Will probably try it out. I played the hell out of the first rune factory but never finished it because i maxed everything out in the first 2 seasons of the first year. The second one was more of the same but with some rather clever enhancements however you were limited by the fact that your stats could not rise above a certain level and only your offspring (who would replace the original protagonist) could be leveled up to the max leaving me with a underpowered first gen charaters whith whom i could not do the "projects" i had in mind with. So i ended up not finishing that one either. Once you figure out that you can let your monsters do all the work for you and that you can replenish your ability points almost with no limits simply by leaving some crops of grass untouched (every full grown crops would create one rune orb that would replendish 25 percent of your total ability points) the game becomes extremely easy.

Wonder if the same will happen to me with this game.

Sounds good. It seems to combine the laid-back nature of Harvest Moon with some cool RPG action, and it seems to work.

Monster taming is always a good feature.

Yeah, I like how monsters can both help you in combat (as mounts or helpers!) as well as with your farming.

I love the Harvest Moon series.  If I spnd half the amount of time on this game as I did on A Wonderful Life, then it would be money well spent.

i played the first rune factory on ds and it was great but i would like to see what the monsters do before i buy this.

Never played the series before.  Might be a good place to start.

I can't believe I don't have this yet...stupid college :'(

May get this after I finish LKS.