What makes Rune Factory’s fishing a little more complex is that multiple fish can make my lure bob, making it a good test of my reflexes and patience. The trick is to not fall for any false or tentative bites. Like Animal Crossing, you throw your line into the water and wait for the lure to fully submerge. One of my other favorite activities is fishing, which is simple yet rewarding. It’s a whole new world for everyone’s tastebuds. My townsfolk must be sick of eating my handmade onigiri, but the good news is that I just learned how to make sushi. Since then, I’ve been cooking up a storm - it’s just a matter of picking ingredients from a menu. But the event brought more tourists to my town, which helps the local economy and moves along my general unlock path. So, yeah, I lost the competition to a grandma. Assuming, of course, you’ve grown, bought, or prepared the right ingredients. Beyond having a cooking license, which you purchase with prince points you need to buy the right cooking tools and have cooked enough simple things to gain higher cooking levels. At this point in the game, I didn’t know how to make anything particularly complex. Beyond that, I have no idea what the criteria for winning was. The first order I put in was for my burg to hold a cooking festival, which is judged by a character in the game. The beginning of the game is a little slow-going as Rune Factory explains how to do basic things, like farming or mining, but once it gets going, you have an endless number of things to do. You get “prince points” by completing highly important requests from the townsfolk, such as fishing a mackerel or harvesting a potato. But, as luck would have it, you happen to stumble into the friendliest little town ever, and its reigning prince is more than happy to trade places with you so he can conduct some important business.īeing a prince means you can order the community to do things, provided you have enough points to do so. There’s a talking dragon who flirts with you and everything. You’ll find the usual JRPG trappings here you’re a hero of mysterious origin who has somehow lost your identity. The RPG captures the chill vibe of games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, while also providing the option of more action if I want it - so, kind of like Fantasy Life, but way more anime. Rune Factory 4 Special, a remaster of the 2012 slice-of-life 3DS game, has come to my aid.

On social media, many are pleading for Nintendo to release the social life sim early, but what are the chances that a famously rigid company would do something like that? Instead, I’ve had to find other ways to keep myself entertained, at least when it comes to video games. Animal Crossing: New Horizons may be mere days away, but some folks are running out of patience.

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