Story Of Seasons: Trio Of Towns - Blog Posts

Harvest Moon 30 Day Challenge: Day 14

Day 14: Have a favorite heart event?

Ford’s Orange Heart Event "The Doctor's True Intentions", it’s so funny and adorable. Makes you wanna hug him if you could!

Harvest Moon 30 Day Challenge: Day 10

Day 10: Do you like playing as a boy, or a girl?

Girl.

I don’t know why it’s difficult to play as a boy in the HM/SoS games for me, I mean even Rune Factory. I always end up getting bored... (I can play the Persona games just fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

Though that said, I usually don’t like the female characters in HM/SoS that much, but in Rune Factory 4, I loved the whole village! So it’d probably be a lot easier to play as a guy if I had to in RF4, but given the choice, I always play as a girl (especially if I can customized because cute outfits).

Harvest Moon 30 Day Challenge: Day 6

Day 6:  Chickens, cows, or sheep? Or maybe ostriches or alpacas for you newfangled Wii and 3DS people

Can I pick... All the Above???

I love animals in general, but I do get excited over ducks, alpacas and rabbits. I also loved having a pig in “Magical Melody”.

Harvest Moon 30 Day Challenge: Day 5

Day 5: So, what’s your favorite in game season?

I don’t really have a favorite... I suppose Spring or Summer since it’s more likely to rain (because who doesn’t love a rainy day to water your crops?)

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Harvest Moon 30 Day Challenge: Day 4

Day 4: Your favorite bachelor + why?

Ok, I don’t have a clear cut favorite here. It’s mainly a toss up between Ford and Gill, (though I still have a fondness for Doctor/Trent!)

(Spoilers ahead if you haven’t played Trio of Towns or Tree of Tranquility!! I mean... you guys probably already know this stuff, but still!!)

Ford is a more recent favorite (obviously), Trio did an excellent job developing his personality from being kind of a loner, mainly focused on his work, and oblivious to love. It really showed how much he changed over the course of the game as he develops feelings for your character. It wasn’t a sudden “I think I have a crush on you *blushblush*” once you hit a certain flower color, Ford has to figure out what love even feels like.

Due to his parents not being very caring of him or their home life (it’s highly suggested that they were... not very good people and it’s a good chance that they drank and gambled a lot), it made Ford socially inept and gave him several types of phobias, explaining why he wants things done a certain way. Though his personality and habits make him considered the oddball, but he just embraces this fact about himself and I like that.

I also really love his friendship with Brad and Wayne, their friend events are hilarious and makes them feel like real friends, and as much as Ford will seem annoyed with them the majority of the time, he honestly respects them. You could argue that he looks up to Brad as an example of what a good marriage should be like. Seeing how happy he and his wife are, Ford starts to rethink that marriage isn’t such a bad thing.

Oh! I also really appreciate that they finally had an older bachelor that didn’t constantly bring up how much older he was than your character, that in itself got old. The only argument I could see is that the previous “older” bachelors didn’t have the same problems as Ford, so age wasn’t a main issue for him, love was.

Gill was a surprise (as I stated in my previous post). I really thought he was going to be a snob and bratty, and can come off a little bit of a jerk in the beginning, but you kind of understand why once you find out that he had to “grow up” at an early age. He’s very hard working, trying to get more people to visit the island because he loves his home and wants others to love it too (plus you can understand from an economical standpoint as well that the town needs to generate business to bring money in).

His dad, Hamilton, is good-natured goof, but it works for their dynamic and Gill still really respects and loves his father, but he also worries about him after losing his mother, having gone into a depression (according to the official Bokomono website). Because of this, Gill tended to all the chores his mother would have likely done and cared for his father and their home until his father was able to get back to his old self. (Due to all that practice, it would explain why you always receive perfect lunches from Gill after you get married, you wouldn’t think of Gill as a house husband-type at first.)

I also really liked the tidbits you learn from his father, where it suggests that Gill was able to see the harvest sprites in his youth (he’s the only human character that I’m aware of that was basically confirmed to have able to see them other than the main characters, unless you want to count Jamie from “Magical Melody”, but I always think of them as a demi-god). They always bring up that children are said to be able to see Harvest Sprites, but I have never heard any of the adults claim to have seen them in their youth or any children pointing them out, so I just thought it was interesting that super strict and mature Gill is the one who had been able to see them.

I still have two questions after all these years, a) Why doesn’t Gill become a teacher when you marry him, but does if you marry someone else? and b) Who convinced him to play Commander Gilligan? I figure it had to be Hamilton, but still...

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Harvest Moon 30 Day Challenge: Day 2

Day 2: Whats your favorite handheld HM game?

There’s several I really enjoyed over the years, but I think overall... I honestly like “Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns” best.

At least to me, Trio felt like an improved version of “More Friends of Mineral Town”, my previous favorite. It's really well-balanced for farming, side jobs, and the game’s main goals. I always planned out my route for the day, just like I did in MFoMT, so that I wouldn’t miss anyone I wanted to talk to and to avoid forgetting to visit a shop since you have three towns to visit!

It even has small elements of “Grand Bazaar”, where in this case it’s not mandatory in Trio, but if you befriend people who are friends or family with the bachelors and bachelorettes, you sometimes learn a little more about the character you’re pursuing. It makes the characters feel richer in personality and makes it seem like everyone in town actually do interacts with each other and have a relationship in some way.

Plus I couldn’t believe how many random events / friend events I would accidentally wander into simply because I befriended villagers I barely knew just by greeting them every day! Sometimes I would lose track of what I was originally doing, but the events usually were interesting or entertaining, so I didn’t mind.

One more nice touch, if you end up at someone’s home at the beginning of a meal, sometimes you’ll be invited to join the meal! It’s something I found cute, you hear a variety of topics and helps your character regain a little bit of energy if you don’t have any food on hand.

Fantasy Life is banger! I also love Tomodachi Life, Miitopia, Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, Clubhouse Games, and Battle of Giants: Dragons. So many stories I could tell!

what are some of y’all’s favorite 3DS games that aren’t mainstream (no pokémon, loz, animal crossing, etc)?

atm mine is fantasy life !!