/xsfg/ XSEED & Friends General, formerly /rfhmg/

Clorolce Edition

A general for talking about games published and developed by XSEED Games/Marvelous USA and their partners, including Rune Factory, Story of Seasons & pre-SOS Harvest Moon, PoPoLoCrois, Ys, The Legend of Heroes and Earth Defense Force 2017/2/4.1

XSeed have announced their E3 2016 lineup and it includes new titles to be localized in the west:
Corpse Party (3DS | Summer 2016)
Exile’s End (PS4, PS Vita, Wii U | Summer 2016)
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (PS4, PS Vita | Winter)
Akiba’s Beat (PS4, PS Vita | Winter 2016)
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (PS4, PS Vita, Wii U | Fall 2016)
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns (Cherished Friends of Three Villages) (3DS | 2017)
Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity (PS4 | Summer 2016)


Marvelous has announced Story of Seasons: Cherished Friends of Three Villages, scheduled to be released in Japan June 23 for 3DS systems. Introduction and gameplay trailers have been released:
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd is being localized for PC in 2017, while Trails of Cold Steel II NA releases for Vita and PS3 are due this fall. Steam and the PS Store currently have sales for TitS and SC.

Ys VIII Vita is set for a June 21 release in Japan, PS4 version in 2017.

Someone ported XSEED's translation of Ys: Memories of Celceta to the Chinese PC version:
mega.nz/#F!HssCDDYZ!QLkmrL0kMhndI3i7fYzIQA

Wikias:
therunefactory.wikia.com/wiki/Rune_Factory_Wiki
harvestmoon.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
fogu.com/

RF/Story of Seasons Stuff
fogu.com/sos1/
pastebin.com/qzgac5X7
docs.google.com/document/d/1uzfx84FBSY50B_mLKDweztBBvbcsA8lzXXSRvOrUVlg/view
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wJAHbfCCha37NPdyzgOQzNQTX-Q2OHRXPWao-gN1AG8/view
mega.nz/#F!adEBFboA!wTzdKkk5KKCppb1N2b_qRw

Falcom music archive:
pastebin.com/G2mswYCt

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I love Clorica!

If you don't!

Then you probably like some other one

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How did that last general die

I don't know. Either too many replies or just ded

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I don't mind

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Which bachelorette in RF4 is the lewdest?

Clorica but only when she's sleeping

Meg, but only because of how scatterbrained she is. She's the type to walk out without a top on if she were in a hurry.

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Ok friends, even though we didn't see any RF5 news, no need to give up hope. I remember a few dudes spit balling some ideas they'd like to see in 5, waifu/husbando fun posing aside.

What would you dudes/dudettes like to see in 5?
I'd like to see it take place in the Sechs Empire, post 4 events, and have it utilize the plethora of technology they have. Mostly I just want sky pirates and more airship use.

Haven't we established at least 3 times now that the Sechs Empire is bad? Like there were still people willing to follow Ethelberd by the events of 4 and Frontier, id be suprised if Norad allowed the Empire to remain it's own country after what Ethelberd pulled in 4

Nurses, knights, onee-sans, lamias, fluffy tails.

I'm a simple man with simple desires.

More customization options like SoS where you can build stuff around your farm and place it where you want and maybe some kind of clothes customization too rather than just being able to change whats on your head and your whole outfit.

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give me my musou.

This.

Marriageable Christmas cakes, if possible.

I like the way you guys think.

I'd like that too, more things to place around your senpai, though without that being the main focus. I still enjoy my dungeon crawling, so don't really want that aspect weakened for a bigger expansion on the farming end.

Alright, well scratch the Sachs part, you bring up several convincing arguments against. I still want air ships and sky pirates though.

I literally have no idea how senpai ended up in my text there, thanks phone. Fairly certain I meant farm.

word filter, you mightve spelled f.a.m.which filters out to senpai, senpai.

Very well could have, I like that filter though.

>tfw not cuddling with Clorica in a coracle

As long as I have amnesia I'm cool

Also, who is your all's favorite bachelor? Not for marriage, but just in general

I'd like to see that Venice like place Selphy mentioned. And the ability to fly around the RF world in the airship. Golden Sun did it. FF games did it. So why not RF5?

Oh yeah, and more monstergirl waifus.

Woolies are balls now?

