Rune Factory 3 Special Trailer Introduces All The Ladies You'll Be Flirting With

Run Factory 3?

Gotta be Raven or Pia for me based on the trailer alone. I'd be scared the unicorn chick would poke my eye out during smooches despite liking them (magical horsies) normally xD

My partner is away when this game comes out, and we are never apart so I'm looking forward to cheating on him with fictional women during this lonely time.

Nice tractor, wanna plough?

No bachelors at all, eh ?
Not interesting flirting the girls.

People who date guys play these games as well, you know!

Add Mario to the game

Based on the designs, Carmen and Raven are the most appealing to me so far. Won't know for sure till I actually play it and see their daily dialog.

I’d like to see Innocent Life return.

I really enjoyed RF4S, and gave RF5 a big go, but couldn't get on with the new style (and the performance issues really didn't do it any favours), it'll be good to go back to the classic, more top-down style of gameplay, which I think you really need for games with a heavy farming/crafting element to them.

RF3 was the best in terms of sheer bachelorette variety.RF4 and especially RF5 was a huge step back in comparison. The consequence in trying to appeal to everyone.

Also Raven best girl.

@Arawn93

Well, RF3 was the last game in the franchise with just bachelorettes. When Tides of Destiny, 4 and 5 added Bachelors to the mix you have to divide resources and that gives us less bachelorettes by default.

Speaking of which, even though I loved the game and it's characters, I personally felt that with RF3 the series just went overboard with the gimmicky characters. Sure, that gimmicks gave them a more varied range of personalities and more differences between themselves, but also made them painfully bidimensional.

The game that I believe gave us the best balance in "gimmicks vs genericness" was Rune Factory Frontier, which incidentally is the game with the higher number of bachelorettes in the franchise, with 13. Xseed claim that 3 have the biggest number is either restricting the competition to numbered games or they just plain forgot about Frontier.

Can the game be beaten without marrying anyone?

I married Marian the witch when I played this on 3DS, and she is hilarious.

Special Where ? Aren’t they suppose to improve the original ? How about make it more inclusive and less hetero dogmatic ? And not even a word in this splendid piece of pure journalism. Quite disappointing NintendoLife.

I like to see more inclusiveness in games but it really needs to be a setting where we choose our direction. RF5 wasn’t well thought out. It just felt like everybody but the old were horny for me.

@Jhena Marriage isn’t a requirement. Proposals should be optional. You can just farm or fight if you want if you don’t care about the marriage stuff.

@Friscobay This game was literally back when the series just appealed to Heterosexual males as the primary target audience.

They are not gonna suddenly pull up a bunch of male bachelors with their story and voice work out of their butt nevermind anything homosexual related either for an old game like this.

Might want to stick with 4 and 5 if it’s that important to you.

@Arawn93 The Story of Seasons remakes have added queer options to them, so it's not unreasonable to assume that this remake by the same company would do something like that too, especially since Rune Factory is closely related to Story of Seasons. It's a pretty weird for a game of this genre released in 2023 to assume all or even the majority of its players to be straight men. I'd say it's completely fair to criticise Marvelous for not taking that into account, as they have done with their other remakes.

Also, based on the trailer there doesn't seem to be any voiced dialogue in the game, there wouldn't have been any need to do any extra voice work. And they have added some new story content to this remake, so it's not like the plot wasn't updated in any way.

@Arawn93 If an equal representation of sexuality and gender in life sim game with a romantic elements sounds too much to you I have no business replying. There is no excuse to ask for 40€ in 2023 for a remake that do not improve on basic representation of its very target audience. Period. The problem is they never f* learn.

Can’t the main character just be a straight guy? It isn’t like they haven’t begun moving towards inclusion within their games (though, yeah, I 100% agree they can always do better in that aspect for sure). I just don’t think being that overly critical of a remake is necessary. Everyone isn’t going to be like us, and that’s fine. There’s not even a woman or non-binary to play as either, and that’s fine. It’s simply how this game was developed originally. It doesn’t have to be a negative. And I feel that way about movies. Give us better and more thought out fresh, new experiences. I don’t think they always have to change the core direction of a game from the past in order to cater to us all. I just ask for a playable and enjoyable gaming experience that isn’t broken.

They all look so bland and politically correct. I get the impression they'll just be time-wasters.

I heard the 3rd game is the best in the series, so I think I'll try this 😃

@Friscobay This game isn't made for you, just buy other games. Like every other games that's made in usa, I think nearly all of them has this "representation" that you want lol.

@Arawn93
Cool, thanks. Generally I want to get married in games like these, but after watching this trailer, I think it would make me feel uncomfortable. They all look like little children. I mean the boy, Micah, is also around that age, but to be honest, I think that does not make it right, kids should not get married.

