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How to Activate Heart Events in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life

A lesson into romance

Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life focusses on the little things that gamers often in real life forget to cherish. Sometimes spending hours in a video game universe creating romantic relationships with characters to form unforgettable bonds can often make you forget about the real life bonds a person makes. As someone who lives vicariously through great LGBTQIA+ representation such as Life is Strange: True Colors and Last of Us II, I often found myself doing the same thing. But learning of the gift of giving and the importance of spending time with loved ones is a lesson that few games can teach. But in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, the relaxing game where the goal is much like every heterosexual couple in real life – get married and have a kid, players will want to learn all about Heart Events and how to get them. This is Vincent’s guide on how to activate Heart Events in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life.

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What are Heart Events in Story of Seasons?

Heart Events act as the cutscenes in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life. Once found and completed, they strengthen your bond between you and the Marriage Candidate. These Events only appear once you have gained a Heart. There are a total of 4 Hearts to gain, therefore there are 4 Events to witness and play through until you will get the opening to propose to your Marriage Candidate.

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How to Activate The Cutscenes

Heart Events or Heart Scenes occur at specific intervals throughout your playthrough. But the only way to get these to happen is by strengthening your bond with your chosen Marriage Candidate. You can do this by following the formula primarily used in JRPGs being gift-giving and communication. Whilst this formula can be used in real life also, the act of gift giving goes even further in games such as Story of Seasons. Gifts such as Milk, Eggs and Meals go a long way in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life. Simply hanging out with these Candidates, as friends or to build romances will give you Hearts towards your bond with that specific character.

By communicating with your chosen loved one throughout the first year in A Wonderful Life, you will build up your bond progress as seen by the Heart Meter. As this Meter details both your platonic friendship and possible romantic relationship with each Candidate, you will be able to always check how far your relationship progress has gotten with that person you visit and speak with every day.

Each character will need their Heart Meter filled to gain the next Heart needed out of 4 before you can propose to the chosen one. The problem however is that you will not know exactly how to see the Heart Event for the specific character of your choosing as you need to visit a specific spot in Town at a specific Time with the character available to converse with. If any of these variables are not present, the Heart Event will not occur.


That was our guide on everything romance related for Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life. For more on the latest video games, be sure to see the latest GJ related articles here. Thank you for reading this guide.

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Hadley Vincent
Hadley is a Freelance Writer for Gamer Journalist. They have been with the company since October 2022. With a BSc Honors in Psychology, Hadley focuses their creativity and passion for Video Games by primarily covering Horror, FPS, and anything with a great narrative. You will often find Hadley covering the latest indie horror games or deploying into Call of Duty's DMZ. They love a good story and one that can keep them up at night, be that for its scares or its lore.