That's just a little bit of it this game is much more in depth than Grand Bazaar.īesides the weekly cooking festivals, there are a few festivals for each village each season. In the DS version (Japanese) you could swap friend codes to have your buddies help you with a special Goddess Pond crop field. You can have cats and dogs that herd your animals in and out of your barns, just like in Grand Bazaar. Only during dates can you activate the "heart" events required for marriage that typically exist in HM games. If it is a good spot, you get affection points. You might get prompted to go on a date when you talk to a person, where you'll get the choice of picking the date location. This game also has dates you can go on with the marriage candidates. You don't have to water them one-by-one if you have them connected together. Watering one spot of soil in the trench will water *all* of the crops that are planted in the same connecting plots of soil. House upgrades, tool strengthening, expanding the collapsed tunnel, etc., are all done via the request board.Īn irrigation system has been included that allows you to string your soil together into trenches. Then you're rewarded with money or items. The villagers will put requests on the board and then you go and fetch the items requested. Some of the seasonal festivals are unique to each town and you can't participate in the other village's festival unless you live there.īesides growing crops and animals, the game has a bulletin board system similar to Rune Factory 2. Eventually you will mend the quarrel between the two and all is happy. The more times you participate, the friendlier the villages get. You can enter the contest as a representative of your village or you can simply watch. You can also move your primary farm (where you wake up) from one village to the other once a month.Įach week the villagers gather on the top of the mountain for a cooking contest. Both farms can accommodate a little bit of the other's specialities (you can have a few animals at the Asian farm or grow some crops on your European farm). The Asian town concentrates on crops, where there is lots of land to grow, raise fish in a pond, and have a rice paddy. The European town is animal based, with lots of room for your chickens, sheep, cows, alpacas, honey bees, etc. Now the only way to travel between the two is by crossing over the mountain. There use to be a tunnel that connected the two towns together, but the two started arguing about their food that the Goddess got annoyed enough to collapse the tunnel. One village is European-based while the other is Asian-based. For those who want to know what A Tale of Two Towns (Twin Villages/ Futago no Mura) is about, it is based around a weekly cooking festival that the two villages have.