Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny - How is it?

[MRKs]

I played it for a couple of hours, in a friend house. I never played a rune factory yet (I'm planning to get Frontier first) but I'm a harvest moon veteran so the farming is important to me.
For I could see the farming is extremely simplified, you only plants crops with a staff/wand and you don't need to even water them, so it's kinda disappointing.
But that aside, the game is SO addictive, even when you virtually spent no time in farming, the day is short with the MANY things you can do. The battles are so quick and fluid, although it's only button smashing but it's rewarding. You can raise monsters and form a party to go to different islands/dungeons which take an important amount of in game time , you can do quests but they are simple and kinda boring (and it has an exploit xD)
Maybe this game is so addictive to me because it my first RF game.

Also there a couple of crops that grows on one day only and yes you can harvest your crops and also (optional) using harvesting monsters to do this.
In conclusion, the game may be overly simple in farming but it has a lot more to do than other harvest moons and it becomes really addictive.