Rune Factory 4 Special

I'm blown away. My flabbers are GHASTED. I haven't enjoyed an rpg so much since forever ago. I thought stardew was a cool game. Stardew is now an icky sticky doodoo husk of a game that does not compare (though it does have superior farm decorations, so if you like designing your base you may like stardew more.) BUT IT WON'T COMPARE. Not to the story, nor the social aspect, nor the action or adventure of the glorious rune factory 4 special. Buy now

My favorite thing about Rune Factory has always been the satisfying and constant progression of your character's stats and strength and how well it ties in with both farming and exploration/combat. In terms of story, I'd say this would be the one that hit me most emotionally since I have a soft spot for lonely dragons (or any lonely ancient being for that matter). For gameplay alone, I didn't have as much fun here compared to RF3 Special which had newer and less grindy QoL changes. I especially disliked how events were randomized which ruined the pace of the story for me as having to wait out love/marriage events was tedious. For achievements, if you have an extra 30+ hours to kill and have the stomach for terrible drop rates or just enjoy grinding. Meh

I am going to be honest, this game has a very interesting story, and a unique cast, but overall it feels very clunky, managing your items, getting stuff done, moving forward, everything should be overhauled basically from combat to farming. I will try to get used to it for maybe another 5 hours atleast, but it's honestly the type of game that I want to love so much, but I can't cause the gameplay mechanics programmed very poorly, like you can't even cycle between tools with the mouse wheel, there's not even a quick heal button during fights, even with tools you have to Press R, search the water can for example and you not only select it, you additionally have to press a "yes" button after the game ask "you sure want to equip this?" basically. It just tries to be so much, and it is clear that this game probably has 100+ hours of content on end, and every dialogue is different, I'm especially touched how Segami's voice actor voices Amber, but I just can't enjoy the game, cause it feels like everything that you want to do has unnecessary steps that you have to do everytime to get to the actual thing you want. The story is the only thing that keeps me here, and the lifesim part of things, but tbh not even that, cause there's no same sex marriage, which I usually go for in games if the male character's seem cooler, which with RuneFactory 4 is the case.

7/10 Positive: The game has a major graphics overall. There are no graphical bugs that I am aware of like RF3 Special. RF4 Special is just as fun as the original with a few added bonus addons that gives you more to spend your princely points after the game. Negative: I marginally recommend the game. There is a major bug that leaves the entire dungeon map unable to be seen. The community says this is a minor issue, but I think this is just coping. This is a major bug that makes it very frustrating to navigate dungeons and get all the dungeon chests. I would say do not buy this game unless its on sale. I am a big rune factory fan, but this major bugs really dampens the experience.

Luar Biasa Seru, worth to try at least nostalgic feel just like Harvest Moon things but more

This is not a farming game. This is an action rpg, they put a lot of effort into the fighting and I appreciate that but the farming is bad and that's a huge problem. The story is cute and I'm going to finish the damn game due to sunk cost fallacy, but I can't recommend a single soul follow me on that journey. After blazing through the first credits in Spring I was confused. After grinding at a forge instead of farming I went from tickling the Fire boss I was stuck at to annihilating him. Then I had to do the same thing to get the credits a second time with my armor. Apparently I'm on the last third arc of the game, and I'm going to have to fix all my armor again and as far as I can tell, farming did nothing for me. I'm incredibly disappointed that anyone would call this a farming game.

PC端按键非常反人类，严重影响游戏体验，游戏画质也是相当古早，就算是史低这个价格也不美丽，正在考虑是否退款

根本无法打开游戏，PC端的适配根本没做好就端上来，吃相难看

The definitive Rune Factory game, but probably not the best. Rune Factory 4 originally was the last of its series, as developer Neverland went under soon after its release in america. It shows that it was meant to be a send-off for the series as it's packed with new features and references to the rest of the series throughout, as well as just packed in general. The references don't get in the way if you're new, and the length and new features were great in 2013 when it looked like this was the end of the line, but sitting here many years later with the (admittedly sub-par) Rune Factory 5 and Guardians of Azuma behind us, and more coming, a more focused experience would have been better. Rune Factory has from the start been a light farming sim/RPG hybrid, originally having the tag-line "A Fantasy Harvest Moon". Being in part an RPG, the farming has always been a bit crunchier than Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley. You have farming and watering level, your plants have a level, your soil has several stats that can level up (or down). A lot of it isn't that complex, you can run a successful farm without any of this, but if you want to become the turnip king, then you'd have to think a bit. It isn't just an RPG for the farming though. Much like Stardew Valley after it, you can delve into dungeons to gather minerals and fight monsters. You can take on the world with several different weapon types or spells, which more often than not you've made yourself. It all feeds into itself rather neatly. You farm to get food, money and medicine. The money goes towards buying new crafting recipes and tools, while the food and medicine goes towards exploring dungeons. In the dungeons you mine minerals, slay monsters for stuff and perhaps also tame a few of them. The minerals and other stuff goes towards your farming equipment and armour and weapons, while the monsters can help out on the farm, or join you on your adventures. And every action also goes towards leveling up one skill or another (I have yet to see another series where walking, sleeping or eating is a skill). From that last statement, you might have picked up that there is some bloat going on. A lot of Rune Factory 4 is grinding, and when you have several disparate systems that you can make progress in, you can easily overlook some part. You might be the mightiest warrior in all of Norad, but if your equipment isn't up to snuff or you haven't eaten your daily greens, then you're not getting anywhere. If you've ever played Disgaea, it's the same problem as you can have there where you can be overleveled in some aspect, but underleveled in others, and in turn make the grind much worse. The story isn't the most engaging. It's par for the series, but it's rather generic anime-fantasy. It also focuses on a very small subset of the cast. If your favourite is one of the butlers then I hope you get enough of them from their day-to-day interactions, because they aren't getting characterised through the story. It makes sense that some people would be important, and some people wouldn't, but when a big appeal is supposed to be the townsfolk, it feels like an odd bit of favouritism. Showing my hand a bit early, Tides of Destiny, a PS3 spin-off and my favourite in the series also has a story with rather serious consequences, but there they somehow managed to equally involve a dragon priestess, a (supposed) sorcerer goddess of evil, the foremost golemancer in the world, and a nurse. (That story is still very standard, but having everyone involved felt much nicer) Concluding is that too much of a good thing can be bad. I love a systems-heavy RPG, but even with my peculiarities, this is a bit too much (Don't get me started on crafting optimal gear). As I said above, my personal favourite in the series is Tides of Destiny/Oceans, as it stripped down several systems severely in order to focus more on exploration and combat, which I think makes it a much more interesting experience (it also looks and controls the best, which should be an inditement to later non-handheld games). I haven't had enough time with RF3 to determine if it's also more focused, but I do know that it's many people's favourite. If you want the entire package, then go for RF4, but if you want something slightly more focused, then it might be better to look at some other entry in the series.

通关后本来打算慢慢提升所有人好感然后挨个存档结婚的，结果忘了存档游戏闪退了,,,,,,,,,然后回档了就靠着连睡快速和女仆结婚生子，就这样结档了吧,,,,