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Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon | 
| From: Natsume, Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $27.49
You Save: $2.50 (8%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 555
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 10004
UPC: 719593100041
EAN: 0719593100041
ASIN: B000NVKZ06
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Simulate the simple life as you harvest crops, buy supplies and try to find Laguna a nice girlfriend | | • | Choose the life you wish to live - Be a farmer planting crops, fish in the bay or forge weapons as a blacksmith | | • | Explore dungeons to capture and tame various monsters - capture a wolf to ride on, or a bee to make honey |
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Product Description
Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon you'll help a young man with amnesia build a new life. Laguna doesn't know who he is or where he comes from, so he goes looking for answers. He meets&befriends a young woman named Mist, who puts you to work on her farm. As you help her tend to the crops, you'll try and build a life for yourself in the Harvest Moon world.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 Role playing while building a farm September 10, 2008
If you enjoy classic, computer-based role playing, this is an excellent value. Picture a classic, role-playing hero set in a nature-centric farming community and you're in the right ballpark.
However, there are several key differences between Rune Factory and classic role playing games. First, your character does not have a profession. Instead, he has a set of skills. Each skill increases the more often you use it.
Also, in addition to the classic hit points, you have Rune Points. As you perform any task, these decrease (however, eating food or picking up glowing "runes" increases them). When these are empty, you start using your hit points (except you cannot cast spells without Rune Points).
As your character grows, he has a huge selection of skills---forging custom weapons/shields, creating custom amulets and the likes, cooking, swordsmanship, farming, logging, fishing, monster communication and creating potions.
But, beyond the classic role playing, there is real farming to do. You can hoe the ground, plant and water seeds, then harvest the produce. There are 4 seasons---each has its own unique plants. This becomes the key to survival as you advance through the game, since the plants produce Rune Orbs which replenish your stamina.
Also, you can befriend monsters in the caves (some provide eggs and milk, others act as battle companions).
Beyond that, the game allows you to court one of several eligible single women and nurture friendships with the many townsfolk.
So, for the price, the game offers an amazing amount of depth and value.
 Pretty Awesome! August 30, 2008
I must say I wasn't sure if I was going to like this game when I first purchased it. The idea of a not so peaceful harvest moon seemed a bit more realistic so I decided to give it a shot. Once I started playing I found that I couldn't put it down. I enjoyed the challenge of the caves and the ability to grow all types of crops year round in each cave. The animals on my farm are a bit creepy though...lol.
I never got very far into creating your own weapons and items. I plan on going back and trying to revisit the game before the sequel comes out.
I couldn't give the game 5 stars; I still like the HM DS better, but this is very close. I look forward to the sequel.
review for Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon by: Tyler Cain August 21, 2008
I love all Harvest Moon games my favorite is "Friends of Mineral Town" but Natsume has outdone it`s self especially copared to some other Harvest Moon games. Again I love all of them but alot of them have typeo`s but having to translate it from 3 types of Japanese to English is very hard but I have found none so far in this game. Again this is a great game and very fun espescially adding the monsters and its really cool since they can halp you with your field and fight with you,(sort of like Pokemon) but I dont think its plagurism. Thanks for making yhis game Natsume 5 stars!
Rune Factory Review August 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is AMAZING!! Sure, this game is a decendent of the Harvest Moon games, but it differs in many wonderful ways.
I love the Harvest Moon series, but this is definately the best one I've played so far. Some of the excellent new features to this game are: You get to plant crops in caves which stay the same season all year round! can the other HM games do that? Don't think so!
Also, in the cave, there are monsters. You can either fight or tame these monsters, but if you chose to fight, you'll need some weapons... You can use your farming tools, but you can also buy swords, or /make/ them if you house has been expanded. Yes, make. You can also make (or buy) potions to help you in the caves, and defence items to help you.
(Oops! Getting too into detail! Well, that's good, and bad! Bad, because you probably don't want to read a long review, but good because I think this game if so awesome I can't stop talking about it!!!) Anyway, I'll cut the rest of this short.
I really like the music, and though it is repitive, there are things added each "verse" of the song (no lyrics, of course), like another instument sound, ect. The music also changes a whole lot, so you don't listen to the same thing over and over as you explore.
Anyway, there are LOADS of things I love about this game, and I couldn't possibly list them all! So, my advice? Go buy this game right now from Amazon.com!!!
Harvest Moon meets Finial Fantasy July 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As always I appreciate the great service from Amazon.
I purchased this game for my 12 year old daughter. She has all the harvest moon games for PS1, PS2 Came cube and Game boy Advance and loved them all, so when I seen this one I knew it would be something she would love because it reminded me of the Final Fantasy games her sister played. When she began to play the game, that was her first comment. It was Harvest Moon Meets Final Fantasy.
My Daughter said this game rocks!
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