Success Company, the developer most well-known for the Cotton collection of cute ’em ups, is bringing its tackle the farm sim to the west on Change in June 2023. Shepherd’s Crossing initially launched on PS2 in 2008, earlier than receiving a PSP port in 2010 (thanks, @gosokkyu!).
Referred to as Hakoniwa Bokujou Hitsuji Mura in Japan, the Change model launched in Japan final November, however we’ll be getting it on Change, PS4, and PC right here within the west — the PC model is out on twenty eighth April, even! A PS4 model can even be launching in Japan on the similar time.
Typically in comparison with the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons collection, your character strikes to a ranch and is left to construct up their life, develop crops, and elevating animals, all whereas attending to know the locals. And there isn’t any cash within the recreation, both — all the items you accrue are gathered by bartering with the locals. A sequel, Shepherd’s Crossing 2, got here out in North America on the DS in 2010.
This model of the sport is an HD remaster of the PSP port, however with model new options akin to a zoom-out possibility and extra merchandise slots. The sport can be digital-only within the west, nevertheless English help is being added to the Japanese model, the place bodily copies can be found.
For much more information on the sport, take a look at its Steam web page. We’ll let you understand as quickly as now we have a agency western launch on Change. Presently, it is as a consequence of sprout this June.
Take a look at the gameplay trailer (from its Japanese launch final yr) up high, and tell us should you’ve performed this on PS2 or PSP within the feedback!
