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* [[A Homeowner Is You]]: Some games let you buy another house.
* [[All in A Row]]: In the Wii games, you can have your spouse, your pets, or one of your children walk with you. They follow obediently behind you in this fashion, and you can create some amusingly [[Benny Hill]]-esque chains. (Farmer chased by little boy chased by penguin chased by [[Everything's Worse With Bears|OH GOD A BEAR!]])
* [[All -Natural Gem Polish]]: In most games it's played straight, but it's notably averted in ''Animal Parade''--all the gems you find are uncut and require Mira to appraise and cut them before they're worth anything. And she has a decent chance of failing, too.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Most games will include very modern items like TVs or refrigerators, maybe even DVD players, but there will never be any industrialization of the farming industry.
* [[An Economy Is You]]: Especially egregious in ''Island Of Happiness'' where not only do you fix up your farm, but pay for bridge and road repair
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** Chelsea has the exact same get-up as Sara however she wears her bandanna rather than having it around her neck.
* [[Continuity Porn]]: For a series with such a flimsy (possibly non-existent) timeline, the games thrive on this.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: The Volcano Island mine in ''Sunshine Islands''. In ''Animal Parade'', you can go so deep in the mines that you reach an area with some land platforms surrounded by a sea of magma.
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: Harvest Moon games tend to have a church with a clearly Catholic priest, including worship services on Sunday mornings and marriage ceremonies performed as necessary, but they actually worship the Harvest Goddess.
** If you can get past the idea of goddess worship<ref>or Catholicism, whichever might offend you more</ref>, consider that this is one of the ''few'' games in which a church is played up as a positive, appreciated part of life. In ''Back to Nature'', for example, the priest is pleasant, kind, and not above a good laugh, and he gives decent advice now and then; also, at one point you round up the kids in town and take them to church, and from then on they go to church almost daily, are happy to do so, and even discuss a bit of theology (something about confession ("apologize from the heart")). Tell me another game this positive about religion ''at all''.
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* [[Heroic Mime]]: In most games. In ''More Friends Of Mineral Town,'' your character has an [[Inner Monologue]], and in the DS games, he or she just talks outright.
* [[Honest Axe]]: Used straight in the original SNES version
* [[Hundred -Percent Completion]]: Generally not defined by the games themselves, leading the fandom to create their own requirements for the different games.
** The most infamous is definitely HM64's [[Bragging Rights Reward|Party Picture]], the requirements of which are so stringent that even a good decade after the game's release, the fandom ''still'' isn't entirely sure of what exactly is necessary to get it.
* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]: More justified than most examples; eating food simply restores stamina, rather than healing wounds.
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** It's actually possible to get the hot spring without marrying Flora: woo her until you see the event, then start wooing the girl of your choice afterwards.
* [[Love Interests]]: Each game has a selection that the player can choose from
* [[Luck -Based Mission]]: Particularly notable when mining in ''Harvest Moon Island of Happiness''. More so early on until you get enough Orichalc (see [[Unobtainium]] below) to be able to increase your stamina cap, since you have a random chance every time you move to hit a pitfall on a tile, and a 1-in-5 chance of losing the amount of stamina equivalent to that you start the game with. At least save scumming is possible [and changes the pitfall's depth], but even then, it only helps so much. The hoe tool can also help the player avoid pitfalls.
*** It's also a very good - and very tedious - way to use up the stamina you need to get to the lower floors.
** Heart Events in ''Two Towns'' (Now called "Flower Events") - even using an FAQ, you might not get the proper option to trigger the flower event, rather than a regular date.
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* [[My Local]]: Just about every game has a place where you can drink (and possibly meet potential suitors)
* [[Nature Spirit]]: the games are populated by fairies, imps, and sprites as well as humans. Usually, befriending them will make life easier for the player.
* [[New Game Plus+]]: Both the Wii games have this. In the first one, ''Tree of Tranquility'' your child is the one who starts a new farm--though they [[Generation Xerox|turn into a carbon-copy of their parents.]] Because the children in ''Animal Parade'' actually look like your spouse, this no longer works, so instead, the link between the old game and the new is your child ''delivering'' goods to a new game file.
* [[No Cartoon Fish]]
* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: You wouldn't ''think'' so, would you, given how big a role getting married plays, but your little farmer and their spouse have a surprisingly chaste relationship. The only way to really show affection to your spouse is giving gifts, and the only time they ever seem to kiss at all is during the wedding scene. And in ''DS,'' there isn't even that!
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* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: If given the option to, the game will fade to credits if you refuse The Mayor's offer to turn the farm over to you.
** ''DS/Cute'' had a variation on this: at the beginning of the game, your dog would attack the mayor. If you chose not to save the mayor, the credits rolled and you'd be taken back to the title screen.
** Actually, most of the time, The Mayor would ask if you were sure [[But Thou Must!|until you agreed]]. ''AWL'' and ''(M)FOMT'' did hit you with a Non-Standard Game Over this way, and AWL in particular was chock-full of them: [[Strangled By the Red String|not getting married after the first year]], neglecting your farm in the second chapter (which would result in Nami or Muffy leaving and taking your son with her, ending your game), etc.
** Special Edition makes it even easier. When Takura asks you if you want to own the farm or not just press no and... Game Over before the ''game even actually begins''.
** Apparently, in DS/Cute, if you grow a Level 99 Poison Mushroom and put it in the soup at the Harvest Festival, you will poison the entire village and cause this. Growing a Poisonous Mushroom to Level 99 in incredibly difficult, though.
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* [[Second Place Is for Losers]]: Fail to win a competition - even if you come in second - and many of the villagers will react like you finished ninth in an eight-man race.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: The bookish, shy, [[Meganekko|often-bespectacled]] girl is ''always'' jaw-droppingly gorgeous on her wedding-day. This applies to all the other brides as well, but on those girls it's more noticeable.
* [[Shout -Out]]: ''Someone'' was having fun with ''Tree of Tranquility'' and ''Animal Parade.'' The most blatant one most people will probably get, in ''Animal Parade:'' Innkeeper Jake has found the Wizard's crystal ball and doesn't want to give its magical powers up. What does he say? "[[The Lord of the Rings|My precioussssss...]]"
** In another of ''Animal Parade'''s events, Calvin can find Owen and Luke attempting to demolish a very historic wall in the mines and, scolding them, cry that "''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|It belongs in a museum!]]''"
** Yet more in ''Animal Parade:'' The Pantsuit item has, as its description, "A suit for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCIUf8eYPqA taking care of business and working overtime.]
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