>Finally play Rune Factory 4S>Expect to like Forte since Saber-like girls are always my jam>If not, then Margaret since hey, Elves are great>Rescue Dolce>Get to know Dolce>Turns out the Dolce-poster was right all alongHuh.
Now hang out with Amber and Xiao and you will find out they are the actual best girls since they are both super fucked up but you dont find out any of it unless you focus on them.
>>731056212I'd rather marry Xiao's mom.
>>731056212How do you "focus on them" exactly? Do you have to romance them to get their stories? It seems like I've only been getting character development for the the girl I'm dating.I like Xiao quite a lot so far, but mostly her story seems to be that her and her mother are both super clumsy/useless, but her mother has 10/10 luck so it doesn't matter, while Xiao has just normal luck so everything goes wrong. Which is pretty damn funny/sympathetic, but that's all I've seen.
>>731056053runefactory brosPC or DS versions? talking about parts 3 and 4
>>731056572I'm playing on Switch 2, it's comfy. Nice having it, Sakuna and GoA on the same system too.
>>731056053>dolce poster just got cucked oh no no
For me it's elves
but we can all agree that arthur is the best boy right?
>>731057963She is very cute, but the whole "We've got different lifespans and that worries me thing" is done better by Ulalaka. Makes it hard to go back to.>>731058610Literally all I've seen from him so far is an obsession with glasses.
>>731058610He really is.
Which way western man?
>>731059084Sexism
>>731059084That's the most random gender choice I've ever seen
ummm she's child coded tho
>>731058637>fags of azumathe only good thing about it is Ulalaka's design, they even said she was made to attract men lmao
>>731059084>>731059183i miss shit like this
>>731059084>have fear of heights>instantly transform into woman and be forced to marry a man
>>731059737You can change your character anon...
>>731059465Big tits attract both men and women, thus all future bachelorettes should have giant jugs.
>>731059787appearance only.Getting to do sleepovers with all the bachelorettes isn't so bad, though!
>>731059823Ma'am you're a 400 year old alcoholic stop dressing like you're 16.
>there are people who married Amber
>>731059414I miss when rune factory bachelorettes are child coded.
>>731059823I hate the new artstyle so much, anti-soul
>>731056458>Do you have to romance them to get their stories?Yes. Amber's story doesn't exist nor is ever hinted at until her marriage event, which is very jarring. Xiao Pai has overall the best plotline. It's incredibly heartwarming.
>>731056053Cinnamon at home
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>>731059939Mist is like the least childish of the main bachelorettes if you don't count Margaret.
>>731056212Xiao Pai will always be my girl. She's so much better than Lin Fa, it's not even funny.
>>731059730Same with the girls all just being extremely feminine. Like "This is an eating contest, everyone's hyped for it, but all the girls are worried about watching their weight and Nancy gives you various proverbs/warnings about how it's a sensitive topic for most of them."It's realistic, or maybe it's just realistic for how things used to be, but I definitely prefer dumb gender difference stuff like that to how in modern games you can't even mention a girl being fat without it being localised away.
>>731059823no! flatties are the trademark of the franchise
>>731060149I wish Rune Factory was a more explicit series
>>731060036WE WERE WROBBED
>>731059823Since when was Subaru that dark? I guess he's shadowed in the art, but it looks weird.>>731059989It looks good, all the designs in GoA were top notch. Except for Matusi because flesh fangs are stupid.
What are people's thoughts on the gameplay? The farming is good enough, but I feel like the combat could use some more depth and edge to it. At least it's better than Stardew Valley's combat I guess.
>>731059895I can fix her cunny.
>>731060189She is slim and has large anime eyes. That is pedo-coded to normalfags.
>>731059895She has a good character design and is clearly favored by the devs. Just compare her and Xiao Pai's swimsuits. You can tell where all the love went.
