just gone through one-month in-game. from Spring to now Day1 Summer.

character creation - now has extra stat boost to choose from

the graphic has improved - the character is more rounded and balance.
SoS - the character is like skinny. ur character also doesn't do that annoying (imo) gesture when expressing something good/happy...

tools now have stats, which u can upgrade. weight (less stamine), effectiveness (faster/lesser move required), capacity, range...

there's no more farm auctioning feature. but there's now part-time job.

restaurant - im not sure if they provide free recipe to you after you eat a certain amount of food. doesnt seems so for now...
certain food (more premium price i think) - provides stat boost.

there's no fridge. everything is store inside the storage chest.
there's still the tool chest. but for now, i dun really feel why i need to store my tools since my backpack has a separate 30 slots for tools.

i think the house design is removed - can't move/design your house layout.
but the farm layout is still there.

there's no more swimming around in the lake for loot hunting. no more safari to find extra loot.
there is however, mining node at town center. 5 of them infact. 2 is accessible in the beginning. the rest requires upgrade of your hammer.

overall - i feel the game has somewhat improved compare to SoS.

i think the pet searching for items at certain corner has bug at certain area, e.g. own farm top-right...

my pet just stuck there - not moving, no response...need to go to another map to get it back...

i read from thonky guide - to mine every 3 days to get rarer gems - do you feel it's true?
plus the grazing every alternate days...when the game stated every day for at least an hour...

currently im mining every Mon, Thurs, & Sun...
which means Thurs & Sun - i'll get rare gems...
but Monday i'll have higher chance to get common ore - which i still need for other upgrades
e.g. brick, copper, iron...

how about the pet grazing? u follow thonky guides - every alternate day?

mind elaborating this bolded part?
different hammer for different mining point? i only have one upgraded hammer for all the same mining point...
how does a different hammer affects anything?

i dun have the bell available for sale yet in my shop...last i check...

wat the tuttttt....   (on the different level hammer for different type of ore)
i currently feel processing my crops by cooking them first before selling them gain me higher profits (instead of just selling them off raw)
what you think? what gives you highest profit?

btw...u have the "power circles" available already?

wow...impressive figure and house deco design...    

wow...impressive figure and house deco design...    

There's several easy way to make a huge amount of profit and level up cooking skill super fast in the game.

Once you've unlocked all three villages and can buy yogurt, butter and corn meal from the supply shop, you can cook Cornmeal Flatbread. It's extremely rewarding.

If you're still in the first year, you can sell Rice Porridge. The ingredient is rice and soy sauce which you can buy in Tsuyukusa.

Did any of you guys go this route? Some people don't like to do this since they consider it cheaty.

Will there be any DLC for US version? I thought it's only for JP version

Thanks for sharing that tumblr post!

I love how XSEED is very honest about deciding whether or not to localize the DLC. It's humbling to know how much time, money and energy they spent on localizing the game and the DLC that they published.

Sometimes as gamers we don't consider that side of the business when it quite frankly could financially make or break the studio.

thanks for the info...and it seems there is soft soil? 

currently im still on the normal dry soil...

how does topping works? it said it improves quality... but it doesn't seem to increase the price...

Is this the best Harvest Moon and Story of the Seasons to date? Or is there pros and cons.

That i know regarding Natsume, but is the game as good as the original Story of Seasons or A New Beginning for example. How better does it gets.

Ah that's a good comparison there thanks. I'm thinking of playing it at some point, my last one is A New Beginning, so it's been a while for me. Lol I heard about bachelors problem elsewhere as well, look like lacking in good selection

i read some forum - most pick Ford...they said like he was cool/serious...but when u dig him more into it...he'll shine...
i dunno...u girls have to find out youself...

in ToT i feel like the girls personality terbalik
Elise is the princess, but in ToT her reincarnation - Lisette is a romantic kind hearted girl...

i prefer Licorice or Iris in SoS TnB
but in ToT i'm currently trying to go after Lisette...
Iluka looks sexy but she's has Elise princess personality...