History YMMV / StoryOfSeasons2014

* DryDockedShip: Many fans like to think that Iris and Klaus had a relationship in the past, given how often they're seen together chatting and them being relatively close in age and older than the player character (and that, should you woo Klaus as the female player, the pink flower event with him has you misinterpret them spending time together and get upset about it, even implying Iris would be a better match for him). But since you as the player can woo them and they don't really interfere, they're clearly not together anymore.

* DryDockedShip: Many fans like to think that Iris and Klaus had a relationship in the past, given how often they're seen together chatting and them being relatively close in age and older than the player character (and that, should you woo Klaus as the female player, the pink flower event with him has you misinterpret them spending time together and get upset about it, even implying Iris would be a better match for him). But since you at the player can woo them and they don't really interfere, they're clearly not together anymore.

* DryDockedShip: Many fans like to think that Iris and Klaus had a relationship in the past, given how often they're seen together chatting and them being relatively close in age and older than the player (and that, should you woo Klaus as the female player, the pink flower event with him has you misinterpret them spending time together and get upset about it, even implying Iris would be a better match for him). But since you at the player can woo them and they don't really interfere, they're clearly not together anymore.

** Elise. While many adore her, others find her haughty and rude attitude and the way she throws money around to be very unappealing. The fact that you have to go through all her rival events before even touching her heart events means that a lot of people won't even bother seeing her character development to the end.
** Fritz is even worse, especially for those that have viewed his rival events - either he's secretly a manipulative mooch [[StepfordSmiler hiding behind a goofy, ditzy facade]], or he's TheWoobie, genuinely sweet and friendly, and perpetually down-on-his-luck. The fact that his loved gifts are fairly expensive and that his favorite gift is a total pain to get doesn't help.
** Klaus also gets this, especially for his purple heart event. He's either incredibly romantic, charming, and sophisticated... or he's extremely condescending, stuffy, [[AgeGapRomance too obsessed with his age being higher]], and ''really'' creepy towards a young woman alone with him.

** Like most games in the series, the plot of "leaving your home in the city to become a farmer" paired with "various people to court and marry" opens itself up to original stories and SelfInsertFic. Even more so as the player character is this game has no backstory at all -- not even a grandfather that left them the farm -- and can be freely customized to look any way they want to.

** Like most games in the series, the plot of "leaving your home in the city to become a farmer" paired with "various people to court and marry" opens itself up to original stories and SelfInsertFic. Even more so as the player character is this game has no backstory at all--not even a grandfather that left them the farm--and can be freely customized to look any way they want to.

** One episode of ''Oak Tree Times'' has a random man call Klaus "Boss" and talk about a time when he lived in a bad part of a town and formed a gang. Klaus steps in before the man can tell more and asks him to be silent on the matter, to which the man agrees--calling him "boss" again. Such a backstory leaves itself ripe for what Klaus did before he stopped being, in his words, an immature reckless kid with an outsized sense of justice.

** There's no canon couple--the player can marry any of the six options available to them. However, most fan works pair the female player character Annie/Midori with Klaus, owing to an older demographic that find him more plausible and stable than the other bachelors (and in no small part helped by his TrademarkFavoriteFood, bouillabaisse, being the easiest to get the recipe for and make). Raeger is also popularly paired up with her. Johnny/Ibuki, in contrast, is equally spread across the bachelorettes.

* HarsherInHindsight: Fritz, during the Pet Promenade, gets curious about what's under Woofio's suit and wants to plan with you to take Woofio's head off to see what's in there--then suddenly gets a ''really'' bad feeling and gives up on it. In the very next game after this, ''[[VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsTrioOfTowns Trio of Towns]]'', Woofio's Love Events [[spoiler:reveal that he's a cursed human who's been hexed and turned into the animal suit. There is ''nothing'' inside his costume--and he admits that in the past previous friends took the head off, got freaked out by him being nothing but an empty suit, and abandoned him]].