>>731060072Same issue with where I'm currently at, perpetually stuck before going to Leon Karnack because if I go there before my character gets married then I'll miss out on a unique scene.So, I'm lv80+ and I've explored all the way to the Sechs Empire, but I haven't done that dungeon yet because the girls are all at LP 8 or 9.>>731060490It's fun, but I was let down going from GoA to mainline Rune Factory in that I expected the farming to be a bigger focus of the game, and I thought farming would be directly tied to your character's progression (ie. You're an Earthmate, so you should get stronger by harvesting crops).Instead, you just get stronger through bog standard RPG progression, while harvesting crops occasionally gives you some skill/stat increases.Ultimately, Sakuna did it perfectly. Sakuna can't level by fighting and instead levels by harvesting rice. It's a perfect system for these kind'a games and Rune Factory should directly steal it moving forwards.
>>731060487>all the designs in GoA were top notchGenshin levels of overdesigned shit, Fubuki looks like picrel
>>731060687>Genshin invited fancy designs
>>731060490It does its job well enough, the biggest issue is how little i-frames you get for anything. High-level combat in every game is very rocket-taggy. Woolie/Gloves are some of the most fun I ever have playing in this kind of "mashy" action-RPG. Chaining backbreakers never gets old.>>731060646Farming isn't that notable in the older games because...it's a spin-off of a series where farming is all you do. You can just play Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons for more in-depth farm maintenance (though I find it funny RF is the series that forces crop rotations and soil nutrition over SoS). Farming is more a connective tissue than the core experience, it is more about finding what you enjoy about life. It's closer to something like Mabinogi or life jobs in FFXIV.Sakuna is cool for its hard focus on rice farming, but I appreciate Rune Factory for dipping its toes in a bunch of crafting systems.
>>731060490>>731060646Also: Managing soil just sucks and needing to let plots go fallow only encourages you to farm less. It's a more complicated and interesting system than Stardew's, but it also means you don't get the satisfying feeling of planting a bunch of crops and having them all ripen at the same time, since they'll all grow at different rates. I don't really see what this kind'a soil management really adds to the game, it hasn't improved my experience at all.I made the comparison to Sakuna, and obviously soil management is huge in Sakuna, but Sakuna gives you the whole process and a lot of depth to every single part. RF still just uses the "Put it in the ground and water it every day" style of farming for everything else, so adding a bunch of complication for the soil isn't really making the game much deeper, it's only adding an extra hassle to deal with.For me personally, two of my favourite "feels good man" parts of these kind'a farming games are seeing the seasonal changes, and having a big field of crops to harvest all at once. Both of those things Stardew does miles better than Rune Factory 4. The lack of seasonal changes was a big disappointment for me in Guardians of Azuma, so I was keen to go to normal seasonal farming in RF4, so it was a let down to see that seasons barely matter and the visual difference is almost imperceptible.
The tits will get even bigger in rf6.and the flats will get even flatter
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>>731059895She was the most popular bachelorette in an official poll
>>731060920Surely only among japs
>>731060920Your kid really does look like Amber and she is a sweetie. Helps she has the most apparent beast part with her spreading her butterfly wings, while characters like Dolce and Dylas can be hard to even see. I can definitely see why people would pick her.I love the RF4 cast but they are kind of weak romance options. The loss of the request system and the HORRIFICA RNG on the events really does hurt them all. They aren't the worse of the series, but they deserve so much better. You can tell how much the lust and envy over Ventuswill being unromanceable was fueled by how little the cast gives compared to her.
Amber having a schizo meltdown and committing personality suicide and Xiao having a reverse proposal because she is positive that you want to fuck her mom are the best scenes in 4.
>>731060758>fancyJust say overdesigned, it's ugly and pointless>Genshin inventedI'm saying that it's ugly like Gayshin, it's the same aesthetic
>>731061086Retard
>>731061003I think for US/EU characters, Forte was the most popular? It's been over a decade since I've seen the old popularity polls.>>731061062>Xiao having a reverse proposal because she is positive that you want to fuck her momShe wasn't wrong! If she was romanceable, I think Xiao would have obliterated in the polls. Should have flaunt that fat asian ass of hers more!
>>731056053i loved this game so much i put like 300 hours into it on 3DS back in the day but never finished it. i remember the game just kept on going and going and going. it felt like i hit an ending like twice but then dungeons and upgrade paths for my weapon kept opening up it was crazy
>>731060687I don't care about Fubuki, almost all the girls have amazing designs. Look at Kanata, Iroha, Clarice, Kaguya, Yachiyo, Rin, etcetc. They've all got fantastic designs and you'd struggle to claim that any of them was more "overdesigned" than someone like Margaret or Dolce.
