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A Tour of Selphia A little mini-update now that I got my screenshots to offload properly. I described the layout of the town before, but now I can actually show the places I mentioned.  The Sincerity General Store, directly west from the town square. Blossom and Doug live and work here. It doesn’t carry much stock now, but as I complete requests, they’ll carry a greater variety of seeds. Also, any crop I ship becomes available for sale (for an exorbitant price far beyond what I’m paid for produce).  Below the general store is the flower shop, Carnations. Illuminata runs this. Like the general store, the stock is limited at first, and expands as I complete requests. Besides flowers and seeds, Illuminata also sells farming related chemicals such as Greenifier. But no Roundup, despite the weedy mess my vacant lot turns into after a few days.  At the corner of Melody Street and Airship Way, on the left we have the restaurant Porcoline’s Kitchen, unsurprisingly run by Porcoline. On the rightis Arthur’s office, after he somehow managed to avoid having his kidneys stolen.  Airship Way is so named because of the airship parked here. With a moderately priced license, I can use that airship to teleport to any save point on the main world map.  The Bell Hotel is workpace and home to Xiao Pai and her mother Lin Fa, as well as home to any number of passing travelers, some of whom came all the way from previous RF games. They have a hot spring to bathe in which restores all HP/RP.  South of the hotel is the Housing area, and the blacksmith’s shop Meanderer, home of Bado. Bado’s selection is too expensive now, and hopelessly obsolete once I can do my own crafting, so I tend to neglect this place.  Southwest of the blackmith’s we have the Tiny Bandage Clinic, owned and operated by Nancy and Doctor Jones. Sadly, Jones is absolutely nothing like Indiana Jones. If you pass out from overwork or being defeated in battle, you will wake up at the clinic, usually minus a percentage of your funds for various medical fees and expenses. Last, but not least, back on my farm.  The shipping box, my primary moneymaking device. Items I put here will be collected the next morning, and the money will be directly deposited into my pocket.  Even the garbage I picked up in my vacant lot is worth something. Truthkeeper fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Truthkeeper posted:Fists (Fastest weapon, but shortest range. Enables throwing and suplexing monsters. no shield defense)
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Alavaria posted:Is this... really what I think it is? Yes, if you're thinking RF3. Fun fact: When I played RF3, I thought that you needed to knock enemies up into the air to throw them. All you need is to land a punch and you can throw to your heart's content. To be fair to past-me, RF3 isn't too clear on that point though, and throwing midair enemies is extra effective. Fists are actually my favorite weapon to use for fun reasons, but longswords are king in this game. Standard attacks are kinda meh, but can hit multiple enemies each swing unlike most other weapons(and fairly easily too) so thats a plus. There's a particular skill (I think it was called Flash Strike) that will just carry you through the game forever. Only issue with that skill is being locked into animation. In fact, I got huge mileage out of all the longsword skills, but that's discussion for another time. This game is fairly balanced weapons wise. You can get away with using anything really, and you can feel when your fast, short range swords don't do enough damage to a beefy enemy, or your heavy weapon leaves you wide open versus smaller ones. I want to vote for either Staff, Axes, or Fists. Fists because FIST and Volkanon, axe/hammer because I never used them, and staves because of the mechanics behind crafting your own. You can make some awesome staves pretty much as soon as you can craft, and it's always fun to experiment with the system. Note that I want to see staff usage rather than just magic with the staff, it's no fun to not play around with the central mechanic of the weapon. I never liked dual swords in RF4, fists covered my fast weapon needs and I never quite understood the benefit of duals over fists. Axe/Hammer I never even touched because they still seemed kinda terrible. It might just be my RF3 prejudice talking there though.
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Oh man I'm excited for this LP. I got RF4 on the Christmas sale and am still playing it. It is basically the best harvest moon I have played. Also I managed to get second place in the first cooking contest by grabbing the hidden food in the restaurant and entering with that. My vote goes towards staves. I never used them but hear they get crazy. I want to see them in action. Shwqa fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Feb 7, 2016 08:27
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Use Spears, because Fists sound cool but from what I remember they send you rocketing all over and you end up falling offscreen or into hazards or through a passageway you didn't want to enter.
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Feb 7, 2016 08:57
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But fists are cool!
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Feb 7, 2016 12:45
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We follow the path of a certain sheep-person and FISTS
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Spears because I was fond of them in previous rune factories. Fists because fists Rawkking fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Feb 7, 2016 18:21
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Be a Hammer Bro. If I knew the game has a bachelorette named Forte I'd have voted for you to name Art Gospel and woo her, but as is she's not very interesting on first glance so eh.
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Feb 7, 2016 18:37
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Fists and Staffs, be a muscle mage!
