
Hello, my name is Amber and I'm a Rune Factory-aholic.
It has been quite a long time since I marathoned a game. I'm still recovering from it actually, It being my weekend Rune Factory Frontier binge that saw me planting digital crops into the wee hours of the morning. I've stated before that I've never seriously played a Harvest Moon game, having recently cut my genre teeth on Rune Factory 2. Not only is Frontier a fresh experience compared to Rune Factory 2, it blows that game out of the water. I can enthusiastically confirm that combining a Zelda-esque adventure with Pokemon like collecting and wrapping it around a lite social sim with a side of farming and resource management equals one addicting experience.
I love this opening theme.
A major component of the appeal here is being given a nearly overwhelming number of things to do, and having to deal with the subtle strategy of fitting it all into your time limited day. I've played into the end of Autumn and thus far the game has proven to be incredibly robust, with numerous goals that don't involve endless fetch questing. Whatever Frontier is doing, it's doing it right because I'm hooked. My only major complaint is how much sleep this game has stolen from me.
Now if you'll excuse me, crops need watering, weapons need crafting, food needs cooking, monsters need taming, and dungeons need conquering. You may not see me for a while.
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