A Rune Factory 5 Thread

[fairysyndrome]

WAIT I NEVER KNEW ABOUT DLC, DOES THIS MEAN I CAN MARRY LEON???

unfortunately no the DLC is just the RF4 outfits, meaning you can put the player characters in all of the RF4 bachelor/ette (+ Lest & Frey's if you have a RF4S save file on your system) costumes. jury's out on whether cameo characters Doug & Margaret are marriable yet, but that DLC is just the outfits.

here are some recent posts from the RF game twitter!
first is showing off dungeon hazards like being chased by a large boulder and attacked by swinging blades (ft. lucy and cecile)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1382242226693099523

then there's a few clips for marriage candidates!

Spoiler: i'm posting them all under a spoiler tag to save space

Priscilla (CV: Inori Minase)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1381517442069987332

Martin (CV: Jun Fukuyama)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1381517694143447042

Scarlett (CV: Aya Suzaki)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1382967000180342785

Reinhardt (CV: Natsuki Hanae)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1382967245761044482

(he "likes to eat farm tools and failed dishes," according to google translate. thanks, google translate.)

 

[.: Meri :.]

RF4 Special is the first Rune Factory game I've played, but I'm really enjoying it and looking forward to RF5! I'll definitely be getting it whenever it gets a release in the West. The art style for this game looks beautiful as well!
I'm really hoping they won't gender-lock the marriage candidates this time around, though. I know the recent Story of Seasons games have same-gender marriage, and I was pretty surprised that it wasn't also a possibility in RF4. (Especially since once the girls' friendship levels are high enough, they show clear interest in Frey; I assume it's the same way with the bachelors if you're playing as Lest.)

Personally, I was really hoping that Arthur would be one of the cameo characters, but it looks like that won't be the case. ;-; Oh well. So for now, I guess I'm mainly waiting for more information on RF5's bachelors—it's nice to know who I'll be going for ahead of time, ahaha.

 

[Burumun]

I'm really hoping they won't gender-lock the marriage candidates this time around, though. I know the recent Story of Seasons games have same-gender marriage, and I was pretty surprised that it wasn't also a possibility in RF4. (Especially since once the girls' friendship levels are high enough, they show clear interest in Frey; I assume it's the same way with the bachelors if you're playing as Lest.)

RF4 was originally released in 2012, while the first SoS with same-sex marriage was SoS:FoMT, which came out last year. They did add new stuff for RF4S, but I assume adding in same-sex marriage would have required too much of an overhaul, unfortunately. Either way, I agree, hopefully RF5 will have it, although I am already concerned the clothes seem to be gender-locked.

 

[Blood Eclipse]

I hope this gets an English translation. I've been following this game since I first heard of it.

 

[fairysyndrome]

I hope this gets an English translation. I've been following this game since I first heard of it.

it definitely will be! xseed already confirmed the localization (and i can't imagine it not getting one after that + after every other RF game getting localized), they just haven't said anything really since the game reveal

 

[fairysyndrome]

just watched the rune factory 5 livestream that went on! playback is available here.

i joined about halfway through so i missed a chunk of it, but here’s some tidbits i caught (I’ll update with more as I rewatch what I missed):

• you can have a farm on top of a dragon’s back. yes, really. also can put animal barns there
• you can earn crystals to feed the dragon to unlock changes for your farm (I believe the ones they demonstrated during the live were making it rain & increasing your farming space?)
• slumber parties are a returning town event type. fuqua has a kigurumi
  
• wedding cutscenes specific to each character are back! I think the last time the series had those was in frontier back in 2008? i know oceans had cutscenes specific to each season, but not character. and 4 had proposal event cutscenes, but not wedding ones......
• companions are immune to dungeon hazards. the only character in danger of being crushed by a Boulder or something is the protagonist.
• you can put ludmilla in a pumpkin head
  
• doug has pants now. very important change from his rf4 design
• free dlc will be released on the series’ 15th anniversary (august 24th) to let you unlock costumes of the oceans protagonists. dlc for the other past protagonists (raguna, kyle, & micah) + their Main Leading Ladies (mist, mana, & shara) will be on sale for 330 yen each. rf4 ones are still locked to having rf4s save data. no idea how they’ll implement these in the localisation.

Spoiler: the dlc costumes

Spoiler: Nintendo dream cover ft the protagonists + ludmilla & lyka

 

[Licorice]

I can’t wait for this to come out so I can have a furry husband.

 

[-Lumi-]

I really hope we hear information about an English version of the game soon! I love seeing the Japan updates as well but I'd love updates about an English version.

 

[fairysyndrome]

Rune Factory 5 is now out in Japan!

the official twitter posted a picture of protagonists Alice & Ares by series artist Minako Iwasaki to celebrate!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395033518103621633

they also postsed a reminder for JPN players to get the Oceans protagonist costumes. the clip of Alice riding on a golem is such a cute reference. i love oceans

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395033911281864707

also, someone posted the opening for the game on YouTube!

