Harvest Moon: Light of Hope A 20th Anniversary Celebration Guide Meet Your Neighbors

Increasing Affection

Every villager in Beacon Town has an affection meter consisting of five Musical Notes worth 200 Affection Points each. Affection increases when you complete requests, gift items, participate in contests and festivals, and interact with villagers in personal friendship & romance events. Of these, completing requests and gifting characters their favorite gifts on their birthdays offer the biggest boosts to affection.

Raising Affection

Category	Reaction/Comments	Affection Points
Talking	Speaking with villagers	+2
Gift Giving	I hate it	+0
Gift Giving	I dislike it	+1
Gift Giving	Neutral	+5
Gift Giving	I like it	+7
Gift Giving	I love it	+10
Dialogue Event	Normal reaction	+10
Dialogue Event	Best response	+50
Dating	Festivals/holidays	+30
Dating	Marriage proposal	+50
Family	Wedding anniversary	+30
Family	Give milk to child	+5
Family	Shake Rattle for child	+3
Family	Read Picture Book to child	+4

Friendship Events

Among the villagers are six bachelors and six bachelorettes. These characters have special friendship-building cutscenes that coincide with each affection milestone. Many of these contain a choice of responses that can gain you bonus affection. The rules governing friendship events are as follows.

Event	Musical Notes	Style	Gender	Notes
0	0	Introduction	Any	Part of the main story.
1	1	Friendship	Any	Can be triggered after marriage.
2	2	Friendship	Any	Can be triggered after marriage.
3	3	Romance	Opposite sex only	Cannot be triggered if married.
4	4	Romance	Opposite sex only	Cannot be triggered if married.
5	5	Proposal	Opposite sex only	Leads to marriage.

Since these events have the potential to lead to marriage, we only detail the first two instances of these events for each character so as not to spoil the joy of falling in love. The first two friendship events can be experienced with each bachelor and bachelorette, regardless of sex, and can take place once married. An early introduction event with each character takes place upon their arrival to the island, but that doesn’t count toward affection.