10 Brutal Video Game Punishments For Breaking The Law
4. A Woman Scorned - Rune Factory Frontier (2008)
The Harvest Moon series has, peculiarly, always been as much of a dating simulator as it has a farming one, with the option to court and/or marry any one of the potential love interests scattered across town. Its spin-off, Rune Factory, features this just as prominently, and in 2008's Rune Factory Frontier, the stakes of these mechanics are raised in quite an intense way.
It's difficult enough to choose between the various partners in the game, and even after finding a wife, the *absolute players* amongst you may suffer from a case of the wandering gaze.
As such, you may then choose to go on a date with another of these ladies (who are all madly interested in you by default, because of course they are), behind your wife's back. Inevitably, the Mrs. shows up to see you being unfaithful, and proceeds to lay the smackdown on you in the most literal way.
The encounter will leave you will 1 HP, and 0 Rune Points, effectively robbing you of any chance of productivity for that whole day's cycle. And while cheating isn't exactly a 'crime', it should definitely leave you feeling like a bit of a scumbag - a battered one at that.