River King or Harvest Fishing (PAL) (known in Japan

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 as ), originally released in English as Legend of the River King, is a fishing-themed role playing game series by Natsume (known mostly in America for its farming game series "Harvest Moon") that has releases on over 6 video game systems. Of these, 3 have been released in America, Kawa no Nushi Tsuri 3 and 4, dubbed "Legend of the River King" and "Legend of the River King 2" in the U.S. as well as Kawa no Nushi Tsuri: Wonderful Journey for the PS2 which was renamed River King: A Wonderful Journey. Natsume also plans to release versions for the PlayStation Portable

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 and Nintendo DS

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In addition to the River King series which, as the name suggests, deals purely with freshwater fish, a spinoff series of saltwater fishing games has also been released called "Umi no Nushi Tsuri". The series has been released for the Game Boy

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, Super Nintendo

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, PlayStation

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, and Wii

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Kawa no Nushi Tsuri titles

Related titles

See also

• Harvest Moon, a farming-themed role-playing game series also published by Marvelous Entertainment and Natsume
  Natsume
  can refer to:* the Jujube fruit* A type of chaki used in Japanese tea ceremony* Natsume , a Japanese video game developer* Natsume Sōseki, a famous 19th century Japanese novelist* Masako Natsume, a Japanese actor...
  
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External links

• Marvelous Interactive - Japanese game developer and publisher
• Ushi No Tane - English game help site
• Nushi Tsuri Guide - Japanese game help site