Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma | Launch Trailer

Got this on a whim since I got a bit of a bonus at work and it's actually pretty good so far!

wanted something cute and simple to help with mental health things, and it's definitely both of those things

Also very pretty just to look at, even if on the default settings

Like it was past the 10 hour mark before I realized "oh hey, I didn't check the video settings" and realized it was all defaulted to medium

also am I building a team of fuckin little violence gremlins? You bet I am

wait, you can have team members that aren't pretty much useless? is this really a Rune Factory game?

They haven't felt useless so far, but they also haven't felt too necessary, but I'm also still early in the game

exception being having someone along who can heal once you get to the second island, since then enemies start poisoning you and the healer will periodically deal with that before you even have to worry about it

a full team of 4 (3 party members + you) seems to handle just about everything so far, but I'm sure I'll need to cycle squads later in the game

But I meant more that I was angling for teammates with personality types that uh...should not get things done, at least not without collateral damage and/or infighting

in the previous/mainline RF games, your "party" is either recruited monsters or villagers you have enough friendship with. almost all of them are very weak and will spend most fights knocked unconscious, until all enemies in the area are defeated and they revive

Oh they still seem like they're fragile, but I can usually plow through stuff fast enough it's not an issue

Only time it's a problem is when we run into a random overleveled enemy, then I have to pay a bit more attention

I haven't tried taking monsters out yet just because they're too valuable for crafting materials on the farm |D

that makes me curious. I'm interested in games where you can recruit NPCs to do work for you, and I read that that's a major mechanic in GoA. you can get monsters to water, harvest, or plant crops for you in previous games, but usually only watering is worth it

IIRC you can't choose what they plant, and you want the Rune bonuses from harvesting (and in the first two games you might want to leave certain fields unharvested so they give a daily rune orb)

Don't know if I can assign them to work crops yet, so far that's limited to villagers

But yeah, you can't pick what the ones assigned to farming plant as far as I'm aware