Maybe I’m just impatient

Really enjoyed this game but feel like I didn’t play it as intended…I invested so much time into the cave combat and just like skipped over befriending people…by the time I realized I was cooking myself by not talking to the townsfolk and giving gifts and doing stuff I was no longer interested….i still think it’s a great game and man I loved harvest moon as a kid (even though I did not understand that game either). I should probably go back and give it another go…maybe this time with a wiki or some mods or something