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Be a Hammer Bro. Everyone seems a bit boring at first glance until you get into dating them, then some crazy backstory you will never get otherwise pops out Randomly discovering the secondary uses for fists in the mirror dungeon on my own lends me to suggesting Fists, although I ended up using every type through the game depending on what I could craft never figured out staffs though
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Blind Duke posted:Everyone seems a bit boring at first glance until you get into dating them, then some crazy backstory you will never get otherwise pops out Yeah, to be fair warrior lady is more interesting than a maid, but I'm still hoping there's better.
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Feb 7, 2016 19:53
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Zanzibar Ham posted:
Luckily you can change your name.
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Shwqa posted:Luckily you can change your name. The pros of having amnesia right there.
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Feb 7, 2016 20:05
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Random pickable trash and herbs have been starting cash infusions for HM games for quite a while now. Glad to see they're keeping up tradition.
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Chat up Ladies, Kill Sheep So, I’ve got some skills, I think I mentioned? They don’t appear on the skill list until you’ve gained some experience in them, but I have enough at this point to explain a bit.   Some skills are obvious. Weapon skills are clearly labeled, leveling these up increases by damage with that weapon, decreases RP consumed by using that weapon, and increases my RP and Strength, and I gain experience by hitting poo poo with weapons. Elements, such as Water, Earth, Light, and Love, increase my spell damage with that element (or healing, in the case of Love), magic defense, Intelligence, and RP, and decrease RP consumption of spells. Besides the obvious using magic to increase its relevant skill, some magic skills can be trained be mundane tasks. Watering crops increases the Water skill, planting seeds increases Love, and tilling the farm increases Earth. I have no idea how I gained experience in Light. Some of the more unusual skills you may have seen at the bottom of the list. Walking is self-explanatory, and increases maximum HP and RP, and vitality. Farming decreases the RP cost of all farm tools while increasing max HP/RP, and is trained by using farm tools. Throwing increases strength, vitality, and attack power (which is already directly increased by strength, so having both feels redundant), and is increased by throwing items at monsters, or throwing other monsters at them. Defense increases HP and vitality, which increases defense power, and increases from getting hit. Leadership increases strength and intelligence, and the attack and defense of your entire team, and increases by talking to NPCs and from taking them adventuring. I’ll point out other skills as they come. There’s a fairly hefty list. Besides the methods I mentioned, all skills can be trained by gathering rune orbs which spawn randomly when crops are harvested. A rune orb will increase a random skill by a fairly decent amount of experience, usually enough for a full level at low ranks. Sometimes, people will have comments when you’ve reached certain levels in certain skills.   So I decided to go out and explore the outside a little, but got distracted by NPCs. Like this one.  quote:Margaret  If you need anything, just let me know, okay? I will. Thanks. Oh, that's right! You are a Prince, aren't you?Is it too impolite for me to call you just Art? No, that's fine. I don't mind at all. Hee hee! Great! ♪ Art it is, then.I would not have expected there to be a music note character, but I guess fonts these days are prepared for anything. Good thing I’m not trying to OCR these screenshots anymore. Oh, and you can just call me ＋Margaret＋. Not that you'd call me anything else, but still!I might call her Meg, as that is a nickname people close to her often use. I’m not allowed to until we’re dating though. Inappropriate, I guess? Of course. This town is pretty big. I hope you aren't getting lost. No, I'm fine. Oh, and try not to walk around too late at night, okay? It can be dangerous.Yeah, I’m still wondering how Arthur managed to avoid getting mugged, murdered, or sucked into an underground game of Magic: the Gathering. Um, okay... And! And! Be careful of this other thing, too! Oh, there are so many things I worry about!I never pretended the girl was perfect, just my favorite of the bunch. And then we have Xiao Pai, who I ran into on the opposite end of town.   She does in fact fall butt first onto the camera, somehow. quote:Xiao Pai  Aha! Art. Hmm? No, this would be too soon, I think.But there is no hurry. Take your time and you will find your place. Thank you.Oh, um, by the way... Yes? May I ask your name? ...Oh? This isn't the first we've met, yes?Can't you remember? Um, it's hard to remember a name I haven't been told yet. Oh. Well, don't worry about it. This happens all the time.After all, I don't even get my name added to gift exchange drawings... No, I told you, it's not that I forgot! Hmm? I was just so busy thinking about my own problems that I forgot to ask for a proper introduction. Oh! So I don't think we've properly introduced ourselves. Now that you mention it, I do seem to remember it being Clorica who told me your name.... Oops! Ha ha, it seems I was a little clumsy, much like Mama. Sorry.] Oh well. This happens all the time, too. Don't worry about it. Huh? But anyway, I'm pleased to meet you. Oh, uh, yeah. Nice to meet you, too. Why thank you!...... So, um...your name? Oops! My name is Xiao Pai.Mama and I live in the inn that's in the north part of town, yes? It's good to meet you! Glad to meet you, too.The cute but clumsy and forgetful schtick is just so played out. Give me a warrior obsessed with the appearance of strength or the slowly defrosting icy girl any day! On the other hand, now we know that Art didn’t learn anybody’s name or tell anybody his name, he just ran around like an idiot asking if they knew him. Best first impression ever. Having met all of the local available women (for now), I swing by the blacksmith to check out the prices on some equipment.  