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I was so excited to see a Harvest Moon thread, but then it's all about DS games and I was sad again. Was Animal Parade really the last HM game released for the Wii? I played that game for years but would prefer to play something new if I can get it on a big screen.
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 03:19 |
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| # ¿ May 21, 2013 04:27 |
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Got my copy from Gamestop today too. Everyone is really chill about the main character's little problem, but I'm getting a kick out of assuming he's just schizophrenic.
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| # ¿ Oct 8, 2011 03:48 |
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ZarathustraFollower posted:God drat, I lost the fishing contest by 2 points. I got 2nd with 678, and joe got 680. Ouch, 2nd place for me was Joe with 591. You got screwed. Anyone figured out how to get apples? I've got a request for an apple and some other stuff that I don't want to cancel.
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| # ¿ Oct 9, 2011 22:08 |
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What and where is the first animal that can be tamed to gather crops/ores? I've already got the key to the third shine and I haven't found one yet. I'm spending whole days gathering in my crops now and would love to offload all that tedium to a monster so I can go back to making friends and cracking skulls.Office Thug posted:The game is pretty brutal though. Monster melees get messy very quickly especially when spell-casters come into play, and I've died pretty often in this current dungeon going from full health to stunlocked to dead in a matter of seconds. I usually didn't avoid fighting things up until this point and I know that's going to hurt me when I come up against the boss, underleveled and underskilled. How have you guys been dealing with this dungeon? Ranged attacks? I found that level makes a much larger difference than any gear choices. I ground the hell out of the first couple of areas to max out the spring island using only yellow runeys before doing anything else. I haven't had much trouble since except that some of the random islands are much higher level then the first floor of the shrine in that zone. FWIW, I found the spear to be clumsy and switched to twin swords/katana/wind staff after the first shrine. Katana seems particularly boss, doing more damage per hit than two-handers with 10 more attack than the katana.
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| # ¿ Oct 31, 2011 00:56 |
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Palleon posted:Does anyone know which crops plant in which seasons? I can't find any simple way of figuring it out, I do enjoy the game, but I really feel like it's a huge step backwards from Rune Factory 3, they took away so much information (no idea what skills do, no way to see what you have in inventory when buying, no camera control). I do like the whole "spirit wand" planting, and the GPS map, but they really messed up in some of the more basic areas. As far as I can tell, crops aren't keyed to a seasonal island; except for the ores being restricted to winter. I can put the same monsters on both summer and spring islands anyways. The spring crops grow fine on summer. Haven't tried "summer" crops on the spring island though.
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| # ¿ Oct 31, 2011 01:24 |
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My theory is that they are just humoring the crazy person. I named my characters so that their names were mirror images and giggled every time something happened to confirm my schizophrenia theory.
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| # ¿ Dec 27, 2011 18:34 |
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Is Shepherd's Crossing 2 worth buying a DS for? If so, does it run on the 3DS? It's been decades since I bought a portable gaming device.
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| # ¿ Mar 29, 2012 20:56 |
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Blorknorg posted:Now if I could ask a question of the thread: I'll probably start Tides of Destiny sometime soon, and I'm wondering if there's any similar mechanic to the vegetarian pizza quest that I need to keep in mind. I don't want to read through faqs etc until I have to, but doing so is what made me miss out in AP. As Emalde, said, not really. I it is very useful to know that animals that don't grow any crop or provide a product(e.g. milk, eggs) are the ones that gather your crops. I didn't realize this until I'd almost completed the game, and it cost me a lot of (real) time.
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| # ¿ Apr 1, 2012 00:57 |
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DrManiac posted:Any tips for combat in tides? I stopped playing at the fire shrine beacuse every monster kills me in a few hits while I have to hit them a ton. The katanas are some of the easiest weapons to use in the game so you're doing fine there. Every month there's a "quest" to buy a really powerful weapon, so you might try switching to that. If you spend some time collecting runeys for your fields before trying the Fire Shrine again it will probably be a lot easier. Forging is very tedious, I think I watched the daily show or something while grinding it out in an in-game day or two since food for stamina is virtually free.
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| # ¿ Apr 21, 2012 16:59 |
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Ineffiable posted:Tides of Destiny talk Dual blades have low damage per hit which makes them a poor choice for boss fights. They do hit everything around, which makes them great if you're getting mobbed by big groups. Weapon power (or whatever it is called) is deceptive in this sense, as two weapons with the same power can do radically different damage per hit. You have to take them out to the field and try them out until you start to get a feel for it. I usually used the wind magic rod for bosses because it made it easier to run away from the enemies attacks. It is especially important to level magic attacks since they use so much RP. If you're looking for a quick fix, I'd buy Stinger Rage from Joe next Thursday and try that. Seconding doing all the quests whenever you can, boosting the villagers affection is a major element of the game and one I ended up needing to grind out. n.b. you want their affection at 6, but you won't be able to raise it higher than that until you pass a certain point in the story. I kept up well with giving gifts to Sierra though; so maybe that's why you haven't gotten the other "buy this item" requests from her?
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| # ¿ Apr 21, 2012 20:09 |
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Dr Pepper posted:I've been playing Rune Factory Frontier on and off for ages and holy crap this game is long. I've been playing around 38 hours and I'm still in Autumn of the first year, only beat the Green Ruins, and don't have anybody with a higher FP then four. I've been playing Animal Parade for at least that long and I'm only in the 11th or 12th of Summer. Mostly because boiling herbs for gifts takes forever  I have got to find a better set of gifts for these people.
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| # ¿ Jun 2, 2012 16:50 |
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Zettace posted:Finally, Animal Parade is the best console Harvest Moon of this generation (which isn't saying much). I enjoyed the game but it doesn't really bring anything new and it's a really slow paced game. Animal parade does have a lot of improvements over Tree of Tranquility, but it's refining system is an incredible pain in the rear end. In order to get bars to upgrade your tools, you have to refine the ores. And the percent chance of refining from ores to bars is pretty low. Low enough that it is always more profitable to just ship the ores if you are mining for profit and I've never done more than break even on wonderfuls/gems. I enjoyed Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny much more, even though it's a lot shorter. LeapFrog posted:A Wonderful Life I really enjoyed Magical Melody on all my playthroughs. It's got a sort of light achievements system that encouraged me to try out things I don't normally do, and I don't even like achievements. So if you like achievements, you'll probably like it, and even if you don't, its worth a try. I played it so much I never got around to trying the others 
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| # ¿ Jul 11, 2012 03:56 |
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| # ¿ May 21, 2013 04:27 |
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ZanderZ posted:Is it cute farm tales story or "A wizard cast a spell on me and now I'm a wood nymph in love with you! Tralala!" autism pandering story? All I have is a DS and I don't think I'm gonna get a 3DS. I got into this game because it was a relaxing farming game. I don't want weapons or magical wizard hats with +10int. I want a hoe, shovel, watering can, etc. Have you looked at Shepard's Crossing?
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| # ¿ Jul 12, 2012 01:38 |
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