** You can't unlock animals early in the game--you ''have'' to wait for them to become purchasable through the vendors to have them. You can't even, say get Silkie or Araucana chicken eggs to hatch through the wi-fi trade option; the game won't let you gift them.

** A major one when it came to Klaus's Purple Heart event, "A Cautious Proposal". If you do the dialogue tree ''right'' (for the most FP) by waiting on him to finish working, and then say you came over to just see him? He'll taunt that you shouldn't say the kinds of things you did to just anyone--because [[AllMenArePerverts it gives men ideas]], and if you say those things to the wrong man, you might get caught up by a big bad wolf someday. All the while he's stepping ''closer and closer to you''. He then laughs it off--saying you're [[TheIngenue still too naive to get it]]--and claims working all day got his tongue loose and it was merely some advice, since some people have less scruples than he does. Eventually you run off in embarrassment, and he gets very flustered thinking about your smile complete with CrushBlush. The whole exchange comes off as creepy, especially since it happens while your female character is alone in the house with him, with no one else around. Before the game was released in the EU, the wording was changed so he instead compliments your youthful exuberance and says he's used to taking the lead--but ''then'' he says to rein yourself in, as his [[SomethingElseAlsoRises blood pressure is rising]] and compares the way he feels from your actions to a fly drawn to a spider or a moth to a flame and says it might just be ''part of your nature''. And then when you run off, he says he needs to sit down for a few minutes afterwards. Which honestly isn't much better, as he still comes off creepy and lecherous towards a young woman who was ''alone with him''. No wonder he's a BaseBreakingCharacter.
** Veronica and Angela have a one-time event you can see with the two of them (once you've gotten enough friendship, and as long as you're not in a relationship with Angela), called "Guildmaster and Daughter." You come upon the two of them at home in the evening, and Angela is fussing with her mother, who says she doesn't have the time to do...something. That something is a physical checkup. They fight and Angela storms off to her quarters. You can either sit down with Veronica or go speak to Angela, and there's no wrong choice there--it's all on who you want more RelationshipValues with. But the issue isn't either of them. Veronica instead explains that she'd rather not let the CampGay gay male town doctor, Marian, examine her--and it's because she's not sure she agrees with some of his "lifestyle choices." She quickly adds that he's not a bad person, she just can't explain her discomfort to Angela. And if you follow Angela instead, you'll still learn that Marian is the issue and Angela says that she can understand why her mother might feel that way. The "solution" they decide on is to let Angela do the exam instead, and pass the results to Marian to analyze--and they together agree that it's best to ''simply lie to Marian'' and say that Sundays, his one day off, are the only day Veronica can go to the clinic, rather than either of them admit to Marian he makes Veronica uncomfortable. ''Then'' Angela confesses that--just between the three of you--her mother's not the only one who's uncomfortable around the doctor. This is all played for mild interpersonal drama and a demonstration of Veronica's stubbornness and [[TheWorkaholic workaholic tendencies]], and ends with everyone making the "joyful" or laughing emote. But the wording and solution make Veronica appear quite homophobic--and Angela, who works directly with Marian, as willing to cover her mother's feelings up and also agreeing with her mother on some level about Marian. Given that practically no one else in the village has a problem with Marian whatsoever, it's not a very pleasant scene at all. Especially with the line from Veronica about "lifestyle choices"--a phrase used by homophobes as an anti-gay dog whistle that implies being queer is a ''choice.'' This, like Klaus's event, is also redone in the EU version so that instead Veronica states she's afraid of doctors and blames their white coats, and Angela's agreement is just discomfort around doctors. So it comes off ''much'' better.

** It can take players quite a while to figure out that the town doctor Marian is a man.

** There's no canon couple--the player can marry any of the six options available to them. However, most fan works pair the female player character Annie with Klaus, owing to an older demographic that find him more plausible and stable than the other bachelors (and in no small part helped by his TrademarkFavoriteFood, bouillabaisse, being the easiest to get the recipe for and make). Raeger is also popularly paired up with her. Johnny, in contrast, is equally spread across the bachelorettes.