Hi. And you are? I’m Art, it’s nice to meet you. Bado’s kind of a dick. I'm Bado. I operate the forge.But forging stuff is really exhausting, so I don't do it too much. Wha? So, have you remembered anything yet? I'm afraid not. Oh...Well, how about you try buying this, then? What is it? Memory recovery medicine.Seems legit. I should buy this and find out the answers this game is hiding from me. What?!How much?! ...... ...Sorry. Huh? All I wanna do is make lots of money without working much.But y'know, I've never really liked taking advantage of people, either. Well, Guardians of the Galaxy taught me that no one is 100% an a-hole. He’s a really lovely con-man though. What’s the point of conning people if you feel too bad about it to follow through? So don't go falling for great deals that sound too good to be true, okay?... ...Sorry.Well, hopefully he’s a better blacksmith than he is a con-man. Let’s check out the wares.  drat right you will. If you don’t work, you don’t eat. The magical dragon god king told me so by proxy!  This weapon and armor selection is pathetic, and his farm tools aren’t any better. I might buy one weapon from Bado, I believe he starts selling basic gloves and staves after the first dungeon, but after that, it’s all crafting all the time! So, I’m disappointed with that crappy selection of stuff I couldn’t have afforded anyway. I’m gonna go murder the local wildlife. Oh, excuse me, I’m gonna send them back to the Forest of Beginnings. By stabbing and slashing them.  Directly west of the town gate, there’s a patch of medicinal herbs guarded by a single Wooly.  quote:An absolutely deadly predator who will quickly and ferociously devour unwary adventures. These vicious monsters will slowly waddle or roll toward you, and might even deign to slowly headbutt you! Their fur protects them from the first fire spell you try to cast at them, being bruned off in the process. Bald Woolys seem to move and attack faster, but still aren’t actually threatening. An enemy Wooly can be sheared, dropping small fur, but it’s far better to actually befriend them and put them in your barn if you need wool. Not that I have a barn yet. Woolys drop wooly furballs, small fur, and shears. They drop the very means of shearing them. This is why Bado is useless, even the stuff he has that I might want is easy to come by.  I juggled it around the screen on the end of my sword for a while until it died, and gained some short sword skill in the process. Then I collected the herbs. I could use these to restore health, or sell them, or keep them to use to make healing potions once I have a pharmacy crafting station.  I switched over to the longsword Forte gave me for a bit. This is the range on a standard longsword attack. Slow as balls, but you can cleave through a fair number of monsters with range like that.  There’s a mysterious well lit tunnel southeast of town. I’m sure it can’t possibly be anything of importance and will pay no attention to it.  Directly south of town, and west of mysterious unimportant tunnel, there’s a road block. Ah well, an obstacle like this is clearly impossible to overcome. I guess I’ve explored the entire world now. That didn’t take very long at all. Shame the only monsters that exist are Woolys and I’ll never get to fight anything tough or suplex a dragon. I’ve always wanted to suplex a dragon, but I guess I’ll have to make do with sheep. Or maybe the airship. An airship is kinda like a flying train right, I should still be able to suplex it.  Map of the entire known world. Those area where it looks like it connects to other places? Here there be dragons. Yar.On the plus side, I not-murdered enough sheep to increase my short sword skill until I learned a new attack.   I... can’t seem to do this one. Meh, I’ve already got a five swing combo that juggles sheep, that’ll last me a good while.  Sleep now, and dream of large sheep. Also, take note that the vast majority of my lost RP came from farming, not fighting. Fighting monsters is easy, but it takes a real man to plant turnips in a vacant lot.
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Truthkeeper posted:Fists (Fastest weapon, but shortest range. Enables throwing and suplexing monsters. no shield defense) This is the only possible choice.
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A bard is cool. Does she play songs while adventuring, or only at specific spots in town?
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The game explains the dash attacks really badly. I think it's not actually running you've got to be doing, its the dash on the right bumper button thingummy. After working that out, I never actually used it because I never really found this (or the second special attack you unlock) that useful.
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Truthkeeper posted:I might call her Meg, as that is a nickname people close to her often use. I’m not allowed to until we’re dating though. Inappropriate, I guess? Also putting my vote down for Fisticuffs.
