![]() ![]() Of course it wouldn’t be Harvest Moon without a large portion of the game focused on wooing and romancing with the village girls. Series veterans will feel right at home with this element, cleaning your field, buying crops and watering them depending on which season you’re in works simply enough, but as always it can be seen as a tedious and repetitive process. While Raguna figures out how to stop the Runeys from disappearing and save the world, he has to work his butt off to make a living for himself, which means farming, fishing, ranching - all the usual Harvest Moon elements we know and love. Unfortunately it’s a little erratic at times, with instances of voiced dialogue being followed by text and silence. On that note, unlike the DS Rune Factory games, Frontier is quite heavily voiced, with some NPC dialogue being fully voiced. However, during important events such as the introduction of crucial townsfolk, and plot development, you’ll be rewarded with some very high quality animé cutscenes, accompanied with good quality voice acting. The main problem is that it’s very hard to discover what your next objective is, and you’ll spend months of the game just working on your farm without any indication of where the plot is headed. The plot is very slow, but decent enough for what is essentially an RPG-fleshed out farm simulator. There are Runeys for rock, water, trees and grass, and Raguna can also use these to make wishes for certain events to occur each day. The island, as well as the village and surrounding areas, are fuelled by little creatures called Runeys, which are like the living souls of nature. The story goes that something is taking its power, and that it will fall and crush the village if this isn’t stopped. There’s a huge island shaped like a whale floating in the sky above the village, appropriately called Whale Island. While not all the old characters return, you have a fair few oldies alongside the new cast. Once the old village hears about Raguna and Mist’s safety, a bunch of familiar faces also join this new village. A few minutes later and Raguna has been forced to live on the farm next door to her in this new village, just like in the first Rune Factory game. It turns out Mist left her village of birth without telling anyone because, as a well-adjusted being, she was following voices in her head. Raguna winds up staying in the church of a nearby village, and is greeted the next morning by none other than Mist. Prior to Frontier’s opening, Mist randomly runs off and goes missing, so Raguna goes to look for her while the rest of his village twiddle their thumbs. Unlike other games in the Rune Factory franchise, Frontier is a direct sequel to the first Rune Factory game, featuring many of the same characters, including the main protagonist Raguna, and his cute, bubbly and slightly insane love interest Mist. ![]()
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