Rune Factory DS heading to Europe Comments by Tom Bramwell

>an amnesiac swordsman with a murky past

Not AGAIN!!!!

Do Japanese games designers have no inspiration what so ever?

This is taking so long to come out over here!

Glad I imported last year. Great game.

Rune factory was disappointing.

The game as a farming one, is better than harvest moon DS, controls are better and they removed old stupid limitations such not being able to step on a crop.

But the game has two flaws: combat and challenge.

By combat is the dungeon part of the game, is totally snes gameplay of walking to an enemy, hacking it with your normal combo and repeat. There is magic, but hurts more than helps by draining stamina and the combat lacks of variation and the dungeons are just find a room, kill everything and move to the next room.

Challenge is how easy is to get money and how cheap is everything, most prices are about 1000 gold and that is a normal farming day worth, so in less of an year you will have everything. Also the game has a fatal flaw that makes this worse, minerals are overpriced and are very easy to get, after getting a level 3 hammer, you can make more than 30000 gold in a day ruining totally the economy of the game.

Also the wifi system has the trouble that is required for some stuff, you can't marry certain girl without using wifi.

Finally, the plot is totally fantasy standard without imagination.

I liked it for little time until I grew bored by the lack of deep and challenge.