History VideoGame / StoryOfSeasonsPioneersOfOliveTown

* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Bridget's bedroom has an animal-lover theme to it, which includes the presence of a few stuffed animals.

* DevelopersDesiredDate: The base game has content that will unlock only if the PlayerCharacter marries [[spoiler:Iori]].

** In keeping with the aversion of AllNaturalGemPolish, other crafting materials that the player would have found in a ready-to-use form in previous games are now found in a more raw version that needs to be processes in a make to be usable.

* {{Nerf}}: Cooked dishes no longer sell better than the ingredients used to make them, encouraging the player to stick to using them as gifts, PowerUpFood or toward Lovett's challenges rather than the money maker they could be in previous games.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Damon is frequently about to have yet another cup of coffee in his dialog and his favorite gifts are all coffee products, his favorite being a plain, no-frills, cup of coffee.

* MockMillionaire: Lovett, the local gourmet. At first glance, he lives in a nice house and wears nice clothes. Except that the only other room in his house besides the ornate dining room and living room is a tiny bare room that functions as both his kitchen and his bedroom. The bed itself is a mess of PauperPatches, which are also present on the back of his coat.
* {{Nerf}}: Cooked dishes no longer sell better than the ingredients used to make them, ecouraging the player to stick to using them as gifts, PowerUpFood or toward Lovett's challenges rather than the money maker they could be in previous games.

* AllNaturalGemPolish: Averted compared to installments that came before. Polishing gems requires a maker.

The PlayerCharacter's grandfather was one of the founders of Olive Town, in which he used to run a farm. Impressed by tale, they decide to move to Olive Town. Unfortunately, the farm has been abandonned long ago, turned into a forest lacking even the remnants of a farm house and what buildings are left too damaged to be of any use. Olive Town is fortunately still standing and its mayor is fine with the PlayerCharacter trying to revive the farm. He wouldn't mind a little help turning the town into a popular tourist site, either.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Taken even further than previous installments. Here, the choice of gender is completely separate from the character creation menu, so it's entirely possible for the player to make a character with the most feminine presentation ever and then tell Victor that they're male when he asks. Or vice-versa. Even wedding outfits aren't tied to gender: there are two choices of male clothing and two choices and female clothing, all available regardless of what Victor was told at the beginning.

* {{Nerf}}: Cooked dishes no longer sell better than the ingredients used to make them, ecouraging the player to stick to using them as gifts, PowerUpFood or toward Lovett's challenges only.

* OutOfGenreExperience: Iori's RomanceSidequest, which involves him dealing with an assassin that is sent after him because of the very sort of politics he moved to Olive Town to escape from, would belong in a few genres. FarmLifeSim is definitely not one of them, however.

* InSpiteOfANail: The "divorce" mechanic is really a CosmicRetcon creating a situation in which the proposal and the wedding never happened, but literally everything else is the same.

** The number of festivals was drastically cut, reducing each season to a MiniGame type festival and a cutscene type festival supposed to be enjoyed with a significant other. Ironically, the festivals that were dropped are those that actually involve farming.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Taken even further than previous installments. Here, the choice of gender is completely separate from the character creation menu, so it's entirely possible for the player to make a character with the most feminine presentation ever and then tell Victor that they're male when he asks. And vice-versa. Even wedding outfits aren't tied to gender: there are two choices of male clothing and two choices and female clothing, all available regardless of what Victor was told at the beginning.

From there, it's the standard ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' formula: manage the farm, befriend the locals, maybe start a family with one of the latter. The means by which the farm is expanded differs from previous installments in the series differs in that many crops, animals and pieces of infrastructure need to be salvaged from the forest the farm has become before more of them can be purchased in town, making exploration necessary to bring more variety. The farm ''also'' happens to be on top of a massive archeological site, which results in various ancient artifacts being found after rainy days or in the mines. And the town has a currently-empty museum that will be all too happy to get those artifacts, photos of local wildlife and any fish the player can catch.

Dowloadable content was made to be gradually made available after the game's release for a price, including new areas with characters returning from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning'' and previous ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' games.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Taken even further than previous installments. Here, the choice of gender is completely separate from the character creation menu, so it's entirely possible for the player to give their character nothing but traits many would consider "typically female" and then tell Victor that they're male when he asks. And vice-versa. Even wedding outfits aren't tied to gender: there are two choices of male clothing and two choices and female clothing, all available regardless of what Victor was told at the beginning.

* AllNaturalGemPolish: Averted compared to installments that came before. Polishing gems requires its own maker.

** The number of festivals was drastically cut, reducing each season to MiniGame type festival and cutscene type festival supposed to be enjoyed with a significant other. Ironically, the festivals that were dropped are those that actually involve farming.
** Needing makers to get wood and stone into a form usable for building. In previous games, it was a matter of hitting wood with an axe or hitting stone with a hammer, while makers tended to be for processing farm products.

DowloadableContent was made to be gradually made available after the game's release, including new areas with characters returning from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning'' and previous ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' games.

* InstantGemPolish: Averted compared to installments that came before. Polishing gems requires its own maker.

** The number of festivals was drastically cut, reducing each season to MiniGame type festival and cutscene type festival supposed to be enjoyed with a significant other.
** Needing makers to get wood and stone into a form usable for building. In previous games, it was a matter of hitting wood with an axe or hitting stone with a hammer, while makers tended to be mostly for processing farm products.

* WholesomeCrossDresser: Taken even further than previous installments. The choice of gender is completely separate from the character creation menu, so it's entirely possible for the player to give their character nothing but traits usually associated with females and then tell Victor that they're male when he asks.

The PlayerCharacter's grandfather was one of the founders of Olive Town, in which he used to run a farm. Impressed by tale, they decide to move to Olive Town. Unfortunately, the farm has been abandonned long ago, turned into a forest lacking even the remnants of a farm house and what buildings are left too damaged to be of any use. Olive Town is fortunately still standing and its mayor is fine with the PlayerCharacter trying to revive the farm. He wouldn't mind any help turning the town into a popular tourist site, either.

From there, it's the ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' formula: manage the farm, befriend the locals, maybe start a family with one of the latter. The means by which the farm is expanded differs from previous installments in the series differs in that many crops, animals and pieces of infrastructure need to be salvaged from the forest the farm has become before more of them can be purchased in town, making exploration necessary to bring more variety. The farm ''also'' happens to be on top of a massive archeological site, which results in various ancient artifacts being found after rainy days or in the mines. And the town has a currently-empty museum that will be all too happy to get those artifacts, photos of local wildlife and any fish the player can catch.

* WaitingForABreak: Blaire, the local young waitress, wants to become a movie star.

From there, it's the ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' formula: manage the farm, befriend the locals, maybe start a family with one of them. The means by which the farm is expanded differs from previous installments in the series differs in that rather that many crops, animals and pieces of infrastructure need to be salvages from the forest the farm has become before more of them can be purchased in town.

The PlayerCharacter's grandfather was one of the founders of Olive Town, in which he used to run a farm. Impressed by tale, they decide to move to Olive Town. Unfortunately, the farm has been abandonned long ago, turned into a forest lacking even the remnants of a farm house and what buildings are left too damaged to be of any use.