Rune Factory Appreciation Thread!!

[I'm a Puppy!]

It was a pretty good series.

[Corporal]

Indeed.

 

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...although some of the games made me feel like a kiddy fiddler due to the artwork. Their tweaks to the formula never really paid off, either, so things became a bit formulaic as time went on.


Wait, why are we talking in the past tense?

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[thisismyusername]

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[Joe Molotov]

I like runes and I like factories.

[Great Rumbler]

I really liked the one that was on the Wii and PS3.

Wait, why are we talking in the past tense?

Because the developer doesn't exist anymore.

[paprikastaude]

The original Wii game is one of the secret best RPGs. The amount of things to do and discover is insane. I didn't mind the waifu shipping, because the series originated from Harvest Moon. People then said 3 is one of the best. So I got it, but was a underwhelmed by the handholding and linearity.

But then again, I also much prefer the adventure structure of the first Harvest Moon over the ones that have all the tools and NPCs available from the get-go.

[I'm a Puppy!]

The Wii one was definitely the best one. Such a relaxing feel to play it. But those fucking Runeys eventually ruin the whole thing.

[paprikastaude]

There was some trick that would produce automatic Runeys for the majority of the year. Something like having a few in each area at the start of a new season (or something similar in that vein).

[Corporal]

Runeys were a mistake.

Because the developer doesn't exist anymore.

Neverland might be dead and buried (especially after essentially being given a second chance at life with Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven and botching that), but I still think there's a chance the franchise might soldier on somehow.

Besides, if I accepted that Rune Factory is a goner, then the same would necessarily apply for Lufia. And that just cannot be. The Nile is a river in Egypt. La la la, can't hear you!

[Great Rumbler]

6 Rune Factory games came out over the course of 7 years, since then it's been 4.5 years since the last Rune Factory. It's time to let it go, breh.

[I'm a Puppy!]

really with Stardew Valley and others it looks like the whole "there's a dungeon for mining" kind of thing has seeped into the genre so that's not a bad thing. But yeah, Rune Factory is dead dude. DEAD.
Especially if you played Rune factory 4? You'd remember how broken that all was. Fun, but so broken.

[Corporal]

Neverrrrrrrr. The dream lives on.