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Anonymous10/05/26, 22:29No.4120731Rune Factory
Let's talk about Rune Factory!
> Rune Factory Archive (comics, official artworks, fanarts)
https://forestofbeginnings.tumblr.com/
https://mizore.sakura.ne.jp/rff/dat/info.php?p=1
> Official X accounts
EN: https://x.com/RuneFactory
JP: https://x.com/RuneFactory_PR
> Latest release
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (2025)
> Upcoming
Rune Factory 6 (TBD)
> Icebreaker questions
Which RF game are you playing right now?
Your first and your favorite RF games?
Your favorite waifu/husbando?
Your first love ever?
Your favorite non-romanceable character?
Your favorite location?
Your favorite soundtrack or song?
Your favorite opening movie?
What are your most cherished memories of RF?
What's your opinion on the current state of the franchise?
What made you fall in love with the franchise?
Anything you miss about older entries?
Do you have any hot takes or unpopular opinions?
> OP Movies
Rune Factory - A Fantasy Harvest Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRarXcOu5lQ
Rune Factory 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j91Zzw6NhZA
Rune Factory 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-6OYzBXNw
Rune Factory 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ5O3JpXJew
Rune Factory 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9CcwbiM7t0
Rune Factory Frontier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW0MJ4AjrnQ
Rune Factory Tides of Destiny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_96hX2_DbM
> Thread theme
Iris' Spirit Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnXfkbfBHmo

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Anon10/05/26, 22:30No.4120735
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Anon10/05/26, 22:33No.4120742
I shall repeat myself, but this picture is really cozy and magical.
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Anon10/05/26, 22:43No.4120765
Rune Factory 1 map images:
https://files.catbox.moe/ss17xd.zip
2's and 3's coming as soon as catbox cooperates, though those are more jank than 1's

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Anon10/06/26, 00:18No.4120913
Don't you just love when you discover that you made a mistake of one single case and has to redo a big part of your field? At least Rice day is there so it won't be too bad, but ye gods, some buildings. What are you expecting from me game?I wish there were mods that put more fields, more villagers. I don't even know what villagers you need exactly to take care of 8 square of 9 cases.
I'll marry up soon, it'll be between Iroha, Ulalaka, Russian Vergil or Amaterasu. Though Kanata kind of suck in battle in term of healing, something that Ulalaka is good at.
Bah, I wish I could marry Suzu or Sakuna. Please tell me which one of them has a good post love confession storyline.

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Anon10/06/26, 18:32No.4121729
For me, the biggest turn-off in piririka is the way they implemnted her as a marriageale character. the very first thing she did in her bond story was push (you) on the ground (its not subaru, its (you), notice camera angles) and im like girl wait untill we know each other better. it calmed down later on but she still felt like she doesnt belong to the rest of the story, like hers is a complete standalone. and while a lone hunter may be part of her character, being a lonely person doesnt mean she has to alone, look at kurama. he is a loner but his stories still include plenty of characters. he is part of the story. cuilang manages to blend in, somehow; pirika just feels like an afterthought which is a pity, i wish they took their time with the dlc if she was gonna get such a shallow story.
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Anon10/07/26, 01:14No.4122260
Interesting, I had no idea that some of the male NPCs from Rune Factory 1 had cut wedding outfits

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Anon10/07/26, 06:08No.4122521
It's cramped, but I think I did a good job.

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Anon10/07/26, 09:21No.4122705
Say, how do you make the milk and eggs into max levels in GoA? I know leveling the monsters give them a higher tier, but not a higher level.
Apparently?
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Anon10/07/26, 21:10No.4123131
If these books are save points then what are those owl statues for?

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Anon10/08/26, 04:36No.4123795
The noja is childish and kawai. And I'm being a total manwhore to check out every storylines.

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Anon10/09/26, 03:15No.4124904
I'm starting to think Kanata is the moe girlfailure route, which is funny, but one note.
I fully mastered Sacred Treasures and Practical Abilities but I really wish there were more because sheesh, I have 2794 Cooking XP, and 6512 Social Activities that does absolutely NOTHING. I also maxed Short Swords, Long Swords, and on my way to finish Dual Blades, Evasion and Hyperfocus are soooo good.
I'm not sure which one I prefer, Long Swords or Dual Blades.A funny thing I noticed is that the Matsuri Hanabi of Concord has a fire visual effect, it's pretty neat. I wish other elemental weapons had that. It might also be why the Woolies I recruited have no furs on their bodies.Every Villages has 100 except Winter who is always at 60 --except when I wind a contest there but then it drops back to 60. Dunno why. I only have a few missions to do.

