Rune Factory?

[fairysyndrome]

just wondering if anyone's played a rf game! i know the series is pretty niche, but rune factory 4 got really popular in north america after release and was never released in europe, sorry europeans and i'm pretty sure i saw a user with a barrett from rune factory 2 icon somewhere on here.

for people who don't know rune factory it's the sister series to the farming simulator series harvest moon and it's basically farming and fighting monsters. and it is a hella series and i promise it is more complex than the basics of farming and fighting. o u o

 

[unravel]

Barrett looks different </3
omg I dunno when to buy RF 4

 

[fairysyndrome]

omg yeah he does although that's because of the time difference between rune factory 2 and rune factory 4 although raven looks exactly the same as she did in rf3 tfw
if you get the chance you should buy it though rf4 was amazing

 

[Nerd House]

Been on the fence about buying Rune Factory 4. Can you go into a bit more detail about the game to help me decide if I'm buying it or not?

 

[blackroserandom]

Oh I do. I love them. Rune Factory 4 really hit all the right spots. Still holds my attention since I got it near release day. Only thing was, when I told a potential husband I loved him...he thought I was joking for a month straight (in game). That was frustrating but I finally got him to date me. Now if only he would propose >_<

 

[unravel]

Been on the fence about buying Rune Factory 4. Can you go into a bit more detail about the game to help me decide if I'm buying it or not?

Well you should it's like Harvest Moon with fighting shiz. Adol, my friend, you should get RF 4 it's really worth it I played Rune Factory 1-3 and Frontier (Farobi's Wii).

 

[fairysyndrome]

Been on the fence about buying Rune Factory 4. Can you go into a bit more detail about the game to help me decide if I'm buying it or not?

have you ever played any other rune factory games? the mechanics are really similar to rune factory 3. if not, let's see...

basically it follows either lest or frey (depending on whether you choose to play as a male or female) who falls out of the sky and onto a dragon who mistakes them for a prince/princess and then the real prince shows up and then asks lest/frey to handle the Official Royalty Business for him anyway. there are also monsters that, after defeating them, turn into humans.

basically it's freeform combat, not turnbased, you farm things because it's a sister to harvest moon, and you can woo and date people if they take you seriously. i can probably find something more detailed for you omg i'm not good at explaining things past "you should play this because it's hella" i'm sorry

 

[Isabelle for president!]

RF4 is a role-playing, dating sim and dungeon crawler in 1 game. You own a small farm at the beginning. Besides of raising regular crops you can raise trees, gigantic vegetables, weapon plants or even dungeons. You can catch monsters some can produce wool, eggs, milk, honey etc. You can also catch most of bosses if you like. You can take them with you to dungeons (and townfolks too (even your child, lol), but you need to befriend them a little) or tell them to work on your farm. You use farm products and monster drops for cooking, forging, pharmacy, requests. You can give them as a gifts for townsfolk and monsters. Additionally, you use prince points system to arrange/cancel festivals, bring in merchants/peddlers, crafting licenses, farm and castle expansions and new shop-services in order to attract tourists blah, blah, blah. You'll raise by doing literally everything- fishing, logging, walking, sleeping etc. Oh, and later you can sell your goods at your own shop. The world is a way larger than in any other rf game (ds console). Marriage is independent from the plot. Lovers system with sub-events for each marriage candidate. Many, many town events and great, memorable cast<3.
There is more, but I don't want to go into details.

 

[debinoresu]

I played the first and 2nd one. I really liked- who was it-dorothy? a super duper lot & she was my bae, also I like prepared myself for the final boss WAY too much and killed it in like 2 seconds. I had saved right before the boss and like id replay and beat it over and over when I was bored

I get really nervous in fighting games tho so idk if id prefer hm or rf, like the ****ing mines in HMDS scared me with the little bugs I could barely handle the fighting in RF at first lmfao

 

[Hot]

I have all of the RF games that came out before RF4. I bought my first game to use as an alternative for Harvest Moon because there were no official games for PS3, but y'know. I guess I just got too into it and bought 'em.

 

[Volvagia]

i love rune factory 4 omg
it's such a cute game and there's loads to do

 

[Libra]

Not out in Europe, which is too bad because I actually think I'd like this. I was considering Harvest Moon, but I think Rune Factory would hold my interest for a longer period of time. (So now I'm instead hoping for an European release of Disney Magical World, LOL.)

 

[mogyay]

Seeing this thread brought such a tear to my eye. I love rune factory so much, the series is just perfection. I was so upset when I found out it wasn't getting released here. If you're feeling too old for harvest moon (not that you should) it's a great alternative!

Ugh so mad I hate living in Europe.

 

[Nerd House]

Nah, I have not played any previous Rune Factory titles, but the descriptions in this thread have piqued my interested. It may be the next game I buy (before Super Smash Bros)

 

[kite]

I enjoyed the game even though I haven't played it in a while.
I wanted to have a New Game+ for my sword with 1000+ ATK, but the farming tasks were kind of a hassle for me to finish lol.

 

[RainbowNotes]

Rune Factory 4 is one of my favorite games out of any! Though I haven't fully completed it yet, once you get to the last bits it gets pretty ridiculous. In my furthest I have a weapon with 2000+ATK and I still die quite frequently.

 

[KarlaKGB]

So dumb that they won't release RF4 in Europe when it's already been translated into English. So what if it's not translated into the other European languages.

 

[kite]

Rune Factory 4 is one of my favorite games out of any! Though I haven't fully completed it yet, once you get to the last bits it gets pretty ridiculous. In my furthest I have a weapon with 2000+ATK and I still die quite frequently.

Seriously! Rune Prana was so difficult to finish. I don't even want to go through the other optional dungeons.

 

[xCryCry]

i used to absolutely adore the Harvest Moon series and i thought it was amazing, but when RF came out, i was hooked like crazy. not only did it have everything HM did, but it did it like 100x better.

only played RF3, Frontier, and just recently RF4 (bought it like 2 weeks ago actually :3) and they're some of the most fun games ever. Rune Factory 4 is pure amazingness.

i'm still a noobie at it since i can't even date the girl i want to date for some reason (Dolce whyyyy? T__T) and i'm pretty weak despite the fact i'm on the third arc already surprisingly enough, but i'm still having so much fun with it. every day i generally farm for 3-4 hours (in-game time), do random stuff like talk and make everyone in town love me more, and then go fight stuff to continue the story. still waiting on the 3rd arc to start tho and it's taking forever zzzzzz.

but yeah on the 3DS, it's definitely one of my favorite games and even though i've had it for a week or so, it's like the greatest thing ever. if someone doesn't have the game or has trouble deciding whether to get it or not, i'd just say you're missing out on one of the best 3DS titles imo. really, it's so amazing ~

 

[Aizu]

No Europe release *cries* but I really enjoyed Rune Factory 3