


Vague Age: Safe to say Mark is somewhere in his twenties, considering that the youngest bachelorette is eighteen (Lumina in Special Edition) and the oldest being thirty (Muffy), with Muffy being implied as older than Mark.Tomboyish Ponytail: Pony permanently wears a ponytail to fit her farmer image.Purely Aesthetic Gender: The gender doesn't affect the character's stamina or anything else the only difference it makes is the choice of love interests.Everyone in Forget-Me-Not recalls their memories of you and mourn your death. Passed in Their Sleep: Implied to how the protagonist ultimately dies at the end of the game, with your spouse trying to wake you up before panicking and calling your child to get the doctor.Missing Mom: Their dad is deceased, but their mother never even gets mentioned.The choices you choose count as dialogue though. Heroic Mime: S/he never says a word - every interaction with another character is done with changing facial expressions, nods or shakes of the head, and occasional charade-like actions.Hello, : Most people don't even know their default names.The Hero Dies: The game follows their whole life, and it ends with them dying in their sleep.Farm Boy/Girl: Brought in from the city to become one.We don't know what they were doing before, but the game starts with them taking over their dad's farm. Anime Hair: Mark has perpetually spiky hair.Though at the very least, the male main character's outfit looks universally practical. An old man or woman running around in the clothes they wore as a teenager is. Age-Inappropriate Dress: Even when their face is wrinkled and their hair is gray, the main character's outfit never changes.A city mouse that was brought to the country. The player character's line is heartwarmingly painful.The protagonists of the games. Among the final cutscenes of the game, the player character's wife will talk about how many years have passed and they have both grown old, and how she doesn't feel as glamorous as she did back then.You won't have much direction over life choices in later chapters, and (s)he will occasionally lash out at you. Watching your child grow into an adult is bittersweet.And she spends most of her time drinking herself into a stupor at the bar. And Nami runs out of money and has to leave the valley and return to living with her deadbeat father, but there is a scene where the player can get her to return for the rest of the game. Celia becomes bitter and a man-hater, who seems to give Marlin hell on the farm. Muffy remains a single waitress and can be seen going to the beach at night, crying about not having found love, having lost her beauty over the years that might attract a man to her, and never having a child. No matter which girl the player chooses to marry, the others will end up miserable.It's possible to get a Non Standard Game Over by neglecting your farm sales in the second year, resulting in your spouse leaving you and taking your child, and Takakura calling you out.

It's just seeing the usual gruff and snarky Galen unable to muster up the energy for a conversation when you go to visit him that's truly heart wrenching.It's easy for the player to not even realize that Nina has died for a while. There's a new house near Vesta's farm, and talking to Galen only leads to silence and a very sad expression.

The player has just seen a very adorable cutscene of their character having gotten married, and a toddler to care for now, and then plays the game.