My guess is what's almost happened to this thead -- too inactive for too long.

Damn it's slow(er) today.

I'd like to see a meta-game sometime in the future (not necessarily RF5) that incorporates all RF games or most popular ones where all the cities are available to visit and all the same bachelor(ettes). ((Maybe some slight differences in appearance in some))

That would probably have to be a console game or something for that to work.

I don't think anyone here hates Apples.

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It was late and I was wrapped up in reading a Let's Play of Romancing Saga 3 and just barely missed saving it. That one was almost done anyway so no big deal.

I'd love to see a vastly-built-upon trading aspect, like the idea that you can have fluctuations in the price of crops and goods depending on what season it is and what events are happening in nearby towns, being able to place bulk orders for specific items, standing orders from merchants to refill your stock of commonly-used things like fertilizers and giantizers, etc.

Also, overhauling inventory a bit to just use a single-slot high-quantity system with a total item limit you can increase with better backpacks and stuff would be nice. So if you pull up a big-ass harvest of stuff rather than 60 slots of 9 items each you'd just have 1 slot with 600 items (even being limited to 255 by the hex value cap would be a vast improvement).

I think it would work on the new Wii U if they have time

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>Dat welcoming slight bow

That does wayyyyy more things to my brain than that kind of posture has any reason to.

What kind of things?

Is this read like an American comic (left to right)?

Yeah, not sure why though.

hellow

hai

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So since I don't recall seeing it posted last thread, Scarlet Curiosity got a trailer during E3:

youtube.com/watch?v=JA_3dYMUU9c

Never been a fan of the franchise for the whole bullet-hell thing, but it looks neat.

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Cute.

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>You will never convince Daria to let you bodypaint her as part of some kind of strange exhibition

I really can't get enough of Iris

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3V soon. Like really soon.

I'm ready for the qt teacher.

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Night /xsfg/...

tan girls.

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Who is this semen demon?

Attila the Hun from Fate/Grand Order. Designed by HUKE.

If you ask me the design is ugly as sin and I also don't know why it's being posted in this thread.

>I also don't know why it's being posted in this thread.

Fate is now relevant to this thread because Xseed are bringing over that musou. Grand Order may be a mobile game, but it's still Fate.

I still think we should've gone with a more focused farming game bent, rather than shoehorning all this other Xseed crap in.

Thread is still almost all RF and HM. It didn't really change anything. SV has it's own general and fanbase and from what I've seen I don't want that fanbase over here.

Now I can bump with a saber pic and it'll be on topic, but that's pretty much it.

Quick story time
>local sales facebook page
>"I bought this game but it didn't turn out the way I thought"
>it's Harvest Moon: Lost Valley

I kind of wanted to tell them Story of Seasons is the real deal.


Oh okay, I'd like to play it at some point, it has some nice designs and I always like it when mobages get translated.

Agreeing with though, I would like to have a more life/farming simulator general, maybe even merge with stuff like Animal Crossing (how active is that general). One can dream.

>It didn't really change anything
That's that thing, though. There's no real synergy between conversations of RF/HM and conversations about literally anything else Xseed has put out. That other shit just gets drowned out, so what's even the point? It just ends up being a bunch of white noise for people who just came here for comfy farming sim.

It was just an attempt to get this place slightly more lively user.
Problem is that most of us don't play anything else that the thread is supposed to be about, so whenever someone comes asking a question about those games they're usually met with silence because we just don't know what to tell them.

>I would like to have a more life/farming simulator general, maybe even merge with stuff like Animal Crossing (how active is that general). One can dream.

Thing is we used to be exclusively an RF/HM/SOS general but then we hit a point where we were constantly dying due to inactivity and we figured broadening ourselves somewhat might help in that regard, though how effective the shift was still gets debated from time to time (I'm the guy that originally pitched /XSFG so naturally I'm biased as shit about it).

One other thin to think about is that one of the constant things that gets brought up about this general that people like is how nice and laid-back it is here compared to many generals, I mean /SKG flies through generals on an average of one a day if not faster and never mind how nasty many others can be. Mostly our problem is surviving the late-night and early-afternoon periods where things seem to slow down the most, that and the odd spam attack.

Anyone played Sora no Kiseki and Zero no Kiseki?
Can someone tell me the difference between D.G Church and Ouroboros?

