Rune Factory is a fantasy Harvest Moon game for the Nintendo DS. Like other Harvest Moon games, the focus is on growing crops, raising livestock, and eventualy getting married. Unlike other Harvest Moons, there are many RPG elements included, not the least of which is the ability to explor...

By rss@youtube.com (Kamon137) E3 2008] Platform: Wii Rune Factory Frontier trailer. I'm a fan of the Harvest Moon series, and I've yet to play Rune Factory on the DS, but I'm certainly impressed by what I've seen. Keywords: nintendo wii e3 2008 press conference rune factory fantasy harvest moon frontier trailer kamon13...

Farmville is not even the first farming simulation game I've played: the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory games share many of the same conventions, while ...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) This is the key to most Harvest Moon and even Rune Factory Events and the key to unlocking new options in both series. If you do not experience a key Dialogue, often you cannot unlock a new Character or option. Coversation is important in any Harvest Moon or Rune Factory game for other reasons a...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) In many Harvest Moon games, you can purchase Wood/Lumber from a local merchant as well as chopping branches and stumps to create it. The price may be high, but as long as the option exists, you always can sacrifice luxuries and other purchase options in order to buy the Lumber you need for the...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) Summer: 1 Summer: Beaches Open 3 Summer: Jasper's Birthday (Omelet, Fried Eggs) 8 Summer: Bianca's Birthday (No Favourite Gift) 12 Summer: Cecilia's Birthday (Aquamarine, Amethyst) 13 Summer: Zavier's Birthday 18 Summer: Dairy Show 26 Summer: Treasure Hunt Autumn

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) Although the original Rune Factory DS game was released in the States a couple of years ago and my guides for the game were published then, it evidently has been released in the U.K. only recently. While players in the States ask questions about Rune Factory 2 and Rune Factory Frontier, those f...

By Bunny Chii After spending a lot of time logging in hours on Rune Factory, I decided I wanted to go back to normal farming. So I went out and bought myself A Wonderful Life. But...I don't think it's that wonderful.

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) I am posting here because one of the fundamental aspects of any Harvest Moon or Rune Factory game is caring for animals. In any other game where livestock or poultry had a defined life expectancy, I would make certain to sell the animal before I had to face a corpse or a tombstone.

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) How many times have we made Doria or Gratin in our Harvest Moon or Rune Factory kitchens without ever baking the dish in the real world? How many players even know how to make these dishes? I then thought it might be interesting to publish some 'real' Recipes for favourite Harvest Moon and Ru...

Harvest Moon fans, rejoice. Have you exhausted the current Wii Harvest Moon titles, Tree of Tranquility and Rune Factory: Frontier? Perhaps you ... current.com

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) For example, in Rune Factory 2, Turnips, always designated as a Spring Crop, became a Winter Crop. Pink Turnips instead were designated as the Spring Crop. Onions, traditionally a Summer Crop, became a Spring Crop. Potatoes, always associated in Harvest Moon with Spring, became an Autumn...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) The Story Mode is based on a recurring theme in Harvest Moon (and Rune Factory). You are called upon to save your community from impending disaster. The other fundamental basis of the game is FARMING, which should come as no surprise to veterans both of Harvest Moon and Rune Factory.

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) To be quite honest, I personally feel that none of the existing Rune Factory or Harvest Moon games have been exhausted. There are far too many wonderful Harvest Moon and Rune Factory games available at this point in time and too few hours in the day to enjoy them. I remember a time when the only g...

By JC Fletcher The Rune Factory series is showing that it is still, at heart, part of the Harvest Moon franchise -- mostly by having lots of sequels. The latest issue of Famitsu reveals another, Rune Factory 3 for DS. This is actually the fourth Rune Factory, counting Frontier on Wii.

 Romania The title stays true to the Harvest Moon recipe, as, in ten seconds, ten in-game minutes will pass, a trademark of the series. The player can go on to grow crops, but wielding the farm tools can decrease his/her stamina. The classic mechanic of buying ...

