Rune Factory 3: Difference between revisions

* [[Action Mom]]: Shino, and Hazel to a certain degree.Also, your spouse.

* [[Adorkable]]: {{spoiler|Kuruna}} around chocolate and cake.

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Monica. She gets better later on, thankfully.

* [[Anti Frustration Features]]: Transform, Teleport, and Cure Seal all work while you are sealed, so you can still avoid getting <s>killed</s> [[Death Is a Slap On The Wrist|knocked out]] if things go sour and you get sealed.

* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Raven and Shara routinely apologise to the monsters they're beating up. The former does it only in the Japanese version, though.

* [[Artificial Atmospheric Actions]]: Quite well-done for a DS game. Villagers will go about their usual daily business according to who they are; it's not uncommon to find Carmen or Carlos fishing, for example, Raven writing in her diary, Rusk and Collette serving in the restaurant, or Marian at her cauldron. Other more generic actions include going for walks in the safe areas of the dungeons, having conversations with other villagers [[Voice Grunting|(although you fill in the blanks) ]] and greeting you when you walk by.

* [[Attack Drone]]: Most of the active seeds are essentially this, only they're ''plants''.

* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: The [[Dem Bones|Skelefang]] takes no damage from attacks until you [[Cognizant Limbs|completely destroy its body]], exposing the core for a few moments while its body regenerates. (And making it perform its [[Limit Break]])

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Micah is this both in wooly form and in human form.

* [[Beach Episode|Beach Event]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKy4sEek8k4 Happens every summer.]

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Carlos.

* [[Big Eater]]: Sherman, Collette.

* [[Boss Arena Urgency]]: If you don't defeat Death Wall fast enough, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbeldD4chqU it will eventually crush you.]

* [[Bottomless Bladder]]: Partially averted. While you don't ''have'' to do these things, there are skills that reward you for making your character live a healthy life: eating well, getting lots of exercise, sleeping early, so on and so forth.

** One of Sofia's requests ends up with a decision where both options quite literally mean the same thing.

** Similarly, if you're going after Sakuya, you are going to get shaved for your golden wool, and no amount of arguing will deter her.

** As does Micah.

* [[Different As Night and Day]]: Collette and Rusk. Collette eats all the time and just about anything, but especially rice and vegetables. Rusk, on the other hand, is an incredibly picky eater, only liking certain sweets. The only thing they have in common is that they use the same hiding spot ( {{spoiler|That tree in the plaza. Collette hides in it during one of Marian's requests, and Rusk hides in it during one of Collette's requests.}})

* [[Difficulty Spike]]: The difference between the penultimate and final areas of the Sharance Maze.

* [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm]]: Pia.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: {{spoiler|You, Raven, Pia, and all the horned people in Univir Village.}}

* [[Healing Spring]]: As with the earlier games, the baths.

** In the Japanese version, Shara is [[Everything's Better With Princesses|Nia]] from [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]].

** In the Japanese version, Raven is [[Tsundere|Kagami]] from [[Lucky Star]].

* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: Shinonome and Hazel.

* [[Hover Board]]: The leaf slider active seed, used for getting across water. It also goes on land.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Almost every villager can be asked to go adventuring with you<ref>The exceptions are Wells, Sherman, Marjorie and Ondorous</ref>, and almost every monster in the game can be tamed, save bosses, [[Elite Mooks]] and [[Giant Mook|Giant Mooks]].

* [[Lost Forever]]: Averted. [[Plot Coupon]] items will appear by your bed if you manage to lose them one way or another. (Giving, dropping them in water). Supposedly special equipment that happen to be quest rewards can still be crafted yourself.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Marian appears to be this when it comes to medicines, having no ethical qualms about using you and Collette as test subjects. Evelyn seems to be similarly obsessed with her fashion designing.

** Marian will give you "tea" in some of her requests that will turn you into her suddenly-effeminate willing servant. Things you'll then say will usually end with a star or a music note. Her madness goes up when you continue this quest and learn that she wants you to hold down villagers while she tests her newly-made medicine on them.

* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: If you marry {{spoiler|Kuruna, who is hundreds of years old.}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Sialens, the original Japanese name for the town in which the game takes place, is the Welsh word for "challenge." How [[Your Mileage May Vary|well]] this trope applies, however, is up for personal interpretation.

** The dual-sword, short sword, and wooly kung-fu are fast enough to make button smashing viable. Wooly throws do make you invincible during their animation but the recover time on some throws are so long that you are almost guaranteed to get hit if you are surrounded.

* [[Mega Manning]]: Upgrading staves with monster drops can allow you to use monster abilities. This works even for bosses, although boss abilities tend to cost large amounts of RP.

*** Also, precision during farming. Wouldn't want to accidentally cut down or hammer in the wrong expensive crops...

* [[Scratch Damage]]

** Evelyn also makes a vague reference to Raguna and Kyle (protagonists of the first two installments) in the English version of the game: "Yeah, and I guess amnesiacs are a dime a dozen around these parts. You're not the first!"

** Whenever Rusk comments on his dislike of vegetables, Micah responds with a random fact that gives Rusk second thoughts. When Rusk says he hates eggplants for being soft, Micah claims that there are [[Kid Icarus|wizards made of eggplants in far-off kingdoms.]]

* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: After Pia learns about your little secret, she tries to keep it a secret by refering to your transformed state as your "thing." So when she blurts out that your "thing was cute" around her mother figure after being asked asking how your date went, Shino not so subtly begins to threaten you while Pia remains oblivious.

* [[The Blacksmith]]: Gaius

** Drinking wine makes you fall asleep. You can then feed the wine to enemies and [[For Massive Damage|hit them while they're asleep.]]

* {{spoiler|[[The Phoenix]]}}: {{spoiler|1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHCi99BcWfw Raven's last quest reveals that she is one].}}

* [[What the Hell, Player?]]: After you marry, you can still do requests for the other bachelorettes. However, after a while your wife will complain that you've been "spending a lot of time with someone else."

* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: Micah's Wooley form can pick up enemies who he's just smacked and perform a number of body slams on them. Who knew Woolies were so into wrestling?

 

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