My recent obsession on the DS has been Harvest Moon or Cooking Mama. Two very different games but both equally as frustrating, and both kind of about food.
I started playing Harvest Moon during for H at Pax. Between him waiting in line to play the new Halo maps and connecting to random people to Mario Kart while laying on the giant sumo bags – I had about 6 hours to kill. 6 hours was enough of doing nothing on a semi sunny day – PAX is spent all in doors, and most of it is in the dark. So I called it quits, saved the game and stopped playing. I picked up the game a few days later and found out that I didn’t save the game properly!! Does anyone understand how annoying that is? That’s almost 3 different fields cleared and tilled, 8 different crops planted, picked and shipped AND having to go through the entire 15 minute introduction that you can’t skip!
After this catastrophe, I decided to pick up a less frustrating game – Cooking Mama. “TERRIFIC EVEN BETTER THAN MAMA” is the comment you want to get. Does anyone also understand that this is not such an easy task. Virtually making pizza, corn chowder, mama cookies, grilled eel or peanut butter is a lot harder than you would think. My achilles heel on this game turned out to be t-bone steak. After what seemed to be hours and hours on end, I could only get the silver medal in T-bone steak. GOLD IS WHAT I WANT! GOLD IN T-BONE STEAK!!! Frustration and me almost breaking the touch pad I forgot which task – I also kept burning my hands unpeeling potatos, lead to H helping me out -but of course he’s a real chef – Cooking Mama shouldn’t have been a problem. And it wasn’t – after 1 try, t-bone steak SUCCESS! – the GOLD WAS WON!!!
Yays, I wins, but not really. I think I have about a zillion more hours to go before I actually get anywhere in Harvest Moon – apparently I’m suppose to be able to raise animals, get Roman married and train Stan to win competitions. And I also need to win the gold in t-bone steak all by myself!!! A rematch is in the works – I just need to practice more.
Stuff like this is why I like you so much