IвЂ™m all about owning up to my mistakes in real life, but IвЂ™m starting to accept that I can do that in games, too. IвЂ™m starting to come around to the idea that save scumming might otherwise alter that experience. ItвЂ™s uncomfortable to make many of these choices, and thatвЂ™s the point. The big, scary decisions may not actually matter all too much. ThatвЂ™s part of the appeal and the challenge what seems like a small decision might actually make a huge difference weeks later. If this were any other game, I might have done it - but Yes, Your Grace is a slow, repetitious game. The only option is reckoning with my mistakes. I would have to replay so much of Yes, Your Grace - too much to fix my mistakes. IвЂ™ve done so much since I agreed to the partnership. The only problem is that saves seem to be automatic, at the end of each week. My first instinct was to roll back to an old save. The son (now the new king) withdraws his soldiers and takes my daughter back to his castle. The wedding goes off without a hitch - until my new ally gets poisoned and dies. I pick her a large, poofy dress that she hates. I made the decision and weeks pass as I prepare both for battle and my daughterвЂ™s wedding. I make the decision that, to save my daughter, I must have her marry this other kingвЂ™s son. My most promising ally can give me 3,000 soldiers, but he wants my daughter to marry his son. TheyвЂ™re going to declare war, and now I need allies. Bad guys are coming to take said daughter, thanks to a curse that was prophesied earlier in my life. My eldest daughter is worried IвЂ™ll marry her off to the first ally that comes along. I quickly became overwhelmed as the problems started piling up. Needless to say, there are a lot of things to manage. Oh yes, and then thereвЂ™s your familyвЂ™s needs - I love my precious daughters, but, holy moly, are they needy!

But youвЂ™ve also got to balance the needs of the kingdomвЂ™s people, make allies, and prepare for battle. The gameвЂ™s story unwinds in weekly cycles, and I can progress to the next week as long as I donвЂ™t run out of gold or provisions. Developed by Brave At Night, Yes, Your Grace is a kingdom management role-playing game where I play as a struggling king with a wife and three daughters. I often feel shameful about the practice, yet itвЂ™s never deterred me - until I began playing Yes, Your Grace. Lose your best crew member in XCOM 2? Just go back to an old save! Someone steal your beloved horse? No worries! An old save can fix that. Sometimes, it means saving a bit more than usual - or after something particularly good that happens - so that youвЂ™ve got a good place to start back up. Save scumming is the act of reverting back to previous saves to prevent bad things from happening. (They didnвЂ™t.) I restarted the game at my last save before The Incident, told my family to never speak of this again, and vowed never to help strangers in Red Dead Redemption 2. I shouted at my family to close their eyes. This guy had just stolen my horse, a horse I petted and fed carrots - a horse I loved. I started running, thought it was pointless. Immediately, the stranger jumped on my horse.

I jumped off my horse and approached the stranger. I was riding along a trail on my horse - beloved, but not nearly as iconic as Hayseed - when a stranger called out for help. It was a weekend, either before or after Thanksgiving, and I was playing on my parentsвЂ™ television, my sisters and mom watching my cowboy journey. I was playing Red Dead Redemption 2 a few months after it was released in 2018.

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