Annoyances and Pet Peeves..., Vent off what you don't like about this game. Options

[mijito]

finally got the game after waiting almost a year...

load the game up and noticed that the wii remote warning screen looks awfully stretched... still hoping there's some in-game menu option or something as this is usually a system-wide setting but no luck... can't believe a 2008 game doesn't have this.

that and the choppy framerate was a bitter surprise after playing RF frontier which was definitely something else (I know it's kind of an unfair comparison but still) named the farm "choppy" after this...

Technicalities apart... this one's so much better than ToT that one can't help thinking all of us who got ToT should be entitled to this one at reduced cost, a rebate or something (kinda like the Win7>Vista thing)

other minor and not so minor annoyances:

- harvest "god" was changed to "king" so it's now Religiously Correct (same as PC but aimed toward religious nuts, guess I can see them saying there is/can only be one god... let's sue marvelous and natsume a la rockstar) yet the goddess' still a goddess :P... why oh why...

- removed some alcohol stuff (like RFF but not as bad, though)...

- "cleaned up" dialogues... Luna doesn't sound like her anymore...

- some dialogue it's waaaay cornier now (yes, it's possible).

- livestock riding issues: when you get off an animal and enter the house, or the fugue forest (not sure about the mines) it automatically enters the barn leaving you stranded, then when you whistle, you get another animal, especially annoying when you get on the horse which is very fast... get off it and do whatever and when you whistle to get back on it... you're on a cow or sheep (just a bit faster than running by yourself)...

p.s.: fall 16th and 5 bells. so far so good.

[Loser]

- The fact that everybody seems to magically teleport to wherever they're going, instead of actually walking there. It just seems lazy. Like really, really, really lazy. I see no reason why they had them walking everywhere in ToT, but couldn't do it here. It makes the entire game feel so much less believable (yeah, I know, it's Harvest Moon, but still...)

- The whole "Harvest God" to "Harvest King" thing. Honestly, who in the world gives a darn? It's not that I really care or prefer it either way, I just don't understand it. And why, if it's such a big deal, is the Goddess still the Goddess? It makes no sense =P

- At first I loved how big and expansive the world was, but I started to hate it almost immediately when I realized how choppy and laggy the loading screens are. I got used to it eventually, but it really bothered me at first. That, and it takes forever to walk anywhere.

But I still like it more than ToT, and I played that forever. And oddly enough, I actually like Chase in this one. So far. I've only got him at five hearts, and I'll probably end up changing my mind if he gets too sappy, like in ToT.