#Radea Rune Factory

[ghost--sweets]

Started playing RF5 again, sketched some characters ~

[bokumonocosplay]

The first spoiler character is my wife Radea! I adore her design, and unlike Venti she has quite a lot in common with her dragon form!

[aashiyancha]

Valentine's day is coming up so I drew a bunch of couple photos. For characters who don't have a partner in my fancomic, I just drew them with some sweets☆

Notice how I drew these in sticker style? Am I planning to make stickers? Idk who can say~~

[tarojun]

Happy Chinese New Year!

Lets hope and give fortune that Rune Factory: Project Dragon will be successful!

(Scene data provided by "hido" and "Nagisa the Love" on Pixiv)

[tenshi-2]

[04-myang]

총감레디

[tinylantern]

Silent Hope/Rune Factory connection theories that I have yet to make any significant posts about

Fact or Fiction: Silent Hope's nature as a fable

Seven Heroes, Seven Countries: Where do the protagonists come from?

Monsters: Creatures from another world or the reincarnated spirits of the dead?

Primitivus, Proto-Dragon of Void: A potential answer to Livia and Radea

The Fighter: An ancestor of the De Sainte-Coquilles?

[coderedblood]

Rune Factory English Voice Actors/Actresses:

I’m a huge fan of Rune Factory. It seems sort of niche bc when I ask other gamers (I’m a casual gamer, don’t ask me to be on any teams 😂) about it they don’t really know what it is. One of the things I love about is is how they get these huge voice actors for the games, which seem so small (but I know it isn’t, it’s sold hundreds of thousands of copies)

WARNING: ONLY ENGLISH VOICES ARE COUNTED HERE. I’M DOING THIS FOR MYSELF AND WHAT I KNOW. I MAY DO A JAPANESE VERSION.

Raguna (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Vash the Stampede, Ichigo from Bleach, Sabo from One Piece, and Nero from Devil May Cry

Mist (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Haru from Persona 5

Bianca (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Saya from Blood+ (I didn’t see that one coming)

Tabatha (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Mima from Perfect Blue and Rem from Trigun

Iris (both of them, RFF) is Rukia from Bleach and Yuki from Haruhi Suzumiya

Anette (RFF) is Starfire (and Blackfire!) from Teen Titans and Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time

Raven (RF3) is Amy Rose from Sonic Boom

Electra (Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) is Annie from Attack on Titan (didn’t see this one coming either)

Bacchus (RFTOD) is Vampire Hunter D (and D’s left hand!) (loved this one)

Vishnal (Rune Factory 4) is Leonardo from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon and Kappa Mikey

Clorica (RF4) is Shiki from The World Ends With You

Xiao Pai (RF4) is Jenny from My Life As A Teenage Robot

Doug (RF4) is Sasuke from Naruto

Margaret (RF4) is Hinata from Naruto, Kyrie from Devil May Cry and Orihime from Bleach

Forte (RF4) is Abbey Bominable from the first Monster High cartoon

Amber (RF4) is Morgana from Persona 5

Dolce (RF4) is Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist (this one actually makes sense), Maka Albarn from Soul Eater and the female protagonist of Persona 3

Frey (RF4) is Gaz from Invader ZIM

Ares (Rune Factory 5) is SwaySway from The Breadwinners

Scarlett (RF5) is Retsuko from Aggretsuko, Akko from Little Witch Academia and Ryuko from Kill La Kill

Lucy (RF5) is Loona from Helluva Boss and Emira Blight from The Owl House

Martin (RF5) is Louis from Beastars

Cecil (RF5) is Hunter from The Owl House and Remy from Big City Greens

Ryker (RF5) is Trebol from One Piece (also, also did not see this coming)

Livia (RF5) is Rebecca from One Piece

Misasagi (RF5) is Tatsuki from Bleach

Rudolph (RF5) is Mugman from The Cuphead Show!

Yuki (RF5) is Beauty from Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo

Darroch (RF5) is Jelly Jiggler from Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo (which brings back memories and makes actually a lot of sense)

Radea (RF5) is Reiju from One Piece (also makes sense)

Gideon (RF5) is Griffon from Devil May Cry and Scratchmen Apoo from One Piece

SHARED VOICE ACTORS/ACTRESSES

Lara (RF1 and Rune Factory: Frontier), Eunice (RFF) and Maerwen (from Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) have the same voice actress (and are Kitana and Mileena from Mortal Kombats 9 and X)

Melody (RF and RFF) and Sonja (Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) have the same voice actress

Carmen and Shara (both Rune Factory 3) have the same voice actress and is Triela from Gunslinger Girl

