What's Your Greatest Hurdle? Options

[Mizukithepanda]

Most of us here have played a Harvest Moon game at one point or another. A lot of us have even developed a play style either for a specific game or Harvest Moon games in general.

What I'd like to know is...

What is your greatest hurdle to overcome when playing a Harvest Moon game?

For me, it's the first season of the game, regardless of which game it is. The first Spring is the only part of the game where you have no money, no friends, and no livelihood (crops/animals). A lot of the time I find the first Spring to be hopelessly dull and uneventful and have a hard time motivating myself to go any further in the game. It's for this very reason that I'm only in my first Fall in Twin Villages despite having owned the game for nearly a year and a half, and why I haven't gotten beyond the first few days in Rune Factory Oceans. It's kind of a pain in the trumpet, since, once I actually get going and have a good rhythm in the game, I'll play it obsessively. It's just that first darn season that always gets me.

[Accidentally The...]

Huge issue for me is being THOROUGH.

I want to get all the dialogue scraped together I can, wring every last drop of experience I can out. I've got a huge backlog of games (HM and non-HM) due to that. And sometimes it gets tiresome and tedious to try for completion.

Also, trudging through to up my stamina, money, and rucksack space. ESPECIALLY in games where items don't stack... or at least, don't ALWAYS stack...