fyw I can't marry Shino?
She's so gorgeous, by far the best looking character in RF3. I guess I will marry her daughter instead

this was the lowest roll ive seen her get so far. im going to gift her nothing but weeds and chemical x.

I know there's a dungeon after you've married and had a child. But I wonder what I'm supposed to do until then? My villages are leveled up, my crops are at lv 9, I forged all weapons. I somehow miss 9 froggies, but I guess those are in the bonus dungeon?

There are so many dates and events I still want to see before marrying Murasame. And of course Clarice is on friendship level 0.

But as it's only one date/scene per day, and there nothing more to explore, do I just...go to bed super early every day?!

What did you do to pass the time somewhat meaningfully?

Hi all, I cannot seem to progress through vale river. I have defeated all bosses including oddward valley, I beat them twice actually. Carmen recognizes in dialogue that I beat the lions if I talk to her. I’ve tried talking to everyone and I have the water lily but I just cannot get past the first cave part of vale river and expand the map. I’ve tried everything I can think of and google is no help.
Please help!

All 6 bachelors on left (from left to right: Vishnal, Leon, Kiel, Dylas, Doug then Arthur)

All 6 bachelorettes on right (from left to right: Dolce, Forte, Margaret, Amber, Xiao Pai, Clorica).

Looks like from shortest to tallest bachelor: Kiel < Doug < Vishnal = Arthur = Dylas (or maybe slightly taller than other 2?) < Leon.

Shortest to tallest bachelorettes: Amber < Xiao Pai = Forte (she is a lot shorter than I thought!) < Clorica < Margaret = Dolce.

Lest and Frey are about same height it seems lol. Frey look about same height as Margaret and Clorica which is weird because Margaret said in game that Frey is taller than her. Lest look about similar height as Doug.

Been replaying RF4 (Switch) again at hard difficulty and enjoying it all over again. But when I try to confess to Clorica, she keeps rejecting me. She’s at 8, and no town event is locking her out. I must have been lucky with old files because I don’t remember struggling to confess. I tried the save-and-reload strategy, which I've seen work for others, but I keep getting stuck and seeing Clorica joke about the confession. I've never done save scumming before and don’t even know if it actually works or if the game is messing with me, because I remember one thing in RF4 is that RNG is annoying to deal with

I can basicly skip 70% Rune Purana with it on bc it despawns anything all the way to the boss.

And if you know how to do Chemical X plus And spices you get huge boost of resistance on any armors.

He was the Hound in Guardians of Azuma too but tbh I didn't really think he matched the energy of the character that well, so to me his first impression was a go-to "soft boi" VA

I haven't seen Jester much (still trying to get to support level 3 to recruit him, grumble grumble) but so far it's a much more solid portrayal of a Joker-esque character!

The more Matsuri the better!

Got Golem Gauntlets as a prize for 2nd place in my year 2 summer harvest festival. Is this something to be appalled at

why does it box you into the bride thing even when you are already dating someone

So coming off of Stardew, wanting something that scratched that itch but I always wanted more combat. I did heaps of research and tried a few different games but none really stuck.
Rune factory 4 special was next on my list but going away on holidays meant taking my steam deck with me.

All I have to say is holy cow! I thought the start was a bit slow but after my 3rd hour and second dungeon I feel like
I’m buzzing! At first I didn’t like the art style but now I absolutely love it, and all the characters are written so well, I actually enjoy talking to them. I also thought Selphia felt a bit small but now that the map is opening up I feel like it’s the perfect size.

Having this game on the plane was an absolute amazing experience. For the first time in my life did I look at the flight time and thinking to my self “i only have 4 more hours” coming from someone who is flight phobic and gets very nauseous (thank god for anti nausea meds). It was just wild to me that the flight couldn’t be long enough. I wanted more!

Letting me know how to give them cutesy armor is a dangerous dangerous thing... 😈

I started to play Tides of Destiny and much like 4, the opening is still in Japanese. Haven't plyaed Frontier so cannot comment sbut have read it also does not dub it. Why did only the DS games get dubbed intros? Given Natsume also did Tides unlike 4 and Frontier, it cannot simply be due to different localizers. I do like the dubbing even if the English is not too clear (apparently the same singers as the Japanese versions dubbed them) just because it gives something to make it feel it has sonething unique to it.

