Rune Factory Oceans sees players take control of both Aden and Sonja, lifelong best friends living a peaceful existence on a small island. However, one day they awaken to find themselves afflicted by an ancient curse, with Sonja trapped inside Aden’s body. What’s more, they appear to be trapped in a parallel dimension, with a now unrecognisable version of the island they know and love. The Electronic Theatre Imagestory is delivered in the typically eastern anime manner, with corny characters and touching emotional statements lying around every corner. It’s sickeningly quaint pitch does already have an expansive audience willing to lap it up – especially on the PlayStation 3 – but for some the forceful nature of the cutesypie design may be too much of a barrier to break.
Given that it is a spin-off of Harvest Moon, it isn’t surprising that romance is a part of Rune Factory. But what may catch someone off guard is how much the games offer. These titles offer lots of people they can spend time with, some of them showing how many different kinds of species live in this fantasy world. They are people who are capable at performing certain jobs and surviving against monsters. Their storylines also can be quite engaging and fun. Essentially, they can go above and beyond.
In celebration of their upcoming 10th anniversary, Rising Star Games are holding a discount sale on the Nintendo eShop and PlayStation Network in North America and Europe.
$6 is a steal for Deadly Premonition, even if it is a sub standard port of the 360 game. Pick it up, you'll be entertained one way or the other.
The PS3 version of Deadly Premonition:Director's Cut is an enhanced expanded port from the original 360 version. The original 360 version was roundly panned for it's terrible controls,graphics, dialog was called the worst game ever by some. Some found it fun like watching a really bad B-Movie. The PS3 version fixes it's many glitches and it runs and controls better with a DS3 and the newly included PS Move controls. At $6 it's certainly worth a buy and you'll get a some laughs from this and is the Definitive version.
Harvest Moon meets Monster Hunter in this farming-RPG that tells a romantic tale.
For JRPG fans this is a sleeper hit. I found it very interesting and better then I expected.
It's also a very easy to get a PLATINUM trophy if you invest a little effort into it.
Agree with Sarick, the game is fantastic, and all the games in this series are incredible. Check out the ones on the DS and Wii as well, and Rune Factory 4 will be out on the 3DS in the next couple months. Do yourself a favor if a fan of JRPGs, play this series!
Funny, I've been playing JRPGs for nearly two decades, and I found Tides of Destiny to be one of the absolute worst ones. Just atrocious.
It was offensively bad.
I've played jrpgs for a while and while I've never played the other rune factory games, tides of destiny suck.
Its not the worst one as Xof claims.
