So I decided to start my own file in DQ: Builders and even went as far as buying the game as well! There is just something that was scratching an itch in it and I've really grown attached to the sort of mixed JRPG-playground style of it all. I love that there are characters and a little story and a world to explore with hidden elements here and there. One of the biggest problems that I've been having with it though is that I'm completely stuck on Chapter 1. "But Bear! The game is so easy and it doesn't even take very long to get through!" Oh ho ho, my dear naive-yet-accurate reader, this is true for most. I am, however, not like most (in most likely a bad way).

You see, I have a propensity to get caught up in going completely and unnecessarily overboard on even the most simple of things. Where you all see a molehill, I see a mountain. No, literally, I was trying to make my first town a mountain. "But Bear! The starting area is not remotely like a mountain. It is completely flat, wtf?" True again, ever clever comic companion! But I see what I see and once I had the vision to build a mountainous, terraced town that straddled a flowing river in a ravine (my favorite sort of town, fyi), I just couldn't stop. No lack of materials, familiarity with the game, and not having the foggiest what I could even build to make my vision a reality was going to stop this forest creature!

Much to my surprise, the NPCs of my quaint, budding, diminutive mountain hamlet were quite creative in how to adapt to my extreme changes. For instance, I built a cafe overlooking the ravine that was supposed to be a sweet romantic spot. Much to my surprise, the villagers wouldn't use it. After pondering on it for a while, I found that the reason they didn't was because the entrance was built as a tiny spiral where NPCs would need to go slightly past and under the cafe before they could ascend the stairs to it. Oh NPCs...why weren't you programmed to love (my city)?