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Harvosta Moona: Rune Factory (milk some cows, pwn some monsters)
Lethardicus
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ladies and gentlemen, i come to call to your attention this little gem that has finally gotten a US release date after much praying, May 1st, just a month. yeah i suppose we have another thread on this, but, eh, new news.
so, eh, might be thinking after looking at the box art, THIS is harvest moon? wat the hell? yeah, im pretty sure its a huge departure from what im sure alot of us know of harvest moon
ive played all the harvest moon games from SNES, GB, GBC, N64, PSX, GC, PS2. And, you can debate this with me all you want. but i gotta admit, after the PSX harvest moon, Back to Nature, the series has gone pretty downhill a bit....although the DS harvest moons were pretty good, and i make this thread as this latest incarnation seems to have piqued my interest quite a bit. but anyway, my own opinion.
Anyway, Harvest Moon Rune Factory is one of the latest harvest moon games for Nintendo DS and it marks the 10 year anniversary of harvest moon. For anyone who hasn't played harvest moon, its a farming/life simulation. Grow crops, milk ur cows, get married, and everything in between. What makes THIS one so interesting, overall style change, and gameplay changes , not to mention, an actual storyline with the game.
Storyline (from http://www.fogu.com/hm/rune_factory/index.php#)
apparantly you also have amnesia as well, and cant remember who u are, and blah blah, girl feels bad, does all this stuff for you, and course u gotta try and get ur memory back.
quite a different departure from the usual, grandpa bought the farm, and now i own it scenario from the old games isnt it? yeah so you got ur farm, and mebbe some prospective girls to date right? yeah, thats cool thats cool, but apparantly now, we gotta fight monsters.
Combat/Fighting (yeah u heard me right, in a HARVEST MOON GAME)
yeah so, after respective girl gives u the farmland, a monster appears, and you basically gotta defend urself (WITH UR HOE!?).
besides the usual farming and stuff, they decided to add something new to this game. on the island theres tons of caves where u gotta go in and well, fight monsters, save people, adventure, and etc. ur reward? well, theres farmland and stuff inside, also increase ur stamina and skills as well when ur in there. and course, theyre part of the story as well. basically how it goes, theres weird machines making monsters, and u gotta go in and take em out
[size=-2]whats that i see? watering can? fishing pole? +5 BROADSWORD!?[/size]
the combat is pretty much hack and slash, which is fine by me, considering its a FARMING game. you can go to the blacksmith in town, forge new weapons and etc. or get some drops from monsters. for a harvest moon game, thats well, wow.
Animals
animals arent really animals anymore, i thought was interesting was, you can capture monsters and put em to work on ur farm.
you milk buffamoos
get mokomoko wool
and get eggs from kokehohos
instead of a horse u can get different animals to ride on, like, wolves, and buffalos and stuff, beats riding an old horse i suppose
so its pretty much ur good old harvest moon we all know and love, with a refreshing new style and added gameplay. tell u the truth, getting a bit sick of harvest moon a bit, but i think thisll be enough to get me back into it. i mean, hell, we hardly had enough time to, water all ur crops, tend to ur animals, go to the mountains and grab stuff, and then see ur girl and other villagers. now we gotta do all that AND dungeon crawl now?? gimme a break sirs. and with 11 marryable girls and lots of things to do, this games gonna take up lots of my time
hah this is the first of one of these threads that ive ever made, and i just felt like it cuz, hey, HM games dont get too much attention.
Rune Factory OP
GameBrink Review, 91/100
Rune Factory Info Site
this and other harvest moon games, discuss.
so, eh, might be thinking after looking at the box art, THIS is harvest moon? wat the hell? yeah, im pretty sure its a huge departure from what im sure alot of us know of harvest moon
ive played all the harvest moon games from SNES, GB, GBC, N64, PSX, GC, PS2. And, you can debate this with me all you want. but i gotta admit, after the PSX harvest moon, Back to Nature, the series has gone pretty downhill a bit....although the DS harvest moons were pretty good, and i make this thread as this latest incarnation seems to have piqued my interest quite a bit. but anyway, my own opinion.
Anyway, Harvest Moon Rune Factory is one of the latest harvest moon games for Nintendo DS and it marks the 10 year anniversary of harvest moon. For anyone who hasn't played harvest moon, its a farming/life simulation. Grow crops, milk ur cows, get married, and everything in between. What makes THIS one so interesting, overall style change, and gameplay changes , not to mention, an actual storyline with the game.
Storyline (from http://www.fogu.com/hm/rune_factory/index.php#)
The story begins as you wander into the outskirts of Caludia Village, a small town on the eastern border of Adonea Continent. You can't go on anymore and pass out in front of a house.
