History VideoGame / RuneFactory5

** The Rosary accessory is meant to despawn enemies and give you a break, but you can unequip and re-equip it to make enemies spawn faster[[note]]don't break the Gates as they won't respawn, though[[/note]]. This is particularly useful to farm items faster.

* NoobBridge: Everlasting Darkness constantly drains your RP and you might be out of it in no time meaning you won't be able to use any magic, punishing players overreliance on Cure Alls, rune abilities or ultimate attacks. This part of the game forces the player to prepare themselves and be careful with combat as there are also enemies that will punish them with hard hitting defensive magic or downright OneHitKill.

* SurpassedTheTeacher: People of Rigbarth will comment on your skill growth giving you advice and a few pointers if they're low. Once said skill grows enough they'll mention you're on par with them and, eventually, that they're no longer on your level anymore. A few will even wonder if they should be taking lessons from you instead.

* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: If a Save Point that isn't at the entrance of a dungeon is nearby so is a boss fight.

** The time in-universe between Rune Factory 4 and 5 is left intentionally vague, however, dialogue from Doug and Margret imply that at least a few decades have passed.

* {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler:Happens to a lot of characters, including most of Rigbarth, during the story, with [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Radea]] being a notable case, as her brainwashing is essential to the main conflict.]] All cases result in the Brainwashed acting differently from their usual selves in way that makes them more sub-servant to the BigBad and the BigBad's plans. [[spoiler: Radea's brainwashing by Gideon causes her to act more rashly, thoughtlessly, and violently than she normally is, and the mass brainwashing that affects the whole town makes everyone affected lethargic, weak-willed, and depressed).]]

* NeverSayDie: While not uncommon to the series [[note]](the monsters don't die; they "just" go back to the Forest of Beginnings, which is definitely not an afterlife in any way, despite characters dying and going there)[[/note]], this entry insists that [[spoiler: Livia and Radea]] did not die - they were just sealed for so long that they were reduced to bones, which is not the same as dying. Likewise, they were not resurrected from their skeletal remains, but unsealing them somehow returns them to a fully living state instead of a skeleton or [[spoiler: in Radea's case, a skull]].

%%(Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; WHAT happens to a lot of characters?) * {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler:Happens to a lot of characters, including most of Rigbarth, during the story, with [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Radea]] being a notable case.]]

** After beating the boss in [[spoiler: Belpha Ruins Depths]], Priscilla appears briefly [[spoiler: when the player character remembers a bit from before getting amnesia and related to Livia being resurrected/unsealed.]] The scene is dropped almost immediately after and won't be picked up again should the player not date Priscilla and get all of her events.

* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: Seemingly all of the character portraits and in-game character models have some major inconsistency between them, with the most obvious being hair colors being wrong, such as Lucas having either gray (portrait) or pitch black hair (model) and [[spoiler: Gideon]] either being a regular blond (model) or a platinum blond (portrait). Another common place for errors are eye colors being off, such as Beatrice's eyes either matching the shade of blue in her crown (portrait) or being distinctly cyan instead (model). Naturally, once the game came out on Steam, a bunch of mods on NexusMods sprang up to fix some of these inconsistencies one way or another.

** The cut-scenes don't take into account shop upgrades and unlocked items. For example, one of Reinard's events features him buying a cucumber from the general store when it's quite likely that the general store in-game neither sells cucumbers nor cucumber seeds.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: It is perfectly possible for [[spoiler: characters to refer to you as a SEED ranger in heart events even if the player character has already left SEED in the main story.]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Fuuka in the original Japanese version communicated with barks, howls, and purrs, because the were-animal language is the same that some monsters speak, such as the [[spoiler: farm dragons]]. [[note]][[spoiler: Misasagi]] also turns into a monster, implying a close connection between monsters and were-animals]][[/note]]The translators for the English version completely made up a non-monster language for her to speak instead, because Fuuka is also the darkest skinned character in the cast and having her constantly bark in addition to her clunky, immature manner of speaking could be seen as insensitive.

* AmbiguousSituation: The time in-universe between Rune Factory 4 and 5 is left intentionally vague, however, dialogue from Doug and Margret imply that at least a few decades have passed.

** One of the biggest complaints about ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' was that the events occured completely at random, with no real indication that they were going on. Rune Factory 5 adds icons that indicate both character events and story events, leaving out a lot of guesswork.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** At the very start. Ares/Alice are seen exhausted with a young girl helping them and faint near the town's gate. Once they wake up one of the villagers, Lucy, ''does not'' trust them immediately and give a stern warning on how they could be dangerous, especially given the manner they arrived in Rigbarth. Even after a soulsphere check, which would indicate if they had done anything wrong in the past, that lets everyone know they're clean it still takes a while for Lucy to start lowering her guard around them.
** The collapse of the Sechs Empire after the end of Arc 2 in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4''. Like the fall of any major power in the world, the resolution was not peaceful and the foundation of SEED, which unified several town guards/watches, was a necessity to bring order back to these territories. Even decades later Doug still mentions many places need help and many people are still affected by it.

* ContinuingIsPainful: If you forget to water your crops even for a day there's a non-negligible chance that your crops will lose a level which can take time, Greenifier and Formulae to get back to their max level. Depending on what crop you have it might be easier to cut them and start anew.

** Greenifiers and Formulae (A, B or C) will increase the quality of the soil and crops, if the quality is high enough the crops may even skip levels, for instance a Level 1 crop can grow instantly to Level 3 or potentially even more.

* NoPronunciationGuide: This is the official reason given for spelling Fuuka's name with two U's, and not spelling it "Fuka" or "Fuqua"--to make it more obvious it's not pronounced in a more vulgar manner.

* IdleAnimation: If you invite someone to your party and ask them to stay still some of them will make a small commentary and do things like check their surroundings if they wait long enough.

** One of the accessories you can create is [[VideoGame/RuneFactoryFrontier Anette's]] Necklace. It's even acorn shaped like hers and its effect? Makes you run faster, a nod to how fast she used to run in [[VideoGame/RuneFactoryFrontier Trampoli]]/[[VideoGame/RuneFactoryOceans Fenith]].
** Magic Shot is also back, and still shaped like [[VideoGame/RuneFactory3 Marian's]] trumpet-like syringe tool.

* RocketTagGameplay: Increasing the level from enemies many times will result in this. Your defense, if high enough, will hold up well, but some of the more dangerous enemies and bosses, especially bosses from Rigbarth Maze, will be able to knock you out in a few hits, but since their HP don't scale up very well with their levels ''they'' will also go down easily if your gear is strong enough. Fights might end up becoming a matter of who lands the first good hit.

** There are DLC costumes of characters from previous games for Ares and Alice: [[VideoGame/RuneFactory1 Raguna]] and [[[[VideoGame/RuneFactoryFrontier Mist]], [[VideoGame/RuneFactory2 Kyle and Mana]], [[VideoGame/RuneFactory3 Micah and Shara]], and, [[VideoGame/RuneFactoryOceans Aden and Sonja]]. If you have a ''Rune Factory 4 Special'' save Doug and Margaret will also visit Rigbarth and an early quest from them allows you to get [[VideoGame/RuneFactory4 Lest and Frey's]] outfit as well. Additionally the Deluxe Edition makes clothing from ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' bachelors and bachelorettes available for the player.