History YMMV / HarvestMoonANewBeginning

* ArtificialStupidity: The AI will sometimes walk into walls.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The Wi-Fi/Multiplayer of the game is unlocked by the end of Spring Year 1 and you can exchange items with other players. It's a great way to obtain certain things early in the game without having to wait too long, for example you can get Yam Seeds early.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Averted. Completing town restoration 3 in a particular order and on a particular date will end up with Dunhill going in and out of your house on repeat, each time apologizing for waking you up early: twice to introduce new villagers, once to present you the next town restoration plan, and twice to introduce new festivals. Sheesh, his age must be catching up with his senility.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Zig-zagged. The villagers might not always show their gratitude on a day-to-day basis (or when you lose a festival), but at least the trope gets subverted when you complete a town plan. Dunhill gets some villagers to come over to your house and thank you for what you've done, and occasionally you'll unlock a new area that the villagers opened up for you. When you complete all of the plans you actually get a little celebration party for yourself, where pretty much everyone attends.

* BaseBreaker:

** How the time was handled in this game was not always perceived the same way as others. Even after the notorious first season, some people didn't like how seriously fast it got afterwards. A minute goes by for every real second in life. Not only that, but it seems as if everything takes up time. You could spend an hour just trying to give out gifts to a few villagers. Time also passes indoors, which doesn't help.

** The task in Town Restoration Plan 4 that requires you to unlock the Foliage Festival which requires you to ship yams. Because yams don't unlock until Fall Year 2, doing so is a FakeLongevity attempt that causes those unprepared and unwilling to play online to get Yam seeds early to be delayed a whole game year.
* TheyJustDidntCare: The game has multiple species of eel in it. However, instead of making a unique model for eels, they just used the generic fish model.

* ItGetsBetter: The first season is so unbearably slow that you're likely to go to bed as early as 2 p.m. The later seasons and onwards are usually better received by most, if not all players.
* TheyJustDidntCare: The game has multiple species of eel in it. However, instead of making a unique model for eels, they just used the generic fish model.

** The task in Town Restoration Plan 4 that requires you to unlock the Foliage Festival which requires you to ship yams. Because yams don't unlock until Fall Year 2, doing so is a FakeLongevity attempt that causes those unprepared and unwilling to play online to get Yam seeds early to be delayed a whole game year.

** The herding cutscenes, and the plaza shop cutscenes. At 7 AM each day, if you have dogs and/or cats set to herd your livestock out and back in, you'll get an unskippable cutscene EACH TIME if you're on the farm (thankfully, being inside your house doesn't trigger it). And twice a day, if you're in the main part of town around 10 AM and 6 PM, you'll be treated to unskippable cutscenes of the folks who run shops in the plaza coming in from the riverside, setting up their shops, and calling in customers. Then you'll get cutscenes of them CLOSING up their shops, saying their goodbyes, and exiting through the riverside area. The only way to avoid these cutscenes is to either be inside someone's house at just the right time (because the scenes trigger up to 10 minutes past the hour - so, if you go into town at 10:11 AM, you're safe), or to be somewhere else. Inconvenient and annoying.
*** Thankfully, Story of Seasons allows you the option to skip the vendor stall cutscenes.

** Breaking up with someone not only requires dropping their heart level, but not interacting with them for a whole month. Festivals count as interaction, so you have to skip a month of festivals if you want a different boyfriend/girlfriend.

* BaseBreaker: [[InsufferableGenius Allen.]] Most of the bachelors and bachelorettes of this game sort of get this to some degree, but not as much as him. He's a total {{Jerkass}}, but some players still love him and see him as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Some think that he gets a lot sweeter after marrying him.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Averted in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning A New Beginning]]''. Completing town restoration 3 in a particular order and on a particular date will end up with Dunhill going in and out of your house on repeat, each time apologizing for waking you up early: twice to introduce new villagers, once to present you the next town restoration plan, and twice to introduce new festivals. Sheesh, his age must be catching up with his senility.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The title, ''A New Beginning'' seems ironic since it was the last real Harvest Moon game released by Natsume.

