Rune Factory 5

Mechanic is fine, farming is good, Character is ok. but the main story... eugh... But if you are into something like "the power of friendship" Cheesy ah cringed stories. this game is for you. Side stories writing is way better than the main. You can run this game without GPU which is amazing. Still getting 50-60 fps with the lowest setting.

This game is a mess. It wants to be an action game, a farming sim, and a romance visual novel all at the same time and end up failing miserably in every area. Manual farming itself is fine, but the trees and rocks respawn way too much. Even if you want a clean looking farm and spend 10 minutes in real life clearing out everything around it, everything will be back next in-game morning. Why couldn't they have a separate area where rocks or trees respawn like Stardew Valley? And also there is a storm that can destroy all crops. Why am I punished for playing the game? As you unlock more plots of land, auto watering the crops remain extremely expensive, so either you are spending the whole day going around the plots of land watering or just leaving them be. The combat wasn't too bad, but there is no depth to them. It's just hack and slash. The romancing takes forever. You can only talk to the characters and give them a gift once a day. And yeah, they look attractive, but they don't have anything interesting to say. They also have a stellar (Japanese) voice acting cast, but the characters barely get any lines with the voice acting. The graphics look like a game released 20 years ago, not 5. All the maps are too bright and saturated. The details are blurry, including the 3d models for characters. The areas in between maps are left untextured because devs knew players are going to fast travel every time anyways. And the story is just uninspired, I tried to read through the lines and I didn't have to take sleeping pills for a while at least. I had bunch of other complaints written out when I rage quit this game, but the list is lost. Just know all the things that this game may seem to have going for it are empty inside, and whether you want to farm, date, or fight, there are better games to pick up.

More people get the achievement for finishing the story than the achievement for making it to winter for the first time In all seriousness however Rune Factory 5 has a lot of charm to offer. I don't think it's a good entry point into the series for brand new players, but if you've played any previous RFs then you'll have a good time with this one

It is so ugly and the control is ridiculously unresponsive, we need to go back to the Rune Factory 4, this is not working out at all, either try harder or just make a better version of Rune Factory 4

I've been playing 3 Rune Factory games back to back. Started off with Guardians of Azuma, then moved onto Rune Factory 4 and now Rune Factory 5. I enjoyed Guardians of Azuma and Rune Factory 4 - the former is more sleek modern entry whereas the latter is retro entry with lots of charm mixed with some frustration. Rune Factory 5 isn't sleek nor charming like other two Rune Factory games I've played. I'm playing on since I already bought the game and is past refund period/time range, but I definitely prefer Guardians of Azuma and Rune Factory 4 much more over this game. I bought the game when it was on 65% discount and still don't think it is worth the money. Update after playing it more: I think at least third of my playtime has been me standing there waiting for time to pass - there is no option to fast forward time and I have nothing left to do in the day except for waiting for night events to trigger... this is ridiculous.

A fun game that combines the staple farm mechanics with rpg mechanics I like the switch to 3D Its really fun and I would recommend this for people that haven't tried any rune factory game yet

Several ui issues wanted to love this was fun when it didnt drop my gamepad requiring reload.