff

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Konohana - ???'s House

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Konohana - ???'s House

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Konohana Farm - Field

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Konohana - Rice Field

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Konohana Farm - Beekeeping

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Multiplayer

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Game Information
(IMG:http://www.ranchstory.co.uk/games/footprint.gif) Japanese title: Bokujō Monogatari: Futago no Mura
(IMG:http://www.ranchstory.co.uk/games/footprint.gif) English title: Harvest Moon: Twin Villages
(IMG:http://www.ranchstory.co.uk/games/footprint.gif) JPN Release: 25th Febryary 2010
(IMG:http://www.ranchstory.co.uk/games/footprint.gif) NTSC Release: TBA
(IMG:http://www.ranchstory.co.uk/games/footprint.gif) EUR Release: TBA
(IMG:http://www.ranchstory.co.uk/games/footprint.gif) Official Site: http://www.bokumono.com/series/futago/index.html
(IMG:http://www.ranchstory.co.uk/games/footprint.gif) Console: Nintendo DS

Introduction:

In Harvest Moon Twin Villages you may chose between a Man or a Woman as the protagonist. You'll also have to decide between growing crops in a japansese village called Konohana or to raise animals in a european one called Bluebell. You'll be able to raise many kinds of animals and grow a big quantity of crops, not to meantion about the marriage candidates that always make presence in the series.

At a Glance:

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Animals and Crops

Animals

Profitable

Cows: Cows generally do what they usually do, provide the milk.

Sheep: Sheep do what they generally do, provide the wool. As of now, there are tow types, pink and white.

Horses: The horses can pull carts that contain goods. There are three different types of horses, unknown if they grow or they each just have their own individual job they do. There is also a white horse.

Alpaca: New member to the HM family, no one knows what these cute creatures do yet. Probably provide chothing material and maybe milk. There are two types of them.

Bees: Another new member, they give honey.

Owl: An adorable owl, another new member, they allow transportation between villages. Apparently they can sit on your head.

Non Domestical

Bears: Not available to raise, but you can spot them at the forest.

Monkeys: Not available to raise, but you can spot them at the forest.

Pandas: Not available to raise, but you can spot them at the forest.

Fox: Not available to raise, but it looks like there's a place in the mountains where these little yellow animals are at.

Domestical

Cats: House animal. As of now there is a white one.

Dogs: House animal.

Crops

Ground Crops

Strawberries
Cabbage
Cucumber
Turnip/Radish
Spinach
Potato
Grass

General Crop

Rice

Tree Crop

Oranges
Peaches

Wild Crop

Mushroom
Bamboo Shoots
Blueberry

Flowers

Sunflowers
Roses
Pink ones?
Moondrop

[IdlersDream]

Yeah, I'm still not sure which village I'll eventually choose. Hopefully we'll be able to move back and forth to be able to become master ranchers and tackle both raising animals and crops because I always like doing both in these games.

I think the art is cute, I liked previous realistic graphics like in AWL but eventually AWL looked kind of dirty and grimy which I'm sure appeals less to the younger audience. I don't mind the chibiness. :P