History VideoGame / StoryOfSeasonsPioneersOfOliveTown

* GayGroomInAWhiteTux: It's possible to end up with this, though having it happen on purpose takes forward knowledge of that NonPlayerCharacter groom's wedding outfit, which is supposed to be a surprise during normal gameplay.
** One of the tux options for the PlayerCharacter is black. Ralph's wedding tux has a white jacket with black pants, while Emilio's is completely white.
** A downplayed version can be obtained via the PlayerCharacter going for the light gray tux and marrying Damon, whose wedding tux is black.
** For those wondering about the two other men available for marriage, they will show up either in a navy blue tux (Jack) or a colorful FarEast style outfit (Iori), which prevents playing the trope in any shape or form.

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

** The number of festivals was drastically cut, reducing the special days in each season to a MiniGame type festival and a cutscene type festival intended for ongoing couples. Ironically, the festivals that were dropped are those that actually involve farming.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Damon is frequently about to have yet another cup of coffee in his dialog, and several of his favorite gifts are coffee products, the one he likes the most among them being a plain, no-frills, ready to drink cup of coffee.

* NoHuggingNoKissing: Unlike other games, you won't kiss, overtly flirt with, or even be visually affectionate with your romantic partner. While there's a heart event for every level of affection, they're chaste, purely interactive, and don't have any wrong answers that will upset your partner. You're married by coming down the town steps together in your wedding finery, standing in front of the townsfolk and hearing some rules from the mayor (while you stand side by side with neutral expressions) and agree to them, and then sign a marriage record. And your child--[[ButThouMust which you will be having if you stay married long enough]]--is a WonderChild gifted to you by nature that only you pick up, with your spouse none the wiser til you come home with them.

* RescueRomance: Laura's first event consists of her preventing the PlayerCharacter from drowning.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Taken even further than previous installments. Here, the choice of name and gender is completely separate from the character creation interface, so it's entirely possible for the player to make a character with the most feminine presentation allowed by the available options and then tell Victor that they're his old friend's grand''son''. Or vice-versa. Even wedding outfits aren't tied to gender this time: there are two choices of tuxedos and two choices of bridal gowns, with all four being available regardless of what Victor was told at the beginning.

* WonderChild: Regardless of the genders of the paired couple--same-sex or opposite-sex--you'll always get a child the same way: an earth sprite shows up, leads you off and shows you a baby they found in the woods, and gives it to you to go raise with your partner--who had no idea this would happen until you show up with the kid. [[UncannyFamilyResemblance The kid still has either your hair color/eye color/skin tone, or that of your partner's]], depending on how you look at the day of the event. The child will grow through toddlerhood and into a child, but has no relationship values with you--and if you decide to divorce your spouse and end the marriage, they [[RetGone disappear from existence]]. This was somewhat [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] in that--unlike most other games in the series--there's no doctor or midwife in town at all.

* NoHuggingNoKissing: Unlike other games, you won't kiss, overtly flirt with, or even be visually affectionate with your romantic partner. While there's a heart event for every level of affection, they're chaste, purely interactive, and don't have any wrong answers that will upset your partner. You're married by coming down the town steps together in your wedding finery, standing in front of the townsfolk and hearing some rules from the mayor (while you stand side by side with neutral expressions) and agree to them, and then sign a marriage record. And your child--[[ButThouMust which you will be having if you stay married long enough]]--is a WonderKid gifted to you by nature that only you pick up, with your spouse none the wiser til you come home with them.

** Some of the achievement rewards are pieces of furniture. One of them is obtained from upgrading from the tent to the log cabin, which is the smallest house able to accomodate player-selected furniture ''at all''.

* CosmicRetcon: The mechanic that allows the PlayerCharacter to "divorce" their spouse plays out as one of these, as it, in practice, creates a version of the playthrough where eveything is the same, except that the proposal to the spouse never happened.

* MagicalDivorce: You can request a divorce through the nature goddess. The divorce is a CosmicRetcon that will revert the relationship to the status it was at before the proposal (and cause [[RetGone the couple's child to vanish]] if they have one).

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Taken even further than previous installments. Here, the choice of name and gender is completely separate from the character creation interface, so it's entirely possible for the player to make a character with the most feminine presentation allowed by the available options and then tell Victor that they're his old friend's grand''son''. Or vice-versa. Even wedding outfits aren't tied to gender this time: there are two choices of male-coded clothing and two choices and female-coded clothing, all four being available regardless of what Victor was told at the beginning.

