History VideoGame / StoryOfSeasonsPioneersOfOliveTown

* AnimalGenderBender: One event involves a character briefly looking for male calico cat, only to be informed that calicos are, barring ''extremely'' rare exceptions, all female.

* 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 quit basic scooter.

* 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: there are two choices of male-coded clothing and two choices and female-coded clothing, all 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.
* GratuitousSpanish: One of Marcos and Manuela's possible responses to receiving a present includes a "Gracías".

* UmpteenthCustomer: One of Jack's heart events starts off that way, only for Cindy to reaveal that he has been faking it in front of various customers as a pretext to give away snow globes that he hasn't been able to sell.

* GratuitousFrench: Karina, the FashionDesigner staying in town who runs the clothing shop after it's built, sometimes greets the PlayerCharacter with a "Bonjour".

* CoolBike: When Lars and Damon's motocylcles are seen onscreen, they are shown to have decorative paint jobs.

* GratuitousSpanish: One of Manuela's possible responses to receiving a present includes a "Gracías".

** 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 births, the lact of a doctor or at least a resident who happens to be a midwife is quite noticeable.
* LatinoIsBrown: Between the names and the GratuitousSpanish that sometimes comes out of Manuela's mouth, there are plenty of idications that Emilio's brown-skinned family is supposed to be Latino.
* LitteringIsNoBigDeal: One event happens because Jacopo gots 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.

* 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 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 him one if he wants him to work harder.

* ThroughHisStomach: Emilio's first heart event consists of him giving up on the last piece of a specific cake sold at the bistro so the PlayerCharacter can have a taste, and having Misaki put it on his tab, making him effectively buy food for the PlayerCharacter out of nowhere.

* ThroughHisStomach: Emilio's first hear event consists of him giving up on the last piece of a specific cake sold at the bistro so the PlayerCharacter can have a taste, and having Misaki put it on his tab, making him effectively buy food for the PlayerCharacter out of nowhere.

* {{Nerf}}: Cooked dishes no longer sell better than the ingredients used to make them would have, 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.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Taken even further than previous installments. Here, the choice of name and gender is completely separate from the character creation menu, 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: there are two choices of male clothing and two choices and female clothing, all available regardless of what Victor was told at the beginning.

** Needing makers to get wood and stone into a form usable as building materials. In previous games, it was a matter of hitting wood with an axe or hitting stone with a hammer, while makers tended to be for processing farm products.

* DevelopersDesiredDate: The base game has content that unlocks only if the PlayerCharacter marries [[spoiler:Iori]].

* GayGroomInAWhiteTux: It's possible to end up with this, though having it happen on purpose takes forward knowledge of something that's supposed to be a surprise during normal gameplay.

* NobodyHereButUsBirds: The assassin sent after Iori sometimes meows like a cat in response to his presence being detected. Iori's first heart event actually involves passing off his one-sided conversation with his would-be assassin as talking to a cat who keeps trying to stealthily steal his fishing catches precisely because the assassin consistently resorts to meowing.

* NobodyHereButUsBirds: [[spoiler:The assassin sent after Iori]] sometimes meows like a cat in response to his presence being detected.