And you are encouraged to befriend monsters, too.
Plus, the game’s story explains that your weapons are imbued with magic that doesn’t really kill the monsters, but teleports them back to their home in the Forest of Beginnings. Even though you fight monsters with swords and other weapons, they only disappear when defeated. You can purchase wine in the game and cook with it or drink it. Rune Factory 3 is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Use of Alcohol. With this and Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals, Natsume looks to have a solid handheld RPG lineup this holiday season. Rune Factory 3 is a charming and addictive game that is really much better than the Harvest Moon games it spun off from. And it’s too bad you can only pick one townsperson request or job per day.īut those are only minor problems. The only other problem I had with this game was the clock seems to move faster than in Rune Factory 2, so it feels like you have less time to do all the things you want to do. Sometimes the button placement for actions feels a little awkward, but it just takes some getting used to. I also really like the character designs, too, and the production values seem very high with an animated intro and whatnot.
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The 2-D graphics are some of the best I’ve seen on the DS and are full of color and detail. You can even venture into a special dungeon with friends via WiFi. You can learn to cook, fish, and much more. There is so much you can do in this game that I can’t put it all in one review. Everything you do in the game has a skill you can level up, whether it be fighting monsters, using tools, or simply walking around.
Later on, you can even turn into a monster yourself and visit a hidden village and discover other secrets. Some of them aid you in battle, while some provide help on the farm. The way you acquire farm animals in Rune Factory 3 is by befriending the monsters in the dungeons. You can even find patches of farmland in each dungeon so you can farm crops from all seasons! In the dungeons are monsters to fight and quests to take on. At times you’ll want to put down that hoe and pick up a sword and venture off to four different dungeons, each one representing a season. But what separates Rune Factory is that in this game, you can fight monsters in dungeons. That all sounds like typical Harvest Moon type stuff. You may even win the heart of a lady this way and eventually marry. Make friends with people in town by doing favors for them or giving them gifts they like. Keep track of time so you don’t miss an important event in town either, whether it’s a festival or a shop’s hours of business. Luckily they kept the farm activities pretty streamlined. Everything is time based, so you’ll have to harvest crops at a certain time to get money that day, and make sure to take care of your plants and animals daily. Anyway, your character starts working on a run-down farm, and earns a living growing crops. Later on you’ll learn that you can transform into a monster, but more on that later. In this one, your farmer suddenly appears in town one day and has lost his memory. Rune Factory 3 starts out like any other Harvest Moon game.
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But something always seemed amiss: action packed battles! Luckily, the Rune Factory series covers that, and now you can enjoy the newest with Rune Factory 3 for DS. Grow crops and raise farm animals for money, and make friends in the nearby town and possibly marry and start a family. The Harvest Moon series of farming simulation console games have made many improvements and additions over the past several years, but the basic gameplay idea has always been the same.