* WonderChild: Regardless of the genders of the paired couple--same-sex or opposite-sex--you'll always get a child the same way: an earth sprite shows up, leads you off and shows you a baby they found in the woods, and gives it to you to go raise with your partner--who had no idea this would happen until you show up with the kid. [[UncannyFamilyResemblance The kid still has either your hair color/eye color/skin tone, or that of your partner's]], depending on how you look at the day of the event. The child will grow through toddlerhood and into a child, but has no relationship values with you--and if you decide to divorce your spouse and end the marriage, they [[RetGone disappear from existence]].

''Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town'' is an installment of ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' released in 2021, making it the first game of the franchise released on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch to be an original title rather than the EnhancedRemake that ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsFriendsOfMineralTown'' was.

The PlayerCharacter's grandfather was one of the founders of Olive Town, where he used to run a farm. Impressed by the tale, they decide to move to Olive Town. Unfortunately, the farm was abandonned long ago, turned into a forest lacking even the remnants of a farm house, while what facilities are left are too damaged to be of any use. Olive Town itself is fortunately still standing and its mayor, who knew their grandfather, is fine with giving the PlayerCharacter all the help they need to revive the farm to its former glory. He wouldn't mind a little help turning the town into a popular tourist site, either.

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 in that many crops, animals, and farm facilities need to be salvaged from the forest that the farm has become before more of them can be purchased in town, making exploration necessary to bring more variety in. 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 mostly-empty museum that will be all too happy to get those artifacts, photos of local wildlife, and any fish the player can catch.

DownloadableContent was created 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.

** The child is obtained by mystical means regardless of the type of pairing the PlayerCharacter is in. Since previous games had a local medical professional who existed partly to assisst with the birth of the PlayerCharacter's child, the lack of a doctor or at least a resident who happens to be a midwife is quite noticeable.

* MagicalDivorce: The divorce is a CosmicRetcon that will revert the relationship to before the proposal and cause the couple's child to vanish.

* RetGone: Since the divorce is really more of a CosmicRetcon, any divorce happening after the child's birth will cause them to simply disappear.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Taken even further than previous installments. Here, the choice of name and gender is completely separate from the character creation interface, so it's entirely possible for the player to make a character with the most feminine presentation allowed by the available options and then tell Victor that they're his old friend's grand''son''. Or vice-versa. Even wedding outfits aren't tied to gender this time: there are two choices of male-coded clothing and two choices and female-coded clothing, all four being available regardless of what Victor was told at the beginning.

* GratuitousFrench: Karina, the FashionDesigner staying in town who runs the clothing shop after it's built, sometimes greets the PlayerCharacter with a "Bonjour". She also drops a "magnifique" in the cutscene announcing the opening of her shop and an "à bientôt" at the end of transactions.

* TheSlacker: Jacopo seems to be only interested in lazing around. He only has his current job because his father, Victor, forced Georg's hand in hope that having a job would change his attitude. One event has Georg vent about Jacopo's lack of work ethic to the PlayerCharacter. Jacopo responds to overhearing that conversation by suggesting that he might be more motivated if he had a beautiful wife, hence Georg should find one for him if he wants him to work harder.

* CoolBike: When Lars and Damon's motocycles are seen onscreen, they are shown to have decorative paint jobs and are both proper motorcycles, while the PlayerCharacter has a quite basic scooter.

* DevelopersDesiredDate: The base game has content that unlocks only if the PlayerCharacter marries [[spoiler:Iori]], while it doesn't show up if any of the other marriage candidates are married.

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: One event consists of Cindy trying to get out of spending time with Mikey by pretending to have other plans and promptly enlisting Jacopo to pretend the two of them were planning on going shopping. Mikey, however, decides he wants to go shopping, as well. Cindy gets out of ''that'' by pretending to have changed her mind about shopping and decided she wants to the activity she and Mikey were initially supposed to do together.

