What do you normally do in your first year of playing?

[HmSam]

What do you typically do in your first year of playing? I usually do a bit of everything, starting storyline and picking a marriage canidate. I don't see how you guys are already married within year one! But in Animal Parade I bet the entire storyline before year one so that was a big achievement for me! So ya what about you guys?

[runefactor]

I'm hasty so I tend to get married and beat the plot by my first year. That's why I don't like it takes so long to unlock certain candidates in ANB and ToTT.

[Oslm-markguy]

I usually get married in the 1st year

[quigley]

My usual pattern is to get married within the first year and, if there's a story, probably be some point in the middle (or closer to the beginning). But I'm trying to shake that up. I'm not worrying so much about getting married quickly, I'm taking it slower. And I try to do the story at a slow pace, too. I don't want to get everything done too fast and lose interest in the game.

[Bombchu]

It depends on the game for me. If it's one of the older games, like the original or HM64, I'll try to get married as soon as possible before year 1 ends, and collect as much lumber as I can for farm upgrades. In the newer games, I tend to take things slowly so I don't get burnt out or lose interest.

I usually pick who I'll marry early on so I can woo them and prevent their rival events from triggering. If the game has rivals at all, that is..

[MKayAmy]

I usually focus on making money and getting married ASAP. Except in AnB, since they made bachelors unlockable I beat the plot first before I even dated! So new for me hah.

[Lady Nina]

in things like 64, i can't bring myself to take it slowly because of the evaluation, so i try to get as much done as i possibly can. i'll try to get as many pictures as i can, win as many festivals as i can, make as much money as i can, get as many upgrades as i can (i usually try for the greenhouse by the end of fall, though i do tend to save up about twice the amount for it than i need to, just so i don't feel so broke, so it takes longer than it probably needs to), etc. etc. i want to get as much done before the evaluation as possible!!

in something like FoMT, that i find somewhat tedious and can get tired of, i take things veeerrrryyyy slowlllyyyyyyy. i'm halfway through fall, year 3, and i'm still nowhere near where i could potentially be if i were taking this game faster, but i prefer it this way, since there isn't a set goal that i feel like i need to reach. i think i have all the girls at red heart, but i don't really care because i'm not marrying any -- i just think i'm trying to reach a goal of some type, and to prevent them from getting married off, in case i decide to marry later on (to someone other than the goddess, who i am thinking about marrying...if i decide to marry!).

i've never played a game with a "story" like the newer games, only games with a hard deadline, so i don't know how i would react to those.

[Kam]

It depends on the game, but generally I spend the first year getting married, setting my farm up, and finding a routine that I like and can stick to.

[Apple_Blossom]

I explore my surroundings and check basically everything out.

[Cherry Blossom]

It depends on the game, really. I usually pick a marriage candidate before the game even starts, annnnnd I try to finish the story as soon as possible. Unless I've already played it, or it's Animal Parade. Then everything moves soooooooo much sloooooowerrr.

[dreambydistance]

I usually have a spouse picked out and I get them up maybe like 3 heart levels, lol. I never really get married during the first year and the main storyline isn't really rolling smoothly along that time frame. I take things in steps.

[Googaboga]

In the first year I do basically the same stuff I do in any year other. I start befriending people as soon as I can. I don't befriend everyone right away so I just pick some people. And I work on improving my farm/completing the plot. Depending on the game I may have completed the plot by the first year. But sometimes it takes longer than that.

I like to befriend all the marriage candidates but I don't actually get married.


Never getting married is actually an option for once :D. That is almost never an option in polls ;u;

[Lin]

I try to befriend a select few people. I woo a few people too but I usually like getting married in my second year or more, not first. I usually take it really slow with only crops in the Spring, get chickens in the Summer and then other livestock in the Fall/Winter (but I start growing grass earlier if I want to have a fodder reservoir). For storyline I try to take it slow usually.

That reminds me, I kind of miss not being able to really take my livestock outside in the Winter. And the grass being gone in the Winter. It was fun to know I had to "stock up" on their food, felt realistic in a way. Good memories of cutting all my grass in the Fall for Winter. xD

[Lumikru]

Try my best to get entrenched into the game as best as possible. ie I normally work the hardest during that first year working as much as I can possibly do per in game day. I realised early on if I don't try to over achieve the game can often last far far longer than I really intend to play it.

To me a HM game should last about 3 years, if you can't get everything you want done in those 3 years then the game is poo. Because it's the getting married/building a farm part that is fun. If it takes too long to do that then it isn't fun. It's fun starting over and playing through those first few years, over and over and over again. I really don't like HM games that turn into a drag, it gets kinda boring. Because you can't restart and experience that going from something to nothing as often.

ANB is a game which the first year is the most boring I've ever experienced, an over achiever like me it forces me to be lazy, slow down, do less per day because there isn't much to do in that first year. So... someone said it picks up after the Spring which sadly isn't exactly true, definitely if you didn't save some forging items from earlier seasons for town restorations.

[boxerlover25]

I try to get friendships up and do everything. I never marry in the first year, just because I have a rule for myself that I need to get through one full year to experience all the festivals before marriage. I start off wooing everyone now, but I used to just go for one person. The first year I also usually ship the least crops, because almost everything I grow goes into my fridge fo cooking ingredients. It's not really extremely different from any other year though.