You awaken to find yourself in an unfamiliar village with no memory of who you are or how you arrived. Mist, a beautiful young woman comes to your aid and helps you start to build a life for yourself…on a farm. Till the land, grow crops, raise animals, catch fish and battle monsters! Battling against fierce beasts is very important for your survival, but making friends with them is essential for your farm life. Build skills and learn magic as you save your neighbors and uncover the secrets of your forgotten past…

• Befriend wandering monsters to help with your farm, each with their own special abilities!
• Upgrade your skills as you use and create hundreds of items and tools!
• Communicate and exchange items via Wi-Fi!
• Grow crops, make friends and fall in love!

Rune Factory puts you in the role of Raguna, a young boy who stumbles into an unknown town with a serious case of amnesia. Quickly befriending a young girl by the name of Mist, you acquire a chunk of land in return for service on the farm, and begin again in the town of Kardia. The story is quick to introduce and allow you to move on, starting you this time with only a watering can, hoe, and single pack of seeds. Since the world is a mix between the hand-drawn backdrops and actual tiled art (similar to the previous HM worlds) it’s extremely easy to tell where you farm, and where you can’t. As an added help this time around the aiming box has been included from the console versions, and a quick toggle of the select button brings up the floating box in front of you.

As far as main gameplay goes, Rune Factory is still the same Harvest Moon world, with a few minor tweaks. We’re a fan of the changes made, as players can now walk over crops instead of having to trek around them or plan for watering spaces, managing objects such as rocks, trees, weeds, grass, and herbs is as simple as plopping them in the shipment box per usual, or storing them in your huge inventory, and items can now be sold direct to any vendors, rather than waiting until the token 6:00PM time and having your shipment then go out. It’s still the same farming design – hoe, plant, water, wait, and collect – so if you’re new to the world of Harvest Moon it’ll take some serious time to learn the ropes, or if you have already grown tired of the design you may want to pass this one up, but Rune Factory makes farming faster, easier, and less of a chore.

Along with the classic farming portion of the game Rune Factory also opens up a ton of extra activities. The world runs on a one second = one minute timer, but with added functions such as a sprint button (faster than previous games) and a seemingly larger amount of stamina overall you’ll get the majority of your chores done before noon in the first year or so of work. The town is slightly larger here than something like Friends of Mineral Town on GBA, and took us a good hour just to meet everyone and check the place out. As a style change the world actually goes into a more head-on 3/4 side-view mode when in town, having huge painted buildings for your 3D modeled character to navigate. The style is amazingly beautiful, and still impresses us as much as it did the first time we saw it. Rune Factory has all the accommodations you’d expect from other Harvest Moon games, such as fishing, the bath house, and a huge amount of house expansion should you chose to focus on that, but also includes a ton of other ways to make money.

Publisher: Natsume
Developer: Neverland
Genre(s): Role-Playing Game, Simulation
Players: 2
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Release Date: August 14, 2007

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