Thanks for the giveaway, here is a picture of a traditional New Zealand dessert, the pavlova.

Thanks for that giveaway. +1

On the picture some very good home-made cookies.

Thanks for the chance!

Recently played on GOG: Time Gentlemen, Please! is a good adventure game inspired by the old Lucasarts classics, especially Day of the Tentacle. The graphics may be simple, but the gameplay is pretty challenging and requires old school adventure gaming logic to puzzle through. I'd say it's a worthy spiritual successor and definitely worth taking the couple hours or so to play.

Thanks for the giveaway.

Anyway I've pretty much just been playing Rune Factory 4.

RF3 pretty much nailed the mix of Harvest Moon and RPG elements. Admittedly I didn't play any of the earlier ones before hand besides Frontier, but I generally hear their execution was pretty flawed (particularly the Runey system in Frontier which completely ruins the game for most people). While RF3 smoothed pretty much everything out with improved combat and implementing a bunch of conveniences.

RF4's pretty much more of the same, which isn't a bad thing at all. A lot of the improvements or new features are small things IIRC, like being able to pick the mc's gender, separating out friendship and romance events for the marriage candidates, new event system, running a store counter, upgrading the town and unlocking stuff by royal orders, etc.. Haven't really played enough to see a lot of these though.

Also, there seems to be a lot more content than 3 and a bigger world to explore. Like I hear there's three arcs this time, and in just the first arc (which I think I still have a dungeon or two to go) so far there's probably about as much dungeon crawling in just the first arc as there is in the entirety of 3. And I like the plot a tad better

Main complaint is the cast is a bit blander than 3, but that's to be expected since 3's cast had so much quirkiness in one place that it risked opening an event horizon lol. Also trying to place furniture and getting it to line up properly is really frustrating. I hear the event system does get in the way a bit later on since you have to wait for random events to trigger for some things including the third arc, but I haven't gotten to that part yet.

Thanks everyone for the reviews and food pics, especially the food pics.

Congrats, you win! Silesian dumplings are the bee's knee. Also, latkes.

Glad to read about LS, thanks- you get a consolation prize! I'll PM you.

Congrats to the winners and thanks again cmdr_flashheart.

yay just noticed, had no reply notification popping up and thanks :)

^This. ;)

I second this! :)

More seconds here too!

Thank you very much :)

Congratulations to the winners from me as well ! Cmdr_flashheart also was very kind to host this brief giveaway and I also thank DeMignon for entering for me, as it´s the first time someone does that for me ! :-)

Woah, this looks awesome, I'd been craving lamb, actually. Thanks for sharing :]

edit: also, welcome everyone. Till next time!

Glad I could provide something you'll enjoy! ;-) Thanks again for the GA and congrats to Treasure!

+1 for the taste teasing giveaway cmdr_flashheart and congrats to the winners. :)