Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Friendship and Romance Guide

This guide goes over everything you need to know about befriending and romancing characters in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, including the remake's reworked way of handling friendship levels.

How to Become Friends With Characters

A lot of what you've come to expect with Story of Seasons and other farming sims in regards to friendship is still the same here. You can talk to characters and give them gifts to increase your friendship level with them. Grand Bazaar also includes the "Greet" function (ZL/LT on controller), giving a smaller friendship gain than talking directly without requiring you to stop for each NPC.

You have a few other ways of essentially passively increasing friendship too. Participating in events will net you friendship points with all characters (assuming you place in the top 3), along with selling items to them at the bazaar. Because of this, gifts aren't overly necessary to max friendship — for our first year, we reached 7 hearts (out of 10) with most characters.

Requests

In Grand Bazaar, you can't just max out each character from the get go. At specific heart levels (different between romanceable and non-romanceable characters), you'll be locked out of increasing this value any further. This is represented by a locked heart icon whenever you perform an action that would normally increase friendship.

What you need to do to unlock this can be seen in the Resident Info tab, where you'd usually see the hearts for each character. On a locked character, it'll instead say either "Has a favor to ask!" or "Something special might happen!"

For "Has a favor to ask!" this means that the character will give you a request, shown by a blue marker next to their portrait on the map. Meanwhile, "Something special might happen!" is exclusive to romanceable characters and indicates that an event will happen. These events are shown with a pink marker on the map.

Romance and Marriage

After reaching 6 hearts with a romanceable character, their next event will be where you can choose whether to date them or just stay as friends. If you choose not to date them, then there is no way to reverse this decision. However, as with many other games in the franchise you can date multiple characters at the same time with no penalty.

Before reaching 8 hearts with a character you want to marry, you'll want to head to Wilbur's stall in the bazaar on Saturdays. He sells the double bed, one of two requirements for marriage.

The second requirement is to reach 8 hearts with a character you're dating. This will trigger a cutscene on the next day that nets you the Blue Feather, which can be gifted to characters at 8 hearts or higher (assuming you picked the romantic option at 6 hearts of course.)

Choosing to marry doesn't change much about the overall gameplay loop. The character you marry will move into your house, though outside of a few lines of dialogue little else changes. 

Character Requests

Any requests that require you to do "X amount of a thing" are not retroactive, though you can stockpile items for hand in requests. Later requests also require you to have items of a certain star level or higher, so make sure to level up the Harvest Sprites as you play.

Jules

Requests

1 Heart — Rise and Shine. Requires 1 Herb Salad, 1 Herb Soup

3 Hearts — Lost Memento. Find the lost item. It's behind Gabriel's House (rightmost house in town)

5 Hearts — Deliver 1 of any rare crop.

Derek

Requests

1 Heart — Fragrance for the Cafe. Deliver 3 Herbal Perfume.

3 Hearts — Chill-Out Juice. Deliver 5 1 Star Juices.

5 Hearts — Medal Collectors Unite. Deliver 20 Medals.

Lloyd

Requests

1 Heart (part of the story) — Mining Practice. Deliver 2 Iron, 20 Stone.

3 Hearts — Where in the Wool...? Deliver 5 Wool.

5 Hearts — Hooked on History. Deliver 1 Ancient Fish Fossil.

Gabriel

Requests

1 Heart — Inspiration Needed! Give 1 of Any Perfume.

3 Hearts — In Need of a Sugar Boost. Deliver 5 1 Star Fruit.

5 Hearts — Where Could It Be? Deliver lost item (head left from the statue in the center of the bazaar, then look behind the large tree next to the stairs)

Samir

Requests

1 Heart — Cat-aloging. Find the cat hiding behind the hotel.

3 Hearts — Real-Life Grasshopper. Deliver 10 Grasshoppers.

5 Hearts — The Gift of Gratitude. Deliver 5 3 Star Eggs.

Arata

Requests

1 Heart — Teach a Man to Fish. Catch 10 things while fishing (trash counts towards this.)

3 Hearts — Howling Hunger. Deliver 3 1 Star Poached Eggs.

5 Hearts — The Big One. Deliver 1 of Any Guardian Fish.

Sophie

Requests

1 Heart (part of story) — Sickle Practice. Deliver 20 Weeds.

3 Hearts — Some Herbs, Please? Deliver 20 Herbs.

5 Hearts — In a Pickle! Deliver 1 of Any 3 Star Pickled Food.

June

Requests

1 Heart — Nothing Major. Find the lost item near the yellow windmill.

3 Hearts — Request for Patch Supplies. Deliver 3 Yarn.

5 Hearts — Finding Calm. Deliever 1 3 Star Tea.

Freya

Requests

1 Heart — Bringing the Café Home. Deliver Warm Milk.

3 Hearts — Count on Coach. Deliver 1 of Any 1 Star Main Dish.

 

