Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life/YMMV

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  • Alternate Character Interpretation: Many fans view Muffy as promiscuous, while others[1] refer to a different side of her.
    • Players who pursued Celia as Mark think differently of Marlin than those who pursued him as Pony.
  • Non Sequitur Scene: A really really weird moment. One night Van might visit Romana's house and an event comes up where he tries to purchase a painting on her wall, she refuses and it is revealed that Lumina painted it. Lumina then asks her butler in privacy to do her a favor. Suddenly it cuts to the butler out in the forest charging up and attacking the local yeti, apparently trying to steal the little lock of hair it has on its head to be made into a paintbrush. The situation is never delved further and you are left alone in the forest afterwards. Maybe it was a bad trip from eating the mushrooms by the tree.
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Rock actually decides to work once you die.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: After ANWL came out, Marlin became the favorite amongst most fans compared to the other two spouses.
    • Nami.
  • Fanon: When the original AWL game came out, it seemed unanimous amongst fan sites that Wally left the city because he injured his leg in a race and can no longer run professionally.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: Many guys really wanted to marry Flora. And a lot of girls really hated Chris for marrying one of the hottest men in town.
    • For younger players, there was often confusion on who were the love interests, since the manual was a bit vague on "it's only these three." Some people ended up marrying Celia (the default) in AWL because they were trying to get Flora, Lumina (not realizing she was a kid) or even Vesta. Likewise, a few ANWL players wasted time trying to woo Cody.
  • Fridge Horror: It's pretty normal in Harvest Moon games for the Harvest Goddess to be indisposed, such as being turned into a statue or something and you need to rescue her. But the Harvest Goddess in this game isn't here. The sprites think she might be sleeping, but they don't know. She's just gone. Their deity has seemingly abandoned them.
    • Fridge Brilliance: It's the Mineral Town Goddess. She has just left to live in another pond, and being the Jerkass she is she doesn't respond or say anything. She comes back sometime within the hundred years that passed between this game and DS.
    • There was an event that occurs during one of your yearly visits to the pond with the sprites where the goddess talks to you. You still can't see her, though, and it boils down to her telling you to let her be.
  • Game Breaker: The high price of tree seeds is supposed to be justified by the fact that they continually regrow fruit. Eventually you get the ability to turn crops into seeds, which becomes the easiest way to get money in the game; selling hybrid tree seeds instead of the fruit.
  • Player Punch: Nina's death, but at least unlike Harvest Moon 64, it was an offscreen death.
  • Porting Disaster: The PlayStation 2 version is considerably more laggy, slower, and more dull than the Gamecube version; probably due to the Gamecube being more powerful.
  • Ron the Death Eater: Muffy's far from promiscuous, she's just unlucky in love. It doesn't help how she dresses, but then again she is a bartender and cleans up after marriage.
  • True Art Is Incomprehensible: If you become friends with Cody, then he will give you one of his art pieces for your house. It's a pile of twisted scrap metal. He also has a weird Metal formation in front of his trailer.
  • The Scrappy: Rock. At least among some people, choosing between him and Marlin is not too hard in the girls' version.
  • The Woobie: All of the girls you can potentially marry can become this. If you don't marry Nami then she runs out of money and has to move back in with her deadbeat dad far away. If you don't marry Celia then she ends up a jaded bitter man-hater who is always riding on Marlin's ass. If you don't marry Muffy then she will become incredibly depressed over growing old and alone, and can sometimes be found on the beach crying over how happy your family looks.
    • Several other characters, to varying degrees. Lumina feels overburdened by her Grandmother, lost her parents at an early age, and cries when you get married due to having a Precocious Crush on you. Hugh is often seen crying early in the morning when he's a kid, possibly due to his father. Grant has two Jerkass girls to take care of, and apparently has a horrid life as a Salaryman.
  • Toy Ship: Kate and Hugh, or Kate and your son.
  1. ↑ usually the ones that married her
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