Story of Seasons

The player can choose to play as a male or female farmer and between two difficulties at the beginning of the game. The difficulty level cannot be changed once chosen. There are a variety of things to do in the game such as producing crops and raising livestock. The game also introduces new characters, including a tiny goddess and a tiny witch.

• Title — Story of Seasons • Developer — Marvelous AQL • Producer — Yoshifumi Hashimoto • Director — Takahiro Yura • Artist — Igusa Matsuyama • Composer — Riyo Kinugasa Noriko Ishida • Series — Story of Seasons • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Nintendo 3DS • Genre — Farm life sim

The player, Johnny (male) or Annie (female), is bored with their regular life and receives a flyer announcing the recruitment of farmers in Oak Tree Town. Wanting to risk it all, they move to the small village to meet Veronica, the village's mayor. There are four other farmers living in Oak Tree Town: Eda, Fritz, Giorgio, and Elise, who will teach the player how to run their new farm. They must unlock all seven vendors by fulfilling certain requirements and make Oak Tree Town a renowned international trade city. Large variety of seeds, items, buildings, and animals become available through unlocking the vendors. Together, the NPC farmers and the player will help each other become successful. The player will also meet five Nature Sprites: Flick, Mora, Gusto, Torque, and Pepita, a young witch named Witchie, and a young Harvest Goddess named Dessie. At one point, Eda dies from an illness and her farm is passed to the player. In the end, once all traders have come to town, a meeting is held to thank the player for their efforts in making the town into a popular trade city.

The main feature of the game is connectivity according to Yoshifumi Hashimoto, the producer of the Story of Seasons series. Players sell their crop and dairy products to other countries in the game via a Trade Station. Some countries prefer one type of item over another, and may have to travel to the other countries to make deliveries. Personal farm data can be swapped with other players using StreetPass. The player can set up a wildlife Safari, housing a variety of exotic animals such as monkeys and parrots. The Safari will be toured by the other villagers, similar to the Garden Tour in A New Beginning. The exotic animals are added through the Safari through unlocking them from vendors in the game through having good relations with them. The player can only keep other animals by meeting certain conditions. If the player becomes friendly with the animals through interaction they will be able to keep more animals in the Safari. Farm animals that are brought and taken care of within the Safari become happier and less stressed. In the Safari, there is a mine where rare gems and minerals can be found through use of the hammer tool.