History Videogame / HometownStory

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 cutomers 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 character 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.

* OneOfTheKids: Sue, who's a regular accomplice to the young boys in the "Harvey and Peter being kids"-type events, but is technically two centuries old.

** Carl is punctual guy and parts of his story explictly happen at precise times according to him, but cutscenes usually have a bracket of at least two hours during which they can be triggered. The time at which they actually happen may hence be in contradiction with his dialogue.

* LuckBasedMission: Aside from a handful that can be bought from the stores (such as Haruka's early quests that require objects sold by the blacksmiths by default), all purchasable key items come from the 2 PM merchant, that has a random chance of having a given one.
* MayflyDecemberFriendship: Sue, the spirits and the Harvest God to the protagonist and whichever villagers they happen to be friends with as well.

* MythologyGag: The farms in the town come off as parodies of ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' farms. Mika is your reliable source of milk and eggs with only one cow and one chicken. Miyo and Haruka have patch of land about the same size of their house and sell fruit from several different trees, despite not having a single one in their garden.

* OneOfTheKids: Sue, who's a regular accomplice to the young boys in the "Harvey and Peter being kids"-type events.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Sue, who look teenage at the oldest but actually clocks at at little more than two centuries.

* ItsAllMyFault: BothCarl 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.

** Carl is punctual guy and parts of his story explictly happens at precise times, but cutscenes usually have a bracket of at least two hours during which they can be triggered. The time at which they actually happen may hence be in contradiction with his dialogue.
** One of Harvey's cutscence happens because using his stilts prevent 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.

* CreatureOfHabit: Carl, who has a quite consistent schedrule and a big clock collection.

* MayflyDecemberFriendship: Sue, the spirits and the Harvest God to the protagonist and whichever villagers they happens to be friends with as well.

** You also can't use any tools to gather items to sell, you can only pick things up that are laying on the ground, or purchase them from other shops and resell them at your own. It is possible to fish, but for this you just need to stand at a dedicated fishing point and press A (the fishing rod seems to come out of HammerSpace).

* MayflyDecemberFrienship: Sue, the spirits and the Harvest God to the protagonist and whichever villager they happens to be friends with as well.

* PreOrderBonus: As with ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' games it comes with a plushy of one of the animals, this time Ember the dragon.

* ThrivingGhostTown: As per ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' tradition. The town caps at 100 inhabitants, but can support a general store (you), ''two'' blacksmith shops, a restaurant, an Inn and a fisherman.

* NominalImportance: Downplayed. While even minor villagers have name, only the main ones (those you actually need to befriend) will display it along with portrait when you speak with them.

* ThrivingGhostTown: As per ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' tradition. The town caps at 100 inhabitants, but can support a general store (you), ''two'' blacksmith shops, a restaurant, and Inn and a fisherman.

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 cutomers 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 character is just as necessary to get new items to sell and new people to move in as running a profitable business.

A major difference between the two is you inherit a store instead of a farm. It focuses less on romance and more on general bonding than the recent ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' titles. While marriage is still possible, you get "friendship events" with many non-bachelor characters.

* LuckBasedMission: Aside from a handful that can be bought from the stores (such as Haruka's early quests that require objects sold by the blacksmiths y default), all purchasable key items come from the 2 PM merchant, that has a random chance of having a given one.

** You also can't use any tools to gather items to sell, you can only pick things up that are laying on the ground, or purchase them from other shops and resell them at your own.

A major difference between the two is you inherit a store instead of a farm. It focuses less on romance and more on general bonding than the recent ''HarvestMoon'' titles.

* PreOrderBonus: As with ''HarvestMoon'' games it comes with a plushy of one of the animals, this time Ember the dragon.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''HarvestMoon'' and arguably ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing''.

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

* BlatantLies: The back of the US box says that it was made by the creators of Harvest Moon, despite not being made by Marvelous. While Natsume did make a Harvest Moon game, it wasn't until a year after this game.

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

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* GuideDangIt: A lot of the game is not explained, even in the manual. One example of this are the passwords in the ledger. Another example is that the only way you can obtain wood (used for shop expansions) is to purchase it from the merchant who shows up at your shop at 2 PM. You can't obtain it any other way.

!!HometownStory provides examples of:

A SimulationGame developed by [=TOYBOX=]. It takes place in the same universe as its sister series but otherwise is very different.

* PreOrderBonus: As with ''HarvestMoon'' games it comes with a plushy of one of the animals, this time Ember the dragon.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''HarvestMoon'' and arguably ''AnimalCrossing''.

A LifeSimulation game by Yasuhiro Wada, the creator of the ''HarvestMoon'' games. It takes place in the same universe as its sister series but otherwise is very different.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''HarvestMoon'' and arguably ''AnimalCrossing''