History VideoGame / HometownStory

* {{Irony}}: If you speak to Shinji on rainy day, he'll have a line of dialogue in which he assumes that gods don't like rain. Guess what is one of the requirements for the player to be able to talk to the Harvest God outside of cutscenes.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:The first thing you hear of Dexter's past comes from someone who's convinced he killed someone.]]

** When you give the broomstick to the scarecrow, he [[spoiler:jumps out of enthuiasm. A later event confirms he can actually move if he wishes.]]

* WhamShot: Near the end of his introductory cutscene in which he fails to figure out what happened to Carl's missing watch, Jacques decides to check the time. Guess what he pulls out of his pocket.

* ItsAllMyFault: Both Carl and the scarecrow consider to have a part in Aisha's accident. The mayor for being late at their date, the scarecrow for not being able to keep up an interesting conversation while she was waiting for him. She got injured on a walk she took because she was tired of waiting.

** By default, it lists members of the same family one after the other. This includes a family tie that is only revealed long after after the involved characters are introduced.

** Steve, one of the bachelors, is the only youngster with both his parents around. Yumi, who looks younger than the bachelorettes and the female main character, seems to be living alone.
** A plot

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* PoorCommunicationKills: When [[spoiler:the monster pumpkin awakens]], Sue berates Miyo for [[spoiler:growing it in the first place]].

* ParentalAbandonment: Steve, one of the bachelors, is the only youngster with both his parents around. Yumi, who looks younger than the bachelorettes and the female main character, seems to be living alone.

* WhamShot: Near the end of his introductory cutscene in which he fails to figure out what happened to Carl's missing watch, Jacques decides to check the time. Guess what he pulls out.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: The hunter and blacksmith familys display this. Personality-wise, Wilhem fits the bill best due being a hunter with an ego that comes off as overinflated at times.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: All new named character have a scene in which they are shown arriving into town. While some are just seen strolling in, others quite clearly display their quirks. Miyo is seen accidentally dropping stuff while Haruka cleans up behind her and Jacques comes in walking in zig-zags as if he's looking for something.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: All new named character have a scene in which they are shown arriving into town. While some are just seen strolling in, others quite clearly display their quirks. Miyo is seen accidentally dropping stuff while Haruka cleans up behind her and Jacques comes in walking in zig-zags as if he's lookig for something.

** One of Harvey's cutscenes happens because using his stilts prevents him from holding a potted flower, but he has no problem lugging a bottle of fruit juice half his size halfway accross the store during casual shopping.

* CoordinatedClothes: Out of the [[spoiler:six]] sets of people known to be of the same family, four have ann obvious theme to their colthing. Pink for the restaurant family, the blacksmiths have basically identical outfits, the hunters are in white and red and the female farmers have a yellow and orange theme.

** There are (hidden) friendship levels in the game, so a storyline may be on hold simply because the player doesn't interact with the character enough.

* ParentalAbandonnment: Steve, one of the bachelors, is the only youngster with both his parents around. Yumi, who seems to be younger than the bachelorettes and the female main character, seems to be living alone.

* CoordinatedClothes: Out of the [[spoiler:six]] sets of people known to be of the same family, four have quite a obvious theme to their colthing. Pink for the restaurant family, the blacksmiths have basically identical outfits, the hunters are in white and red and the female farmers have a yellow and orange theme.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: All new names character have a scene in which they are shown arriving into town. While some are just seen strolling in, others quite clearly display their quirks. Miyo is seen accidentally dropping stuff while Haruka cleans up behind her and Jacques comes in walking in zig-zags as if he's lookig for something.

* CoordinatedClothes: Out of the [[spoiler:six]] sets of people known to be of the same family, four have quite a obvious theme to their colthing. Pink for the restaurant family, the blacksmiths have basically identical outfits, the hunters are in white and red and the female farmers have a yellow and orange theme.

* ItsAllMyFault: Both Carl and the scarecrow consider to have a part in Aisha's accident. The mayor for being late at their date, the scarcrow for not being able to keep up an interesting conversation while she was waiting for him. She got injured on a walk she took because she was tired of waiting.

* CharacterEstablishingMoment: All new names character have a scene in which they are shown arriving into town. While some are just seen strolling in, others quite clearly display their quirks. Miyo is seen accidentally dropping stuff while Haruka cleans up behind her and Jacques comes in walking in zig-zags as if he's lookig for something.

A major difference between the two is you inherit a store instead of a farm. It starts out small and your long-term task concerning it is to exapand it so you can have more customers and encourage more people to move into town. It also focuses less on romance and more on general bonding than the recent ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' titles. While the latter sometimes had limited or inexistent benefits to befriending non-bachelors, here befriending all named characters is just as necessary to get new items to sell and new people to move in as running a profitable business. There is a catch to this, however: your store is perpetually open from 6 AM to midnight, so you have to find a balance between manning the store and exploring the town to get new stock and befriend your new neighbors.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' and arguably ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing''.