>both Lin Fa and Nancy mention their swimsuits>during Beach Day neither of them actually wear them>they don't have bikini character spritesthis is the biggest video game betrayal in human history
>>736126501You're right, but at least Dolce and Forte get in their togs.
the biggest video game betrayal in human history does in fact come from rune factory, but it's the fact that game after game they gave us hot single older women who would flirt with us and then refused to let us marry them
>>736126950To be fair Lin Fa's husband is still alive
>>736126679why is my wife Forte posing with WannaBe-Detective and child abuser IllumiBitch
WATCH OUT
>>736126501At least the manga blessed us with naked Lin fa
>>736127006Should I romance her the next time I play Rune Factory 4?
>>736129157it's my first playthrough and she's a close second choice after forte
Xiao Pie > Kohaku > Forte > Dolce > Clorica > Margaret
My love, Dolce.
>>736126501did you play 1 and 2? Where there are holidays where everyone talks about swimming but no one actually does?
>>736130630Dolce > Xiao > POWER GAP > Forte > Margaret > Amber > ANOTHER, BIGGER, POWER GAP > Clorica
>>736132381>Margaret above anybodynah man
>>736131040Nobody swims in 3 or 4S either, or in Frontier IIRC.Far as I'm aware, GoA invented swimming for Rune Factory. Praise Kanata!
>>736132420She's cute and sweet and she's earnest and loyal. We see that she's still remained true to Lest even long after he died.
>>736126501Can't unsee that ugly filter. How they butchered the game.
>>736135247missionary hand holding sex with an embarrassed Forte!
>>736136390>mom absolutely brutally mogs her daughter
>>736126501Hags don't get any love in Rune Factory.
Is Rune Factory 4 the best entry in the series?I recall anons saying to avoid a specific entry.
>>736136884For gameplay and QoL yes, but the girls are mid.
>>736137220Which of the bunch has the best girls and how much does the gameplay suffer?
>>736136390oyakodon
>>736136351
I see this face and I think, "Holy crackers!"
>>736137298Three has the best girls.The problem with four onward is unironically adding romancable males.Four and three both have about a dozen marryable characters, but in four half of them are men.The devs know that the vast majority of people will eliminate half of the options just out of hand, so really, in effect, when they are making pools of characters, they have to make a pool of girls that appeals to everyone into girls, and a pool of guys that appeals to everyone into guys.This results in their first priority being broad safe archetypes, and when you only have dev time for like six or so waifus, that's all you can really make.In three they had room to make some of them fucking crazy and were encouraged to because they had 12 personalities to make distinctOverly Chuuni artist elf not doing it for you? That's fine we got a jew loli with a hot mom for you. Or her surrogate mermaid sister, if that's your thing? How about the laziest woman alive? Brown tomboy girl who loves to fish? Office lady monster girl?That's just the startDon't get me wrong in four and onward there are plenty of girls with cute quirks and I almost always find a girl I like. But they absolutely have felt safer and less varied since their number got cut in half
>>736136704 Nah they absolutely do, just not in 4 because they’re cowards. Frontier literally lets you court a widowed innkeeper and Tides has a full blown MILF church lady. RF4 just decided every woman over 25 gets put in the “concerned town NPC” retirement home.Eliza should’ve been romanceable. Porcoline route when? Let me marry Illuminata and deal with her insane detective nonsense daily. Instead we get eternal 17 year olds and one token ara ara adjacent option.Justice for hags.
>>736144046That's exactly the info I was looking for.Thanks anon!
>>736126501nice filters, faggot
>>736136208Looks so bad I thought we were past the era of japanese devs just yeeting their raw art assets into the recycle bin after the game is shipped the first time around lol
What's so bad about RF5? What caused it? I played RF4 and Guardians of Azuma and they were good.
Been playing some Coral Island and I wished the Rune Factory devs went top down 3D instead of trying to go fully 3D or a Genshin Impact clone.
>>736153680Looks boring as fuck
>>736152584It's okay.It's a 3D RF that suffered a lot from extremely bad performance, gamebreaking bugs, and other sub things like unavoidably triggering romance events from the same sex if you didn't want to get locked out from certain places of the village or the day/night cycle stretching way too long (almost double as RF3-4).The steam release fixed most of the bugs and the performance it's serviceable, so you'll probably still enjoy it.
>>736154228Looks better than whatever Rune Factory 5 and Azuma is tbqh
>>736154460>>736152584>What caused it?Most of the development was outsourced to a company called HYDE inc. (https://www.hyde.co.jp/products/) instead of worked in-house like the previous games + GoA, and it really shows.
tangentially related to the thread but why did harvest moon stop calling itself that? now it's story of seasons or something?
>>736156383Mostly because of naming rights shenanigans.
>>736156537which one is closer to the original 1996 developer? natsume or marvelous? also which of these did the rune factory spinoff series spawn off of?
>>736156980The original BokuMono developer was Amccus, later succeeded by VIS.Natsume and Marvelous are just publishers.About which games exactly inspired the RF series I've no idea. Both Rune Factory (Developed by Neverland) and Innocent Life (ArtePiazza) came out in 2006, so both were probably inspired by AWL and BnT, but don't quote me on that one.
>>736136884Don't play the first game it's too dated and the grind was ridiculously bad to stomach.
>>736157582both natsume and marvelous have developed games at some point but marvelous seems to have many more titles under their belt plus SoS: Grand Bazaar and Guardians of Azuma feature their name prominently so I'd go with them.
>>736158241How do you even get this to trigger?
NIGGER
>>736150353I've been afraid to ask, but it's an AI upscale isn't it?
>>736161503Pretty sure it's just XBRZ. There's an AI upscaled mod out there that looks like 500x better.
Was putting the best scene in the game behind romancing her a good idea?
>>736162536Xiao and Amber got fucked over by making their best content tied to late romance.
>>736162691It kind of works out since they're the two best and strongest girls. People who go for it get the biggest reward.
>>736158241I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A MILLION SIBLINGS