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Ugh town events in this game are the worst. Even with save scumming I can't get "memories".
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Shwqa posted:Ugh town events in this game are the worst. Even with save scumming I can't get "memories". This bullshit is why I haven't finished the game.
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Shwqa posted:Ugh town events in this game are the worst. Even with save scumming I can't get "memories". It took at least full in-game year for me, so I ended up getting married and having a kid while waiting for it.
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YggiDee posted:It took at least full in-game year for me, so I ended up getting married and having a kid while waiting for it. Now I'm imagining this 'Memories' event as Art & Wife + their neighbors singing The Way We Were.
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I think suplexes and thrown monsters count as Love element in attacks, since enemies immune to the Love element don't take damage/heal from throw attacks
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I think Margaret might be the closest to being "a real person" instead of a walking talking stereotype. And apparently she's some kind of reference / throwback to an earlier RF? I have only played this one. I want to like Xiao Pai but she's too relentless on her gimmick. She uses it kinda effectively most of the time, to be fair, but TOO MUCH
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RP is your kind-of-magic points, right? Makes sense you'd spend more of it pouring earthpower into the ground than you would bonking monsters on the head.
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Glazius posted:RP is your kind-of-magic points, right? Makes sense you'd spend more of it pouring earthpower into the ground than you would bonking monsters on the head. RP is your stamina. Each action you take except normal attacks and talking uses some RP. Usually crafting and plowing a field are what drain your stamina the fastest. Magic RP cost is based on the spell but most have a pretty low cost. Your current RP is never really a problem. Food is plentiful, bath houses are cheap, and there is a free to regain that I don't think the LP has seen yet. However max RP is a constant issue. That make more sense as the LP goes on.
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I once got a love potion off a random drop, and I just figured 'okay using this will probably have some negative consequences, I'll try it out on another save' most of the girls get sorta uncomfortable because you just tried to magically change how they feel about you ya creep Amber and Xiao Pai get confused and a little scared, because you are trying to seduce little girls you loving creepo
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Blind Duke posted:I once got a love potion off a random drop, and I just figured 'okay using this will probably have some negative consequences, I'll try it out on another save' I don't there is an repercussions to love potions. I think it is just a decent lp/fp gain.
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Never played a Rune Factory game, but so far this is pretty interesting. Is this the first game where you got to pick your gender?Truthkeeper posted:
General suggestion: I think it would look more natural and help lower confusion over whether a line should or shouldn't have a different portrait if you combined conversation lines from the same person that got separated out in the script for what I assume were in-game dialogue box restriction reasons. ie. No, this would be too soon, I think. But there is no hurry. Take your time and you will find your place.
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Zagglezig posted:Never played a Rune Factory game, but so far this is pretty interesting. Is this the first game where you got to pick your gender?
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I've been playing RF3 on emulator and there's no female protagonist option. I like the bachelorettes though. None of them seem awful to me, although Sofia's opposite-speak gimmick is a little annoying.
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Tarezax posted:I've been playing RF3 on emulator and there's no female protagonist option. I like the bachelorettes though. None of them seem awful to me, although Sofia's opposite-speak gimmick is a little annoying. She certainly has a lot more... interesting things to say once you're friends with her, though:  
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TracerK posted:You get used to it after a while. Okay, I saw hints of that so far, but nothing so extreme yet  My girlfriend is a bird, though. That's cool.
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I wanted to PM you with this, but you don't have PMs, soooooooooooooo... I have Rune Factory 4, but I never quite finished it (to the extent that it can be finished), so I'm looking forward to you tackling it. I do have some nits to pick on your updates so far, though: Truthkeeper posted:Are you being paid extra to advertise for the town Captain? (The answer is yes, because I'll be the one paying him to do it later) You started using italics to distinguish your comments from in-game text in your second update, but you don't have it in this one, and it's a bit confusing. It'd also be worth going back and sticking some portraits in your early updates, when you weren't doing it. Truthkeeper posted:No, seriously, that's actually a very good question. Soldier's answer is technically correct, which is of course the best kind of correct, but still stupid. Duplicate image here. Truthkeeper posted:
Mismatched italics tag here. Truthkeeper posted:
I don't think that's the screenshot you meant to use. Truthkeeper posted:
You wanted an Arthur portrait here, I think. Truthkeeper posted:Gameplay! Sweet Blessed Gameplay! You made this a link instead of an image. (Also, it looks like you needed to remove some carriage returns between lines to combine dialogue into one headshot. And apply some italics to your comments. And the screenshots are missing, but you knew that.) Truthkeeper posted:
Redundant screenshot. Anyway, I nitpick because I care. Looking forward to your next update!
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