Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Rune Factory Pt. 10

In Rune Factory 3, taking advantage of your protagonist's monster form can be really fun!

Don't let the term 'monster' fool you; Micah turns into a golden Wooly, not some Orc or other scary and naturally mean-seeming monster. But Micah keeps this half of his identity a secret from the villagers anyways.

In which case, Micah can talk to each of the villagers while pretending to be just an average Wooly, and he'll receive varying reactions. Some people just look at him, some people want to hug him or sell his wool, and some people shoo him away.

It's when Micah meets the settlers out in the desert that his Wooly half really comes in handy. The settlement's leader, a univir, hates any and all humans, and she kicks Micah out on sight if he dares to show up in human form. So, opposite of what he does in the village (seeming fully human and all), Micah disguises himself as a full-blooded Wooly in order to meet the settlers and interact with them.

Later in the game, we players find out the reason Micah ended up in this town. At first, with Micah's partially restored memories, he thinks it was just because he was chasing the five monsters that, one by one, start terrorizing the village and/or the settlement.

However, he is eventually told that, because of his monster and human blood both, he was sent to be a bridge between the monsters and the humans. Only he could mend the rift and get the Sharance flowers to bloom.

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