* LatinoIsBrown: Between the names and the GratuitousSpanish that sometimes comes out of Marcos and Manuela's mouth, there are plenty of idications that Emilio's brown-skinned family is supposed to be Latino.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Damon is frequently about to have yet another cup of coffee in his dialog, several of his favorite gifts are coffee products, the one he likes the most among them being a plain, no-frills, ready to drink cup of coffee.
* {{Nerf}}: Cooked dishes no longer sell better than the ingredients used to make them would have and take in-game time to cook, encouraging the player to stick to using them as gifts, PowerUpFood or towards Lovett's challenges rather than the money maker they could be in previous games.
* NobodyHereButUsBirds: The assassin sent after Iori sometimes meows like a cat in response to his presence being detected. [[spoiler:Iori's first heart event involves passing off his one-sided conversation with his would-be assassin as talking to a cat who is trying to stealthily steal his fishing catches]] precisely because the assassin consistently resorts to meowing.

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, while what facilities are left are too damaged to be of any use. Olive Town itself is fortunately still standing and its mayor, who knew their grandfather, is fine with giving the PlayerCharacter all the help they need to revive the farm to its former glory. He wouldn't mind a little help turning the town into a popular tourist site, either.

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 in that many crops, animals and farm facilities 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 in. 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 mostly-empty museum that will be all too happy to get those artifacts, photos of local wildlife and any fish the player can catch.

** If the player ends up with two of the same ancient object or more, whatever is left after the museum donation can be put on a countertop. If there is only one, a reproduction can be purchased from Beth.

* BrokenBridge: There is a literal one between the first a second areas of the farm. The rubble between the second and third areas serves the purpose of making part of the farm unacessible until later in the game, as well. There is yet another literal case between the bulk of the third area and the third mine.
* CastingCouch: A G-rated mention of this happens in one of Blaire's events. The PlayerCharacter, Misaki, Mikey and Jason stop Blaire as she's about to go meet a producer who said he would talk to the judges of her next audition for her. Misaki is ''very'' wary of the fact that Blaire is meeting the producer one on one and insists upon going with Blaire if she insists on going to meet the producer. Watching the event with this trope in mind makes it easy to figure out what Misaki is afraid Blaire is going to get dragged into.

* UptownGirl: Discussed and defied in Iori's confession event. Iori points out that he pretty much self-exiled and renounced any birthright from his country of origin, hence he considers his romance with the PlayerCharacter to not truly be one.

* MixedAncestry: Laura's parents are a mixed-race couple, her father's skin being quite light in color and her mother's being quite dark.

* BenevolentBoss: Misaki, the owner of the Capeside Bistro, is one to Blaire. Blaire's events show her to have come to know Blaire better than her own parents do and to be care enough about her to insist on accompanying her when she suspect she's obliviously walking into a CastingCouch situation. The pairing between Blaire and the PlayerCharacter are also among those for which Misaki is a ShipperOnDeck.

''Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town'' is an installment of ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' released in 2021, making it the first game of the franchise to be released on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch to be an original title rather than the EnhancedRemake that ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsFriendsOfMineralTown'' was.

* UptownGirl: Discussed and defied in Iori's confession even. Iori points out that he pretty much self-exiled and renounced any birthright from his country of origin, hence he considers his romance with the PlayerCharacter to not truly be one.

** The number of festivals was drastically cut, reducing each season to a MiniGame type festival and a cutscene type festival intended for budding or ongoing couples. Ironically, the festivals that were dropped are those that actually involve farming.

** The child is obtained by mystical means regardless of the type of pairing the PlayerCharacter is in. Since previous games had a local professional who existed partly to assisst with the birth of the PlayerCharacter's child, the lack of a doctor or at least a resident who happens to be a midwife is quite noticeable.

** One event happens because Jacopo got his wallet mixed up with a banana peel and threw his wallet into the sea. That method of disposal isn't quite ideal for a banana peel, either.

* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Linh's grandfather Nguyen and Jack's grandmother Jessie are about the same height as Mikey and Cindy, the local young children. It's especially noticeable with Jessie, who lives under the same roof as Cindy.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Taken even further than previous installments. Here, the choice of name and gender is completely separate from the character creation interface, 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 his old friend's grand''son''. Or vice-versa. Even wedding outfits aren't tied to gender this time: there are two choices of male-coded clothing and two choices and female-coded clothing, all four being available regardless of what Victor was told at the beginning.

* BrokenBridge: There is a literal one between the first a second areas of the farm. The rubble between the second and thrid areas serves the purpose of making part of the farm unacessible until later in the game, as well.

* LitteringIsNoBigDeal: One event happens because Jacopo got his wallet mixed up with a banana peel and threw his wallet into the sea. That method of disposal isn't quite ideal for a banana peel, either.