HarvestQueen has found the release date on Gamespot.com for Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns! For now, it is scheduled for September 13, 2011.

In other news, we are updating the guides for Harvest Moon 64 thanks to the help from Kirbyarm! We now have updated Game Shark codes and soon to come, extensive maps covering every square inch of the HM:64 world! And much much more in the near future. We will be posting news items as we update the guide! Be sure to check them out!

These are the Poll results for our current poll:

The poll question asked: Are you going to buy Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns?

1st Place: Yes, for the DS!! Votes: 38 | 38.78%
2nd Place: Yes, for the 3DS!! Votes: 22 | 22.45%
3rd Place: Yep....Eventually Votes: 14 | 14.29%

The rest of the results were Yes, for both the 3DS & DS!! with 9 votes, Im still thinking about it... with 7 votes, Nope with 5 votes and lastly Maybe...but probably not with 3.

Thanks for voting everyone!

Our next Poll will run until June 25th. The poll question is: Whats your favorite Accessory you can find in the mines? [HM:DS/CUTE] Be sure to vote!!

Lastly, we have put up our latest banner featuriung the characters from HM:DS Cute

Firstly a special thank you to HarvestQueen for keeping us here at HMP updated on the game! Natsume has announced on their webpage that Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns is to be released sometime this summer 2011. There is still no exact date yet when this summer.

Second, it is April 25th, how time flies when your having fun, just seems like yesterday I was putting this poll up, but I digress...

The Poll question was: Whats your favorite season in general for any Harvest Moon game?

The Results: Votes: 123
1st: Fall- Votes: 42 | 34.15%
2nd: Winter- Votes: 32 | 26.02%
3rd: Summer- Votes: 28 | 22.76%
4th: Spring- Votes: 21 | 17.07%

Spring
Votes: 21 | 17.07%

Summer
Votes: 28 | 22.76%

Autumn/Fall
Votes: 42 | 34.15%

Winter
Votes: 32 | 26.02%

The next poll will run from tonight, to May 25th. The Poll question will be: Are you going to buy Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns?


Be sure to vote!

And lastly, we have the next banner that was chosen in 3rd place on our poll, our new banner features the main characters, along with all the bachelors and bacherlorettes of Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar. Hope everyone likes it! If you want to comment on it you can click the comment link at the bottom of this news post.

Today Natsume made this announcment:

Natsume Inc.
Today we are revealing an exclusive to you, our most loyal fans. We are happy to announce Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns for the DS *and* 3DS coming later this year! Fill up your watering can and sharpen your hoe, because it's time for an all-new farming adventure! More details to come in the near future, including some exciting news at E3.

We at HMP are excited for this release and we will be keeping an eye on news reports for possible release dates and more! So keep an eye out for new reports on the News feed here.

Today we reached a milestone we have been working towards since the creation of HMP. Today we got our 1000th member! Of course not all of the 1000 members we have are active, but its still something to be proud of. So Congratulations to our newest member HarvestQueen the 1000th person to join. And a special thanks to all our active members that made this possible, we hope we will get many more members to make the site even more active.

So a special thanks to everyone from the HMP Staff.

As you have probably noticed, we have changed the Harvest Moon Paradise banner to our 2nd place winner of the banner poll which we held a couple months ago. The 2nd place winner was the banner featuring the main character and the bachelors from Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town. Feel free to comment on what you think of the banner on this news post!

Also, we have added 2 new reviews to our Game Reviews Section of the site. They are for Harvest moon: Grand Bazaar and Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley. These were written by Mourad Rahmouni. If you would like to contact him, you can reach him at his email: mkrahmouni27@gmail.com

Here are the poll results for Feburary to March:

The poll question was: What is the highest year you have got to in any Harvest Moon game?
The results: Out of a total of 118 votes,

1st place: Year 10+ Votes: 31 | 26.27%

2nd Place: Year 2 Votes: 18 | 15.25%

3rd Place: Year 3 Votes: 15 | 12.71%

Our next poll will run from tonight [March 25th] to april 25th. The poll question is: Whats your favorite season in general for any Harvest Moon game?


Be sure to Vote!!!

Its that time of the month again HMPers. here are the poll results.

So our poll question for feburary was "What do you think of the new look for HMP?"

Here are the results:

1st[obviously]: Everything is AWESOME!!! -18 votes.
2nd was -the Banners pretty cool- 7votes
3rd, Obviously the 4 people who voted "meh..." had no idea how much time and work actually went into the making of the banners, buttons and forum icons, when they voted for "meh..." it came in 3rd place.

As for our other poll for which banner we should use next..
The results are:

Friends of Mineral Town [current]
Votes: 1 | 3.45%

More Friends of Mineral Town
Votes: 7 | 24.14%

Harvest Moon: DS
Votes: 15 | 51.72%

Harvest Moon DS: Cute
Votes: 2 | 6.9%

Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar
Votes: 4 | 13.79%

So the order the banners came in was,

HM:DS: 1st
HM: More friends of Mineral Town: 2nd
HM: Grand bazaar: 3rd
HM: DS: Cute: 4th

So in this is the order that they will be used on our site, 1 month each. The HM:DS banner will be put up within the next few hours, so be sure to look for the change. Feel free to comment on the new banner on the Banner topic or on this news post.

Our next poll will run from tonight Feb 25th to Mar 25th
The question will be, "What is the highest year you have got to in any Harvest Moon game?"
be sure to vote!

Harvest Moon Back to Nature, originally released in November of 2000 for the Play Station 1 is now available on the PSN for download to your PS3 and PSP!

Game price is $5.99

If your a fan of the classics be sure to go and download one of the ultimate classic harvestmoons!

Keep in mind that here at Harvest Moon Paradise we have a full guide on Back to Nature. So if you get stuck you can find anything you need to know in our guide! Or you can ask any questions you need in the BTN section of our forum: BTN Forum

Here is a direct link to our BTN guide: Harvest Moon: Back to Nature

We will be adding to and updating the Back to Nature guide as Anthony and myself play through the game to make it more complete to help others with any questions.

Its that time of the month again where we check the results of our poll! This months poll question was: Which Maker do you use the Most? [HM:DS] Mayo Maker Votes: 6 | 21.43% Cheese Maker Votes: 3 | 10.71% Yogurt Maker Votes: 3 | 10.71% Yarn Maker Votes: 4 | 14.29% Seed Maker Votes: 6 | 21.43% Canning Maker Votes: 1 | 3.57% I don't like to use the Makers... Votes: 5 | 17.86% Mayo & Seed maker tie for 1st with 6 votes each. Appearantly people don't like to use the makers.. which came in 2nd with 5 votes and 3rd was the Yarn Maker with 4. Bit of a different poll this month. We will have 2 polls. One will be here on the main page, the other will be a sticky topic in the forum under the Forum Feedback & Comments board. There is a direct link to the topic lower on this news post. The main poll will ask "What do you think of the new look for HMP?" in reference to the new icons and banner at the top. The second poll, which will be here: Which Banner Poll Topic ...is where you can vote to decide what HM characters you want to see on our next banner! So be sure to vote here for your favorite! This way you can have an active part in changing the look of Harvest Moon Paradise! Both polls will run from tonight Jan 25th to Feb 25th. Be sure to vote!