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If you like Harvest Moon you will probably love this game! I had been playing HM:ToT. I hated how fast time passed there. Started looking into getting another game like it.. somehow came across this one. The village is so sweet and beautifully designed. The characters are all intriguing and unique. It's not too hard to get money in your 1st few weeks.. just sell grass and weeds! The ruinesn dungens.. are SO AMAZING. It really is like Harvest Moon + so so much more. There are many differemt monsters to fight. Or charm and turn inyo pets. The upgrades tl your home are neat. The fact you upgrade ur own tools is very fun. You won't find yourself getting bored often w this title. There's always something that needs done! Drawbacks? The only real bothersome point in this game is... managing the Runeys. Ugh. Running back n forth all day.. taking runeys from one place.. putting Runeys in another. If this game allowed some way to make the Runeys balance themselves .. lol that'd be great! I'm still playing through this game do maybe there s way to manage the Runeys faster. I'm sure there must be a trick to it. Because any lone who developed such a cool game.. definitely wouldn't leave their players hung up on something so simple yet annoying. I give this game 4/5 - 7/10. Just because the Runeys lol ph abd it would be nice to play as a female character :)Read full review
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I had been a long-time fan of the Harvest Moon series ever since the Super Nintendo days. Over the past few years, it seems that the newer Harvest Moon games had grown stale - a redoing of the same formula without many new features. I had played the original Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon for Nintendo DS, but it didn't have a great affect on me. I decided to try Rune Factory Frontier. I figured it would be a decent game bringing some new challenges to the old Harvest Moon formula. After playing an hour, I knew I was hooked. The old Harvest Moon charm that I had become disappointingly used to was totally revamped. This was much more than a Harvest Moon. Perhaps my favorite new feature is the forging. In past Harvest Moon games, the player would mine for ore to take to a blacksmith to upgrade tools. In Rune Factory Frontier, YOU do the forging. It's not as easy as before - you must find multiple items and have a certain skill level to forge certain tools. Yeah, make it difficult! The dungeons are great. You can wield a sword (and eventually start forging your own weapons!) to explore the dungeons that become progressively more difficult. These dungeons require lots of practice and grinding - they aren't sissy dungeons! What is great about this game is that you aren't required to do any one thing. You don't HAVE to explore the dungeon constantly. You can work on your garden, choose a girl to marry, or whatever floats your boat. As far as I know, the game doesn't truly end, so there is no rush to complete the main story. The presentation of the game of wonderful. The graphics are lovely. The visuals of nature are very nice and change beautifully with the seasons. The music works very well with the mood of the game. On the farm, the music is very relaxing and calm, while in the dungeons it is more suspenseful and creepy. As mentioned before, there's so much to do. Let's just say I have logged about 45 hours on this game, and I feel like I'm only halfway through (although I am a perfectionist and try to do everything). I have to say this is my favorite of any of the Harvest Moon games, and that's coming from a Harvest Moon veteran whose played since Harvest Moon for Super Nintendo. This game is superb! Anyone, whether a casual gamer or hardcore gamer, should give this game a chance! Rating: EXCELLENT - jareds789 -Read full review
As a HUGE fan of both RPG games and a Simulation video games, I must say that this is a bullseye for my tastes. Harvest Moon fans will get a taste of some RPG action while RPG fans will get a healthy sample of a farming simulation (a la Harvest Moon). +++ POSITIVES +++ + BEAUTIFUL GRAPHICS - The cartoonish characters of Harvest Moon are replaced with anime-style characters. The level of detail is incredible from the backgrounds to the menu screens. Graphics are important to me, and I must say that I'm VERY impressed with amount of work that went into ever last pixel on my TV. There are also several animation scenes when meeting woman (and during the title) that remind me a lot of Tales of Symphonia sequences. Absolutely stunning! + LOTS TO DO - This is the understatement of the century. Let's see: farming, wooing women, participating in holiday events, exploring dungeons, forging weapons, helping others, solving mysteries, exploring, evloving monsters...