Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
by Natsume, Inc.
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Product Summary
Brand: Natsume, Inc.Release Date: 2007-08-14
Platform: Nintendo DS
Publisher: Natsume, Inc.
Product features:
- Simulate the simple life as you harvest crops, buy supplies and try to find Laguna a nice girlfriend
- Choose the life you wish to live - Be a farmer planting crops, fish in the bay or forge weapons as a blacksmith
- Explore dungeons to capture and tame various monsters - capture a wolf to ride on, or a bee to make honey
Video Game Reviews of Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
Customer Review: A Good Take on HM
Summary: 5 Stars
The Great:
It's an entirely new spin on Harvest Moon, adding a RPG feel to the game. But don't worry, you can still farm and such, and have that be your sole profits (but you still have to capture the monsters in the caves).
There is now a level system in addition to upgrading your weapons, so you can get good just by practicing, and then upgrade your weapons when you have the money.
I love how monsters can work on your farm, so you can hire them to water and harvest crops for you, enabling you to focus more on mining, fishing, raising said monsters, exploring, et cetera. (It's really hard to go back to an old HM game after using this feature.)
The Good:
You can now raise what are basically, bees, giant chickens, sheep, and cows. In addition, there are animals that can come into dungeons with you and fight by doing damage or various status effects, while others can water and harvest crops.
There are many more skills, and once you expand your house you can become somewhat self-sufficient, although mastering them will take a long time, so the game stays challenging.
The marriage and friendship system is entirely reworked; instead of buying your friends with endless gifts, performing tasks for them and talking to them is what gets you more hearts. (EG, the witch girl, Melody, is happy if you go to her bathhouse every day, and the elven girl, Tabitha, falls in love with you if you care for your monsters well.) You can still give gifts if you wish, but it's no longer necessary. There are also many bonus scenes just for befriending people, so you don't just get videos for dating.
The Town is quite large, and offers many characters with nice dialogue strings, as well as audio dialogue.
The plot lines can be unlocked in some different ways for the minor ones, but generally you must expand your farm and clear caves to progress.
You can grow crops out of season by planting them in caves, which have various climates.
The music is gorgeous; fitting the game pretty perfectly.
The Bad:
You can only be a male, but there are many unique available bachelorettes.
The monster AI seriously needs some work, especially for the captured monsters. Sometimes they seem to get stuck, and they have many graphical glitches on the larger ones where they will overlap each other and clip into one another.
You can't grow trees, so you don't get a nice care-free crop. (But you can still buy apples and oranges at the shops.)
The dialogue can be misleading; the translation needed a little work. For example, many people spent all this time thinking if you grew a normal crop for over 30 days, you would get a special crop. This is not the case; there are special crops available after you beat the game that grow for 30 days (so in a cave) and they sell for more.
The sound can short in and out on certain parts; when it is raining, the sound will sometimes cut out for a few minutes out of one of the speakers or headphones (I have seen this happen on both the DS and DS Lite, with different games, so it is a programming error).
The Ugly:
As with the other games, not much ethnic diversity in the game, save for one self girl.
Good or Bad, up for Debate:
Still, you can only marry girls, but since this game doesn't have the option of being a female, you don't have to run two game accounts to unlock all the scenes.
The Fantasy aspect is nice, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.
Description of Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon you'll help a young man with amnesia build a new life. Laguna doesn't know who he is or where he comes from, so he goes looking for answers. He meets&befriends a young woman named Mist, who puts you to work on her farm. As you help her tend to the crops, you'll try and build a life for yourself in the Harvest Moon world.Kids & Family Games
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