If you were disappointed with the marriage options in Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town so far - even with the addition of same-gender marriage - then you'll be pleased to know that Marvelous has DLC plans for even more boys and girls to woo.
In their five-part DLC plan, stretching from April to August, players will get access to outfits for themselves and their spouses, as well as new areas, new scenarios, and six new marriage candidates. The six new/old potentials come from previous Story of Seasons and Harvest Moon games, including Raeger and Iris from Story of Seasons, Felicity and Neil from Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning, and Ludus and Lisette from Trio of Towns.
Here's the full list of DLC goodies:
Part 1 – April 2021
- ‘Animal Attire’ costumes for the protagonists and marriage candidates
- ‘Olive Town Mystery Files’ sub-scenario – Join Mikey and Cindy to discover the cause of strange incidents occurring across Olive Town in the very first mystery scenario in the Story of Seasons series!
Part 2 – May 2021
- ‘Windswept Falls Expansion Pack’ – Explore a refreshing, brand-new area home to four characters from a past entry on the Nintendo 3DS system (includes two marriage candidates)
Part 3 – June 2021
- ‘School Uniforms’ costume set for the protagonists and marriage candidates
- ‘Terracotta Oasis Expansion Pack’ – Discover an exotic oasis home to four characters from Story of Seasons for Nintendo 3DS (includes two marriage candidates)
Part 4 – July 2021
- ‘Yukata Set’ costumes for the protagonists and marriage candidates
- ‘The Legendary Sprite Dance’ sub-scenario – The Earth Sprite Village is livelier than ever, and the sprites are determined to revive their legendary dance and hold a feast…with or without Boss Sprite’s permission!
Part 5 – August 2021
- ‘Twilight Isle Expansion Pack’ – Sail to an island bathed in twilight and meet the four characters from Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns that have made it their new home (includes two marriage candidates)
‘Expansion Pass’ Purchase Bonus DLC – The following costume sets will be available to owners of the ‘Expansion Pass’ at the game’s launch on March 23.
- ‘Pete and Claire’s Overalls’ costumes from Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
- ‘Yuto and Naomi’s Hoodies’ costumes from Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
- ‘Henry and Holly’s Western Attire’ costumes from Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns
Have you changed your mind about who you intend to marry, now that there are more options? Discuss your preferences in the comments below.
[source xseedgames.com]
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this is really neat to see, looking forward to it all.
When you say to discuss your preferences...
Non of them are my typs.
Hahahaha so it’s quite literally a mail order bride?
@Bizaster they never let us marry the old people! It's not fair!
@nessisonett slams receipt down in front of Raeger I love you so much I paid for you
There is let down easy
There is let down harshly
Then there is "I can not continue to live in a universe where you are my only option" let down
you mean people of opposite sex from older games. Misleading information again. Same sex marriages are not included in this game. Instead they are replaced by best friends ceremony, which is a perfect exemple of differentiation based on sexual orientation .✊🌈
Seriously is it March yet? Iris!! I think I’ll need two save files. One with Laura and one with Iris.
Psst Marvelous, if you wanna go back to older games (AWL) I won’t say no....
This feels like it should have been included in the game and not sold as DLC.
all loli blonde girls...no variation? disappointed tbh
@King-Demon Iris is not a loli in any sense of the word, she’s like way older than most marriage candidates. I agree about them all being blonde though.
...I wish gamers community become concerned by the disappointing lack of variety in this game far beyond the hair colour of its characters... oh well.
Oh sure, don't include Nami-chan from A Wonderful Life.
Five part DLC? That’s overkill.
I remember in another story of seasons article, someone was talking about how he was upset because he couldn't marry a guy from a story of seasons game (at least I think it was story of seasons). I wonder how he's feeling now
@nessisonett perhaps it's like pokemon, Iris is the stage-2 final evolution.
Lisette evolves into Felicity at level 20, then you need to trade her holding the Corset item to get Iris
Every time I see SEASONS in an article title I wish Oracle preceded it.
@AstroTheGamosian I see you are a gamer of class and taste.
@KateGray considering the fact that I’d like to marry NPC Sydney, I felt that outrage at the lack of marriage to an older set of NPCs. I know we play a plucky, barely adult that always seems to inherit a farm, but I feel like Iris was the oldest NPC we’ve been able to court.
I’m sure a lot of that has to do with the “christmas cake” syndrome but surely the PC has enough of her life together that she can woo the local hot lawyer right? No, just me asking for that then? Ok. goes off to cry in a corner
@Ryu_Niiyama DS Cute had this stud available and ready to be courted.
@Eel um....Dude? throws garlic cloves
@Ryu_Niiyama and if he’s too scruffy, there’s always Carter!
(Yeah these are two of the five main bachelors in that game)
@Eel I have never played DS Cute and oh dear lord, you can marry Griffin and Carter. I always used to be grossed out that Carter was a marriage rival for Flora given he looked like he was her dad. Still love that game.
@nessisonett apparently Flora herself is supposed to be in her mid-30's, along with Muffy.
I'm not sure how old is Carter supposed to be though. Could be anywhere between 30 and 50 I suppose?