When the woman who lives there checks on the body laying in front of her door, you regain conciousness and tell her you haven't eaten or had a drink in days. She goes inside her house and returns with a Hoe and Watering Can! The lady explains that the Hoe and Watering Can seem to suit you, and eventually gets the hint that you want some bread and water.
After you've eaten and realize you don't know how you got there or what your name is, the two of you pick Ragna to be your name for now. Since you don't seem to have any memory for the time being, Mist loans you the house and land that she's not using. Now that you have a farmland to live on you can start your adventure.
apparantly you also have amnesia as well, and cant remember who u are, and blah blah, girl feels bad, does all this stuff for you, and course u gotta try and get ur memory back.
quite a different departure from the usual, grandpa bought the farm, and now i own it scenario from the old games isnt it? yeah so you got ur farm, and mebbe some prospective girls to date right? yeah, thats cool thats cool, but apparantly now, we gotta fight monsters.
Combat/Fighting (yeah u heard me right, in a HARVEST MOON GAME)
yeah so, after respective girl gives u the farmland, a monster appears, and you basically gotta defend urself (WITH UR HOE!?).
besides the usual farming and stuff, they decided to add something new to this game. on the island theres tons of caves where u gotta go in and well, fight monsters, save people, adventure, and etc. ur reward? well, theres farmland and stuff inside, also increase ur stamina and skills as well when ur in there. and course, theyre part of the story as well. basically how it goes, theres weird machines making monsters, and u gotta go in and take em out
[size=-2]whats that i see? watering can? fishing pole? +5 BROADSWORD!?[/size]
the combat is pretty much hack and slash, which is fine by me, considering its a FARMING game. you can go to the blacksmith in town, forge new weapons and etc. or get some drops from monsters. for a harvest moon game, thats well, wow.
Animals
animals arent really animals anymore, i thought was interesting was, you can capture monsters and put em to work on ur farm.
you milk buffamoos
get mokomoko wool
and get eggs from kokehohos
instead of a horse u can get different animals to ride on, like, wolves, and buffalos and stuff, beats riding an old horse i suppose
so its pretty much ur good old harvest moon we all know and love, with a refreshing new style and added gameplay. tell u the truth, getting a bit sick of harvest moon a bit, but i think thisll be enough to get me back into it. i mean, hell, we hardly had enough time to, water all ur crops, tend to ur animals, go to the mountains and grab stuff, and then see ur girl and other villagers. now we gotta do all that AND dungeon crawl now?? gimme a break sirs. and with 11 marryable girls and lots of things to do, this games gonna take up lots of my time
hah this is the first of one of these threads that ive ever made, and i just felt like it cuz, hey, HM games dont get too much attention.
Rune Factory OP
GameBrink Review, 91/100
Rune Factory Info Site
this and other harvest moon games, discuss.
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Rune Factory looks interesting; can dungeon crawling get in the way of farming?
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that one, i have no idea, but it looks interesting. comes out may 1st as well in the US, and YESTERDAY for EU?! woah, i gotta check that out. ill update on details if i check it out
probably HM64 is the easiest i suppose. it was pretty straightforward in the least and didnt fuck around i guess. and it was really fun. least for me, magical melody, i didnt like that one either. it felt more annoying than fun. not to mention, the main characters model in this one looked like he had a pot belly, that friggin fatass.....i was wondering how he gained all that weight...
release dates have always been played and screwed around with a couple of times already, this is mabye like, the 3rd time probably, and considering their track record, we'll just have to wait and see
yeah, 11 of em, theyre on the info site, take ur pick
I really want to know more about Innocent Life too. It might be a deciding factor in me buying a PSP soon.
im not even sure u can marry a girl...havent seen any prospective girls or anything like that on sites. not to mention, ur a robot.
Rune Factory is supposed to be infinitely better than it.
I had issues with crashing, but only during winter.
Any other time of year was fine.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Because seriously, this looks pretty shitty.
If your looking for a good one, try Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life/Another Wonderful Life. Its two games so you can play (both are identical to each other) as either a guy or girl. I haven't encountered any bugs with it when I played so I might not know all the bugs. Both of these I have are on the GC.
no offense but the GC/PS2 harvest moons sucked balls, they all just felt so...small....like areawise, compared to the other harvest moons. it really pissed me off, so i didnt spend more than half a year gametime playing em, course thats just IMO....
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They're just trying something with this one.
