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Karen would kick her ass. ;P

NeonOctopus posted...

Oh wow I looked them up and I forgot how awful looking they all are lol

But honestly most of the chicks in DS are eh >_> Flora and Celia are the only good ones. Lumina literally looks like a kid, Nami looks like a dude >_> Muffy looks like floozy, Leia is a weird fish person lol, and the Mine Princess is a huge pain in the ass to marry and doesn't even talk.

I agree with you about all except Nami. I like her tomboy style. And she's a redhead.

I only played AWL as a kid. Never did play the girl version because the guys...are really terrible. So bad lol.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78867676

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_Rinku_ posted...

Heck, I forgot about Forte. I would have married her, but I'm afraid the she'd become super domestic post-wedding. I love her because she's so badass.

Maybe she does. That kind of thing is disappointing to me. I've been kind of thinking of giving DS Cute a shot and I was reading about some of the NPCs. One caught my eye named Flora who sounded badass. Cute design, has a cool research job that she loves, digs around in the excavation site for artifacts. Martial artist. Then I read if she's married in DS, she becomes a housewife who barely leaves the house. It made me so sad

I really like the waifus and husbandos in RF4. If I ever played a guy, I'd be tempted for either Forte or Margaret.

yeah good point. I'm pretty similar. I tend to have one save file and that's it unless it's been a really long time or I didn't do a lot of things in the first place.

And Neon, yeah, it's similar to Stardew in that respect. You can also turn any monster you fight into livestock, craft your own equipment, stuff like that. and imo it has a great cast.

That's a shame. I guess you can no longer have it to replay? I played it back on 3DS but never did finish the main story. A replay would be pretty nice...

Speaking of limited, does anyone know what's up with GameStop not carrying Rune Factory 4 Special? I've been thinking of biting on that.

By LostForest

Nope, the General Store starts selling utensils one by one. You'll get mail in your mailbox announcing it when they do.

I was wondering what the Goddess Collection thing was about but Google wasn't giving me anything.

I'm still fighting with Lou, she won't give me any recipes beyond the grape water.

LostForest posted...

What about if you do same sex marriage?

It's the same. Likely just a gift from the Goddess type of thing.

So this is pretty good news. And surprising, to me anyway lol.

https://www.gematsu.com/2020/07/story-of-seasons-friends-of-mineral-town-and-rune-factory-4-special-sales-each-top-100000-in-north-america

We're also inching along towards 500, something else that's surprising to me. Did you guys want me to make a second topic before close so we can continue talking about this game and other farming/life sims?

LostForest posted...

Wait so do you have a choice with having kids in this game? Or is it automatic. Can I save scum to put it off indefinitely?

It's automatic, you can choose if you want a boy, girl, or random. I don't think you can save scum, pretty sure it's a set number of days after your marriage.

I personally hate the aesthetic of the character portraits in SV. The characters themselves didn't do much for me either. Between those two, it's probably why I only did a few dozen hours in SV.

Huh, those are really cool options to have. I'm jealous lol.

Though tbh I don't mind the kid so much, I just minded the event interrupting the festival.

_Rinku_ posted...

You know, that is one thing SV has over this series: you can just turn your children into doves.

Wait, what lol? I played SV but I didn't get far enough that I had a kid.

I'm trying to chill out but I'm still irate. Someone needs to whack Marvelous over the head for their oversight (or approval) of letting other events coincide with festival entry dates. This is the second year in a row now that I couldn't do the cow festival--one I still haven't won but CAN now--because of kid shit. first the pregnancy, and now her learning to walk. I'm really, really peeved.

Alucard188 posted...

I'm on Summer 4, and I haven't had any typhoons yet. I remember the old trick you used to do, where you can leave your dog in your greenhouse during a typhoon, and nothing would happen to it.

omg that's genius! Poor dog...but genius!

I love the bell, but I admit a small part of me missing my dog being able to herd them in at night.

And yeah, after I got 5 days of typhoons in my first 10 days of summer year 1, I save scummed weather lol. Screw that.

LightHawKnight posted...

Honestly, they could have pleased both sides by making rival marriages activated by player action. So you could either leave em all lonely forever, or all paired up if they wanted, or pick and choose if they hate Rick.

