Let's talk about Rune Factory!> Rune Factory Archive (comics, official artworks, fanarts)https://forestofbeginnings.tumblr.com/https://mizore.sakura.ne.jp/rff/dat/info.php?p=1> Official X accountsEN: https://x.com/RuneFactoryJP: https://x.com/RuneFactory_PR> Latest releaseRune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (2025)> UpcomingRune Factory 6 (TBD)> Icebreaker questionsWhich RF game are you playing right now?Your first and your favorite RF games?Your favorite waifu/husbando?Your first love ever?Your favorite non-romanceable character?Your favorite location?Your favorite soundtrack or song?Your favorite opening movie?What are your most cherished memories of RF?What's your opinion on the current state of the franchise?What made you fall in love with the franchise?Anything you miss about older entries?Do you have any hot takes or unpopular opinions?> OP MoviesRune Factory 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRarXcOu5lQRune Factory 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j91Zzw6NhZARune Factory 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-6OYzBXNwRune Factory 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ5O3JpXJewRune Factory 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9CcwbiM7t0Rune Factory Frontier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW0MJ4AjrnQRune Factory Tides of Destiny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_96hX2_DbM> Thread themeRF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoxVvOMHbkk
>>40001565 and Azuma were just not hitting the same way.I'd rather replay Frontier, 3and,4 on the PC now.
>>4000161What about Tides?
>>4000172Bretty good actually. The one I replayed the elast. Maybe I should start with that.3 is still the GOAT though
>>4000176For real. I wish it had more post game content.
>>4000177It's a shame that the only one with really any postgame at all was 4
When are we getting news about RF6?
>>4000196Since both Bokujo Monogatari and RF celebrate their anniversaries in August, I assume that's when we'll get the big announcements.
>>4000218I would like to see the old games (1,2, Frontier, Tides) ported to modern systems but at the same time I don't want this since they would definitely alter some stuff because it's not appropriate anymore.
>>4000248Yeah they could keep everything the same and put a "this game was done in a different era so the values don't reflect the current ones and yada yada" notice and call it a day but localizers and investors wouldn't allow it.I have a feeling they'll remake at least RF1. I just hope they don't make changes to the designs of the characters.
2 needs more love.
>>4000271As soon as I am done with Tides I'll play RF1 then 2 again. It's been some 18 years since I last played them.
Big world for a wooly
>>4000341It's a wooly woo world out there.
>>4000285I replayed RF2 last year and Tides this year. The only one I didn't replay since ancient times is RF1 - maybe later this year...
>>4000271problem with og trilogy is games get incrementally better so there's little point in playing anything but 3
>>40004492 in particular has what is essentially a super long tutorial to pick who your mom is as well. I haven't played it recently enough to remember how much the QoL jump from 2 to 3 is, but on top of that I feel like it was pretty significant.
Sexo
>>4000449Maybe we'll get a remake?
>>4000378Indeed
>>4000479Personally I want a remake of 1. Finding out the incompetent female miniboss turns into a wife candidate long after I could do anything about it was kind of disappointing, but now I know. I also kind of just miss improving weapons and armor being more simple compared to the crazy shit you can do in 3 and 4.Never played 5 or Azuma though, so I'm probably getting ahead of myself
Do you have to do the combat stuff in 4 special or is it a key part of the game. Never really played any of the RFs beyond a tiny bit of one on 3ds years ago.
>>40008004 is the one on the 3DSAnd the combat is pretty required. You can stay in town and farm crops but you won't get very far without stuff from the world outside.I personally did forcibly extend a gap between act 1 and act 2 and basically just ground up crops/played "fantasy harvest moon" while I dated and got married but it's certainly not the intended way to play any of the Rune Factories
>>4000806Yeah it has been so long I couldn't remember if it had a fancy name. Shame. I'm not really into that kind of combat. Too old for that kind of stuff.
>>4000808Are you talking about "combat arts" or whatever the fuck they were called, or just fighting in general? Because the former is basically just magic that has an attack animation (so there's no reason you can't ignore it), but if the latter is a problem for you you're probably just better off playing harvest moon or story of seasons or whatever people do these days
>>4000809Well I saw the thread and remembered I had rf4s from a bundle and was curious how combat heavy it was. If its just you do it when you want to progress and its basic stuff and not grind heavy thats one thing vs "you gotta get to clvl200 to beat the omega boss so you can get corn seeds"
>>4000812Most of the absurd grinding only really exists for theoretical optional endless dungeon shit. So long as you keep up on your crafting to some extend the actual required combat isn't much iirc
>>4000817I appreciate the responses.
>>4000812I should've also mentioned that you can basically beat 90% of the game by taming monsters and using them along with NPCs in townI don't see why you couldn't just hang back and let them beat the monsters for you, especially on easy difficulty (though there are a few places where you'll have to fight alone but it's rare)
>>4000826oh thats kinda cool, nice. Thanks again. I saw that mentioned on the game page but didn't think they would be THAT good.