Maple

Requests

1 Heart — Flowering Beauty. Deliver 10 Flowers (only counts flowers that you grow)

3 Hearts — Well-Used Watering Can. Use your Watering Can 30 times.

5 Hearts — Motivational Snacks. Deliver 1 of Any 3 Star Dessert.

Kagetsu

Requests

1 Heart — Searching for What's Lost. Find the lost item in the mountains (top left, behind the tree north of the flat wooden bridge.)

3 Hearts — Curiosity About Cooking. Deliver 5 of Any 1 Star Side Dishes.

 

Diana

Requests

1 Heart — Board Report. Collect 10 of Any Animal Products (i.e. milk, eggs, wool.)

3 Hearts — First-Class Curry. Deliver 1 of a 2 Star Potato, Carrot, Onion.

5 Hearts — Feed a Fever. Deliver 1 3 Star Egg Drop Soup.

Felix

Requests

2 Hearts — Operation Present. Give 10 Presents.

4 Hearts — Where'd It Go? Find the lost item (east side of the bazaar near the tables.)

Erik

Requests

2 Hearts — A Superb Surprise. Deliver 10 Crops.

4 Hearts — Flowering Designs. Deliver 10 Dyes.

Stuart

Requests

2 Hearts — Construction Logjam. Deliver 5 Stone, 5 Lumber. 

4 Hearts — What a Sweetie. Deliver 5 Fruits from trees.

Sonia

Requests

2 Hearts — Reeling in a Meal. Deliver 3 Large Fish.

4 Hearts — Rumored Rarities. Deliver 1 Rare Crop.

Madeleine

Requests

2 Hearts — Sharpen Those Skills. Make 10 Meals.

4 Hearts — Famed Foodie. Deliver 5 2 Star Mushrooms.

Mina

Requests

2 Hearts — Secret Ingredient. Deliver 5 1 Star Mayonnaise.

4 Hearts — Pantry Patron. Deliver 5 2 Star Miso, 5 2 Star Butter, 5 2 Star Honey.

Wilbur

Requests

2 Hearts (part of story) — Practice Fishing. Deliver 3 Small Fish.

4 Hearts — Feeling Beat? Take a Bath! Take 5 baths.

Clara

Requests

2 Hearts — Clara's Calamity. Deliver 10 Pickled Foods.

4 Hearts — Heartening Mushrooms. Deliver 5 1 Star Shiitake Mushroom, 5 1 Star Shimeji Mushroom.

Kevin

Requests

2 Hearts — The "Cool Factor" of Bugs. Catch 10 bugs or critters.

4 Hearts — Insect Instruction for Beginners. Deliver 15 1 Star Common Bugs.

Isaac

Requests

Unlike the others, Isaac's requests are seemingly not tied to heart values.

Spring 6 — Windmill Materials. Deliver 10 Rock, 10 Wood.

Town Bazaar Rank — Seen Anything Lying Around? Find the lost item in the bazaar.

City Bazaar Rank — Working Windmills. Craft items at windmills 100 times.

Regional Bazaar Rank — Accessory to Love. Deliver 5 4 Star Gemstones.

Nadine

Requests

2 Hearts — Bottled Nuts Wanted. Deliver 30 Bottled Nuts.

4 Hearts — Tempura Temptations. Deliver 5 2 Star Shiitake Mushroom/Pumpkin/Eggplant/Sweet Potato/Icefish/Pond Smelt.

Sylvia

Requests

2 Hearts — Better, Bigger, Buggier. Deliver 5 Ladybugs.

4 Hearts — Communal Living. Raise an animal's happiness level 3 times.

Laurie

Requests

2 Hearts — Thank-You Flowers. Deliver 1 Bouquet. 

4 Hearts — Fluffy Friends. Raise an animal's happiness level 3 times.

Harold

Requests

2 Hearts — Misplaced Pen. Find the lost item in the mountains (North side of the map, head east from the overlook)

4 Hearts — Tea Service. Deliver 1 1 Star Tea Tin.

Sherene

Requests

2 Hearts — Food for Shams. Deliver 5 Pet Food.

 

Miguel

Requests

2 Hearts — Rival Material? Not Yet! Earn 30,000G at the bazaar.

4 Hearts — Flaws are Forbidden! Deliver 1 2 Star Sturdy Stone, 1 2 Star Sturdy Lumber, 1 2 Star Silver.