PlayStation 2 owners, Welcome to Sheep Village

By Spencer . May 7, 2008 . 4:59pm

PlayStation 2 owners, Welcome to Sheep Village images Shining Dragon isn’t the only unlikely localization project coming out from Valcon Games. They are also working on Youkoso Hitsuji Mura (Welcome to Sheep Village), a PlayStation 2 farming game that appears to be more serious than Harvest Moon. The emphasis in Hitsuji Mura is bartering your way up to livestock and herding sheep. There are other animals in the game like a number of hunting dogs, yaks and a goat who carries a sake bottle strapped on his back.

This game is actually part of a series and a Nintendo DS version. Success will release Hakoniwa Seikatsu: Hitsuji Mura DS (Minature Garden Living: Sheep Village DS) in Japan this June. Perhaps, if the localized version of Hitsuji Mura does well Valcon Games will pick up the Nintendo DS follow up.

Images courtesy of Success.

TAGS: Playstation 2, Success Corp, Valcon Games

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Mazen

So we get every Success game in the US either bad or good (like that many of them are good), and we well never get games like Ash, Soma bringer, the upcoming Heracle RPG and the highly prised Tecmos Deadly Intent not forgetting old stuff like Mother 3, Japanese companies should know that getting many average and or precisely below average Japanese games in the US will hurt their reputation in the largest (by far)gaming market in the world.

Spencer

@Mazen - You make a good point, but many of the games you mentioned ASH, Soma Bringer, Mother 3 and Hercules no Eikou: Tamashii no Shoumei are published by Nintendo. They have a history of not letting other publishers play with their properties, which is why Atlus and other companies have not tried to localize say Mother 3. Cubivore is one the very few Nintendo games I can think of that was published in Japan by Nintendo, but in North America by Atlus.

Dr. Slump

Why do you guys think ASH won't be localized? Mistwalker seems to be bringing over all their games, so I assume this one will be coming too.

Spencer

@Dr. Slump - It's true that Mistwalker's games have generally trickled down to North America, but the credit for the first two go to Microsoft who made active deals with them. ASH is Mistwalker's first game published by Nintendo who hasn't even acknowledged its existence outside of Japan.