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 UK Alongside the traditional resource management and farm life simulation prevalent in the series comes an expansion into Role-Playing Game (RPG) territory, supported by the strengths of Harvest Moon's often emotive storylines, bringing dungeon crawling ... Hints VI (DS) Softpedia

More information on XSEED Games can be found at http://www.xseedgames.com Marvelous Entertainment USA is a leading Japanese creator of interactive entertainment with such esteemed franchises as Harvest Moon, Rune Factory, Luminous Arc and No More ...

 Florida Sure, the game is still about watering turnips and getting the local girls to marry you, but it's also about cleaving goblin's heads open with a broadsword. For me, that's a big deal. I've always wanted to enjoy the Harvest Moon games, ...

 CA The Rune Factory series has been, across its two DS entries and now Frontier on the Wii, a bit experimental, marrying the idyllic farming gameplay of Harvest Moon with the trappings of an RPG. But even though both games would lock up the best weapons ...

 CA I am pretty addicted to Rune Factory: Frontier, and while it's not entirely because of the farming aspect, it does play a pretty big part. For those who have never tried a Rune Factory or Harvest Moon game, you might want to pay attention, ...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) In any RPG and Rune Factory most definitely is an RPG in this respect, your character’s choices of Weapons and Equipment can mean the difference between victory and defeat. There are many players who approach Rune Factory with experience in Harvest Moon but little knowledge of combat gam...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) As always in any Harvest Moon or Rune Factory game, your character will have very little money in the first week and many potential expenses. Only Crops grown in Caves/Dungeons will produce Rune Points when ready for harvest. You therefore need to create the Beanstalk to the Sky as quickly a...

 UK Like the previous Harvest Moon games, tolling away on a patch of raggedy land to create a fertile farm full of fruit and fortune is rewarding. The town has plenty of shops to spend your sweat-covered cash on while the townsfolk themselves are a curious ...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) Finally, a note to players, and especially beginners, not to disregard the in-game tutorials in ANY Harvest Moon/Rune Factory game. I have included a screenshot here of a page from one of the tutorial books in Rune Factory Frontier.

 CA It's all part of one big happy family (although Natsume isn't publishing it, so it isn't all happy, I'd imagine), with the two designs being extremely similar, but with no serious Harvest Moon effort in the last few years we're now seeing a shift to ...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) In all honesty, my favourite game system is the DS. The fact that Rune Factory Frontier has been made for the Wii makes it less attractive to me than Rune Factory and Rune Factory 2... even so, I can't bear to ignore any Harvest Moon or Rune Factory title...

With E3 apparently on its way back to its former glory, developers are joining than club rather than leaving it. Developers like Natsume. Videogaming247 is reporting that the company best known for Harvest Moon and Rune Factory, has joined the ESA. ... The ESA Harvests Natsume Kotaku.com

 CA What's the relationship like between Natsume and Marvelous for Harvest Moon and Rune Factory? Natsume still publishes all Harvest Moon titles, but Rune Factory moved to XSEED. Can you provide any details on that decision? ...

 CA I still haven't played a real Harvest Moon game, but I know I've fallen in love with Rune Factory. Rune Factory Frontier is now bringing the series to Wii. Thanks to XSEED, I got the opportunity to ask several questions of Marvelous' Yoshifumi ...

 UK Welcome to Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - a Harvest Moon spin-off which takes the traditional aspects of the farming sim and combines them with what classical adventurers have always craved: the ability to quest through caves and battle ...

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 UK - Feb 16, 2009 It's a feature that allows players to follow the story of their family and the townsfolk over two generations. Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is ...

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By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) Busy trying to solve some of the last mysteries in the 2nd Generation in Rune Factory 2, it would be easy to forget that there are players who are beginning the game and who need help with some of the early fundamental aspects of farming and ranching. As I receive many emails still from players...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) I always stress the importance of avoiding 'tunnel vision' in any Harvest Moon or Rune Factory game. Friendship, not money, is the backbone of success. If you grow and harvest all the crops in the world but fail to greet your fellow villagers, you will not succeed in any Harvest Moon or Rune Fa...

