Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon for Nintendo DS Reviews by Gamers

OK... I am a huge Harvest Moon fan, and this new offering is a decent addition to the franchise.

The best parts? You finally get to whack creatures with a sword. The cooking makes more sense, since you have to work up skills to create more difficult dishes. Forging is great! It takes mastery, too, which I appreciated. Befriending monsters is interesting and helpful. Finally there's a decent replacement for the sprites. Plus, they are not as tedious to take care as other animals. The dialog with the townspeople is a lot more interesting this time around.

The average parts? Farming is about the same, although there is less of it to do. Collection is the same as the rest of the games (although there is less of it since you only collect in caves and on your land).

The worst parts? Earning money and enough wood at the beginning is tedious. There's only one house upgrade. You eventually have way too much dough. Creating accessories is not as balanced as pharmacy and forging. Cave traveling is redundant. The festivals aren't as fun as in previous incarnations.

Overall, I've enjoyed it.

This game is for fans of harvest moon and dungeon crawling. It has everything that made harvest moon great plus Hack and slash RPG. The hack and slash does not feel tossed in there, It works great.

With 11 women to romance, A House and farm to upgrade, Weapons and tool to forge, tons of caves to explore and monsters to fight and tame, you will have plenty to do.

A great feature of this game is taming monsters to fight by your side and produce Milk, wool, and eggs.

The Fighting in the games consists of going from cave too cave fighting and taming these monsters, using weapons you buy or forge and even magic.

You must be a fan of harvest moon and Hack and slash dungeon crawl.