Technical Inadvisory: How can you tell how much fun a video game is?

If you scream with joy/anguish when you win/lose the game, it’s probably a hyper-stressful game. — AFP Relaxnews

It’s 7am as I write this, and the 24-hour convenience store won’t open until 9am. (Look, opening times have gotten weird since the coronavirus.) This means I have two hours to burn until I can head out and get my breakfast.

Fortunately, I have the perfect thing to keep me occupied during that time: Rune Factory 4, a video game about managing a farm while befriending/marrying anime characters in an idyllic small town, and also a video game about fighting monsters in sprawling dungeons like a proper JRPG adventurer.