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Anon10/09/26, 04:54No.4124987
I think I see the problem, I have 23 Villagers. On the middle zone I have a Humble House (6 Villager), 5 Merchants around, on the upper zone I have three merchants and a Thatched Roof Cotage (3 Villagers), on the left side I have one Izakaya and two Humber Houses (4 per houses), on the western zone I have not much, just a Large Barn with a villager working. Still figuring out what to do with the Winter Village, it's tigher than Summer. So that's a clear 17 housing for 23 Villager. It's bad calculation and forgetfulness on my part.
Plus the other villages, even Summer, has access to Exotic Houses, so obviously they got a lot of places.
And who thought it was a good idea to make the Exotic and Zephyr Houses so big? And the last one so big AND useless?I have 23, 25, 25 and 23 Villagers per village respectively. They really don't want to give the best ones, I only got some of the best Loggers & Miners, yare yare.

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Anon10/09/26, 19:17No.4125388
Calm down, you were both in bathsuits.

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Anon10/10/26, 01:38No.4125817
I'm a bit disappointed the Kanata's dates, at first it start off good, but it pretty much become a crying fest that isn't really solved, she's still a crybaby. A cute crybaby.
Iroha's first two dates are a bit boring, they squabble for the dumbest things and then Suzu go somewhere, so you and her will spy on Suzu. My guy, that last date better be the mother of all date because I'll drop her like a potato.
Ulalaka's first date, it's obvious that what she said about Human/God relationships is working her up and just can't ignore it. I'm hopeful, I'm hopeful, is this the second coming of Meg?! We also discover that she has no futon, but a lot of empty sake bottle. My gal...Japs have weird customs, plum tree, plum branch and Special Sake.
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Anon10/10/26, 16:28No.4126609
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Anon10/10/26, 23:54No.4127050
Is it me or is the concept of enhancing your gear kind of stupid, costy and useless? Only gear I thought about enhancing was the Adventurer's Caps I kept on the head of everyone because of Rare Drop Boost but even that
And why did they think that making forging normal things and talismans separately was a good idea, on top of the magatama being such a paiiiiiin.

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Anon10/11/26, 19:01No.4127729
>fighting Rune Prana Siren at level 1 hell difficulty
i thought previous bosses were brick walls but holy jesus what do I even DO here
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Anon10/13/26, 07:44No.4129057
You know, it would be really cool if you could, encounter the family of the bachelors or bachelorettes. No, Xiao Pai doesn't count and her faceless piece of shit dad can fuck himself.
Sure, there are more or less legitimate excuses as to why you wouldn't see them, but it hurts my immersion. You marry someone, you joined a family, sometime small, sometime big, only to never see them.
Pre-RF4 games were better about it, iirc.
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Anon10/15/26, 03:29No.4130496
Speaking of Frontier, today I've learned how powerful Riivolution patching is. I'm going to take a look into restoring the Japanese-exclusive content that got cut for the international release.
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Anon10/15/26, 07:21No.4130545
Pililika's storyline is now higher on my tierlist. It's not peak literature but gosh dang it does it gives her depth to her. Abandoned by her parents, raised up by another but the rest of her village didn't like her because she was so tiny, when the Big Black Wolf came in and killed a lot of people, they counted on HER for food, which she hated, so she used the excuse of revenge against BBW to get the fuck out.
Even if she is being a major dumbass leaving No one dislike her in our villages.Now I have several questions:
Can I bite her ears? Can she transform into a squeezable bear? Can she actually do something with those spirits? Why does she talk about having a muscular body when everyone she isn't fucking toned when in swimsuit.
A more serious answer, why don't the VA use the petnames choosen?

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Anon10/15/26, 10:20No.4130580
I finished all the female storylines like the good manwhore that I am. Now I don't know if I want marry Ulalaka, Clarice or Pililika. Halp.
I admit, the Matsuri's last event was nice.