>>731061105It was a swansong game at its time, so the devs really went full blast on trying to give it as much content as they could since they expected they would not be able to make a sequel afterwards. That's why the game is so feature rich. But now, it's kind of come at a cost of all the following RF games having to live up to its level of depth, which I don't think they've done since.
>>7310605764's swimsuits are just 3 designs recycled among the girls with different colors.>>731060687Of all the characters to rag on you chose the guy with relatively simple clothes under his armor?>>731061119I never liked Kanata's weird hat lol
>>731061029>I love the RF4 cast but they are kind of weak romance options. The loss of the request system and the HORRIFICA RNG on the events really does hurt them all. They aren't the worse of the series, but they deserve so much better. You can tell how much the lust and envy over Ventuswill being unromanceable was fueled by how little the cast gives compared to her.Playing it now, I don't feel like any of that's true. I like Venti, but Lest barely gets any time or interactions with her, to the point where the scenes of her talking about what a great guy he was feel pretty hollow. She's spent half the game either unconsious or asleep at this point, which hasn't helped.The romance interactions aren't anywhere near as volumous as something like Guardians of Azuma, but the options are great. Forte, Dolce, Xiao and Margaret can all stand out among any cast, imo. Their interactions all feel heartfelt and sweet, they've got a lot of dialogue and a lot of little interactions, thoughts and feelings and I'm having a really hard time choosing which one I'll marry in the end. Amber and Clorica are the only ones that haven't grabbed me so far, but apparently Amber's story only gets told if you romance/marry her, so that's a shame.
I can't explain how but Rosetta drives me mad with lust. Her simple design but with that cheeky skirt despite being kind of a tomboy just gets meTHEN they brought her back in Frontier and looks great as ever fuckkk
>>731061105>>731061181It's basically got the same production story as Fire Emblem: Awakening and just like FE:A you can feel the team put everything they had into it. Sometimes to the detriment but generally for the best.>I never liked Kanata's weird hat lolBoo. But you can remove it anyway.
>try rf4, hated it and dropped it>rf3 drops on steam pick it up in hopes of it clicking>enjoy it so much 4 is actually enjoyable now and don't have an issue with it any moreidgi
>>731061302>It's basically got the same production story as Fire Emblem: Awakening.Final Fantasy as well. It's why Final Fantasy is called Final Fantasy, after all.
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>>731061302>It's basically got the same production story as Fire Emblem: Awakeningthat's interesting i'm the first anon you quoted and i also played and loved FE:A on my 3DS back in the day and put in hundreds of hours. despite all that i still had zero incentive or want to check out any other FE or RF game thats released since lol
>>731061263Very cute voice in nipponese (thanks to the anon who uploaded the frontier undub few weeks ago)
>>7310613314 has general issues with pacing and distribution of content that 3 doesn't, despite the two games sharing a lot of mechanics. Everyone complains about the awfully long tutorial quests, the loss of the Request Board, and the RNG event system. However, because they share a lot of mechanics, it means a lot of the skills, progression, and optimization tech transfer over pretty smoothly. It's why back in the day people argued about what was the better game between the two while not even pretending any other game in the franchise is acceptable for even AA japjank standards.It very much comes down to how much 4's particular issues get you or not, and if you like 3's overall setups, vibes, and more unpolished ideas.
cute, energetic child
>>731061119>waist up photo>alternative outfit>she still has that goofy ornament on her headlol, it's funny to see you mention Dolce and Margaret because they are "fancy" instead of overdesignatedDolce's outfit is cool and classy
>>731061421Wait what? I gotta find that
>>731061263>>731060837The downgrade is insane
>>731061665>can't actually marry any of the wives/moms in the townsad
>>731061665I'm not your therapist, chink
>>731061215I mean the body. Xiao Pai looks horrific.
>>731059849Its been a while since I played both gender but I think male sleepover party talk gave better impression than female one
>>731062359I mean that's her thing, "I thought I would look like mama by now :(", they can't write that and make her really hot
>>731061373Frontiers looks amazing from a graphic style perspective, are the gameplay/story/characters any good.
