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Harvest Moon: Rune Factory
Name: Harvest Moon Rune Factory Console: Nintendo DS Genre: Role Playing Japanese release: 08/24/06 (published by Marvelous) American release: 08/14/07 (published by Natsume) European release: TBA (published by Rising Star)
Jam it back in, in the dark. |
So you basically enslave wild and vicious beasts to do your farming for you.
Sounds interesting. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
After reading that description I feel like I'm way too excited for this game (and if it gets decent reviews I might finally have a reason to buy a DS). I've been wanting a Harvest Moon game with a little more variety ever since I bought the first one for the SNES and this sounds like it might fit the bill.
Also, lolling at enslaving monsters to do manual labor while you kick back in the sun while drinking lemonade. Also at putting the word "Factory" in a game based around farming. I can only hope the next installment will feature the industrial revolution where you have to compete against bank foreclosures, increasing mechanization, centralization of farms (will you be bought out or will you buy others out!), and government subsidies to now grow on your land. That actually sounds like a pretty neat Sim game. Anyone know if Sim Farm was anything like that? This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
This game actually sounds pretty interesting. I'd always wondered if the series would take a weird turn like this. Hopefully this experiment means further tweaking to new games in the series so it doesn't grow stale. (It was getting dangerously close IMO)
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
I only have one thing to say about this game.
About damn time I can walk on my crops. No squish either, 9 tile seed setups go. I was speaking idiomatically. |
I haven't played this for very long but there's some issues when using the touchscreen on your farm. If you touch something and there's a boulder blocking your path, it will just run your character into it constantly and do nothing. So you're basically forced to use dpad controls, unless you check that there's no obstacle underneath the item you're going to be picking up.
Stuff like this really should have been ironed out before the release, since it's pretty annoying. How ya doing, buddy? |
That's how the Stylus controls function on the farm. You always go one tile below what you select and then use your action.
The game assumes you should do actions from below. It is something they should have checked though otherwise you walk forever trying to reach the tile that could have been. FELIPE NO |
Hey, just got the game last night after some recommendations from others. I'm having a pretty good time so far and I just got into the first cave. This is the first Harvest Moon game I've probably played since the SNES, and the first one I actually own, lol.
Very nice so far, even if the polygonal characters don't match their profiles hardly at all. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
I hate how the polygonal characters don't match up with the tiles they're standing on sometimes. I've lost about 9 strawberries trying to gift them because I had my cursor on the wrong tile.
Oh, and thanks for the strawberry advice Lace, I'm rolling in cash (120k at the moment) and I'm not even at the last week of spring yet. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Pressing select should solve that.
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Yes, I mentioned I had a cursor, which means I already pressed select.
Edit: Summer now, and I have a whopping 189 tiles to water. At least I have access to the 2nd cave now, must get those watering monsters before I go insane. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
I've played this game for quite some time, but there are some really serious issues in gameply:
1) Once you have a level 3 hammer you no longer have to worry about money, you can go mine for about 150-200k a day. No more reason to harvest crops. 2) Some ingredients are only dropped by monster in a cave only accessible in winter, also I got the pass for that cave in mid summer and I was bored so much waiting for winter to progress in the story that I almost stopped playing the game. 3) Festivals are dull and you can't partecipate in any special event, except for one, the treasure hunt, but the treasure is hidden in the same place everytime... It's absolutely not a bad game, but it could be really better. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
Not bad so far. I haven't played it a super amount and hence things such as obtaining money is still something to do in the game.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
money is piece of cake after you reach cave 3, where the good gems start to appear, using an upgraded hammer and you can get 200000G in just a few days
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?
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