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Zareth posted...

Rune Factory 5 is on Steam now with no performance issues, wonder if it's still worth it cause I heard the gameplay is kind of a step down from 4

It's better in some ways, the same in most ways, and worse in a couple ways. Enemy variety is way worse than 4 (because 4 reused all the sprites from 1-3), there's far less of an endgame (4 has an endless dungeon and the choice to boost monster levels), and there's no NG+. However, combat does feel better being in 3D, and the vast majority of the game's subsystems stayed the exact same despite the massive transition into 3D. The (amazing) crafting system is the exact same, field stats are the exact same, all of the weapons are well represented, etc. My only really big complaint with the game is the performance issues the switch has, which the PC version doesn't suffer from.

Besides being in 3D, the game doesn't really do much new, but I'd say it worked out remarkably well considering how ambitious it is bringing a system like RF4 to 3D and losing very little in the process.

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