Use swords, spears, staves, and other weapons and magic to personalize your battle tactics as formidable monsters await in trap-laden dungeons. Venture outside the town gates to explore dangerous dungeons. Grow crops, raise monsters, catch fish, cook up tasty dishes, and craft powerful equipment. Start an exciting new life and embark on a grand adventure in this beloved entry in the Rune Factory series! The player becomes Selphias prince or princess and can manage the village, explore the countryside with townsfolk, or tame monsters in the wild to aid them in battle or help out in the fields.Welcome to Selphia, a region ruled by the Native Dragon Ventuswill.and you!Īfter falling from the sky and landing on the back of a friendly dragon, the young hero or heroine is invited to live in the local castle and, as a newly designated ruler, begins their life anew while developing the town, exploring nearby dungeons, and cultivating the soil. Rune Factory 4 adds new romance options, the ability to select a male or female character at the games start, and endless crafting, farming and cooking opportunities. Sure, it plays things safe, but there's a surprising amount of fun to be had crafting items, taming monsters, and building relationships in between sometimes-bland dungeon runs. But if you're willing to slog through until it opens up, you'll find an enjoyable offering packed with some fun simulations and an elaborate crafting system. With deeper combat and a shorter tutorial, Rune Factory 4 could've been an exceptional game. The can perform tasks that you may not have much fun doing yourself, freeing you up to do the things you actually want to. In Rune Factory 4, monsters can be used as farm hands and can create items, which adds a new level of usefulness outside of combat. Although dungeons can be a bore, resources abound within them-and, of course, monsters to tame. Regardless of your input, your town will improve over time, and more events and buildings will unlock, prodding you to keep taking care of your townsfolk.
"Should you decide to power through the initial tedium, the game really opens up and never lets go." Further, resources called Prince/Princess Points allow you to customize the game to your liking, whether that be creating new events in town, expanding your cooking abilities, or upgrading your character's offensive or gathering abilities. If cooking and fishing are your thing, you'll constantly find new recipes and fishing holes to keep things feeling fresh. If you decide on scavenging for equipment, you'll often find that your dungeon runs will produce more useful spoils than most other games. Once everything is available, there's almost no end to what you can accomplish, or what you can choose to do. Should you decide to power through the initial tedium, the game really opens up and never lets go. On the flipside though, that means this is the perfect entry for newcomers. If you’re someone who plays a lot of RPGs and know the basics inside and out, you're still going to have to go through a tutorial for some 10 hours, performing menial tasks until the game trusts you to take over. For what feels like hours on end, the game has to teach you about every little thing before you're allowed to actually experience it.
Rune Factory 4's biggest problem, though, is its hand-holding. ".dungeon-crawling sometimes devolves into nothing more than a chore."
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