The walkthrough
By blog on Apr. 14, 2009.
If you read this regularly, you will know that I have been playing Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon for the past few days. I have already discovered that this game diverges from regular Harvest Moon games as well as the first Rune Factory. The new art style alone stands out, let alone some of the new groovy game play features and the change in characters.
Something that often happens with these games is you find yourself wondering just how a certain thing can be done, where certain monsters may be acquired, or any other random game thingie. This leads one to consider looking at a walkthrough. I don’t actually like to use these, I mean why play a game if you are just going to be looking it up online all the time to find where to go next!? But Rune Factory is one of those games where you can feel lost or confused at times, or just don’t want to puddle around for the next half an hour looking for something… it can really entice you into using a walkthrough.
In preparing for this entry, I found a walkthrough to link to… I had a look at it for a little bit and I have already found something I hadn’t found before; granted I really should have found this previously. That little bit suckered me in and I also looked at another part of the walkthrough… which is my exact issue with the walkthrough.
I hate having the game spoiled for me, and walkthroughs invariably are full of spoilers; its the nature of the beast. Its sort of like reading an overly complex movie synopsis, it just tells you way too much, and I find that really frustrating. I don’t even read the blurb to books I am reading, I really don’t want to know anything! I want it all to be fresh and surprising! I think that is partly why I am enjoying Rune Factory 2 so much; as with the original, it diverges greatly from Harvest Moon, and Rune Factory 2 didn’t fail to deliver a very new experience either.
So why use a walkthrough and spoil that? Seriously, what is the point to playing fresh, innovative games if you are just going to use a walkthrough to find every Easter Egg, every secret area, every surprise bit of content? I do completely understand using a walkthrough if you are stuck, because that can be seriously angering at times, and turn you off the game, but apart from that, at least play the game all the way through once before seriously consulting a walkthrough. Okay?
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