Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon (Nintendo DS)

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Description

As a wanderer in a town called Kardia, you are discovered by a mysterious girl named "Mist". She, seeing potential in your skills, offers you a house to live in as long a you work and maintain the farmland.

As in other "Harvest Moon" titles, you grow and maintain crops, as well as improve your home with furniture and other items. Your stamina is limited, and every movement you make, whether it be digging, chopping or fighting with a sword depletes this.

A top-view game, Rune Factory incorporates farm-simulation with real-time battling. You can equip weapons and shields, as well as learn and wield magic. Unlike the games in this series previously, you do not care for regular farm animals. Instead, monsters that you capture from the various caverns become yours to use for either farming or fighting.

Again, staying true to the series' roots, it is possible to befriend and eventually marry potential girls in the town. Other features include the presence of variable weather conditions, a "yearly" calender with various set events and seasons, and many side-quests like fishing, and farming within the many caverns.

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Alternate Titles

• "ルーンファクトリー" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: Botany, Farming, Gardening
• Gameplay feature: Dating / Romance
• Genre: Simulation - Farming
• Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons series
• Rune Factory series

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Critic Reviews

Game Shark	Sep 21, 2007	A-	91
Gamebrink	2007	91 out of 100	91
GameZone	Aug 28, 2007	9.1 out of 10	91
GamingTrend	2007	530 out of 600	88
Atomic Gamer	Sep 06, 2007	85 out of 100	85
IGN UK	Feb 17, 2009	8.4 out of 10	84
NGamer	Nov 01, 2007	8.3 out of 10	83
4Players.de	Mar 05, 2009	77 out of 100	77
Gemakei (formerly Zentendo)	Sep 15, 2007	7 out of 10	70
That Gaming Site	Mar 10, 2009	6 out of 10	60

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