This game was the biggest surprise ever, a couple of summers ago I was really bored so I started to play lesser known games for the ds (the only console I had at the time), this is how I was introduced to the Rune Factory franchise, and to be honest, I've never been a huge fan, the first two games were alright bordering on boring, and the third was pretty good but still nothing special, when I finally got a working switch system and saw this game on sale I thought it could be a nice couple of hours, something to pass the time even though I didn't expect anything really special.
HOW WRONG I WAS.
This game quickly became on of my favorites ever, the characters are funny and quirky, and their interactions are amazing, but once you get to know them they all have some depth to then, the combat was surprisingly complicated, with all the intricacies of forging and properly equipping your teammates, and the story made me super glad I slugged through the first couple of games since it brings a part of each of their stories into the bigger picture of this world, it's genuinely amazing.
But now that the fangirling is over, this game is far, far from perfect, it suffers of an issue that has plagued the rune factory franchise since the begging, that being that everything is super easy once you get the hang of its mechanics, farming pretty much becomes useless after spring since you'll Ave so much money that you won't know what to spend it all on, and even though combat isn't as easy as previous games, if you have appropriate the appropriate equipment you'll run through dungeons like a breeze, On my replay in the "Hell" difficulty, I was already finishing act 2 by the start of summer.
Another big complain I have is the event system, I don't know who came up with it but they really should have double guessed themselves, locking marriage behind multiple events that appear randomly on random days is devilish, if you want to marry one of the characters that have more than 2 events to their requirements you either have to wait several seasons in game so you can get them or go to sleep for weeks without doing anything and reset when you don't get the event you want.
Anyway, this is a good game, play it if you're into farming Sims and the like.
HOW WRONG I WAS.
This game quickly became on of my favorites ever, the characters are funny and quirky, and their interactions are amazing, but once you get to know them they all have some depth to then, the combat was surprisingly complicated, with all the intricacies of forging and properly equipping your teammates, and the story made me super glad I slugged through the first couple of games since it brings a part of each of their stories into the bigger picture of this world, it's genuinely amazing.
But now that the fangirling is over, this game is far, far from perfect, it suffers of an issue that has plagued the rune factory franchise since the begging, that being that everything is super easy once you get the hang of its mechanics, farming pretty much becomes useless after spring since you'll Ave so much money that you won't know what to spend it all on, and even though combat isn't as easy as previous games, if you have appropriate the appropriate equipment you'll run through dungeons like a breeze, On my replay in the "Hell" difficulty, I was already finishing act 2 by the start of summer.
Another big complain I have is the event system, I don't know who came up with it but they really should have double guessed themselves, locking marriage behind multiple events that appear randomly on random days is devilish, if you want to marry one of the characters that have more than 2 events to their requirements you either have to wait several seasons in game so you can get them or go to sleep for weeks without doing anything and reset when you don't get the event you want.
Anyway, this is a good game, play it if you're into farming Sims and the like.