Rune factory 5, its better in everyway.

Ursprungligen skrivet av nallepuh:

Rune factory 5, its better in everyway.

ok cool I ended up going with rune factory 5

this game has some good stories , but the combat is to simplistic to be engaging and the farming portion has the same problem.
So yeah gameplay is not great, but story wise got some very interesting stuff.
I will finish it but I can play an hour at a time before I get bored and need to play something that let´s me play and not just talk.

so take that for what it´s worth. I may get rune 5 too.

Harvestella

this game is more fun when im baked af, but still a decent game so far

Note: I'm still going through the game.

I tried Rune Factory 4 (remake) and that wasn't the type of game for me. I can barely get through the fist half of the year. Many people in reviews said RF5 seemed empty. I do play a ton of farming/life sims. I grew up playing JRPGs and RPGs.

This is a great game, combat is fun for a more relaxing style: the real time combat JRPG side is decent and the game is almost overwhelming with quests. The upgrades and items are not overwhelming or intense. (It's not FF or Suikoden or Chrono Trigger.) The farming side is there... the romance is lacking. As in, you can partner but the girls outweigh the boys which is wholly unfair. That and you have to get through chapter 10 to get someone to move in with you. There are things that say they are helping on the farm, but so far in my play through they do nothing.
There is mystery that I am hoping isn't going to lead to a crappy ending. Overall this is a really decent game so far though.

Ursprungligen skrivet av 1stplayerz:

Ursprungligen skrivet av nallepuh:

Rune factory 5, its better in everyway.

ok cool I ended up going with rune factory 5

One opinion is all it takes. wow.

half baked combat and half baked farming sim so in all this game got really bad gameplay experience but the story and music is good tho. so yeah pick RF4 for gameplay, pick harvestella for story

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Ursprungligen skrivet av 1stplayerz:

ok cool I ended up going with rune factory 5

One opinion is all it takes. wow.

I gave it some time but the sale was in a time window the sale ended on the 13th and most the comments came after though I still appreciate them for future reference

Ok, here more detailed answer:

Massive problems with wokestella:
Unskippable cutscenes and dialog, and to make it worse you have to watch ♥♥♥♥♥♥ runescape level animations(Except these unfortunately are longer). Oh, and the dialog is not even voiced. And to make it worse, there is no auto play dialog, meaning you have to constantly keep clicking to make it go forward(but you cant skip dialog by spamming, because you have to watch the animations and there is delay before next dialog text arrives)

Not only that but the side stories are worst i have ever seen in any game. These literally make fetch quests in mmo;s feel interesting and unique. Every side quest is exactly the same and they have stretched just to waste time and make game appear longer than it is. First you get quest at point A, then generic yawn yawn dialog, then you have to go point B to fetch some ♥♥♥♥, then you come back to point A, then you have to go point C, then bla bla bla, Then you have to go back to point A, then you have to go to point d, then you have to go back to point A. Then it ends. With worse quest that same ♥♥♥♥ continues and continues. And each side quest is just exactly the same ♥♥♥♥ formula.

and with typical jar jar abrams style, we have plot devices conveniently introduced moment main quest needs one.
Also dialog is weird in general like the early game red head introduce was the worst thing ever. Literally she never answer her name for ages for no reason even though she was asked and lived with other people who helped her...

Music is mixed bag, in theory it has quite nice music and it is the best part of the game, but more often than not, they do not seem to match the situation on the screen, some kids ask you to go get some random item from forest and you agree to it, then BAAM! Some really epic music starts playing..like really...


Combat is just standing as a statue and clicking one button, enemies do not pose any danger, ofcourse bosses has damage check attacks, that can be easily overcome with endless amount of healing items. They have long telegraphed attacks that even 100 year old person could avoid them at 100% rate, except ofcourse damage check attacks. No armor items, just 2 ring items.

Farming is bad with slow animations and very shallow experience compared to rf5. Its pointless to buy any seeds because they cost so much compared to what they give. And better and easier way to get seeds is just to kill enemies that is super easy to do.
There is not much to buy from stores so i guess it doesnt really matter. All farming stuff should be just used to craft healing items.

