You can make all sorts of weapons and equipment, as well as farming implements or medicines. Once you’ve got your haul back to Selphia, you can choose to sell it off or stockpile it for use in the crafting system. There’s a hell of a lot to find in these places, and lots of materials to gather from defeated enemies or resource points scattered around. Beyond farming and interacting with Selphia’s denizens, you’ll be able to roam around the game’s world, fighting/taming monsters and plumbing the depths of dungeons. With all that said, relationships take time to develop, so you’ll be off partaking in the rest of the game’s activities in the meantime. There aren’t any same-sex options, however.”įor many, this is likely the thing they’ll aspire towards in Rune Factory 4. “T here are 12 romanceable characters among the cast: six bachelors and six bachelorettes. As you befriend your chosen waifu/husbando, you’ll get the option to profess your love, go on dates, and eventually marry and have a child. And no, the dragon Ventuswill is not dateable. There aren’t any same-sex options, however, so keep that in mind if that’s something you’re looking for. To that end, there are 12 romanceable characters among the cast: six bachelors and six bachelorettes. No good life sim is complete without the ability to take those friendships one step further, however. Even the most bizarre or bland of them quickly proves to have a lot of personality, and I found myself happy to chat with and befriend them as the days passed. The real meat of the story is in the dialogue of this colourful cast. Beyond that, you can wander the town and interact with the many characters. Your day-to-day activities will involve you restoring and managing the farm in Selphia, growing crops, and taming monsters.
#RUNE FACTORY 4 SPECIAL REVIEW SERIES#
Like the series it originates from, it’s a farming life sim first and foremost. There’s a strong streak of Shinto spirituality that runs through these games in a natural, understated manner, and consequently this kind of game doesn’t really have a western mirror (other than Stardew Valley, which of course, tries its hardest to emulate the Harvest Moon experience).With that in mind, Rune Factory 4 never forces such a thing on you. Rune Factory presents a highly idealised vision of Japanese society, of course, but nonetheless encapsulates much of what defines Japanese society – harmonious community, a strong work ethic for reasons other (and greater) than economic gain, and a reverence for the natural world and the bounty that it provides.
There’s little out there that’s more wholesome than Rune Factory, which is a good start in achieving “warmth.” It’s a universe where conflict is rare and hardworking communities of people come together, with everyone happy to accept their niche and role in life. It’s all very slice of life, and to work, slice of life needs to have a couple of things going for it: interesting characters and a sense of warmth. For my part I spent as little time as possible in the dungeon crawling, simply because I prefer the other side of the game, though I did enjoy heading out in the wilderness to tame cute monsters, which would then be added to my barn back in town. But then we do live in a world where content is king, and setting the difficulty setting high enough will guarantee you a longer grind and the need to do better min-maxing of your character stats. I would say that the difficulty options do seem very out of place in this kind of game, and the easier, more relaxed difficulty settings are appropriate to the overall game’s tone.
Combat is simple, enemy AI is basic and the difficulty largely comes from increasing monster’s health and damage output. For people that do want a bit more of a challenge, there are multiple difficulty settings for the action combat, but at no stage does Rune Factory ever become something complex and challenging on the reflexes and skill as stuff like NieR: Automata can be.
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