If nothing else I'd say it was worth it for having a place to stash the Falcom music archive, though, it's always interesting as fuck when the manager comes around with new content filling us in on what JDK and its various iterations and precursors were doing, and of course the music itself.

Oh, I understand that it was an attempt to make the thread livelier, which is why I suggested a more general comfy life/farming sim thread when we were first talking expanding the thread a million years ago, but Xseed user just pushed ahead on his own. The fact that we get probably get like maybe 10 non RF/HM posts with any content is proof that the idea was just not sound, for exactly the reasons we've both stated.

Oh I know, I've been here for a while. And it's tricky, I like how laid back this general is but at the same time, sometimes it's too laid back. Aka dead, or 50 posts of bumps.

The question is what other games could be a part of this comfy life/farm thread?

AC has it's own general and a bigger fanbase. Besides AC what else can we talk about?

From what I'm reading, it basically comes down to militant pagens (the DG Cult) vs the lovechild of the Catholic Church from Hellsing and the Illuminatti, or a more technologically-enabled version of the Church from Final Fantasy Tactics if you're familiar at all with that.

I remember we were in the process of discussing things like that when the topic first came up. I remember Fantasy Life came up, and there's those indie games like Orcish Inn or World's Dawn. For older games, there's always shit like Legend of the River King, which is a comfy fishing sim Natsume published ages ago. Naturally, anything that has it's own bustling fandom like AC would be out, but I'm sure other there's other shit anons could think of.

FL is kinda dead and now gone mobile.
Indies are nice, but I don't see much discussion coming from them. Same goes for the real old games.

Going obscure would just lead to out current situation again.

Thanks

And UnReal World, and that fucking bizarre Rune Factory: A Post-Apocalyptic Cannibalism Holocaust scenario its brief discussion led to.

People still talk about A Wonderful Life and Friends of Mineral town and both of those came out over a decade ago, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't think the discussion has dried up for older games with more overlap with Rune Factory and Harvest Moon than shit like EDF and Fate.

Anything I'm forgetting when it comes to getting a reverse confession (not marriage) in SoS?
>Blue Flower+
>Saw the White and Purple Flower events
>Ring in backpack
>Given 100+ gifts (any kind)
>Sunny Saturday or Sunday

Playing thought Popolocrois SoS, does it have DLC?

Don't know if it's the same genre or game, but anyone excited/interested in Ever Oasis?

It looked cute, but I haven't dug too deeply into what it is.

>Ever Oasis
It caught my eye, though I don't know what subgenre to put it under either.

MAKE WHEAT COUNTRY GREAT AGAIN

I just went to the AZ Trump rally IRL. Not sure who I'm going to vote for at this point though -- I just wanted to see it.

Who are you aiming for?

Maybe your FP isn't high enough even though you're at blue flower.
The Sunday or Saturday also can't have a holiday on it.

Nadi. He's all the way at Red Flower, so I'm sure that's not the problem.

It's possible I just miscounted the gifts I've given, though I've been giving him stuff nearly every day for a year and a half now.

What are the requirements to get with Elise again?

You have to see her rival events before her flower events are available. The last of her rival events happens at the end of year two, so you'll have to wait until year 3 to start courting her.

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pls no bully

How does one increase the level of Master Orbs quickly in Ao no Kiseki?

Well they get a flat 10% conversion rate for the XP their character gets, so anything that boosts that'll help: apparently there're some XP+ quartz you can get mid-late game and you could try putting the ones you particularly want to boost on your traditional benchwarmers and carrying them through fights for powerlevelling.

Thanks, didn't know about the conversion rate. How to get this XP Quartz?

I'm completely new to SoS -- how do you get her rival events?

fogu.com/sos1/events/rival/farm-inspection01.php

It looks a bit like Fantasy Life splashed with Dark Cloud. Honestly it may fall under a "cozy life sim general" style place.

In addition to there's also three more you have to see for Elise.

I honestly loved the town rebuilding aspects of both Dark Clouds, and Dark Cloud 2 had a whole lot of comfy minigames. The golf was neat, and the fishing is still hands down the best fishing minigame I've ever played.

Spheda is neat when you know what to do, if you don't it's the most frustrating aspect of the game especially with how poorly handled the mandatory event is

Thanks. Looks like a lot of work.

The question is, is it worth it?