* TheScrappy: Allen isn't always the most favored bachelor...

* ScrappyMechanic: The unlocking of Crops being either action-based or time-based. The most annoying, by far, is the fact that Yam Seeds are not sold until Fall Year 2 and shipping 30 Yams is necessary to complete Town Restoration Plan #4 which can sometimes be unlocked during Fall ''Year 1'' and you have to pretty much wait for a whole game year to finally fulfill that condition.

** The time isn't loved by many. It wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have so much to do, with even the "Speedy" versions of the tools taking a few minutes to use per animal. If someone waits to venture out into town until after doing all of their farm chorse, they could be waiting until noon or later. There's also the Random Events, which take up a chunk of your day. They are pathetic, poorly handled, and are all-in-all a waste of time.

** Sandra's Stall. While ostensibly a way for you to get rare items via trading and a rare thing to do in the evenings in the game, many of her requirements for blueprints (aka the thing ''Rebecca'' usually sells) are cooked dishes that you have to randomly discover the recipe for. She also has an annoying cutscene for setting up the stall.

** The time isn't loved by many. It wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have so much to do. There's also the Random Events, which take up a chunk of your day. They are pathetic, poorly handled, and are all-in-all a waste of time.

*** Thankfully, Story of seasons allows you the option to skip the vendor stall cutscenes.

** The dreadfully long tutorial that takes up one in game month. This restricts the player from playing ahead, and makes the first month of the game to be extremely slow and boring.

** The time isn't loved by many. It wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have so much to do. There's also the Random Events, which take up a chunk of your day. They are pathetic, poorly handled, and are all-in-all a waste of time.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Zig-zagged. The villagers might not always show their gratitude on a day-to-day basis (or when you lose a festival), but at least the trope gets subverted when you complete a town plan. Dunhill gets some villagers to come over to your house and thank you for what you've done, and occasionally you'll unlock a new area that the villagers opened up for you. When you complete all of the plans you actually get a little celebration party for yourself, where pretty much everyone attends.

** How the fans took Michelle was a bit weird. Some hate how [[she's actually a BitchInSheepsClothing and you can only find that out as a guy at the last heart event.]] Some love her for that very reason, since it makes her different from all the more happy and slightly straightforward characters.

* ScrappyMechanic: The unlocking of Crops being either action-based or time-based. The most annoying, by far, is the fact that Yam Seeds are not sold until Fall Year 2 and shipping 30 Yams is necessary to complete Town Restoration Plan #4 which can sometimes be unlocked during Fall ''Year 1'' and you have to pretty much wait for a whole game year to finally fulfill that condition.

** [[BitchInSheepsClothing Michelle]]. Unfortunately most people do not even begin seeing her true nature as TheScrappy until they viewed enough of her heart events to learn that she actually is just using the player as means to getting expensive gifts.

** [[BitchInSheepsClothing Michelle]]. Unfortunately most people do not even begin seeing her as TheScrappy until they viewed enough of her heart events to learn that she actually is just using the player as means to getting expensive gifts.

* ItGetsBetter: The first season is so unbearably slow that you're likely to go to bed as early as 2 p.m. The later seasons and onwards are usually better received by most, if not all players.

** [[BitchInSheepClothing Michelle]]. Unfortunately most people do not even begin seeing her as TheScrappy until they viewed enough of her heart events to learn that she actually is just using the player as means to getting expensive gifts.

** [[{{Jerkass}} Alice]] isn't loved either. She's the one who comes up with the bright idea to hide the Music Sheets. You could've unlocked the Mines earlier on if it hadn't been for her.

* ItGetsBetter: The first season is unbearably slow. You're likely to go to bed as early as 2 p.m. The later seasons and onwards are usually better received by most, if not all players.

** [[Jerkass Alice]] isn't loved either. She's the one who comes up with the bright idea to hide the Music Sheets. You could've unlocked the Mines earlier on if it hadn't been for her.