If you have, say, a wedding, everyone will congratulate you in their own way. Or an event will happen in the town and everyone you talk to will be commenting on that event in their own style.

At some events, like festivals, all the guys and girls will get together and chat, so you can see how they get along and how different they are. Characters all know each other and regularly talk about each other. I also like that RF4’s village has a sense of community. As someone who doesn’t care much about customising my character, I’d just as soon play as a pre-designed character who also has a personality and can talk back, because this allows for you to feel more like a member of the community. You get to choose responses to give occasionally, but you’re mostly a silent participant. In Stardew, you never see your character except as a small sprite (I guess this is the downside of allowing highly customisable characters), and you mostly have to imagine your own response to the characters you talk to. You have a lot of opportunities to choose dialogue options (and your character is often pretty snarky :)). One thing I like about Rune Factory 4 is that the player character is a character in his or her own right – your character has character art, you are seen reacting and responding to other characters. So, to continue from my last post, I’m going to look more at the characters from these two fun, addictive farming games.

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