Oh I have one.
Rune Factory Frontier. THE perfect Harvest moon game. I fell in love with it. And then...IT WAS RUINED BY THE STUPID RUNEY SYSTEM.
See, in harvest moon type games, you are trying to cram in as much as possible into each day, and RFF had tons to do (grow crops, meet townspeople, forge stuff, and clear dungeons). And then they throw in this stupid mechanic where you need to babysit the population of little magical sprites and keep their food chain going, or your farm will DIE. This was bad for several reasons.
1) We already had enough to do, this is one MORE task to do, and it's pretty much mandatory. And it's BORING.
2) It takes too long. You need to run to the clock tower to use the runey map (ONLY available there, or if you find the runey girl around town), take notes on what the populations in each area are, decide how many you need to remove/add from each place, then go and do it.
3) The tool you need to use sucks. It's this crappy little vacuum that only sucks up runeys near you, including ones you might not want to suck up (like, say you want to only remove gras runeys from an area. You'll probably pick up a few other ones instead). That and the animation is too slow and long, wasting even more time.
So that wastes a good chunk of time that I would rather spend on slaying monsters or wooing village girls! It ruined an otherwise perfect game for me.