I hardly see why you would say that. The GBA Harvest Moons I have (Friends of Mineral Town and More Friends of Mineral Town) play exactly the same and I can see no difference why they would suck. A Wonderful life had too many areas to explore and you couldn't do that in a day and look after the farming. I would rate them all as good instead of bad.
Harvest Moon DS 2
and
Harvest Moon (Wii)
Have both popped up for preorder at Gamestop, with a tentative date of November.
Hadnt heard anything about either of these yet... anyone know anything?
Harvest Moon DS 2, its one where, buncha people get stranded on an island, u make a farm, the island grows with u, people move in and stuff, tropical harvest moon much?
and no details on harvest moon for Wii....yet....
I also cannot wait for Rune Factory as I'm sure it will be packed full of awesome sauce. I Can't wait to kill shit and plant some sweet potatoes.
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i've only played the snes one. and i loved it. i've always been put off from trying another one, or the next one coming out because people saying this one was better and don't play this jus play this one that came before.
The GB/GBC ones were pretty good.
never played the N64/PS versions unfortunately
Save the Homeland for PS2 was horrible
A Wonderful Life was pretty good.
Magical Melody seems decent, but ive barely played it.
Friends of Mineral Town for the GBA is the best one since the SNES that Ive played. Im STILL regretting that I traded it in a long time ago, and now I cant find it anywhere.
Harvest Moon DS was kind of disappointing... I ended up trading it in.
If you want something alot like the original one on the SNES, try and find a copy of Friends of Mineral Town for the GBA. EXCELLENT game. Its very much like the original, except with a ton of new features.
Damn I need to find a copy of that one.
RUUUUNE FACTORY! EEEEEEEK! YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.
I'm considering purchasing this.
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Unfortunately is right, 64 is the absolute best of the franchise, bar none. If you've got a Wii and it ever comes out on the virtual console or a 64 and you spy it in a shop, you absolutly must get it, .
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I've also been looking at getting the GC one (Magical Melody) when it comes out here to play on the Wii but that apparantly got delayed, again. Living in Europe sucks when it comes to HM games.
As opposed to other games? :P
Anyway, looking forward to this. The GC game was my first HM game and I enjoyed it, but admittedly things slowed down a lot once I found out what the most profitable crops for each season were. Hopefully going out to fight things adds some randomness to what you can get on a daily basis.
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True but man the DS HM takes the cake, it was supposed to come out what, August last year? I was all set to get it for my birthday
Yeh, I'm hoping for the same with the fighting. That's the one downside to HM, once you figure out which crop makes the most in a given season you're basically set for the rest of the game.
As for best of, Harvest Moon DS, had there been no bugs, was probably the best because there was just so much to do. Then More Friends of Mineral Town.
The PS2 game was awful and the Wonderful Life games were terribly boring.
Magical Melody is the easiest. Wonderful Life just really doesn't make a whole lot of sense and Save The Homeland was a joke. In MM you can easily make money hand over fist even in the first season and whatever time you have left (which, for me, was a lot) you can spend doing whatever you'd like. Don't try to do multiple goals at once if it was getting to you. Just pick one (getting good cows or chickens or crops or fodder or harvesting lots of wild stuff) and just keep at it. Special hint : fishing + knife set = sashimi = PROFIT
Terrible, terrible, awful. People vanish, constant freeze ups, the two legendary wives can't be married because of bugs, data gets corrupted daily and .... aw hell I can't even list them all. The bugs were so bad that the "For Girls" version won't even get ported over here.
The European version is supposed to fix most of the bugs. So if you really want it, import it from there if you're not there already. The game itself has lots of really fun stuff to do so I'm importing it myself.
I've never agreed more with a statement. Maybe the sweet potatoes will somehow play into the killing of things...
As far as best Harvest Moon to date, I'd probably have to go with Friends of Mineral Town. Before the GBA games hit, it was pretty much a tie between Back to Nature and HM64. The GBA games basically took BtN and added some stuff and tweaked the controls and things(which is kind of cheap as far as getting a new game goes, but did definitely make it better).
The DS game as mentioned is buggy(though I think the extent of the glitchiness is a tad over-represented), and I personally prefer Karen/Ann/the gang over its selection. Some stuff with the livestock pisses me off too...
Everything else...although I could understand someone liking them, they at the very least don't really fit into the 'classical' HM mold like the portable games.
FoM is really good but More FoM fixes all of the bugs in FoM and improves the translation a bit.
If anything, it's underepresented. I've had 5 different copies and had the corrupted save bug on every version before I even got out of Spring, not to mention the myriad other snafus I've experienced before that happened and how many things you just can't actually do in the game because of all the bugs. The actual extent of the glitches is just mind boggling.
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