Rosetta (RF and RFF) and Beatrice (Rune Factory 5) have the same voice actress

Nancy (from RF4) and Hina (from RF5) have the same voice actress who’s also Kikimora from The Owl House

Ventuswill and Lin Fa (both RF4) and Selphy (RFF) have the same voice actress who’s also Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop

Micah (Rune Factory 3) and Bismarck (RFTOD) have the same voice actor who is also Ling Yao from Fullmetal Alchemist and Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail

Violet (RFTOD) and Priscilla (RF5) have the same voice actress

Lily and Sierra (both RFTOD) have the same voice actress

Pandora and Quinn (both RFTOD) have the same voice actress

James (RFTOD) and Leon (RF4) have the same voice actor who’s also Law from One Piece and Levi from Attack on Titan

Dylas and Bado (both RF4) have the same voice actor

Arthur and Jones (both RF4) have the same voice actor who is also Donatello from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon

Father Gerard (RFF) and Heinz (RF5) have the same voice actor who’s also adult Gohan from Dragon Ball Z and Kiba from Naruto

Cinnamon (RFF) and Fuuka (RF5) have the same voice actress who is also Marinette from Miraculous Ladybug and Verosika Mayday from Helluva Boss

Simone and Julian (both RF5) have the same voice actress who’s also Ash from Pokémon and April from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon

[my-current-obsession]

Taking a break from Rune Factory 4 Special to fantasize about a potential Rune Factory 5 Special. Which probably won’t happen, but I can dream. This is basically just a list of updates/changes/etc. that I would like to see.

- (re)incorporate a lot of the stuff found in datamining, like the ability to run a shop and the DLC love interests - Livia, Radea, & Terry. Whether those three remain DLC or are just added in as new options, I would LOVE to have them. I wouldn’t even care if I have to wait until post-game to properly romance one or both of the girls, since it would be worth it. I’d also like Misasagi to be a love interest but I just don’t think that’s feasible since she has a child already and the writers/developers won’t want to have to deal with you marrying & moving in with someone who already has a kid.

- Speaking of Hina, she and Julien ABSOLUTELY need to grow up some after you’ve had kids. Those two are like... somewhere around 7-11 initially, and there’s at least a three or four year timeskip after having a kid (plus ANOTHER timeskip after the twins). It’s REALLY jarring to see those two looking/acting barely older than your own kids when at minimum they’re seven(ish) years older. Ideally I’d like the “young adult” models/sprites (as in, all the marriage candidates basically) to get a bit older too but that’s less of an issue than the two kids who noticeably Don’t Age.

- Bring back the “reverse” proposals from RF4S. I understand giving the player the agency to choose when to propose, but having an event that ends with their love interest proposing is SO GOOD, and it’s not forcing you to accept, so you can still propose on your own terms later. And several love interests make it clear they WANTED to propose when you do it, so just... let them do it! I think ideally I’d want MOST of the guys (3-4?) and at least one or two girls to do this, while the others still leave the proposing to you. In all cases, they’d need either one more new event or tweaks/add-ons to their final event to flow more naturally into this.

- Make sure the game is actually optimized and performs well on the Switch this time. I’ve heard the PC version is much better, but I got the game when it first came out on Switch, and it’s... not great. Lots of lagging, random crashing and visual glitches... Fix all of that.

- I ASSUME this was an oversight and not intentional, but definitely fix the issue where if you date multiple people in one run and then get married the other love interest(s) still act(s) like you’re together. The pet names are dropped but the romantic dialogue is not. It was SO awkward when I talked to Martin like the day after I married Ryker and he contemplated whether Cecil would approve of “our” relationship. Well, considering I’m married now, and not to you, probably not!

- This is a little less important, but along a similar vein I’d like if the game actually noticed and slightly altered some events depending on who you were dating, or if that’s too difficult make an effort to NOT have “date” events feature multiple potential love interests. Once again, on my first date with Ryker, Martin strolled up and interrupted us which embarrassed Ryker SO MUCH he left. I was pretty embarrassed too, considering Martin then casually said “Sorry I interrupted your date, Love.” Ideally either change date events so other love interests DON’T casually appear, or go immersive and have them react DIFFERENTLY if they also happen to be dating you. There’s also a non-date event where you and a few others play the King’s Game but Ryker is rigging it to help Ludmilla flirt with you. Again, odd to see it when I’m dating him and NOT her.

- It would honestly be nice to set your sexuality/preferred love interest gender at the start of the game simply so you’re not bombarded with EVERYONE’s events and not getting hit on by everyone when you’re talking to them every day. This way you’re only given the events and flirting by the gender you want.

- Bring back dungeon seeds/field dungeons! That’s just a simple and fun way to spend a lot of your time and get random rewards.