 CA Series creator Yasuhiro Wada has moved away from focusing on the main Harvest Moon series and instead split his time into numerous other projects -- namely games like Wii's upcoming Little King's Story and the "Fantasy Harvest Moon" Rune Factory. ...

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 UK and respected business fails; however we are now very well placed with the excellent team at AFA Interactive to launch the entire RSG line-up, with particular focus on Rune Factory A fantasy Harvest Moon DS and our star title Little King Story Wii. ...

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By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) Veteran Harvest Moon players will be aware of this trick but it may be helpful to new players. It is not limited to Rune Factory 2, but can be used in many other Harvest Moon games. I wrote about it in my General Guide for IoH as well some time ago.

 CA - by Daemon Hatfield January 12, 2009 - Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon arrived on the Nintendo DS back in the summer of 2007 and provided a supernatural ...

 UK - Jan 6, 2009 Available now across North America, Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon will hit the store shelves in Europe on February 13th, exclusively for DS, Rising ...

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 - Enjoy a fun fantasy adventure and addictive farm management without having to wake up at dawn. Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is a role-playing game ...

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Enjoy a fun fantasy adventure and addictive farm management without having to wake up at dawn.

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 - Dec 17, 2008 Rune Factory 2 puts you in charge of a small farm, where you can grow and sell crops, raise livestock, befriend the villagers, and head off into the ...

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By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) All Harvest Moon games have a plot and definite goals. For example, in Harvest Moon DS/Cute DS, your goal is to rescue all 101 Sprites. This is not necessary in order to enjoy the game, but it represents the same sort of 100% completion philosophy that appeals to players of Harvest Moon. You rea...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) Every character in Rune Factory 2, both in the 1st and in the 2nd Generation, has a set schedule of movements. As in any Harvest Moon game, locations may vary according to the day of the week, the time of day and the weather. I have added some of this information to my Characters Guide and intend t...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) Rune Factory 2 includes all basic aspects of any Harvest Moon game such as farming, ranching, fishing, and mining as well as that of collecting items. The combat option, however, adds a new dimension to the 'collecting' aspect of the game.

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) In most Harvest Moon games, including Rune Factory 2, you must have empty slots in your Rucksack or Pockets if you wish to perform any activity that yields an item. Whether in Harvest Moon DS/Harvest Moon Cute DS or Rune Factory 2, if you attempt to create Seeds using a Seed Maker, you will be u...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) In most Harvest Moon games, when you give an individual any item he/she particularly likes as a birthday gift, it will be acknowledged as such and heart levels in many circumstances increase far more than they would on any other day.

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) For those who are unfamiliar with the Calendar in Rune Factory 2, the Festivals that are the choices in Question 1 occur as follows: 19 Summer: Dance Festival 13 Autumn: Harvest Festival 13 Spring: Flower Festival 25 Summer: Fishing Contest

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) Again, in my research, I discovered that 'Suki ya nen' is the equivalent in Osaka of 'Suki desu' in standard Japanese, which means 'I like him/her/it.' These phrases suggest that Yue is a merchant from Osaka or the Harvest Moon equivalent of Osaka!)

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In an interview with gaming Web site Cubed3, Harvest Moon Creator Yasuhiro Wada revealed that Marvelous Interactive intends to pursue a Wii iteration of the company's new Rune Factory series. The first Rune Factory game, subtitled "A ...

By castleenchanted@aol.com (Freyashawk) For players who grumble that games are not worth the money spent on them because they can be completed in too short a time period, I would recommend almost any Harvest Moon game, but especially Rune Factory 2. 60 hours is the minimum amount of time needed in 'real life' to complete the game. Whe...

Natsume Inc. announced today that it will offer an adorable squirrel plush as an exclusive pre-order gift for customers who order Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon for Nintendo DS from Amazon.com. ...

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From the creators of Harvest Moon and Rune Factory for the DS comes the first installment of Rune Factory for a home console. Developed exclusively for Wii, Rune Factory: Frontier features stunning graphics and takes full advantage of the Wii’s unique controls to fully immerse players i...