Ushi No Tane Forum

I feel like in the newer games you have to jump through so many hoops to get items/abilities that used to be ready for you when you started your file in the older games.
Now, I'm not complaining about things being too hard and I'm not saying that I want them to spoon feed me everything, but let me throw an example. Let's take an axe. In the older games, a la FoMT, MM, etc, the axe was readily available to you. In new games, you have to jump through so many obstacles and days just to get an axe. Like really? I know the developers want to extend the game's life and re-playability, but when finding an axe takes up a good chunk of your time, the game just starts to drag on. It doesn't just stop at the axe though, other things that used to be readily available to you so you can quickly get to farming, which is, you know, the whole point of the series, takes weeks sometimes seasons of work just to get. We have to wait weeks, sometimes seasons for the animal store to move in, we have to wait years till we get more selection of crops, we have to wait even longer to get simple stuff that made HM fun. I'm not going to play three years just to get yam seeds that used to be available right off the bat. I can understand new features, such as the salon in ANB, or special candidates taking a while to move in, but when I can't even farm anymore without doing tedious work before I even start planning my farm, the game just gets boring. I think that's why I don't like the newer games, and why I'm finding the series so boring now. I miss the old games where I can pick up my axe, clear my field, plant crops, make money, get a cow, a sheep, get married, have a kid, develop my farm more, make tons of gold, then put the game down and come back to play and not be confused as to where I left off. Now it's just playing the waiting game, and I'm constantly trucking through days, weeks, and seasons trying to get simple items/characters/abilities that really don't need all that time wasted. I play HM for farming and a bit for the characters, but when both take forever to obtain, I lose interest and just find myself playing the older games so i can get my farming fix. That's just my opinion, maybe I'm just older now.

Other shout-outs: Rival marriages, those were awesome. Seeds, it's 9x9 people, let's not over complicate it. Mining, that used to be fun, but lately they have just gotten lazier and lazier with it. What the heck was up with the mines in ANB? Yeah...that's it.

....That was a bit longer than expect but oh well.