Spoiler: RF5 opening video

minor gripe in the fact that it including interaction between the protags & bachelor/ettes confirms the suspected No Same-Gender Marriage once and for all but it's sooooooooooooooooooo cute and i think this is my favourite OP in the entire series now

 

[IonicKarma]

Rune Factory 5 is now out in Japan!

the official twitter posted a picture of protagonists Alice & Ares by series artist Minako Iwasaki to celebrate!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395033518103621633

they also postsed a reminder for JPN players to get the Oceans protagonist costumes. the clip of Alice riding on a golem is such a cute reference. i love oceans

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395033911281864707

also, someone posted the opening for the game on YouTube!

Spoiler: RF5 opening video

minor gripe in the fact that it including interaction between the protags & bachelor/ettes confirms the suspected No Same-Gender Marriage once and for all but it's sooooooooooooooooooo cute and i think this is my favourite OP in the entire series now

omg im so Jealous.... Wish I could read Japanese well enough to play this before it gets localized haha...

 

[mirukushake]

Really torn on whether to get this or not. I want to like RF but I just couldn't get into 4(S). So far it looks like it has FPS/lag/loading problems similar to Olive Town (although not quite as bad), but the characters and gameplay seem good from what I've seen. Unfortunately the base camera settings give me really bad motion sickness, so I'll wait until later in the day to try to find a Let's Play with the automatic camera movements turned off before I decide to buy... Don't want to pay 7000 yen to barf :/

 

[fairysyndrome]

rf5 update: some people have been reporting (minor) glitches and bugs so far, and honestly they're all really funny so i want to share some

Spoiler: water leaking from player house

Spoiler: people clipping through floor if you warp to town

Spoiler: log

Spoiler: whatever is happening to this person's ares

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395145272171261952

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395145936255389702

 

[mogyay]

i'm not surprised by the same sex marriage option since they were tight lipped about it & also that none of the previous ones have had the option but i also saw it was confirmed that they didn't give the option to change appearance to the male/female protag which kind of major sucks

 

[IonicKarma]

i'm not surprised by the same sex marriage option since they were tight lipped about it & also that none of the previous ones have had the option but i also saw it was confirmed that they didn't give the option to change appearance to the male/female protag which kind of major sucks

Wait you can't change the appearance at all in this game? Aww... I love that feature about RF4, was great being able to fake same sex marriage even if they still used the pronouns from the original gender.

 

[fairysyndrome]

i'm not surprised by the same sex marriage option since they were tight lipped about it & also that none of the previous ones have had the option but i also saw it was confirmed that they didn't give the option to change appearance to the male/female protag which kind of major sucks

WAS THAT CONFIRMED...... booooooooo. weird they didn’t include the sprite swap since it was a rf4 feature

Honestly while I did have an inkling as more info got released I am surprised it didn’t pop up, since the series producer has said on-the-record that (at least in reference to story of seasons, which he was series producer of until he stepped down to focus on RF), he’s aware it’s a feature a Lot of players want and it was something he said they were definitely thinking about with how to implement it — which they did do by the last game he produced. although he said he’d rather have specific gay and bi characters instead of making everyone available to the player & mineral town (and now olive town) did the latter....maybe we’ll get there by rf6 via the former method? a girl can hope and dream

 

[mogyay]

Wait you can't change the appearance at all in this game? Aww... I love that feature about RF4, was great being able to fake same sex marriage even if they still used the pronouns from the original gender.

tbh my source is just this post here so hopefully there's an option to change appearance still

Post automatically merged: May 20, 2021

it's not been out long so hopefully there's still things that have been overlooked, it was only a feature later on in the game in rf4 so maybe we should remain hopeful

 

[IonicKarma]

tbh my source is just this post here so hopefully there's an option to change appearance still

Ya I really hope so... Maybe they just didn't unlock it yet? You did have to beat the game (or at least the 2nd arc of the game) to be able to change your appearance in RF4, and even then, technically your gender doesn't change, just your appearance. Then in future playthroughs, it was unlocked automatically. Maybe they just haven't gotten to the point of the game where you could do that yet?

 

[mogyay]

Ya I really hope so... Maybe they just didn't unlock it yet? You did have to beat the game (or at least the 2nd arc of the game) to be able to change your appearance in RF4, and even then, technically your gender doesn't change, just your appearance. Then in future playthroughs, it was unlocked automatically. Maybe they just haven't gotten to the point of the game where you could do that yet?

yes i hope so, the source they linked is in japanese so maybe someone would be able to translate for us and advise how they came to this conclusion. changing appearance is like such a simple thing to implement as well, it'd be crazy if they didn't have that as a feature

 

[IonicKarma]

yes i hope so, the source they linked is in japanese so maybe someone would be able to translate for us and advise how they came to this conclusion. changing appearance is like such a simple thing to implement as well, it'd be crazy if they didn't have that as a feature

the source they linked just says you can't change gender and thus you who can marry, doesn't say anything about appearance so there's still hope

EDIT: Just kidding, read the part above, it does say you can't change appearance...

 

[mogyay]

the source they linked just says you can't change gender and thus you who can marry, doesn't say anything about appearance so there's still hope

ooo thank u!!!! sorry for stressing ppl haha, will keep an eye out for more solid info then!! i suspect ppl will be charging their way through the game so we'll know soon enough haha