Rival Marriages?

[Lovely Promise]

Will there be Rival Marriages? I've seen in games like this that you are able to befriend one or both of a matching couple, then if you refuse to marry them yourself, they can eventually marry each other instead. I really like seeing the combinations of couples like that!

[donii]

i would LOVEEE if this was added. i love when games do that.

[Richard]

dont think so, never seen this, sounds meme, and what games have that?

[Lady Muffin]

Cattails: Wildwood Story has rival marriages, which you can see develop via numerous cutscenes so they dont just randomly get married one day. And those marriages end up with kittens which I feel really makes it feel like a community! Not everyone has a rival marriage partner tho. That's the only game off the top of my head that has the rival marriage aspect.

[Astrarium]

Originally posted by Richard:

dont think so, never seen this, sounds meme, and what games have that?

The best one I know of is I Was A Teenage Exocolonist. Not a farming sim, more of a unique interactive novel with lots of potential endings.

[Gaaron01234]

Pretty much every harvest moon game released before 2008 and most released during 2008 had rival marriages as a feature.

[funewchie]

Originally posted by Richard:

dont think so, never seen this, sounds meme, and what games have that?

Almost every Harvest Moon (now called Story of Seasons) game up to Animal Parade (Wii).
After that, for some reason, Japanese fans hated the rival marriage system, so Marvelous removed it.
And very few games of this genre have brought it back.
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If I'm not mistaken, what the OP is referring to was like Harvest Moon 64, where rivals will eventually marry their destined bachelorette. But it usually takes so long, that if the player wants the lady, they'll win her heart before then.
However, in 64, if the player befriends the rival, it'll speed up the rival marriage.

I like that, cause it's like you're being the guy's wingman, encouraging him to "tell her how you feel".
(Like Gray, when he's close to marrying Popuri, will say in the bar "....Yeah, yeah, I got the feather. I'll do it soon." (Harvest Moon uses a blue feather to propose))

...I really wish they'd bring rival marriages back, to blazes what Japan thinks.

[Amo]

I love games that do this. I hope they do it for this game!

[funewchie]

Originally posted by Amo:

I love games that do this. I hope they do it for this game!

The game kinda has hints it could be done.
Like Jag and Voda seem to have some chemistry.

To be fair, Stardew Valley also had hints it could have been done, but sadly wasn't.
Namely, looking at the Spring Dance pairs (aside from probably Emily and Shane, but they originally weren't romanceable).

I'm kinda hoping for at least some rival marriage, too.
But I'm not holding my breath.

[LyaranTirel]

In my opinion it's never gonna happend. Not in the modern cozy games. Having a rival marriage implies that the player will not long have the option to marry that character at some point and THAT implies a time limit to get married themselves.
Current games are afraid to even make a non-bisexual bachelor and bachelorette for making them unavaliable to the players. Much less taking that character out of the options at all.

[ᗠehmoth]

I would love this. I miss this kind of feature in games like this.. The old harvest moon games did it very well imo. Animal Parade being my favorite in regards to it.

[Sera-chan]

Originally posted by funewchie:

Originally posted by Richard:

dont think so, never seen this, sounds meme, and what games have that?

Almost every Harvest Moon (now called Story of Seasons) game up to Animal Parade (Wii).
After that, for some reason, Japanese fans hated the rival marriage system, so Marvelous removed it.
And very few games of this genre have brought it back.
------

If I'm not mistaken, what the OP is referring to was like Harvest Moon 64, where rivals will eventually marry their destined bachelorette. But it usually takes so long, that if the player wants the lady, they'll win her heart before then.
However, in 64, if the player befriends the rival, it'll speed up the rival marriage.

I like that, cause it's like you're being the guy's wingman, encouraging him to "tell her how you feel".
(Like Gray, when he's close to marrying Popuri, will say in the bar "....Yeah, yeah, I got the feather. I'll do it soon." (Harvest Moon uses a blue feather to propose))

...I really wish they'd bring rival marriages back, to blazes what Japan thinks.

I didn't know this feature was removed due to the japanese audience not liking it. Where do you know this from? I also would love to see it return, first of all it's just weird, that in most games todays you are the only person to get married, but also because of the feel it gives the games (like a previous person already said, it gives the community a more realistic feel as well as it gives you the feel of progression within the game)

[Preyhamster]

i was always on the fence with rival marriages, a lot of the times because you could screw it up by accidentally giving the candidate the wrong gifts and throwing back your progress (which was never really a huge problem, other characters tended to tell you what other characters liked) and the dynamic added a lot of interesting developments to the game and made them feel more alive.

but I'm in agreement that the shift was due to players no longer wanting to feel like they were rushed in either the decision making process or in the relationship building process while also managing their farm. when realistically you quickly ended up having plenty of extra time to burn after the first month or so (if not sooner).

i dont think i would mind it coming back.

[anonymous316]

Personally I dislike rival marriages, I don't want to be rushed into choosing someone.

[funewchie]

Originally posted by anonymous316:

Personally I dislike rival marriages, I don't want to be rushed into choosing someone.

What about playing as matchmaker, though?

(Such as, hypothetically, the rival marriage is disabled until you're married. Then (maybe because your marriage encouraged the others to "man up") the rivals slowly try out courting, with you encouraging them?)

I mention that, because in Fire Emblem, I actually enjoy doing that with the other characters, besides my character. Half the fun is getting to play matchmaker, encouraging two characters to get close to each other.

[LyaranTirel]

Originally posted by anonymous316:

Personally I dislike rival marriages, I don't want to be rushed into choosing someone.

To be fair, even in the harvest moon that had those, the deadline was so far and long that people often got bored before the rival marriage even was a possibility.
In Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town the rival marriage was, at EARLIEST, year 4. By then you'd already have 2 kids and eveyone in full hearts for lack of what to do.