@Eel 41, iirc. Griffin’s a little older, 46-47. Also Griffin was probably the sweetest base marriage candidate in the game. Having someone who could speak to you directly about their feelings in their orange-red heart levels was nice. u.u
@StardusterEX ah then not that much older I guess. And yeah. It’s a bit of a special game in the sense they didn’t just create a group of five young, pretty anime boys to be marriage candidates; they designed these characters to be regular people, and ended up expanding their roles and personalities out of necessity.
It’s something that will likely never happen again.
@Eel Too male. Not interested, thanks.
I did like Carter as a character though. I actually skipped DS/DS cute as I really loved AWL (ok Nami). I was a broke college student after that so I missed the first few years of the DS. But I enjoyed talking to him. Many of the characters in that game really. Since AWL forced marriage, I took one for the team and played the male version rather than picking up the female version instead.
@Ryu_Niiyama I’m mentioning older marriage candidates, because you mentioned Iris might the oldest one yet. I’m not trying to make you interested in them 😅 Sorry if it came out that way.
About AWL, these two guys weren’t actually marriage candidates there. For that one they picked the three younger guys they had in the valley. Poor old Griffin (and Carter) had to wait until the DS to get married.
Fun fact about AWL’s bachelors, Gustafa never ages during the entire duration of the game.
@Eel lol I’m usually outnumbered so I was like “why is he talking to me about “studs”?” I tend to be mild online when I talk about attraction, but I was about to go look for a Lesbian sign and plant it somewhere.
So to the point you were trying to make, that is fair.... just doesn’t help me any. I almost restarted SoS as a guy because I liked Iris’ personality (seriously, a well read, humorous woman is my Kyptonite) but ultimately chose not to as I play female and celibate when there is no option to marry a woman. And the NA versions have not kept parity with the best friends/same sex marriage thing.
I teared up when I got married in SOSFoMT since Ann/Ran is a bit of a recurring/retooled character and I remember being so upset as a little girl that I had to play a boy and that was the only way I could marry the original bokumono version of Ann (I figured out why that bothered me so badly a few years later lol). Which also started me playing celibate. It’s funny how much a game can mean to you and how much its restrictions/lack of representation can hurt. Even after you have gone on to become a healthy adult. The other side to nostalgia.
Sorry, didn’t mean to bring down the convo. Anyway Iris is mine this time mwahahahahaha (ok that sounds sinister).
@Ryu_Niiyama that's great they decided to include her in the SoS pack then! It'll be like, she followed your farmer.
All Olive Town bachelorettes considered, she is certainly the one with the most adult and refined look.
@Eel thank you for my new headcanon!
Please please please let ford be available 😭😍
brroooo the gosh darn release dates kill the heck out of me
ugh gotta wait by month ya'll, ima faint from the wait. lol
@Ryu_Niiyama That I am. Also, what about Lumina from the Special Edition on the PS2?
@AstroTheGamosian It’s implied (at least in the English version, dunno about the Japanese version) that Lumina was barely pubescent. :x they changed her age from 14 in the original version to 18 in that one without making any real changes to her events, model, personality, etc. SE should have started her out with her model from Chapter 2 onwards.
Very happy we're getting more marriage candidates so I'm definitely buying the Expansion Pass. Although would have been nice if that came in the bundle with the plushie I pre-ordered. Oh well. Also wishing Gray was included. I know I just married him in FOMT but he was my favourite character and I want to marry a more grown-up, sure of himself sexy blacksmith!
@AstroTheGamosian @StardusterEX Yeah the PS2 edition could've done that a bit better. It comes out a bit creepy.
The DS versions started her out as a full grown adult.
@nessisonett even beyond that...no ladies of colour either? idk seems to be no variation at all
@King-Demon That’s always gonna be slow going. I’m excited for Laura since she looks ambiguous enough that I can say she is a POC. Plus they have darker skin tones for the Player Character. Although considering Japanese game with Japanese devs, many of the characters are technically Japanese even if the hair doesn’t match.
Edit: she’s mixed...eh I’ll take it.
@AstroTheGamosian I am a mostly Nintendo bokumono fan, myself. That being said I rarely get married in bokumono unless forced (AWL) or samesex marriage is allowed.
@King-Demon BokuMono is rather rubbish when it comes to POC marriage candidates unfortunately!
@Eel Never played the DS games. I only have A Wonderful Life on both the GameCube and the PS2.
Now, if they were to remake the game for the Switch, I'd get it, too. Although, some changes would need to be made, specifically with farming. I think they need to add sprinkler systems, for one, so you don't have to spend all day watering crops.
(Looking at the bachelors from previous games)
None of them will be my husbandos. 🙄
I would like Owen, Gray, Blue, Basil, Kurt, Ray returns.
Damn. I was hoping they'd bring Klaus back.
Why are all the DLC bachelorettes blonde? Iris is gorgeous, but aren't Lisette and Felicity exactly the same in personality? Of all the choices from Trio of Towns and A New Beginning, it just seems weird to pick them as well as Iris (not that I dislike Lisette, but now I feel like the DLC isn't worth the money).
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