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Villagers are also more realistic and interactive they donвЂ™t just do the same thing day in and day out, and they also will respond to your presence with a вЂњhelloвЂќ as you walk past them. Dialogue changes on a daily basis, and depending on the events going on or your own discoveries, the dialogue will alter accordingly. ThereвЂ™s also a greater variety of dialogue in this game, as you wonвЂ™t get the same responses constantly spewed at you from villagers. Their banter will give you a laugh or two and thereвЂ™s even such a wide variety of personalities in your potential mates to choose from that IвЂ™m sure thereвЂ™s one that will strike your fancy. From the household that speaks the opposite of whatвЂ™s on their mind to the witch in training whose experiments always go wrong to the little girl who is always screaming that sheвЂ™s going to bite you, thereвЂ™s no denying that this cast of characters truly surpasses all the other Rune Factory entries. So, while the story has a few faults, there is one thing that never fails in Rune Factory: the quirky characters it has to offer. There has to be something else that can be a fun mystery to solve. And as fun as piecing together amnesiac memories is, the amnesia plot element has been recycled and played out at this point. Rune Factory 3 does improve significantly in the storyline department however, it still isnвЂ™t to the point where it will win any awards or leave you in awe.

Rune Factory 3 is constantly making your character question if two opposite species can live together in harmony, and most importantly, how on earth your character can help make that happen. The two villages donвЂ™t know exactly why they dislike each other, it has just always been that way. Not only is there that mystery going on throughout the game, but there is also the enigma of why the villages canвЂ™t get along.

Rune Factory 3 is no different, as it really makes the players wonder how their character came to be a human/monster hybrid and exactly where he came from. The amnesia plot device has always worked well for the Rune Factory games because it allows players to feel as if they are piecing together a great mystery as they play. The bigger kicker? Your character, Micah, is half human and half monster, so throughout the game you are changing between both of these forms to interact with members of each village. The narrative is still focused around the вЂњamnesiac main characterвЂќ story element, but instead of just being about that, youвЂ™re also trying to unite two villages вЂ“ one human, one monster вЂ“ who have been told to stay away from each other for ages. However, IвЂ™ll admit my pulse did quicken a bit when I heard that Rune Factory 3 was trying something new, plot-wise. Does it ever make fans turn their backs on the franchise? No, because we all know these games are about the gameplay. Honestly, there have always been recycled stories without any sort of depth.

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IвЂ™ll always give a series kudos if itвЂ™s able to improve upon each entry, and here is no different вЂ“ Rune Factory 3 deserves not only a round of applause, but a standing ovation.ДЇans of the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory games know that the lure is not in its story. Rune Factory Frontier was my favorite game in the Harvest Moon realm, however, as good as I thought it was, Rune Factory 3 blew it out of the water. ItвЂ™s everything Neverland and Natsume promised fans, and its execution is done so well that itвЂ™s hard to find much to complain about. The best console HM continues to be HM64.IвЂ™m going to be bold and just come out say it: Rune Factory 3 is easily the best game in the series.

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The GBA port of Friends of Mineral Town of course fixed all of this bullshit and is the definitive portable HM to this day IMO.

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Why a 3D PS1 game released 6 months before the Japanese launch of the PS2 only had 4-way running? And it was in a weird side perspective to it was even more annoying trying to move in a 'X' instead of a '+' so it was very confusing trying to move diagonally up-right because my brain never knew if I had to push 'right' or 'up' on the Dpad. It was excruciating.Дў) those damn controls. And when it loaded another part of the world it was so tiny, you'd walk across 4 houses in the town before another loading screen. Frustrating and relentlessly long loadtimes, especially each time you entered and exited your farm. Too bad it failed in two crucial things that were a deal breaker for me:ДЎ) Loading times.

More characters, bigger world, more crops, more festivals, etc etc etc. Back to Nature (PS1) was on paper supposed to be better than the N64 version in every way.

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