That said, I think I should play this game sometime.

@wiiware Yup. Unfortunately people today just go “current year” like right here right now as the excuse for trashing on a game that isn’t even a “current year” game lol.

Not every game appeals to everyone is what they fail to realize. Nor does the expression “try to do everything and fail at everything” ever cross their minds. Imagine if Otome games try to shoe horn in heroine targets to try to appeal to heterosexual males instead of the usual male bishe romance target ones when it’s a genre of games with a specific audience target focus.

Hell I found RF5 failed to appeal to me as a heterosexual male which is ironic for this series, but I can just play the older games for a better experience in that regard like this one.

@Friscobay "Hetero dogmatic"? Are you alright?

@wiiware don’t tell me what to do and do not put quotes on equal representation. You sound outdated as your nickname. And remember the world exist outside the panamerican borders.

@Anti-Matter You know, you COULD just entertain yourself and flirt with the girls anyways... or... you know... imagine they are ladyboys or something.

I mean... You CAN play games to be something you are normally not... like a plumber, or a wizard... or of a different persuasion...

@Daniel36
I'm looking for handsome dudes with athletic looking, not interested with the girls.

@Anti-Matter Yes, Anti, we know, but as I was saying, just because I may be looking for certain types of women, that doesn't mean I can't enjoy stomping in goombas and koopas for a princess I am not particularly attracted to.

You might be limiting your enjoyment. Not saying you should play or like this game, but it might become your favourite game, despite some choices not being available, and you wouldn't even know.

@Daniel36
I don't even like with every single bachelorettes looking from rune factory 3.
None of them looks interesting for me.
I personally still irked by the character design especially the eyes design with lighter color and small black pupil, too animesque looking, it's really killing me.
I don't like moe looking girls, they look like girls from hentai games.
I'm G, I'm looking for handsome looking dudes.
Yes, I'm limiting myself because I know what is something that fit for me without forcing myself to like them.
The bachelors design from Harvest Moon One World (Brandon, Kanoa) personally look more appealing for me.

The bachelors design from Pioneers of Olive Town was quite good but their skinny body quite killing me. I only like Ralph, Emilio and Jack from all the bachelor candidates, don't even bothering with the girls no matter how beautiful they are. I have no chemistry at all with the girls.

And for Rune Factory games itself, I have ever a plan to get the Tides of Destiny PS3 just because I can marry the bachelor Joe (the only acceptable looking dude) despite the character design from Rune Factory games still killing me.

I'm very picky in accepting character design.
I don't like hentai looking girls.
I don't like long haired male characters, especially with skinny body and too fantasy outfits.
I prefer more natural or casual looking character design without too fancy outfits.

@Friscobay Rather than whining about the game you won't buy, just buy other games that have this "representation" that you seek of. Besides I'm sure even if the game has it, you still won't buy it and only "like" and "share" it on twitter for clout.

@Arawn93 In the end they just want more clout, to show of to their friend on how good they are for wanting representation, they won't buy the game either, they want the old fans to buy it.

@Anti-Matter Fair enough. I am also veeeery picky on certain elements in games. I HATE floating islands and time traveling scenarios for example, but sometimes I am willing to accept these elements.

If I didn't sonetimes accept them, I wouldn't ever have enjoyed some of my all time faves, like Chrono Trigger, and come to think of it, my absolute favourite, Final Fantasy 6 also has a floating island section... but that is just one.

But I hear you, we have to be picky, because there are way too many games. And I suppose I myself am very fixed on my opinion on certain games as well. Atelier games spring to mind. Very much not for me.

@wiiware again, don’t tell me what to do and where to spend my money. I’m demanding, the one who’s whining here is you. Your assumptions are vain. As your arguments for not bringing more gender representation to the sim games with dating elements : try to give me one single reason to exclude LGBTQIA’s representation from dating sim interaction without being homophobic. Tell me how me asking for more visibility for marginalized groupes is hurting your ego. Tell me how will it freaking hurt you to see more people fully enjoying the game as represented heterosexual folks do. Go.

@Friscobay The reason is simple really, not everything is about you, you are not the center of the universe, so you can't expect everyone to cater to you, or me for that matter.

Oh well, let's just agree to disagree then, in the end marvelous europe is free to do whatever they want with their ip, whether to change it or not 😃

@wiiware …said a represented catered curated one. I don’t have to agree on anything with you, since my demand was not addressed to you, it does not concern you at all. It’s quite sad though that most of you - who is accommodated to be the center of the universe so much so they feel the ‘natural’ need to react on someone’s comment - have to recognize other’s existence & have to learn to share their toys at this age.