I had hoped to start up again after he awoke from his sleep, but there was a bit of a line so I contented myself to talk to the Natsume rep a bit more about Rune Factory 3. After that, I was told to head home and rest, to give Prince time to recover. Prince then awoke in an inn, being tended by the innkeeper.
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After wiping them out, I grabbed a few items from a field patch above me (a bamboo shoot and medicinal herb), then headed towards the left.Īnd saw Prince succumb to a wooly. The apple-shaped enemies and woolys were there once again, begging to be attacked. I asked the Natsume representative where an easier dungeon was, since Prince was only at level five, and was directed to go to the bottom right.Īfter entering the first dungeon, I noticed a few familiar enemy faces. I figured I may as well do the same, since I didn’t want to hog Rune Factory 3. After tapping the appropriate icons on the touch screen to check his inventory, and finding no seeds, I decided to step outside and see if there was anything to water.Īpparently, other demo players decided to focus on fighting, not farming. As mentioned in the preliminary game information, Prince lives in a tree, and has all of his planting areas around the tree, underground. Prince, the name Natsume gave to the main character, then showed up in his own bed at his tree home. (Though, other demo testers had saved over the prepared slots.) There are once again two save slots in the game, which is about average for a Rune Factory title. Thankfully, one of the Natsume representatives was around to help me pick up an earlier save file. Mainly because with a game like Rune Factory 3, it’s hard to just pick up and start playing where someone else left off – you have no idea what they’d done.
In a way, I think I’d have preferred if Natsume had done like Square Enix did with Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, and given a bite-sized demo to play.
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The Rune Factory 3 demo available was pretty much a full game, where I could jump in and control the hero right away.
One of them happened to be Rune Factory 3, the latest entry in a series, which combines the farming and relationship building aspects of Harvest Moon with dungeon crawling goodness. Partially, because I really like Natsume as a company, and partially because Natsume had four great DS games that were playable on the show floor. While attending E3, I spent quite a bit of time at Natsume’s booth.