greensara wrote:I'm glad everyone seems to be enjoying the characters. I was hoping they would be well written, especially Lucas. Excited about the children as well. Based off of the sprite swap wedding pics I have seen posted here, is it safe to assume all the guys have the one wedding outfit and all the girls have the one wedding dress? It doesn't bother me, just curious.
If the farming/fighting/dungeons seem as good as the characters are looking, I may seriously consider picking it up in English. I really couldn't get into RF4, but I didn't get very far in either. How does the gameplay of this entry compare? Better, worse, or about the same?
yeah, it's all one wedding dress/one suit.
i'm going to be honest, i think it's about the same. at first i thought the transition to 3D was a little clunky, but there's some cool stuff in there, like the lock on feature that makes up for it. but being real, rune factory has a formula and they've pretty well stuck to it besides just making small quality of life improvements with every new game.
i think the game is EASIER to get going, because you're not limited to 1 quest per day like you were in rf4 in the beginning, so you can blow through stuff pretty fast if that's what you're into. there is a LOT to do. i've logged 130+ hours and i still have a lot of stuff i can do (requests, the postgame dungeon, maxing out skills, upgrading all the shops, the villa you can buy). i never bothered with any of that in any of the other rune factory games, so i'm not sure if it's just more fun for some reason in this game, or if ive just become more interested in doing stuff like that in the 10 years between titles.
i will say straight up: the dungeons are lame. not any worse than rf4, but there's no real puzzles, and it's pretty much just run, beat all the monsters in an area, go forward, repeat. it doesn't bother me (i dont really like spending time in dungeons), but it's not no zelda, that's for sure.