Trio of Towns in my opinion had the best balance of festivals, a harvest festival per season, an animal festival per season (any animal), a cooking festival every 2 seasons, the fashion fiesta and pet promenade once a year (which is good because I don’t really care for these festivals) and a town trylimpics or beverage bash being held once every season whose game varies based on the town hosting. They also have town specific deity and romantic festivals once per year which I’d say are some of the best romantic festivals in the series. There were also the town specific New Years festivals all being held at the same time.
PoOT on the other hand only had 2 festivals per season (coincidentally like that other farming game…), quite a few were static cutscenes and none of them had anything to do with farming, which is a shame since there is no incentive to improve your crops or animals. Being as the days in PoOT were still reasonably long, it kind of made the game more monotonous with the lack of festivals. I don’t think I even made it to the winter festivals when I played the game.
To summarise here are some of the festivals I enjoy having in the games:
Contest festivals: