Finished the main game and married Fubuki to Subaru (duh). All in all I had a good time! It's no RF4 and I don't know if we will ever see an entry come close to it, but it's definitely an improvement from RF5. Characters were charming, gameplay was smooth, I enjoyed the town building (even though I get brain farts when it comes to decoration and villager optimization), and honestly I like the dumbing down of the farming. It also surprised me how much I liked some of the bachelorettes/female NPCs. Typically I do (Forte in RF4 was my girl) but I was scared with recent events that this game would lean too goonerish so it was a nice surprise when I found myself liking characters like Ulalaka and Suzu. Though I do agree with others that I don't like the inclusion of Hina as a bachelorette. Also appreciated that Subaru had homo moments with some of the bachelors outside of dating them too.
One thing I didn't like at all was the
arranged marriage subplot between Subaru and Kaguya. I'm glad we had the choice to kill her off. Maybe I'm being petty but reveals like that should be kept in bond events, especially when it was such a throw away line/scene.
And I'm no stranger to pushed romance candidates, I played since RF1, I was there for Mist and what came after.From the boys from first impressions I thought my favorites would be Kurama, Ikuraga and Kai. But now my top three are definitely Fubuki, Cuilang, and Kurama and Kai fighting for third (and they should fuck too). Ikuraga was a huge disappointment, I agree with a lot of players when they describe him as more DLC like than Cuilang. Without going too into it he felt sorta shoehorned in. I'll go through his romance bonds and see if I change my mind, but I am not impressed with him so far.
I've heard the post game romance is lacking, so I think I'll focus on viewing all the romantic bond events before dipping too far into it.
I hope more nonas here give the game a try.
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