There are certain spots on the map which you can instantly teleport to.
While running directly to each point of interest is an option, fast travel is immediately available. This also means seeing important shops like the blacksmith and general store when you do. Like Rune Factory 4, your farmland is in town, connected to a major facility and your place of business, and you start out with a small, manageable plot.Īnother early task involves meeting many of the notable residents around town.
So if there are 8 unplowed plots of land, you equip the hoe, and you keep tapping, you’ll automatically move forward tilling the soil. Pressing a button repeatedly in front of an area where an action can be repeated means, well, you repeat it. But if you want to sift through the bag for things, you can too. Swapping what you’re using (or carrying) can be done with a tap of the L button. You’ll always have one farming tool and one weapon actively equipped, with the left and right buttons on the d-pad letting you switch between them. This provides income and access to runes to boost your RP. You’re given a hoe, turnip seeds, and a watering can, so you can start growing. The initial tutorials are quite hands-on. Perhaps because it is following in the same sorts of footsteps, getting started is fairly easy. People are relying on you the same way they did the prince/princess in Rune Factory 4. But given your role as a Seed member, you feel like a person in charge in town. You sometimes visit different nearby locations and fight monsters. You manage the small bit of farmland behind headquarters, where you also live. (Not the FFVIII mercenary group, but also it is a group of folks who declare themselves protectors and errand-people for people.) You take on requests from the bulletin board or people you meet. You’re brought to town, tested to make sure you possess no ill intent, and are inducted into Seed. However when coming to the rescue of Hina, one of Rigbarth’s children, you lose your memory. You initially know who you are and what you’re capable of as the game begins.
Especially in the first hour or so.Īs with every entry, Rune Factory 5 begins with an amnesiac protagonist. Rather than a more drastic leap to the next new theme or idea, people might find Rune Factory 5 feeling more like a jump to the left. Rune Factory 4 offered the idea of the protagonist being something of an authority figure. The third introduced a protagonist who would be able to shift between human and monster. The sequel focused on the second generation being the “important” one. However with the Rune Factory line, there would be a tendency for certain themes to vary from game to game.
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Games in a series are always going to have commonalities.