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Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon (DS)

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Great game but I became so obsessed with leveling my blacksmithing skill that I stopped farming and talking to people.

Also it's way too easy.
 

Soule

Member
I just ordered this today, I've been looking around my local GAME and EB stores and none of them even have it listed o_O (I'm in Australia btw) so I've got a couple of weeks wait before it arrives from wherever. I'm so excited to play this considering my last HM, A Wonderful Life, was a huge disappointment and just looking at screens and reading about RF gives me that old nostalgic feeling while being excited over the new aspects. Other than AWL I've only played the SNES and N64 games while having dabbled a very little bit in the GBA games but nothing that captured the addictive feeling of the SNES game which to date is still one of my all-time favourite games.

I was just curious if anyone has heard or seen anything about a Wii version of RF? I remember reading ages ago that one of the devs was keen on making RF a whole series in it's own and was planning on a Wii version.
 

Blackace

if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
RF2 just came out on thursday here in Japan. Since I am still on vacation I have not taken the train anywhere which means I have been sitting on my ass playing WoW. Will open my game up next week..
 
Soule said:
I was just curious if anyone has heard or seen anything about a Wii version of RF? I remember reading ages ago that one of the devs was keen on making RF a whole series in it's own and was planning on a Wii version.

I'm pretty sure there's been no info since then. And it wasn't just one of the devs, it was Yasuhiro Wada, the series creator and producer.
 

Cherubae

Member
Blackace said:
RF2 just came out on thursday here in Japan. Since I am still on vacation I have not taken the train anywhere which means I have been sitting on my ass playing WoW. Will open my game up next week..

I'm still waiting for my copy to ship, while all the kiddies on my forum are obviously playing the emulated version >:| Damn cheapskates.

In general it seems the Kyle-story (the character you start with) is more for learning the ropes of the game. Getting married is incredibly easy (within a few seasons), and once you start playing as your child the game starts taking off.
 

Soule

Member
You can play as your child?!? mind am blown, I've been waiting for that to happen for ages.

Also I didn't know there was a working emulator for DS. It sucks if there's one game I want my money to go towards it's... chrono trigger but after that it's HM.
 
Playing it right now, great game. The only problem with it is that....I'm not using my field at all:lol
Mining is much more profitable and convenient. Once I upgraded to a silver hammer, I can get all the money I need from the third cave. In fact, I started building the large house by the middle of summer and have a couple of monster barns. I might as well leave my field barren since the caves are much more convenient, what with the non-changing seasons.

In general it seems the Kyle-story (the character you start with) is more for learning the ropes of the game. Getting married is incredibly easy (within a few seasons), and once you start playing as your child the game starts taking off.

WHUT? You can't play as your child!

GameFAQS said:
After you have been married for enough time, you'll find one morning that you
wife has a child. The child will never grow older, and will always stay in your
wife's arms in the house.
 
I just recently got back into the 1st one. Its really addicting every couple of months.

I'm still waiting for the HM game to suck me in the way HM64 did.

The more recent ones, have me losing interest before my child is even born.
 

Cherubae

Member
Ledsen said:
I think she means they're playing it on a flashcart on a DS.

Corrected, and no, there are full-blown PC DS emulators. Which is a little annoying for those of us who are still waiting for our cartridge-based copy... damn thing didn't ship today again...

Death_Born said:
WHUT? You can't play as your child!

That would be from Rune Factory 1. You have them mixed up.

You play as either your daughter or son once you get married. You can choose the gender of your child and the game picks up from there.
 

Soule

Member
Yesss! Just arrived today, I haven't been so excited for a new game since... well super mario galaxy but before that i swear it's been ages. Pity I've already got plans for most of the day, can't wait to dig in tho :)
 

Touchdown

Banned
I've never been into the Harvest Moon games before so I am new to series but I've fallen in love with Rune Factory! I had some left over gift money from christmas so I stopped by EB and thought what the hell, something different than what I've been playing recently(Rockband/COD4/Galaxy). Rune Factory is pretty addicting :lol. I love how I can choose to spend one day tending to the farm and making some new dishes in the kitchen and storing them in the fridge, and then the next day, taking one of my "friendly monsters" with me to go kick some ass in the next cave!

I have a quick noob question though, How do you level up your garden vegetables? I tried making seeds out of ones I've already grown but I can't tell if they went up a level.

I think part of the reason I'm enjoying the game so much is because I'm new to the Harvest Moon series. I could see how the formula could get old game after game, but so far RF is a lot of fun. Anybody know if Rune Factory 2 is coming out in America anytime soon?
 
Touchdown said:
I have a quick noob question though, How do you level up your garden vegetables? I tried making seeds out of ones I've already grown but I can't tell if they went up a level.

You buy a bag of greenifier (fertilizer) from the Doctor. Then you plant a new set of seeds and basically throw the greenifier on one of the squares of seeds. It looks and sounds like you're throwing it away, but it does work. Then just water as usual and when it comes time for harvest, the plant you threw it on will produce a crop that's a level higher than the other. Don't worry about remembering which one you threw it on, because it will automatically sort to a separate compartment in your rucksack making it easy to find after harvest. Then you take that leveled up crop, run it through the seedmaker, buy another bag of greenifier and repeat the process.

Note this only works on seeds, not seedlings, so if you want to level up something like strawberries, you need to harvest and then cut down the plants with a sickle and replant from the higher level seeds (or just plant in a new 3x3 plot).
 
the higher the level is the longer you have to wait to get new fruits. I'm lvl 12 with some of my seeds and the waiting is ...
 
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