>>4000830There's actually some interesting stuff to it, like a hidden EV-like system (similar to pokemon) and a system where the gifts/food you give it will slowly increase it stats or give it status attacksAnd when you give them/your npc party members food, they will also get stat boosts for the day (the same ones you'd get if you ate it yourself, so for example, if you drank juice your magic would increase for a while) plus there's a few buffing spells/healing spells to help you manage it betterOne of the best starter pets you can get is the fairy in pic related, plus you can give her her own daily drop to boost her magic stat over time
My love, Dolce.
People say Azuma was like a new tides but it didn't feel that way at all
>>4000871There's a lot of similarities>two canon MCs that both exist concurrently and can marry>hands-off farming (tides uses monsters, goa uses villagers but improves on tides's system by letting you have control if you like)>heavy focus on combat>sky island exploring is just ocean island exploring but in the air>no portaits, uses the character models instead
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Hit a wall at the puppet boss in the mansion in rune factory 4 special. Gonna have to grind some combat exp I guess. Fight isn't remotely hard just get one shotted by the random debris while trying to heal.Is there a way to eat/heal in menu and not unpaused?
>>4000940I remember that being one of the more annoying roadblocks in the game, but it was mostly because I usually would rush it to unlock the character sooner than later. iirc healing with actual potions is significantly faster than food, and then magic is still faster than eating at least, but I don't think there's any getting around having to do it outside of a menu.If you haven't bothered experimenting with improving equipment, you might find that gives a pretty significant boost that could help a lot.
>>4000943Interesting, I have no way to magically heal yet nor have they shown off or introduced item improving I don't think yet. Day 8, pico showed up during the bean festival so I figured I'd investigate. It said recommended 18 and I hit 18 during the dungeon so I wasn't too concerned. Oh whale. Weird plot, interesting game so far.
RF1 still has the only cast of characters that I really like. They feel a bit more like Harvest Moon characters. In the later games everyone is either overdesigned or too childlike or both.
>>4001036The story in 4 feels like some fever dream written by random choice out of a bucket so far and the main characters are all weird as fuck. >you are on an airship>*pulls card* and you are bringing maguffins>*pulls card* and now you lost your memory>*pulls card* and now you fell off the airship onto a dragon>*pulls card* btw you're a prince>*pulls card* syke not a prince>*pulls card* syke you are one again though>*pulls card* dude dragon is actually a lady
>>4001082idk, Venti always looked like a chick to me
>>4001117I thought it was a young boy dragon. But I was mostly joking on that one as its whatever. I just find it funny how fuckin random a setup it is instead of "you get a house in this village and do some farming and then shit happens"
>>4001117All I know is not using Venti's human form and letting you marry her was a crime
>>4001132
Timeline
>>4001360we gotta be a bit careful with the image limit, this board is slow and the last thread lasted for 9 months
shit sorry, didn't mean to quote, just meant it in general
>>4001367No biggie. You've got a point.
>>4001082It's total bullshit but they hit a good balance in 4 where there's so much bullshit tacked on from all sides that it maintains a perfect harmony of utter nonsense paired with deceptively complex gameplay. It is a game worth taking notes from.
>>4001506It loops back around from absurd to nonsense so many times that eventually you just go yeah sure ok.I just wonder if they were dead set against a normal intro or something like was it a company mandate?>NO, YOU CANT JUST GET A HOUSE IN THE TOWN BECAUSE YOU WANNA FARM OR SOMETHING WE NEED MORE!
>>4001549That's not that absurd when you're an earthmate. I just think they went too far off the deep end making earthmates kind of ridiculous at some point
>>4001553You don't find out you're an earthmate until halfway through the list of nonsense I threw out above kek
>>4001560I thought it was part of the reason they assumed you were a prince. I could have sworn Venti mentions it pretty early, but I haven't touched it in years
>>4001561That comes after the forced prince stuff. And then you turn a monster into a girl.
Cool, didn't realize there was a thread on this board for rune factory.I know the fields in RF4 recover when not in use, but do they recover when tilled but not seeded? Cleaning up all 5 fields every day is so time consuming
>>4001732As long as nothing's growing in them they should recover. To double check, buy a magnifying glass and test out an open plot vs a tilled plot. Better yet forge a watering can with the glass as one of the materials to inherit its effects.
>>4001735Ok I'll try that out, thanks anon. I assume it's the health stat I'm monitoring
>>4001732That's why I save every single wilted grass I can
I can't believe they killed Green in RF5
>>4002054what the fuck is that ugly bitch frowning about?
>>4002056Her fucked up bangs maybe?
>>4002056She's looking for a target.
my fairy wives...
>>4002061was talkin about the dour ass blue bitch bottom right
>>4002075That's more like one of these than a frown
>>4002085>t. rapist brown
>>4002093Whatever you're talking about is between you and brown people. This is just a matter of someone being blind to the lines curling upward on the edges on the blue fairy making some anime catface expression
>>4002102
>>4002107The coolest!
>>4002054The Green you rescued in 4 decided to stay with Lest/Frey forever
>>4002068Puppet/doll girl!
>>4000156>20 yearsI'm old enough to remember when they announced the first game...it was part of a project to inject new life into Harvest Moon. They announced Rune Factory for the DS and Innocent Life for the PSP at the same time. Obviously only one of them took off and became its own franchise.Can't believe it's been that long. I hate getting old.