(and I'm just scratching the surface). Let's just say that if you become bored with this game, there will likely never be a game that will satisfy you. In fact, I'd be more inclined that people will complain becuase there's TOO much to do. + EXTREMELY HIGH REPLAY VALUE - Like all simulation games, there's a good chance that even when you 'beat' this game, you'll likely start over again and choose a different route. With an infinite amount of paths to choose, you'll be curious enough to replay this game again and again. If you meausre a game's worth by the number of hours you put into it, your $50 will be well spent. + SOUNDS - Usually, I could care less about the sounds/music in a game, but one thing I noticed are the fine details given to various sounds. From the sweeping of a broom to the squeaky opening of a door, I feel like I'm actually there listening to the ambient sounds of a town. Very nice! + GOOD PLAY CONTROL - Some may disagree, but the play control is much better in this game than many other similar games. You're able to set up 'shortcut keys' to access your tools/items at a quicker pace, resulting in less redudant button pushes. Even putting items in the shipping bin are made easy with double-clicking. This is a BIG improvement! + RPG/SIMULATION COMBO - As a big Harvest Moon fan, I concluded long ago that it was going to be tough to improve on the HM setup, but Rune Factory has gone above and beyond that. The process of leveling up with every swing of the axe or sword or every cooked egg, gives you incentive to keep it up. Even if you don't like to fish or mix potions, there's a reason to do it now. You wouldn't think that adding RPG to a Simulation based game would be possible, but they did it! --- NEGATIVES --- - NO INTERACTIVE PLAY - If I have to find something that could be missing, it'd be some Wi-fi connectivity. It would be nice to have some online features (a la Animal Crossing), but maybe this'll be an option in future titles. - SLOW LOADING TIME - Nothing terrible, but the typical 5 sec. wait can be expected when jumping from scene to scene. About the same as Harvest Moon: MM. CONCLUSION: There's no denying it, Harvest Moon fans will definitely enjoy the new additions and RPG lovers may just get a taste for HM. From it's superior graphics to its HIGH replay value, Rune Factory is one of the better games I've played in a while. Sorry Harvest Moon, I've got a new best friend...Read full review
This game is primarily a Harvest Moon spin-off, but also has some Suikoden-like qualities to it and a healthy portion of crafting. It's a waste of time to explain the Harvest Moon aspect; there's really nothing new here on that front. The other aspects are more interesting. There are a lot of characters in this game, and it takes some work to add them all to the village. As you talk to people and complete sections of the game, more characters will arrive, which gives you access to new items and areas. The game is very open in this sense. You can unlock new characters and get new items at different times and in almost any order depending on how you play. Crafting is a pretty major part of the game. You can collect items that can be used for cooking, smithing, gardening, and creating accessories. With the right items and skill level, you can upgrade your tools so that maintaining your crops takes less time. When you've got the right weapons and equipment, you can enter a variety of dungeons and fight monsters. These monsters can be captured and kept as pets that will help you around the farm or join you in the dungeons. All in all, the game is enjoyable. Sometimes it gets tedious, but then a new item or area opens that adds some variety. Anyone who enjoyed Harvest Moon would also enjoy Rune Factory. It has a healthy portion of battling to take the monotony out of raising crops.Read full review
I ended up buying this game because a best friend had it, and I borrowed it for a while, and then eventually she couldn't get me off of it, I ended up buying one for my own playing pleasure. I have to admit at first you get hooked, but when you first start out you aren't able to do much since your health dies pretty quick. I love the art, Cinnamon, Candy, and Eunice are my absolute fav characters they are so kawaii! I love the gameplay, the feel of it is definitely Harvest Moon orientated, but they add on dungeons and monster fighting to make it fun. I think this idea was a great one, but whoever decided that they should only give us a measly amount of "hours" in game to do everything needs to be shot. Time should stop in dungeons like it does in houses and whatnot. I am not able to talk to everyone, water, and pick my crops not fight through the dungeons like I want in that little amount of time they give you throughout the day. Other than that the storyline is cute, the graphics are great, and the characters are hilarious. I have to admit though, that the storyline progresses VERY slow. I'm in my 2nd year and am only in the snow ruins. -sigh- And last but not least, you better level up alot, because the monsters in each ruin are ferocious....and I had to die a couple times. Aside from that I recommend you this game, especially if you're into Harvest Moon!Read full review
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