You will find basic information, including Birthdays and Favourite Gifts included here, as well as a brief description of each Character. As Courtship and Marriage are very popular aspects of any Harvest Moon game, this Guide lists Eligible Girls and Eligible Bachelors first, followed by a section that is devoted to all Other Characters. You will find that Friendship Levels will increase fairly quickly if you follow this plan. Make the effort to 'Meet and Greet' every one instead and to give an Item that is Acceptable whenever possible. Many Most Favourite Gifts are Cooked Dishes, made often with rare or expensive Ingredients. A Player should not be too focused on 'Most Favourite Gifts', especially at the start of the game, when most of those Items will be unattainable.
There is no time limit where Friendship or Courtship is concerned. These Gifts are worth +50 FP when given to a Character. Apart from the Gifts that have significant value in Tale of Two Towns, there are far more that are simply Acceptable.
Paying attention to a Characters's Responses is an important aspect of gameplay. Although Rubbish Items are scorned by most Characters, there usually is some one who will perceive at least one of these Items as useful or desirable. What pleases one Individual may disgust another. The value of this Negative Gift is -1000 Friendship Points! Every Character is different in his/her Likes and Dislikes. On the other end of the spectrum, there is one distrinct Item that is an object of Utter Horror when given to an Individual. This 'Most Favourrite Gift' has a value of +800 Friendship Points when given. There is one special Gift that is worth far more than all others for each of the Eligible Girls and Bachelors. An Item that the Character dislikes or loathes will decrrease Friendship Levels although the effect is not permanent. As Cheryl will instruct you, a Gift should be an Item that the Character likes in order to have a positive effect on Friendship Levels. Heart Events, technically 'Flower Events' in Two Towns, cannot be experienced until you have reached a required Flower Level with the Eligible Girl or Bachelor in question. New options are unlocked often when you attain a specific Friendship Level with a Character. Harvest Moon games are driven by social interactions. At the start of the game, Request Rewards in the form of Cooked Dishes often will be a means of obtaining Favourite Gifts for other Characters that otherwise could not be created or purchased in the first or second seasons of gameplay. The successful completion of a Request will raise Friendship Levels as well as giving Rewards in the form of special Items, including new Tools. Another important social interaction in Tale of Two Towns is the Request System, whereby you can complete Requests that are posted on the Bulletin Boards both in Bluebell Village and in Konohana Village. If you attempt to give a second Gift, it will be refused very politely.
Only one Gift can be given to any Individual per day. It is when you speak to some one again and then once more after that in the course of any encounter that you will learn interesting facts and details. The first dialogue will be no more than a greeting. Remember when you speak to any one to speak to them two or three times. It is not necessary to give Gifts to Characters in order to raise Friendship Levels but Gifts are worth more in terms of Friendship Points than simple conversation. If not, try to alternate between Characters or Villages so that you do not neglect any one. If you can do this on a daily basis with every one in both Villages, so much the better. Primary is the ritual of 'meeting and greeting' every one regularly. Hmm? Worried you’ll give some one something they hate? Tee-hee! Don’t worry! Even if you don’t give gifts to people, just talk to them to become better friends! If you talk to them every day, you’ll learn the things they like and dislike! End of Tutorial The process of raising Friendship Levels will be familiar to any one who ever played Harvest Moon and/or Rune Factory. YES NOthat’s how it works! Then: Cheryl: Did you kow that you can give gifts to people? To give some one a gift, talk to them while holding what you want to give them! If the present is something they like, they’ll be soooo happy! You’ll become closer friends and they’ll like you more! But if you give them something they hate, they’ll like you less.