"Doraemon Story of Seasons" (Switch) title used in game's rating in Taiwan, hint at localization?

[Hero of Legend]

http://www.gamerating.org.tw/search_game.php

You can find the rating by typing in "Doraemon Story of Seasons" in the search bar.

This is a pretty western-specific title. It'd be something like Doraemon Farm Story IIRC if they were to use a literal translation or something.

Bandai Namco is publishing it in Japan (with Brownies developing it), but it'd be funny if XSEED actually did get it, since they DID localize Fragile Dreams, Sky Crawlers, Retro Game Challenge, and Solatorobo from BN many years back on Wii and DS. Why not revive that partnership here? :P

Here's the announcement for the game from Gematsu:

https://gematsu.com/2019/02/doraemon-nobita-no-bokujou-monogatari-announced-for-switch

 

[Lite_Agent]

It's more likely XSEED are localising, but BN is doing the publishing (due to the Doraemon licence among other things).

 

[Sagadego17]

1st doraemon game in English ever?

 

[Raza]

I hope it's better than the Popolocrois SOS game. I'll give it a shot.

 

[Deleted member 873]

I wasn't expecting this to be localized! Yay

 

[ThisIsBlitz21]

Wait there, are doraemon games?

I used to watch the tv show as a kid in India, like a decade ago.

 

[Charamiwa]

It looks very appealing visually and people love their farming simulators, I guess it could be a reasonable success.

 

[wrowa]

If it's developed by Brownies and published by Bandai Namco then what is the connection to Story of Seasons? Is it also called Bokujo Monogatari in Japan? Did BN license the title or is there more to it?

 

[cw_sasuke]

Game looks great, so a western version would be appreciated.

Seeing Stardew Valley at the top of the eShop since it's launch is probably enough for Bamco to make it happen.

If it's developed by Brownies and published by Bandai Namco then what is the connection to Story of Seasons? Is it also called Bokujo Monogatari in Japan? Did BN license the title or is there more to it?

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Yeah looks like Bamco licensed the BM/SoS branding.

 

[Keke094]

1st doraemon game in English ever?

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yes. there 2 fan-translated famicom which is RPG like dragon quest and shooting game.
i heard that Doraemon on N64 was supposedly getting english release but not likely come here due of virtually unknown in west.

 

[mrmoose]

Doraemon (the 2014 anime) was actually broadcast on a Disney channel a couple of years or so ago. But they haven't rerun it since so I'm not sure how popular or even well known it is. They also released an ios app game at the same time.

Plus, they actually have volumes of the manga in English, but only via amazon and only for the kindle (not via comixology). Also it's not actual volume, but something like 3 chapters for 1.99 each. But I was still surprised when I found it years ago.

 

[Tfritz]

I'd be pleasantly surprised if it comes to North America

 

[Protodude]

It's too bad the localized version of the anime is dead. :/

 

[Shizuka]

Isn't "Story of Seasons" a Monogatari title, owned by Marvelous? What's Bandai Namco involvement here?

 

[ZugZug123]

It seems Nobuta is the PC though :/ but I'd still love to see this localized.

Did the US censor the spanking? I know Brazil did not and even though the country is not squeamish about it, I was surprised to see it happening so often on the cartoon.

 

[Hero of Legend]

Isn't "Story of Seasons" a Monogatari title, owned by Marvelous? What's Bandai Namco involvement here?

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Yeah. For whatever reason BN licensed the IP to do a crossover with Doraemon... of all franchises. It's even weirder as FuRyu has the Doraemon license and just released their own Switch game. Though BN did release a party game on Wii U and 3DS which had Doraemon in it, so that may be based on that or something.

 

[Oregano]

Doraemon is really popular in parts of Europe.

One note though HoL: Solatorobo was localised by NOE. XSEED published the game in the US using their script. (IIRC anyway)

 

[ValtermcPires]

pls come to us, i dont mind pay 60€!

 

[Deleted member 36622]

I'd be interested in it!

I love Doraemon, the anime was fairly popular here in Italy. (i believe it is still broadcasted to this day)

 

[winstein]

Even if this game is released in English under the Asian label (which I hope because although I can read Simplified Chinese, reading English is easier), I can see that due to having the English text ready, it would be far more realistic to have a Western release. Even if not, then it would be a very nice import title mainly because it's already in English.

Thank you for reading.

 

[Tohsaka]

If Bandai Namco is the publisher it's extremely likely that it will be released in English, even if it's just in Asia. They localize pretty much everything these days other than im@s and City Shrouded in Shadow.

 

[batfax]

Well dang, that's a surprise. Definitely keeping an eye on that!

 

[Revolsin]

Didn't like the character at all ever since I saw the show on TV, but I do love Harvest Moon(for the all 3 games of it I've played). I'd at least give this a look if it actually comes here.