While we are on the note of small complaints, the camera in Rune Factory 5 is great, for the most part, until you walk over crops. Going in and out of buildings constantly, it does become very noticeable. The only time it becomes annoying is if you choose to do a lot of stuff around the town in one go. That’s it, after the loading screen, if you give the game an extra couple seconds, everything will run just fine from there. When loading into areas, whether it’s a shop, the town, onto one of the dragons, the game takes a beat to catch up and render everything in. Now listen, the downside here isn’t even that detrimental, but it is very noticeable. The game actually looks really nice as a whole, but there’s a downside.
You can see the scale of mountains, houses, and the big tree in the middle of town. The world feels huge and lived in now that everything isn’t top down.
FACTORY TOWN SILO FULL
The biggest change to Rune Factory 5 is the change to full third-person, almost hack ‘n’ slash with farming. That’s right, developers Hakama actually planned this out and introduced fast-travel to Rune Factory 5 ! This is by far one of the most useful features for this game considering everything is based around progressing days, being able to fast travel around lets you tend to your crops, and tackle dungeons or other tasks. The second one is much less handy, being all the way out by a volcano where the second big story event happens. The first one is great, and you get it upon defeating the first major boss of the game, Kyuubi, the nine-tail fox, a land dragon will help you and set up shop just beside your original crops. Each land dragon you find will also have a farming area for you to till and manage. Grow turnips, watermelon, corn, take your pick.
FACTORY TOWN SILO PATCH
Outside of the house you stay in, which is called the Silo, you have a small patch that you’ll be able to tend to. Oh yes, let’s not forget the big part of any Rune Factory game: you’ll be farming crops, selling them, and cooking with them. Hit with sword, become better with sword, hit harder with sword. They always happen to show up when you finish a major dungeon, and then let you climb them and plant crops on their back. Dragons are still in this game, but instead of being in charge of the town like they were in Rune Factory 4 Special, you instead meet Land Dragons in Rune Factory 5. With SEED you’ll travel through dungeons, fight bosses, and aim to remember who you are and why you’re there. Your character is found with amnesia (because it’s Rune Factory ) and joins the town’s scouts called SEED.
Just a brief recap of everything discussed in the hands-on preview: Rune Factory 5 takes place surrounding the town of Rigbarth. Thankfully, I’ve been able to buckle down and really tackle everything this game has to offer since then, and boy does this game go deep. This time around, there are some significant changes made to the game, some of which were even covered in our Early Impressions about a month ago.
FACTORY TOWN SILO SERIES
Since then there has been a ton of work into bringing the next game in the series to fruition, so it’s finally time to dive into Rune Factory 5. We are coming up on ten years since the original release of Rune Factory 4, and two years since the newly released version, Rune Factory 4 Special.
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