This would be a really lovely solution I hope they implement in the future. I loved rival marriages. The marriage and kid system is why I love AWL as much as I do.

spikethedevil posted...

Alisa was clearly the canon one has she was the only one with romance endings but they gave everyone a romance ending in 4.

She was hinted to be canon without actually making it canon. All 4 games (and probably Hajimari still) they dance around it so no one gets upset that their waifu pick that isn't Alisa doesn't win. It's similar with Crossbell with Lloyd and Elie. For something so extremely narrative and character heavy as Kiskei, it really bothers me that they started doing this after Sky.

Japanese waifu culture are ruining things like this for both SOS and Kiseki. ;_;

It isn't racism lol. It isn't because he's the one guy that's black, it's because he's the one guy that Popuri is into and he's overprotective of her. Especially when Kai only visits in the summer and Rick would probably worry about him treating her casually or, worse, "taking" her away from town.

Yeah most are 20k. The standard dog is 10k, and the penguins and capybaras are 30k.

I finally got a penguin and it's the cutest thing in the world!

So you guys remember how I had trouble getting Lou's recipes on Sundays? I got her hearts maxed out and still only have one recipe from her, so I went digging around again and found the cause.


So I have a bunch of cooking to do lol.

TheBlueMonk_ posted...

The original had a nice style. Looked intentional.

I don't know what "intentional" means in terms of something like this. especially when it seems more thought were put into their designs in this game in regards to the characters' occupations. It looks really nice and cute, to boot.

Nah, in this game you have to wait until the season itself to buy the seeds. At the general store, anyway. Huang sells them all the time.

A big festival gripe in this game are Valentine's Day/White Day. Why exactly does the game expect me to stay in my front yard literally all day long so I can accept the gifts from my buds? Why not have them go around town as normal and give me the gifts when I talk to them? Eesh.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Is it possible to get 8 hearts for a dog in two months? I want a dog but I dont want to wait until year 3 to get a cat.

Hmm hard to tell. Maybe if you talk, fetch, and give a treat every single day. MAYBE. And the pet treats are expensive as hell for 1k a pop.

What he sells is determined by the season. Spring is cats, summer penguins, autumn dogs, winter capybara. Keep in mind you can get more than one pet but you can't buy another until the previous one has 8+ hearts.

It's both.

Also it's official that mythic stones are bugged in the Switch version and XSEED is aware of it and working on a patch.

Eliza3 posted...

I remember she said something about a rumored book. How do you get it?

It's on your bookshelf in the house. The Goddess gives you 3 of them, total.

Nah, outside the mine, when you try to enter. One way to tell you're also at 100 is if you have the Super Fascinating Book on your shelf. Which she also doesn't mention, but Marie does. >> The goddess is so cheeky

Eliza3 posted...

@NeonOctopus Hey you seem knowledgeable. After giving the goddess 100 gifts, does it notify you that you get access to the elevator or something? I'm in winter and don't want to go back into the mines until I get the elevator.

It doesn't. You have to go to a mine and a scene will trigger with the goddess then.

I thought Ran was really adorable. :( I was pretty close to picking her but Gray won out.

Oh man, finally got to floor 255 in the spring mine. Nabbed the collectible statues/ketchup and teleport stone. Think I'll put the game down until I get word of a mythic stone patch, since I'm trying to go for the king fish and want a Mythic Rod before spring ends. :(

I really hope it's a bug. I've read that the two statues in the mine could affect drop rates, over on the SoS subreddit. I'll be aiming to grab those tomorrow so I guess we'll see.

Also I just realized and am surprised to see this topic is over 300 posts lol. I expected to get maybe 10 replies, if that. I love you fellow fans. :)

Cookie Bag posted...

I remember it being absolute ass in the original too, adding how awful it was getting down the mines... did they make it easier in this game btw?

Yeah they did. After 100 goddess gifts, you unlock the elevator feature for the mines, which take you to every 50th floor.

The drop rate for mythic ore is nothing but straight up sadistic ass. I'm really close to just entering "fuck it" mode and keeping all my tools just Blessed. This is flipping Harvest Moon, not Monster Hunter, what the fuck

NeonOctopus posted...

