Raguna can level up in specific skills – everything from watering cans to hoes and axes, as well as swords, magic, spears, and the like – as well as overall, which will boost all his stats significantly. Basic stuff for vets though, right? On the other side of things, Rune Factory is a merger of not only farm/social sim, but also dungeon crawler. In order to keep things from being a constant rush of "to do list" tasks, you can work well into the night, gain back your stamina fully with a quick trip to the bath house once a day, and time freezes when indoors and shopping. The game works in accelerated time, with one second in real time representing about one minute in Rune Factory, making for 24 minute days. ![]() After gathering a few tools from around town, you'll hit the fields, plan your crops based on the season, chop wood, gather food and supplies, cook, forge new items, learn medicine mixing, level up skills on your farm (on the fly, making the experience as seamless and intuitive as a Zelda-like adventure, rather than full-on stat-crunching RPG), capture monsters as animals, and further the world by giving back to the land. For newcomers to the design, it might seem like an odd design (why do virtual chores?) but returning Harvest Moon veterans will feel right at home. Rune Factory is still a Harvest Moon game at heart, so you'll be doing a lot of farming and animal management. Rune Factory makes its console debut in style. You arrive in a new town, it's dying from a social/economic standpoint, and it's your job to make it a bustling metropolis with just the sweat of your brow. ![]() Players kick off their adventure as Raguna, a young boy who took the lead role in the previous two Rune Factory titles on DS, and while a few key characters return, Frontier is entirely self-contained and needs no real back-story. Rune Factory Frontier is a great merging of numerous elements from both the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory designs, and it makes for a game that feels like an impressive, polished first effort for the franchise on Wii, and given the team's track record and obvious passion for their product, I'd assume it won't be the last Wii title with the Rune Factory title across it.
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