Ursprungligen skrivet av nallepuh:

Ok, here more detailed answer:

Massive problems with wokestella:
Unskippable cutscenes and dialog, and to make it worse you have to watch ♥♥♥♥♥♥ runescape level animations(Except these unfortunately are longer). Oh, and the dialog is not even voiced. And to make it worse, there is no auto play dialog, meaning you have to constantly keep clicking to make it go forward(but you cant skip dialog by spamming, because you have to watch the animations and there is delay before next dialog text arrives)

Not only that but the side stories are worst i have ever seen in any game. These literally make fetch quests in mmo;s feel interesting and unique. Every side quest is exactly the same and they have stretched just to waste time and make game appear longer than it is. First you get quest at point A, then generic yawn yawn dialog, then you have to go point B to fetch some ♥♥♥♥, then you come back to point A, then you have to go point C, then bla bla bla, Then you have to go back to point A, then you have to go to point d, then you have to go back to point A. Then it ends. With worse quest that same ♥♥♥♥ continues and continues. And each side quest is just exactly the same ♥♥♥♥ formula.

and with typical jar jar abrams style, we have plot devices conveniently introduced moment main quest needs one.
Also dialog is weird in general like the early game red head introduce was the worst thing ever. Literally she never answer her name for ages for no reason even though she was asked and lived with other people who helped her...

Music is mixed bag, in theory it has quite nice music and it is the best part of the game, but more often than not, they do not seem to match the situation on the screen, some kids ask you to go get some random item from forest and you agree to it, then BAAM! Some really epic music starts playing..like really...


Combat is just standing as a statue and clicking one button, enemies do not pose any danger, ofcourse bosses has damage check attacks, that can be easily overcome with endless amount of healing items. They have long telegraphed attacks that even 100 year old person could avoid them at 100% rate, except ofcourse damage check attacks. No armor items, just 2 ring items.

Farming is bad with slow animations and very shallow experience compared to rf5. Its pointless to buy any seeds because they cost so much compared to what they give. And better and easier way to get seeds is just to kill enemies that is super easy to do.
There is not much to buy from stores so i guess it doesnt really matter. All farming stuff should be just used to craft healing items.

thank you for taking the time to write that not only for myself for other to read through

Ursprungligen skrivet av TaylerBootz:

Note: I'm still going through the game.

I tried Rune Factory 4 (remake) and that wasn't the type of game for me. I can barely get through the fist half of the year. Many people in reviews said RF5 seemed empty. I do play a ton of farming/life sims. I grew up playing JRPGs and RPGs.

This is a great game, combat is fun for a more relaxing style: the real time combat JRPG side is decent and the game is almost overwhelming with quests. The upgrades and items are not overwhelming or intense. (It's not FF or Suikoden or Chrono Trigger.) The farming side is there... the romance is lacking. As in, you can partner but the girls outweigh the boys which is wholly unfair. That and you have to get through chapter 10 to get someone to move in with you. There are things that say they are helping on the farm, but so far in my play through they do nothing.
There is mystery that I am hoping isn't going to lead to a crappy ending. Overall this is a really decent game so far though.

rf5 is decenty and has mods =] rf4 i tried on ds and modded it s9ome omn pc

Why not both?

they are both objectively bad

Ok so I understand some of the criticisms here. However, when I explain how I see the game I hope some of you maybe can perhaps understand it a bit better. So for me the game feels very much as if people from (then) Creative Business Unit 3, the team behind Final Fantasy XIV a game consistently praised for its story, were asked during their time between XIV content to write a story for a farming sim.

So to start, we already break from it being a farming sim. It’s more a narrative JRPG with farming elements. And then, the entire game feels like it embodies a Japanese concept I only recently became aware of. That being Iyashikei, which is a sub-genre of slice of life that translates roughly to “healing type.” It’s meant to help you feel a sense of peace and calm.

I believe this is the real genre of Harvestella an Iyashikei Japanese RPG with Farm Sim Elements. The reason I have been loving playing it (I have it on switch so it isn’t going to show up on my steam library) is because while there are stakes to the story and all, it’s not some grand epic that is going to leave me burnt out by the half way point. I’ve needed a good Iyashikei game for a while now as my life has been nothing but chaos, and more often than not most games end up too complex, too simple, too mindless, or too dull. This sits neatly in the middle. The plot points never overstay their welcome. You accomplish distinct milestones that don’t rely as much on the rest of the story to feel complete. Even the humour in it is generally a chuckle and not too much. If I were Swedish I think I would say for me Harvestella is lagom.