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Sundae Funday: Rune Factories, Frog Minutes And Ignition

By Ishaan . April 3, 2011 . 10:29am

Sundae Funday: Rune Factories, Frog Minutes And Ignition

Picking out the top story for this week’s Sundae Funday wasn’t hard at all — somehow, I doubt anyone missed the Xenoblade stories.

 

Thus, our Rune Factory Oceans interviews took top priority this week. We actually had a bit of a flood of Harvest Moon news during the week in general.

 

On to your three scoops of news!

 

 

 

Sundae Funday: Rune Factories, Frog Minutes And Ignition

A Rune Factory Oceans Interview With Producer, Yoshifumi Hashimoto

Yoshifumi Hashimoto is the producer of both the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory games, and also the producer of other Marvelous-published games like Muramasa: The Demon Blade.

 

We recently had a chance to talk to Hashimoto-san on two subjects: Rune Factory Oceans for the Wii and PlayStation 3, and where he hopes to take the Rune Factory series in the future as well. They’re both interesting in their own way.

 

 

The State Of Ignition Entertainment

At GDC, we spoke to Ignition Entertainment about a lot of different things. While we eventually got into discussing Deadly Premonition, Nintendo 3DS titles and future Ignition licenses, we started out by talking about the state of the company itself.

 

 

Turn Your Day Into Frog Minutes With Grasshopper’s New iPhone Game

Grasshopper Manufacturer have developed an iPhone game: Frog Minutes, which is frog-collecting game with its very own Frogdex.

 

Sundae Funday: Rune Factories, Frog Minutes And Ignition


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  • CashmereFungus33
    • http://zerodestinypro.blogspot.com/ Zero_Destiny

      [http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1559/wdc01budgigngxjvmp4snap.jpg] -> [http://static.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/585859-bigthumbnail.jpg] -> [http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6qpw6eUbb1qz83i8o1_500.jpg]
      I friggin’ love frogs. XD

      • http://twitter.com/#!/GuiltyRaioh ShinkaRaioh

        Sir Frog you damn badass pimp…~

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1472407455 Charles Lupula

    So, if Rune Factory for PS3 (and Wii) was released in the States, who has released the previous ones for the Wii? Never played any of the previous titles, but I see everyone talking it up so much, I might give it a try if it gets localized. Do we know who would most likely be doing it?

    • http://zerodestinypro.blogspot.com/ Zero_Destiny

      Natsume* released most of the Harvest Moon games, and most of the Rune Factory games. But the game on the Wii was released by XSeed. But that was back when they had a standing with Marvelous Entertainment. I’m not quite sure what their relationship is anymore. If anyone releases the next Rune Factory for the Wii (or it’s PS3 port) it’ll most likely be Natsume*.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1472407455 Charles Lupula

        Thanks.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tommy-Lee/518924335 Tommy Lee

        Natsume* =P

        • http://zerodestinypro.blogspot.com/ Zero_Destiny

          0_o Fine you win. *for now* lol

    • Kris

      Xseed I believe. Natsume did the localizations of the DS ones, but Xseed did Frontier, the last Wii title.
      Edit: Gah! Sorry Zero_Destiny, I didn’t see your comment when I posted this!

      • http://zerodestinypro.blogspot.com/ Zero_Destiny

        lol It is A-OK :)
        [http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/h436/Zero_Destiny/th_Correct.jpg?t=1301857485]

  • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

    Decent week I guess. I didnt really see a memorable story for my interests.

    Oh well, hopefully we get more game announcements for US as we go through this Spring, thanks for the koala tea articles though.

  • PrinceHeir

    awesome ice cream :D

    love the interview with ignition and Yoshifumi Hashimoto ^^

  • Ladius

    Don’t forget that this week also saw the release of the incredibly awesome Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky on PSP :)

    The Ignition interview was really interesting, I hope to see new exciting games from them (Fate Extra?) coupled with decent localizations.

    • DanteJones

      Trails* in the Sky got +10 bonus points because when I opened the box a Bracer pin fell out of it, I was like :O. I had no idea one came with the game lol.

      *Unfortunately, no flying trains were spotted.

      • http://zerodestinypro.blogspot.com/ Zero_Destiny

        lol Trains in the Sky isn’t this game. Oh no that’s Dragon Quest IX. XD
        [http://images.wikia.com/dragonquest/images/e/e6/StarflightExpressFV.png]
        [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100906044159/dragonquest/images/c/cc/Starflight_Express_travelling.png]
        [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100906050155/dragonquest/images/b/b7/Starflight_Express_travelling_2.png]

        • DanteJones

          Hahahah, aw crap, I didn’t even notice until you mentioned it! Gotta fix that. XD

  • The Icon

    Haha, I don’t know why… but I like that “the end” with the dinosaur so much.

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