>>712530446
I haven't played any other Rune Factory games, so I don't know if being the village Chief is normal or not, but compared to the other farming games I have played, I like it and I've found it fun. However! It means you've got this very funny dynamic where your character is the one that's deciding when various festivals will happen and what they are. Instead of turning up at Spring 16 for the Tomato Festival or whatever, you're the one that puts it in the Callendar and tells everyone to attend.

But, because you're the player character, you don't recuse yourself. You schedule a harvest festival. Then you attend. And then you win. Feels insanely self indulgent, making everyone else turn up to this festival only to then put your vegetable (which, very possibly the villagers grew, not you) down and take the prize for yourself!

And it's even funnier when you think about just how ridiculously special the player character is compared to everyone else.

"Yeah, so I used the power of the Goddess of Summer to enrich these seeds to the highest potential, the blessing of the Goddess of Spring to grow them to perfection, and then the spirit of the God of Autumn to harvest them under the most ideal conditions, creating a vegetable like mankind has never seen before. Sorry the tomato you grew in your back garden after your part time job wasn't quite as good, Suzu. Better luck next time!"

I guess the cherry on top is the judge is either the player's wife, or someone that's deeply indebted to them.