History Videogame / HometownStory

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

* Expy: Sue is similar to oracle from Videogame/HarvestMoon: A tale of two townsin that both are multiple centuries old, are alchemists, and have purple hair. Although, sue seems to be less secluded and introverted as oracle was.

* Expy: Sue is similar to oracle from Videogame/HarvestMoon:ATaleOfTwoTowns in that both are multiple centuries old, are alchemists, and have purple hair. Although, sue seems to be less secluded and introverted as oracle was.

* DramaBomb: Some villagers already live in town when the game starts, but their story arcs don't unfold until one of the newcomers moves in:
** Lamisa for Philip, who takes her in and is the most involved in helping her get used to the village.
** Peter for Yumi, with whom he bonds overs their common interest in flowers.
** Dexter for Bobby, giving the latter the opportunity to expose his HiddenHeartOfGold.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:The first thing you hear of Dexter's past comes from someone who's convinced he killed someone.]]

* WhamEpisode:
** [[spoiler:Harvey's death]]
** Some villagers already live in town when the game starts, but their story arcs don't unfold until one of the newcomers moves in:
*** Lamisa for Philip, who takes her in and is the most involved in helping her get used to the village.
*** Peter for Yumi, with whom he bonds overs their common interest in flowers.
*** Dexter for Bobby, giving the latter the opportunity to expose his HiddenHeartOfGold.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:The first thing you hear of Dexter's past comes from someone who's convinced he killed someone.]]

* WhamEpisode:
** [[spoiler:Harvey's death]]
** Some villagers already live in town when the game starts, but their story arcs don't unfold until one of the newcomers moves in:
*** Lamisa for Philip, who takes her in and is the most involved in helping her get used to the village.
*** Peter for Yumi, with whom he bonds overs their common interest in flowers.
*** Dexter for Bobby, giving the latter the opportunity to expose his HiddenHeartOfGold.

** 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.
** Carl intially refuses to let Ember move into town due to being in TragicBigot situation towards monsters. [[spoiler:His old friend the scarecrow is actually a transformed monster]].

* DeusExMachina: The blue feather in the cutscenes in which you use. Its effects can range from curing a CannotSpitItOut to ''adding a new building to the village''.

*** Peter for Yumi, with whom he bounds overs their common interest in flowers.

** It's ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' A Fantasy Harvest Moon, sorry I had to correct that but for clarity it is actually part of the Harvest Moon Franchise the same as Mario Kart is to the Mario franchise.

* 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. In reality, though, it averts this trope as the game truly was made by Yasuhiro Wado, the creator of Harvest Moon who has grown sick of the romance-oriented gameplay that is found in more recent Harvest Moon games. So that former bit of information is inaccurate.
** The above post is weird, because y'know Natsume made literally EVERY SINGLE Harvest Moon game and the franchise is owned by them... so yeah, blatant lies indeed above poster, from you anyways.

*** Peter for Yumi, with whow he bounds overs their common interest in flowers.

* LostForever: If you go on a date wearing the second free outfit Sunny make for you, you later get a follow-up cutscene while visiting her. However, the random nature of the game can lead the player to do all nine dating events before even ''acquiring'' the outfit, hence losing the cutscene opportunity.

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

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Harvey's death]]

* SureLetsGoWithThat: In one of her "post blue feather" scenes, Lamisa turns out to have been doing this [[spoiler:regarding her name. "Lamisa" is not actually her name but her native language's equivalent to to "thank you". She never bothered to correct anyone once she had a better handle on the local language.]]

* VideoGameCaringPotential: Accidental due to the GuideDangIt. It's quite easy to find out about a certain tragic and irreversible event while looking up the game on the Internet. While it eventually needs to happen to complete the story, the player has the power to delay it via keeping specific key items off the shelves.

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. Some game progression events are rewarded with blue feather fragments. With every seven collected, you get a full blue feather you can use to make a villager's wish come true.

* JustWokeUpThisWay: [[spoiler:The scarecrow's transition from his real form to the current one happened this way.]]

* MysteriousPast: The scarecrow, who vaguely remembers having been something else before his current form and has been in the latter for an unspecified period of time.

** The monster detector event seems like yet another "Jacques being TheLoad" event until the very end [[spoiler:where the detector starts beeping in the scarecrow's presence, but the implications are ignored as Pochica assumes Jacques just got a defective machine]].

** [[spoiler:Harvey trips on a rock during his date with Sue and narrowly avoids getting hit by an axe while being taught to cut wood by Jack.]]

* ItsAllMyFault: Both Carl and the scarecrow consider to have a part in Aisha's accident. Carl 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.