- Include more random conversations between townspeople! Literally the only “group” conversations in 5 are between the 6 boys and 6 girls at festivals. Let two or three people meet up during the day and have conversations. I miss that from 4 so much, it really helps flesh out the town and how certain characters interact with each other.

- Newlywed Mode would be nice.

- Murakumo being the only person running the bathhouse often causes problems. Any time he’s NOT there, such as festival days or just when he’s eating lunch/dinner, you can’t take a bath even though the inn is technically open/available. He has an in-universe reason to work alone so you can’t give him a helper, but you COULD do something like leave a note at his desk that we can investigate which says how much to pay. Bado in RF4 had something like that for whenever he was slacking off. Basically, we need some way to access the bath even if Kumo isn’t doing his job.

EDIT - thought of one more! Give us a way to access the flower shop earlier. Having Ludmilla be the sole person running it when she doesn’t even join the town until halfway through the game is... A Choice. It is RIDICULOUS how late in the game this shop becomes available. I think you could have Priscilla run it initially, and just decide where Lucy works between the shop and the bakery. Then when Ludmilla joins and takes over, Priscilla takes the other open job.

[darkacey]

Lucas, the soulsphere, and Radea’s powers

So, I have a lot of thoughts about Lucas’ role in all of the events of Rune Factory 5, and I have even more thoughts now that I have gotten through the Everlasting Darkness chapter. I’m writing a fic from Lucas’ POV and I’m typing out things, trying to figure this all out. Spoilers beneath the cut.

Here’s where I’m at — Radea absorbed all of the runes from the people of Rigbarth, Alice/Ares and Livia had to bail them out, and Radea’s given us the long explanation about Gideon’s master plans to control everyone via the data he collected from SEED’s soulspheres and the experiments he has been conducting with spell circles.

The part I’m hung up on is this: why the FUCK was Lucas’ soulsphere reading not sus to anyone??

Livia knew instantly that Alice/Ares is an Earthmate because of that reading and how brightly it glowed.

We are told that Lucas voluntarily gave a soulsphere reading, and that it didn’t match anyone in HQ’s database. Scarlett assisted with this reading, presumably, after Alice/Ares left to investigate the Meline Crystal Cavern. This means that Lucas’ reading likely didn’t appear to be anything special to a mortal OR a literal Divine Dragon.

Livia tells Alice/Ares that the reason they weren’t affected by Radea’s powers was because she gave HQ falsified information.

Lucas WAS affected, which means that Livia sent his soulsphere reading unaltered.

My questions from these thoughts:

Why does Lucas’ godhood not protect him from Radea’s powers?

Why didn’t anybody notice that his soulsphere reading is weird af?

We know the soulsphere can reveal negative/positive amounts of runes because Livia uses it specifically to check Lucas’ levels in the final romance event with him.

Does this mean that Lucas’ missing memories literally made him mortal until he regained his memories???

I feel like I’m the only person here with my little red string board trying to figure this shit out. Anybody else have any thoughts/theories to add??

[minsungies]

Okay trying to ignore the sad bad feelings and instead trying to think about rune factory instead

Another thing I want to see in either rf6 or project dragon is....a romanceable dragon character. Like we can have dedicated friendships to both Venti, Livia, and Radea. We can actively romance a god in Lucas (I need to figure out exactly what his whole deal is like do we find out after we finish the story? Or his romance? Idk cuz I haven't finished the game yet). Not to mention the were animal love interests AND the various long living elves (and dwarves, apparently) like come on. Lemme romance a dragon.

[sleprandomizer]

Half wake up and confuse is marvelous announce new rune factory game?? Then realize this is FE engage. Yeah the fact the character looks like rune factory is bother me a bit. I love rune factory but they also suffer the bad or generic female characters design. The only female design that quite good and attractive is mommy wolf (but she is not marriage candidate, damn!). Hopefuly M!Alear can marry any male characters.

On the positive side it's good to see unique icon. A bit worry with break mechanic. Seems we can easily find the loophole and abuse the mechanic.

Oh anyway just prepare to see the fell dragon or any dragon in engage basically looks like this lol

I don't know anymore which one is the worse between Radea (RF5) and Nowi (FEA)

[aashiyancha]

After many many moons, I have finished rf5's act 2 plot summary ( totally canon ;])

If you haven't had the chance yet (or just down to read it again) here's the link to the act 1 summary

[loraluna]

....Your point being?

[dwarfhorse]

did anyone else want to bundle her up oooooor...

a crappy radea edit!

[littlemisswolfie]

Not me stalking Radea to the inn at night to see what room she sleeps in for Fic Purposes