Harvest Moon, what have they done to you?

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A minute of offscreen footage from Harvest Moon: Light of Hope has been unveiled via Nintendo World Report and fans aren't happy.
With a like-to-dislike ratio strongly tilted towards the latter, it's safe to say that this is not the Harvest Moon people wanted, at least not when it comes to its aesthetic with an awkwardly animated 3D model gliding over a terrain of cheap-looking assets.
It's worth noting that Harvest Moon: Light of Hope isn't actually made by the usual series developer Marvelous. In a strange game of legal hopscotch, Marvelous wasn't able to keep the name of its own series when it switched publishers away from Natsume. Now the long-running series has been renamed Story of Seasons, and it's distributed by Marvelous' own publishing company XSEED in North America, while Nintendo publishes it in Europe.
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