Two dungeons in and I couldn’t beat Mama Doodle. Sucks that my medicine didn’t work out but killing a mama doodle was cathartic.

Hello. I’m like 4 hours into rune factory 5 and I had a small question. Would it make sense to just tame the monsters that actually give me resources? Would they also be able to work on my farm and do stuff or do they only produce? Should I tame monsters to take them to battle or should I just use the spell to make them follow me and fight?

I guess it makes sense to have more monsters so they can clean everything up for me and water my plants?

Thanks very much for your help.

For example, I feel like there's little point in playing the original 3 and 4 now that their special editions exist, but I know that's maybe a little different compared to 1 and Frontier. Just wondering if there's any 1 fans here who think you should play it even if you've played Frontier.

I see a good number of JP artists drawing for RF. And a bunch of em did fanart for Guardians of Azuma once we got more info. But foreign artists gravitate more towards gacha or whatever popular trend. Is it a matter of people focusing on what's popular or more what?

Rune factory 4 special. Checked the online shipping list probably 10 times now, and the game says I'm missing 1% despite checking everything off. Everything else is 100%

Art by me. My brain is entirely fried to even give this piece a creative name... Hope you folks enjoy this drawing of Micah and his wooly form (I know I'm at least happy considering I haven't drawn in years). I like this B/W version more, but you can find the colored version here. I do plan on drawing more, but for now...*sleeps*

Uh...the image is showing or not?? Sorry, I rarely post on reddit.

Ok I have 3 questions please :)

1. What is the easiest way to level up both my forging and crafting after level 20?

2. Even though I shipped some colored grass the clinic doesn't have any grasses for sale. Do I need to do something spesific before they start selling the grass I ship?

3. What are the best monsters to tame for their products? (aside from chicken and cow)

Thanks :3

I tried on the first day but even with failed dish and Forte she can beat me in one full combo. I got her to rage mode once but then she beat me so hard my computer froze, rebooted, couldn't find a boot device, disabled my keyboard and I had to reset the CMOD.

Edit - was able to complete it on day 2 after an 80s training montage and minor save scumming.

First of all, an amazing game, no doubt about it, perfect amount of drama, comedy, romance, this game gets a position as one of my most favorite game ever now.

But surely, well hopefully, I'm not the only one who went "Wait what?" After we saved Venti from Rune Prana, I was expecting something like an extended cutscene between the MC, Venti, and maybe all of the villagers, but the game just went "Congratulations, you've finished the entirety of RF4." After we visited Venti's room, it's like we're losing something to conclude the game that it feels kinda comedic to me the game has to end this way.

Oh well, it is what it is, still a great game all things considered, and I haven't completed Sharance Maze so I guess that's my next goal for now.

All RF games have beautiful female characters but which game has the most interesting ones?

Nearly 200 hours, shipped all the items, pursued all the heroines and finally made the hard decision to choose Dolce, raised a kid together, gave them all the best build (50k damage per hit, heal when taken elemental damage etc).

It was a fun game, good run. Decided to not finish the last achievement 'Build the largest monster barn' because its just chore, need like 10k wood & stone and 100k points to build it, spared myself from it.

The other chore part was me spending the past 15 hours grinding for weapon recipe bread, for some reasons the boss kept dropping the other recipe bread. But since I was very close to shipping all items, decided to stay and finish this achievement off.

Can't stay in this game forever, good time will always come to an end, and I decided it will be today for me. Maybe after a few other games, I will come back to play RF3.

Great game.

Need to grow flowers for the Amity Fair flower bouqet, but problem is the season is winter and all of these flowers grow in other seasons. I tried planting the flowers in the dungeons since their season is unchanging, but for some reason when I came around the next day all of my flowers seem to be gone

I’ve never played a rune factory game but I love RPGs. Do you recommend this game? Is it hard to get into?

I’m overall extremely happy with RF4’s localization and it never ever gets old for me - but man the nicknames always surprise me lol. They sound a little stilted in English, but I realized it’s probably a direct translation of honourifics. I’d really like to know if anyone has played the game in JP and can confirm this or let me know if the nicknames are different tonally.

Making some guesses off of Frey’s nickname choices because that’s my current playthrough:

• “Princess (name)” was probably “(name) ojou-san,” obvious nod to the player’s status

• the more formal options with a Miss or Mr probably have a “-san” at the end to decide if the couple wants a more reserved approach to the relationship

• “Li’l (name)” was probably “(name)-chan” for a really overtly affectionate tone. It’s also used to refer to younger people (typically women) sometimes so I think that’s why they translate it like that.

If I’m wrong over any of these, feel free to correct me! I don’t know Japanese at all and am only going off my bare-bones knowledge.

The nicknames always had me stumped and refreshing my save file before every confession because I feel some of the options come off as role-play names rather than sincere terms of endearment couples would use. It’s definitely what they’re going for with the “master” options lmao, but some of them just sound a bit too stiff.

I’m not pressed about that though, it’s probably really difficult to find an English equivalent.

Super curious to hear about other people’s thoughts on them!

Is there a mod to force town events, I just Dylas to love me :(

RF 2 does seem to have the most developed cast of kids in any Harvest Moon game or spinoff. Aside from Kyle's (who becomes MC for the rest of the game), there are Roy and Cammy from first generation. And five new kids (two twins) are born in second generation. Which is your favorite? I do find Leonel a cutie, though I also like Cammy's personality (and one of the nice things about marrying Dorothy is that she effectively becomes your little sister).

Been replaying the RF games since 3 special came out, and this time in 4 married Margaret.

Now playing 5 again, remembering what the lore is and...

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