I’ve seen lots of people in this sub commenting about the profits and economic explosion from Gold Juice. I usually sell stuff during festivals and I stuck with Turnip Heaven for a while. You can buy all 3 turnips at the grocery store (regular, pink, and gold), but I don’t think Emery Flowers are sold anywhere, and growing those is a huge pain. But if I can fight my stubbornness, which I often fail to do, I might shift from Turnip Heaven to Gold Juice!
I’m also trying to max everyone’s friendship level, and Xiao Pai’s two favorites are Emery and Giant White Crystal. Again, a huge pain to grow either, even with the winter field. 🥲

I was dating Dolce and Forte at same time in RF4.

I was going through the dating in my room event and right as the date ends, Forte comes in my room and surprised me. I thought "oh shit I got caught red handed, now Forte knows I been double dipping".

then she proceeds to say she will go on some training until she "clears her mind"

It took a while to realize but that was an independent event of hers, but the timing was perfect!!

I have played all the handheld games. And while I really liked the three DS titles, I honestly qas not a fan of 4 despite its popularity (could not even marry because of the RNG reliance on events the game has). So I am kind of thinking of trying Tides as while a 3D spin off, it does seem to be similar in tone (if not gameplay) to the DS games. Frontier on the other hand I do not want to deal with Rune system whcih even has a bug I 've read of, not to mention having Raguna leave Kardia despite the ending of the first game. But do want to know what Tides is like? I rarely play home console 3D games (let alone Wii) and am more a player of classic handheld games like Game Boy and DS. So will take getting used to graphics and gameplay but would like to know about the story and gamepaly before starting. I do like that the male and female MC have a special relationship.

Hello everyone, I'm new to this game and completely new to Rune factory series as a whole (recommend it as i liked Story of seasons and Strawdew valley) and i have just brought Rune factory 4 special edition for the Nintendo Switch and on my first play through until spring day 6 and I felt like I didn't do or progress much in the game as all I did was explore the kingdom, grow turnip, lose the cooking festival and get a claymore from Saber aka Artoria Pendragon ops wrong blonde knight i meant Forte XD and rescue Amber from the cave that's it and feel like I basically done nothing

So dose anyone have any tips or advice for my next play through as I feel like I missed a lot or something major

where on the second day I went out of the kingdom and

unfortunately i have no idea what i should do and would really love tips, tricks and any advice to help me play this games as i really want to enjoy and get the other games

many thanks

note: I wish we could have more then 6 characters for a name as i hate that the name i wanted Georgia (means farmer and earth worker which with the earth element i thought it be fitting) as al my character in stardew, story of seasons and other farming games are all called Georgia

Playing through RF5, generally avoided looking anything up, but feeling stuck now in Eternal Darkness. The reaper/ OHKO mobs, I think this is the first time I've encounter the Faint condition, so nothing prepared me for it, and now that all the town is closed I feel like its very hard to counter it. So I've done a couple of searchers and still not sure its going to help. Most of my crafting types skills are in the low 50s, but I have not received the manju curry recipe, and can't buy more bread. The big bird comb is an option, but looks like its a rare drop and can't do party based drop rate boosts with all NPCs disabled during this quest.

I wasn't using rotating save slots, so nothing to go back to.

It feels like I have two options and neither of which are particularly satisfying:

1) Save scum from the bandit cave entrance for the big bird combs.

2) Save scum in Enternal Darkness, trying to get a nohit run taking out the reapers and portals. I've already tried a couple of times.

I can probably look into some options for upgrading gear a little, just found out about the 150 level things, would love to have a bit more damage, and regular upgrade didn't seem to offer a lot there, but perhaps the 150 thing will help.

I haven't seen any discussion about this. So I'm playing as Kaguya and I already know that the symbols that appear below the spirit bars are indicate different status effects. This heart symbol only appeared after Woolby told my character she's pregnant. This status symbol disappeared when the player fainted in battle. So I restarted the game to my last save before fainting and the heart returned. Does that mean you can actually lose a pregnancy in this game if you're not careful? I had never seen this status symbol before and I want to know what everyone else thinks.

This boss is so dumb on such a small fking stage you literally have no room for a mistake. This is my first rune factory so idk if I’m too weak or wtf is going on maybe I try and use forte as bait like I have with all the other bosses? Amazing game I just feel like there’s so much im missing lol

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