Before I start, hands up anyone who is sick and tired of hearing about my 3DS hardware troubles. One, two, three… four hundred thousand people. Okay fine, I’ll just whine to myself. ZOMG Self, you won’t believe what the 3DS is doing this time! I worked around the circle pad issue, the Y button seems to have unstuck itself, but now Rune Factory 4 is freezing every five minutes. It wasn’t doing this before, it just started the day before yesterday and now I can barely make any progress at all!
Most recently I woke up, watered some plants, went to the general store to buy seeds and it froze. The time before I’d caught some good fish and was heading home to cook them when it froze. Before that, Forte and Frey had extensively explored the Water Ruins and had just warped out to save when bzzt, you guessed it, another freeze. That was particularly painful because I found Cooking Bread in a chest on that run through and when I loaded the next time there was just junk in the chest š So sad.
Actually… come to think of it… I haven’t had freezing problems with any other games, and I was playing Stella Glow and 7th Dragon III just a few days ago. Could it be a Rune Factory 4 thing? Brb, Googling…
Ugh… It is a Rune Factory 4 thing. The 3DS is innocent, for once. But from my googling it seems most people only suffer from the occasional freeze. Mine freezes really really often. I can barely get through a game day normally. I thought the SD card might be on the fritz, but after testing it with both Windows and a testing app, it seems to be just fine. What am I supposed to do? :-<
Well… I’ll figure something out. I really really want to play this game. For now, a progress report. Frey is level 11, got her revenge on the butterfly boss in Yokmir Forest and has been plying Arthur with turnips every morning because the way to a man’s heart is through his love for veggies. I was planning to get Doug at first, but I realized I don’t like his smile (am I petty or what?) so Arthur it is. TBH I’m regretting playing as a girl a little bit because the girls are so much better than the guys. Forte, Margaret, Xiao Pai, Lumie, Amber… The guy list is just… who’s on it again?
Also I recently bought a refrigerator, a cooking table, a knife set and a chemistry set. My room looks like a disaster zone, or something from Shepherd’s Crossing. I need a bigger room. My progress is being blocked by a lack of Cooking Bread so I can’t learn recipes as fast as I want to. I bought bread the other day and I couldn’t even eat it because it was too advanced for me, what gives? Luckily enough it seems I can skip the Porcoline racket and get all my recipes from an online FAQ. Ha! Take that! My current goal is to save up for a forge and a crafting set and update my equips before taking on the boss of the Water Ruins with Forte.
There doesn’t seem to be much of a story beyond “You have amnesia, therefore you must develop our town.” I can’t even remember how the former led to the latter, but somehow Frey is the Chosen One so that’s how it goes. I’m not too hung up on stories in RPGs these days anyway. It’s fine if they just get out of the way and let me get on with it. After all, I already know how all Rune Factory games go. You kill all the bosses in all the dungeons then you kill their boss when he comes to complain and then you win the game. Now if only the game would stop freezing so I could actually do all that stuff.
I’ll google around a bit more for a possible solution. If that fails, I should be able to play Legend of Legacy now that the Y button is behaving. Fingers crossed!
>>TBH Iām regretting playing as a girl a little bit because the girls are so much better than the guys.<<
The dilemma of the game not allowing same sex dating ;P
Ha.