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Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon.
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Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon.
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"You're enjoying a relaxing walk around your new farm, eyeing the land sagely with plans for the coming harvest. Suddenly out of nowhere spawns a vile monster, demanding that you deal it a few swift blows to the head with your trusty hoe. Once the monster has been successfully dispatched, you wipe the sweat from your brow and exhale slowly. This isn't Kansas any more - it's Dorothy and Toto opening a door into Apocalypse Now."
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CVG
"Rune Factory for the Nintendo DS is developer Marvelous Interactive’s latest offering in their long line of Harvest Moon games. This one, subtitled “A Fantasy Harvest Moon”, is exactly what it sounds like: a farm simulation that incorporates fantasy elements to make for a highly enjoyable role-playing experience … provided you’re into that kind of thing."
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Flame War Advance
"Thinking of the Harvest Moon series, it’s rather amazing that it’s as compelling as it is, considering the entire gameplay revolves around the repetition of simple, mundane behaviors. But add in gentle townsfolk, a place of your own to feel proud of, the ambition of getting married and starting a family, the subtle and slow passage of the days and years, and the change of the seasons year after year marked with festivals and events, and you’ve got a recipe for joygasm."
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Destructoid
"After the lack of innovation of Harvest Moon DS and the futuristic but out of tune innovation of Innocent Life, Natsume's farming simulation series has finally found its footing on handheld consoles with Rune Factory. This latest attempt to bring innovation to a too-familiar series has produced an interesting hybrid that mixes the old farming system with real-time battles and much more exploration than in the past. Even if it still suffers with a defective control system that doesn't take full advantage of the DS' touch-screen capabilities, Rune Factory delivers a sense of freshness that is worth checking out."
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Gamespy
"The name pretty much says it all. Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon takes the well-established farmlife formula of Natsume's Harvest Moon games and transplants it into the type of baroque fantasy world found commonly in Japanese RPGs, complete with an amnesiac protagonist and plenty of dungeon-crawling. The introduction of combat to Rune Factory is a significant one, and though it's a big change of pace from the farming, fishing, and family-building that have been at the heart of the Harvest Moon games, it avoids feeling tacked-on. Still, this is all mostly for the sake of established Harvest Moon fans, and the overall pace of the action in Rune Factory doesn't feel much different from its predecessors."
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Gamespot
"Despite its GBA success, Harvest Moon hasn't had the greatest start on DS. The original title released back in September of 2006 was hardly what you'd call a true DS vision, having nearly identical assets as its GBA predecessors, and adding clunky touch control on top of a sloppy interface. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the franchise, Natsume has reinvented the world of Harvest Moon in Rune Factory, a half farming, half dungeon-crawling adventure that pairs classic gameplay with the action of something like Children of Mana. And while last year's effort was anything but a worthy DS debut (if you remember, we advised readers to pick up the old GBA game and save their cash of Rune Factory's 2007 release), Rune Factory is quite a different experience, as it has become one of the most engaging and entertaining Harvest Moon titles since series birth."
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IGN
"We enjoyed playing this addition to the Harvest Moon series that was a little bit of a twist from what is generally expected from Harvest Moon.
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Advance Media Network
"If you are worried about whether Natsume plans to replace the Harvest Moon series with this newest take on the series, don't worry. According to representatives, if Harvest Moon is Three's Company, then Rune Factory is more like The Ropers. Not that you should take that to mean that this upcoming DS title is playing second banana: We were surprised at just how deep it was, and we can't wait to spend more time with it."
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Gamespot
"There are no fewer than five Harvest Moon games at this year's E3. I kid you not people, Natsume is milking this cow (sometimes literally!) for all it is worth. In the Natsume room, if I spin in a circle, I can see a Harvest Moon puzzle game, a Harvest Moon game that set's in the future, even a Harvest Moon with real hoe action via the Wii controller! But I settled on the new Harvest Moon game for the Nintendo DS: Rune Factory."
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IGN
