Topic: Rune Factory Frontier

[Bill Aurion]

I'm having a blast with Rune Factory (heading towards the middle of the first Winter), so I'm really looking forward to the Wii version...A couple more screens!

[Ceric]

I love Rune Factory.  I stopped playing for a while because I only had time to play at work on my breaks and that wasn't enough time to get through a dungeon in one sitting.  I should really pick it up again.

Like Urkel said, you can divide your time however you wish.  I probably spent the least amount of time farming.  Once you get the watering and harvesting monsters, it's just a matter of laying seeds on the ground.  I did a lot of mining and looting monsters so I could forge new weapons and armor.  It's pretty easy to make your character overpowered in the dungeons, so you have to kind of set limits for yourself.  I don't think I ever died in a boss battle.

As for wooing the girls, I liked the system they had in place.  Some girls were really easy to woo, while others are hard to woo.  There are also holidays where you can raise your love points with a girl by taking them on a date, so you can pretty much marry whoever you want after the first year.

I'm gonna skip the Wii version, because one HM game per generation seems to be my limit.  They're just way too time consuming.

I was so psyched when I got a harvesting monster.  I set it to harvest and....

It never did.  My Monsters never liked me even though I fed and groomed them every day.  Thats when I realized I sunk so much repetitive time in the game for almost no return.  (Mind you I mind an area for cards in Baten Kaitos for 20 hours...)

[AV]

I would suggest holding off on the DS version. Neither the farming/social aspect nor the fighting aspect of the game felt fully fleshed out.

The town "events" were a joke where everybody just stood outside of their houses with one new line of dialogue.

The combat was really basic, even for a hack n' slash. The AI simply walked in a straight line towards you. It was also annoying how frequently enemy attacks inflicted status altering conditions like poison and silence.

Mind you, it's not bad. It's leaps and bounds better than A Wonderful Life, though that's not saying much. It just felt like it lacked polish. Hopefully they'll have it all fixed for the Wii version.

I very much agree.

I got to the 4th or 5th cave and was addicted than hit a wall where I just got so bored with it and sold it soon after.

Natsume is terrible about polishing games they tend to do what they can at the time, and just re-release a better version a year or two later with slight patches and fixes they should of included to begin with.

The game doesn't look good, it looks like a good looking GAMECUBE game. Things could still look better its just that so many other 3rd party games have looked so horrible we tend to forget how much power the Wii can do. We should expect near RE4 quality for God Sakes this is 2008.

[Kairon]

The game doesn't look good, it looks like a good looking GAMECUBE game. Things could still look better its just that so many other 3rd party games have looked so horrible we tend to forget how much power the Wii can do. We should expect near RE4 quality for God Sakes this is 2008.

... There's some definite irony in this statement.

[NWR_insanolord]

I can live with high-GameCube graphics. I'd rather have better but I'd take them in a heartbeat over low-PS2.

You don't want high-GameCube, you want near RE4? So you want upper-midrange-GameCube level graphics?

[Bill Aurion]

Graphics don't make a spit of difference if you have good art design, which this game has...

[KDR_11k]

The best graphics on the GC used a lot of shaders, those didn't become any easier to make on the Wii.

[Bill Aurion]

A bit off-topic, but Natsume has revealed that Rune Factory 2 for DS will be coming this Fall...Seems pretty likely they'll do the same for Frontier...

[Kairon]

Graphics don't make a spit of difference if you have good art design, which this game has...

SO MUCH TRUTH.

[Kenology]

Nice artwork.

[BeautifulShy]

http://Http://www.siliconera.com/2008/07/22/no-rune-factory-frontier-or-avalon-code-until-next-year
Link says it all.

[DAaaMan64]

Good I say. GOOD.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Why do I want this more than AC?

[Kairon]

*phew*

I was wondering how in the world I'd be able to afford it this year.

[Bill Aurion]

These dates aren't surprising at all, nor are they unwanted!  They will lovingly fill up the usually-empty first/second quarters! (Rune Factory 2 DS comes out this Fall anyway!)

[Bill Aurion]

Bigger screens are bigger!

[EasyCure]

do want, too many wii games to buy, blah! (you dont hear that everyday on these internets)

[Morari]

So why does Harvest Moon look like crap while this appears rather decent?

[Bill Aurion]

Apparently the A-team at Natsume works on the Rune Factory series... =)

[Sessha]

Funny I wasn't aware Natsume had an A team.  Well I guess I'm just sore about Harvest Moon DS that game was terrible. 

[EasyCure]

i want that A-team to work on a Flying Dragon sequel!

[NWR_insanolord]

I want the A team to make Freedom Wings for the Wii.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Apparently the A-team at Natsume Marvelous Interactive/Neverland Co. works on the Rune Factory series... =)

Fixed

Umm Bill you do know that Marvelous makes the games Natsume only publishes Harvest Moon and Rune Factory because Natsume owns the harvest moon copyrights in America. Rune Factory is made by Marvelous Interactive and Neverland Co.

[Bill Aurion]

I thought Natsume owned Neverland, but I guess I'm wrong... =O

[Flames_of_chaos]

I thought Natsume owned Neverland, but I guess I'm wrong... =O

Neverland is it's own company it's just a smaller developer company just like grasshopper, my guess they affiliate themselves with marvelous. Marvelous publishes games in Japan and in Europe/PAL (under Rising Star), in America Marvelous' games are handled by tons of publishers such as Natsume, Atlus, Ubisoft, Xseed.