Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

룬팩토리 시리즈중 나한테는 단연 최고였음 입문작으로도 이만한게 없다고 본다 명작이라는 4랑 구작들 하기에는 너무 구닥다리임 아예 용의나라2,3,4 처럼 룬팩 외전이 아닌 독립시리즈로 나오면좋겠다

💮 ​C'était mon premier Rune Factory ! 💮​ Franchement j'ai bien accroché. J'ai beaucoup aimé le mélange entre les combats façon JRPG et la gestion de la ferme, ça change et ça fonctionne vraiment bien. Les personnages sont attachants, chacun a sa propre personnalité, ce qui donne envie de les découvrir. La gestion des villages devient un peu répétitive sur la fin, mais ça ne m'a pas empêché d'apprécier l'aventure. Une très bonne découverte pour une première expérience avec la série !

It says verified on steam deck yes? Then why does it crash every single time i put the steam deck to sleep and wake it up? Also why does inviting people out seem so basic compared to rf4? I take somebody out to the forest and they just nod at me? What's that? I hope it gets more deep later.

I'm loving it. My only gripe is that I wish they would have assigned the protagonist's name. You can't customize their hair or skin color so they aren't a self insert. Because you can choose their name there are a few pieces of spoken dialogue where your name is avoided.

Primeiro jogo da franquia que estou jogando e estou amando. 10/10

超級非常大推薦 就算不跑主線 種田蓋房子跟NPC約會都很有趣 最喜歡彼方

I'm a bit more mixed than anything because the game starts out really fun and it has quite an endearing cast and everything but then farming becomes borderline obsolete, the automation does not work well, you have little incentive to do daily chores and when you try to then just get through the story, you suffer from a new set of problems. Specifically, the level increase per story stage mixed with getting a new - significantly stronger - weapon what feels like every 20 enemies you kill really drags this game down near the end. You just start hitting like a wet noodle due to both being severely under-levelled and also having outdated equipment unless you literally port out of every new area after getting the new recipe and crafting the new weapon. OR you just spam sacred treasure skills which are significantly stronger anyway. The combat was never the reason to play the game and that was fine when you breezed through it but then having to engage with it so tediously tanked my enjoyment quite a bit. The story overall was okay, I could not be bothered to do post-game content though. And according to comments about it, not much was missed. I think, fundamentally there was a sensible design here but having so few fields and them being so grindy to come by at the start made building farms not fun. And the villagers being entirely useless in terms of working the fields meant you would have to do the same run and drum routine across 4 villages and possibly vast fields every single day to get gold you would not need in that quantity anyway. But if you really like repetitive farming and prefer a very slow-paced approach without being bothered by what seems the whole thing being rather pointless, then this is fun enough I guess. It entertained me for like 30 hours, then I really just wanted to finish it and spend 10 more hours just doing story and cursing the level and attack value jumps every 10 minutes or so.

好玩爱玩！不过出货的时候有点难点，要是能批量卖掉就好了，还有些物品不能放一起太占格子了。许愿符文6能自定义主角！不过比起和风我还是更喜欢偏西幻的，期待新作٩(๑>◡<๑)۶

Really fun and unique systems. Enjoying it greatly and even more than some other rune factory titles. amazing characters as well. i wasn't expecting them to be so deep and varied. that being said, the designs are typically lacking a little or are not super coordinated color-wise, and the user interface is bland, to say the least. I've recently played indie games with more flare and flavor that are the same scale as GoA (Tales of Seikyu is a good example). Since Rune Factory is from a large corporation and is almost a Triple-A series, it should be even larger in scope and graphics. I don't mind "worse" graphics for better gameplay, of course, but in a game with this big of a potential budget and sold at full price for average popular game titles these days, they can absolutely provide the best of both worlds. I hope they go bigger and better for the next installment in the series, which has been announced but gone silent since, so I don't really know what to think yet. The game is incredibly fun though and the world is still very immersive, I just know it could be even better given more time for the devs to cook/not rush and a bigger dedicated budget. I do think putting romance options behind DLC is ridiculous and the deluxe editions are not worth a single outfit and 2 romance options I'm not interested in anyways. It is a bit disappointing that games like Rune Factory with big backing companies behind it always drop and then are mostly abandoned, when indie titles of the same quality if not better are doing even more and caring for their titles. I understand it's a different situation; I hate company executives and billionaires as much as the next guy. But if we don't say it, they won't even care to think about it. tldr: Guardians of Azuma is a fantastic game, not just a side Rune Factory title. It is by no means perfect and puts a hurt on your wallet at full price, but thankfully goes on sale often now and provides a good amount of gameplay. The graphics are a bit lacking, like the trees and ground being flat and one color. The graphic design is a good start but looks unfinished. The way seasons and characters are handled is nice though, the skill trees provide a FUN grind, and there is a decent amount to explore. Romanceables and storylines for all kinds of people and preferences.

Me lo he pasado una vez y voy a por la segunda. Me gusta muchísimo cómo han planteado el sistema de relaciones entre personajes, los diálogos y toda sus movidas internas. Me encanta la simplicidad y al mismo tiempo la complejidad de lo que son las mecánicas. He esperado mucho tiempo hasta una rebaja y cuando ha llegado me he dado cuenta de que realmente cuesta cada euro que piden por él. Si que quiero resaltar que a veces da la sensación de que el guionista hizo alguna que otra gimnasia mental con la trama principal, pero al margen de eso, es todo muy épico. Ah, y para los/las de siempre: husbandos y waifus 10/10