To learn more about the Harvest Moon and newer Story of Seasons titles, look here. But without further ado, here are some major differences between Harvest Moon and Rune Factory that none of the reviews prepared me for. I didn’t get any Harvest Moon vibes in my 10 hours of gameplay. While it’s definitely a farming simulator, I’d argue it’s nothing like Harvest Moon. It is described by Yoshifumi Hashimoto, producer of the Harvest Moon/Story of Season series, as “ Harvest Moon where you wield a sword”. To be clear, Rune Factory was inspired by the Harvest Moon series, and was developed as a spin-off by Marvelous games. Have you ever played a game and thought to yourself while playing it “This game has so many great reviews! Surely it gets better…?” and then you find yourself playing more and more, waiting for it to get better? That’s how this game made me feel and I’m not so sure that Rune Factory 5’s updated graphics will change my mind on what I think of this series. I was hoping Rune Factory 4: Special would hold me over to the release of Rune Factory 5, but now that I’ve played it, I’m not sure that’s the case. Rune Factory is another game developed by Marvelous, and I had never played a Rune Factory game before but a trailer for the 5th installment being released later this year really intrigued me. Rune Factory is the game everyone tells you to play when you’ve played all of the Harvest Moon games and you need a break from Stardew Valley. The trailers and twitch streams I’ve watched for the new game looked, well, horrible and not at all faithful to the old Harvest Moon titles that I’m so familiar with. Ultimately, I decided to pick it up over Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town since it looked like Marvelous really dropped the ball on their 25th anniversary game.Įastern players who got access to the game a month before the western world complained of bugs, glitches, and several missing elements that were loved and present in the preceding Bokujō Monogatari titles. Rune Factory 4: Special was recommended to me by friends, and it was a pleasant, albeit unexpected and unique, surprise. Since the release of Story of Season’s 25th anniversary game was releasing soon, I wanted to find a game that I hadn’t played yet that would hold me over to its release. I’ve played the Harvest Moon titles since I was old enough to pick up a controller on the Nintendo 64, so I’m no stranger to the gameplay and the mechanics.
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