If you hold R or whatever auto-run is assigned to, you go through NPCs

I didn't figure this out until much later in the game. It made my barn chores so much easier, since they clump up like crazy in there. x.x

Wtf kind of tantrum did I just read

A quick note, what Thomas asks for is random, you should be able to reset from the night before, go to bed, and it can be different. I *think* it's Winter 2, iirc. I've seen white grass, the AEPFE or whatever the fuck it's called apple, golden egg, and now a diamond that Neon talked about.

Huh, Eliza, I might try that. I was farming for mythics a while last night and didn't get even one. Tried on floors 60 and 102, shit was crazy!

And I didn't know Van gave you different stuff for the Van's Favorite thing. When I did it, he gave me the entire record collection, which is really dope.

Tbh I'd like an original entry next. Something more on par with Trio of Towns, content and dialogue-wise. FOMT is great but I can feel the age despite the new graphics.

If they did do another remake though, I think I'd want DS/Cute, too. It's one that I've never played.

For the cursed tools, blessing them went from:
Carter blessing 10 times -> Carter blessing 5 times
255 uses -> 50 uses
Leave equipped for 10 days -> Leave equipped for 5 days

And I read that originally you had to have every tool in mythril form before cursed tools showed up in the Lake Mine, but I read that now you only need 2 mythril ones.

Yeah it's weird they kept the 50 year requirement when they lowered requirements to other things. I just got done getting and blessing the curse tools and blessing them was eased up on a lot.

Does anyone know what's up with Lou? The woman who visits the inn only on Sundays and gives you recipes. Or should. I have her affection at 7 now and I talk to and gift her every Sunday but I've only gotten one recipe, when you're supposed to get 10 total from her.

They added Adzuki Beans and Chili peppers in the fall but that's it, iirc. To get higher ratings, Gotts offers a field upgrade at the start of every year. I miss doing it the fertilizer and seed maker way, it made me feel more proud of my 5* crops :(

And yeah you can still have the teleport thing and save scum

Huang's not bad, I just gave him a fruit from one of my trees every day. He takes all of them.

LostForest posted...

As far as jank, like I said. I feel like dialogue trees are incomplete. I don't remember any recent entries that had so many characters that just say "Hello" or "What do you want?" with absolutely no variety. Maybe I got spoiled by ToT.

Like, I know Marvelous is small but everything about the game makes it feel like it was made by a team of 3 people lol.

oh yeah I know what you mean. In that sense I've been spoiled by Trio of Towns as well (and Rune Factory 4 lol). It's not incomplete, but it's intentional and does get repetitive. A lot of older BM games are like this and Trio/Towns was a huge step up in that regard. For better and for worse, SoS Mineral Town is a very faithful remake for the bulk of it and that includes the dialogue. It's part of what I meant last night when I said that while I love playing this game, at the same time it's also just giving me an itch to go back to Trio.

NeonOctopus posted...

What's an easy way to get money? >_>

Also I remember the store had secret seeds for each season but I completely forget how to unlock them.
...how do you unlock them?

For the seed question, you have to ship 100 of each crop (not including the ones sold by Huang) before that season's secret seeds are unlocked.

As for money cheese, there are two main ways:

Derby - Happens in the Spring and Autumn. Save scum the horse races while pumping all your money bets to the horse with the best medal outcome. The 2nd and 3rd races are rng so just reload until you get the payout. Then use the medals to buy a crap ton of brooches or dresses (latter is unlocked after you get the power berry and jewel) and sell them to Huang (4 affection needed) for a massive profit. Best done after you have a medium bag at least.

Van's Favorite - For every exactly ten items you buy from a shop (buying in stacks still only counts as one, you have to close and reopen the shop menu for it to count), you get Van's Favorite in the mail the next day. You can sell it to Huang for 50k.

If the graphics for this game look cheap, that's a ymmv thing I suppose, but it feels janky? I can't wrap my head around that one lol. It feels like a complete game to me.

For Trio of Towns, it's a great blend for me of having great NPCs with fun towns and the amount of customization and content you can go through. The dialogue actually feels more varied for once, leading to the world feeling more alive (which even extends to the family you leave behind feeling like actual people, too).