are there horrible things like runeys that need excessive unnecessary management that can severely effect and ruin the game?!!

From the people who have played the PS3 version, they say it's a pretty good game.

the video only seems to show a small combat segment and does not indicate on a good number of aspects of this game.   the runeys in the last game completely ruined it for me.

I actually liked the Runies, they looked very cool floating around the town; they added a lot of atmosphere to the game. Plus if you had a lot of them, they would give you bonuses to your crops. I am not sure why you hated them?

Rune Factory Frontier is my most played Home Console game ever; I put in over 100 hours. Also my favourite game this generation on home console. It was a game that gave you a lot of choice about how you proceeded forward.

My impressions of Tides of Destiny (import)

* The town is much more compact than Frontier. There are fewer people as well, but more interaction with the existing people.

* Town is much less atmospheric, thanks to no Runies and other aspects about the setting; less heart for certain.

* Characters are more close to each other in personality, they don't have such wide differences like in Rune Factory Frontier.

* Action/combat is more fun,

* user Interface is much improved, and more useful to the player than Frontier.

* Crafting/minigame system is a little irritating, Frontier was better.

* People are much easier to find in this game, particularly since they display on the map where they are; they also seem to have higher availability.

* No Bathhouse peep shows =(  I always thought those to be humerous and fun.

* Farming is very stripped down and highly simplified; you walk around to where a location is where a plant can grow, use your staff, and a sprout will begin - no watering or hoeing or choosing where you want your crops.

* No Farm - You live in town next door to the Inn. Crops are grown on islands outside of town. You reach them by riding on a giant golem. All the combat and such appears on islands outside of town as well.

Overall, the game is better in some areas, but I don't like it as much as Frontier in others. It's my favourite RPG-type game on home console since Rune Factory Frontier - I like it more than Xenoblade and Final Fantasy 13; and I did like both of those two games too, but both were very disappointing compared to previous Final Fantasy and Xeno games. Rune Factory Tides of Destiny doesn't really disappoint me, despite me not liking it quite as much as Frontier. There is certainly a lot more to do in Tides of Destiny.

well they really didnt make much of the runeys in the game, they said that doing shit with them gave bonuses, i didnt really care...and then everything i tried to grow died. i couldnt even make food for my animals and buying it was way to expensive. almost all the runeys were dead. i tried fixing it and it was just taking way too much time and even having to maintain them after they are fixed seemed way too much.

its just so fucked that they force that aspect of the game on people. bonuses for them are one thing...but destroying my game for not doing them is a whole other story.

To maintain standard crop growth, just make sure you don't have less than 5 Runeys in each area - I think that takes some attention maybe 2-3 times a game year; they work in a sort of a food chain, so grass at the bottom, then tree, then rock, and then water. It only takes any real amount of work if you want prosperity bonuses. So mostly every season or two, you should take grass Runeys from your homestead and distribute them around - the higher numbers of Runeys you have, the more often you`ll have to do this - but also the more profitable you`ll be. The Grass Runey Factory is good for hardcore play to maintain levels about 35 of each type per area, distributing each Weekend day to make sure the grass Runeys are at a level of 60 in each area - this will give maximum crop bonuses.

However, if you take the farming path, you`re going to want to use water Runeys to create the Rainy days miracle if you have lots of crops; this helps greatly boost productivity by a huge amount and actually ends up saving you time; Water Runeys are at the top of the chain; so they are the most expendable as well.

If you`re a player not interested in farming, and instead wish to adventure, mine, collect, fish, craft, etc.... Then Runeys are not something you need to really care about except for visual purposes.

interesting ip. more like cute lol

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Loved Frontier. Still want to play it even now (stupid wii just siting at my house.) Only got to fall year 1 since I got distracted to other games (I think it was golden sun: lost age (Damn, I need to finish that game too.)) I remember just seeing that intro movie and I see a huge red minotaur and I'm like "WTF" and I set out my goal to get to know what the hell that thing is. Damn, just typing makes me wish I had my wii with me.