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Anon10/15/26, 21:40No.4130832

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Anon10/16/26, 05:12No.4131171
GoA question, up until when do I have to raise the affection of characters to get all the recipes? I did not expect Fubuki to unlock Life-Sized Hound cut-out or Hina to give the Life-Sized Nine-Tails cut out.
Man.
I wish we could have tamed Kamurosaki...
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Anon10/16/26, 12:12No.4131369
>finally obtained Mock Volcano
>it gives bonus for EVERY villages
>63,000 to craft
>It's this big
I expected something worse, but it's still huge.

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Anon10/17/26, 14:51No.4132271
I hope the other lvl10 aren't that big or anything, or I'll shoot myself.

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Anon10/19/26, 08:20No.4134325
>Autumn Level 10
>Treasure House
>INT+160
This is terrible. It's basically a bigger Eerie Torii Gate. The Tent is better. At least I don't have to put it somewhere.
I fond my real goat.

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Anon10/20/26, 03:12No.4135110
Opinions?
The first one is vanilla RF4S, second is a new upscaling technique, and third is an approximation of the original 3DS texture scaled up with nearest neighbor 3x for a control
https://slow.pics/c/1rliVbPk
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Anon10/20/26, 06:40No.4135231
which of those farming games are thread related, aside from rune factory?a. sukuna of rice and ruin. the dlc made her relevant.
b. og harvest moon + SoS, aka the mother and the mother after she remarried.
c. natsume's harvest moon, aka the evil step-sibling
d. any life sim game. from animal crossing to imouto monochrome.
e. any farming game with monster slaying, like harvestella and tales of seikyu

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Anon10/20/26, 08:48No.4135299

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Anon10/20/26, 08:55No.4135302
Damn, my kid is born the same birthday as Tsubame. I hate when that happen. I hate double birthday and double events.
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Anon10/20/26, 13:32No.4135421
how comes ToS has 2 hags, 3 furries but -0- lolis?
which games has lolis? aside from rf4.

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Anon10/22/26, 04:03No.4136178
I finished the post game dungeon of GoA.
I kind of liked the revelation that Mihoshi Habaki was a super computer left behind by the actual Viatrea, and that Gods are just mortal creatures picked up for the job... mortal, considering that Kurama is implied to be a Tengu...
This actually explains why the Underworld is so developed technologically, it's not just one Celestial Collapse that happened, but four. The timeline is quack though. 50 years ago, but Sakaki mention it happened when he was Suzu's age, on top of that Kurama's storyline is about him protecting childrens years ago, but the child from back then is now an old man. It doesn't add up They also got enough time to make a capital, how? It's also weird how only Azuma has this problem of an apocalypse coming and down, and also cheapen the effect of immortality have on the relationship. They aren't that old.
I can quite explain why the MC is chosen to replace Mihoshi Habaki, but it's the logical conclusion of being the chief of everything.I liked and disliked the Trials, it's fun to have something actually challenging, I actually died to them, but it's also a big number fest more than anything, with them introducing a new type kind of Magatama, Berserker and Fortress that are replacing anything you have.
I was kind of disappointed by the final tier of gears too especially the last Long Sword and Talisman. Long Sword only has 300 more ATK than the last Short Sword, and the last Talisman has for reason unknown, only has 2 magatama and is Dark elemental. There isn't much fun to be found in them, and that pauldron is almost a troll.
Heaven Asunder actually look like Murakumo/Kusanagi for once!GoA isn't RF4, but it's definitely a fun game. I hope the next one will be better and allow us to have more fun, to fail, to get knocked out, to do more. It's pretty clear that the devs poured their soul into it.

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Anon10/24/26, 16:57No.4138876
I'm not even a lolicon but at the end of the day after seeing every girls' relationship quests, Matsuri felt the best for me. Idk why, maybe the so-called musclehead is actually the closest a bachelorette in GoA could get to be a proactive one who spell things out for you. The sensitive young man in me likes her for that.

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Anon10/24/26, 17:20No.4138895

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Anon10/25/26, 02:42No.4139398
would people be intersted on rf5 mod to complete the unused romance sub plot
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Anon10/25/26, 07:19No.4139563
