>>4017>precursor to DougLol I never realized how similar they were until you said this. I knew about the silver eyes theory, but the similar personalities never clicked before.
>II is where the art peaked for meWhoever they got to translate Iwasaki's concept art to portraits after the second game didn't do as good a job as the ones that did the portrait art in the first two games. And you're right, 5 felt cluttered with a lot of designs. The only ones that I felt fit within the Rune Factory world were Cecil, Martin, and Lucy. But their portrait art significantly downgraded them, especially Cecil. Also afaik Iwasaki didn't come back for Azuma which is probably why the characters look even less like Rune Factory characters imo.
>>4018>I wasn't interested in having to play as a guy with only female love interestsUnderstandable. I imagine if 4 was my first game I'd not want to try the others. 4 is the best in the series as much as I like the other games. Tides of Destiny has 4 bachelors, but you can't play as the girl until you beat the game. You can still do a few events with three of the bachelors before then. And 2 has a second generation girl protagonist, but you can't marry because you're a child and your bachelors are children. One day I will figure out how to romhack ds games and make a romhack that allows you to romance the guys in 1.
>FubukiHe was the only one I was interested in until Cuilang was revealed. I also don't like the older-looking guys and I hate that the fanbase on reddit praises them. I wanna go back to when bishounen was the oldest a bachelor-like guy could be.
>jhiendacnlOh shit they translated the Rune Factory 4 magazine manga. Thank you for mentioning this. I always wanted to read it.
BTW I completely forgot that this japanese wiki has a bunch of comments expressing their grievances with 5. I know there's a lot of complaints about the homosex, but I forget they had a version where the characters must've had lines specific to each protagonist like how 4 did (although the glitches in 4 caused some actual romance lines to slip through). But there's other complain
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