And it’s so much fun that I enjoyed playing it once again, even though it hasn’t even been that long since I last lost myself in it. Also, you can get pets that use melee or magic attacks, or you can bring an NPC with you into dungeons. Special attacks can either be weapon-based or magic. Most of what you do is connected to rune energy, and it depletes as you use tools and special attacks. You’ll learn new moves simply by fighting. Swords, hammers and axes, twin daggers, spears, gloves, and rods offer markedly different playstyles. There are a few different kinds of weapons on offer. Before heading into each one, you need to craft new armor and weapons, which is almost hypnotic in its rhythm. You clear dungeons to progress the plot in Rune Factory 4 Special. And I’m not going to go in-depth here on getting high-value seeds or increasing soil quality. The amount of systems in place in Rune Factory 4 Special is vast and there’s so much you can do. In order to get new recipes, you have to go see Porcoline and buy recipe bread, which he sells for weapons, accessories, cooking recipes, and farming tool recipes. Once you get to the game’s third dungeon, a haunted mansion where a mustachioed plumber in green wouldn’t feel out of place, you need to be able to start crafting your own weapons and armor to keep yourself strong enough to proceed. Then you’ve got your forge and crafting table. It doesn’t take long before your room is packed with storage and machinery. You need to get storage containers for your items, refrigerators for food, cooking tables, and appliances to help cook certain dishes. If you’ve played Stardew Valley, Rune Factory 4 Special is where it learned some of its obsessive crafting tricks. Getting money means increasing your yield and being able to craft more stuff. You spread out your seeds, water them, and then harvest the crops later for shipment. The farming is just like Story of Seasons in that you’ll be buying seeds and tilling the soil. You’ll also be able to purchase additional fields and increase your crop-growing capacity. You can use these points to develop various things, expand the town, and set up festival days. One of your main tasks is to accrue points by doing requests from the creepy, talking request box outside your room.
Specific monsters, such as the cow, chicken, and sheep monsters, will also drop items daily. You can befriend monsters you fight and ride them into battle. After getting settled, you’re given access to a field for crops, on which you can also place monster barns. On the off chance you’re not aware, Rune Factory is basically the fantasy action RPG cousin of the Story of Seasons games. And then there’s Porcoline, the owner of the restaurant, who frightens me just as much on my monitor as he did on my 3DS screen. Many of whom are anime archetypes with a couple of broad characteristics, of which they like to remind you again and again. You can marry many of the townsfolk (although this was a bit before the games that let you do same-sex marriages). Some of said arcs see you fighting the aforementioned empire. You get to know the inhabitants of Selphia as you use your strange Earthmate powers to turn monsters into humans, while you make your way through dozens of hours of dungeons and surprisingly intricate story arcs. Luckily, they agree to let you keep doing what you’re doing, since they don’t see eye to eye with their father. Only, the real royal envoy shows up a bit later. All the while, you’re living out of the room next to hers. There, the Native Dragon of Wind, Ventuswill, assumes you to be royalty and gets you set up to farm and give the kingdom orders. Your character ends up falling off into the kingdom of Selphia below. They’re attacked by soldiers from an empire named… okay, I’m not going to get into that here. The story, which is actually fairly in-depth here, begins with your character on an airship.
Although, seeing a 3DS game blown up to 4K isn’t the most natural fit in the world. Regardless, Rune Factory 4 Special is a deliciously compelling experience filled with hours of content. The game is almost 10 years old now, but little has been done to dilute its core appeal, even if some aspects of it could surely have used some updates. The rhythm of taking care of your crops, fighting through dungeons, and making sure my gear was up to the task of getting me through the game’s challenges had me hooked. Rune Factory 4 was a game I put a hell of a lot of hours into back on the Nintendo 3DS.
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