Find yourself being cornered? This ability sends enemies hit flying backwards or away from you until the hit a solid obstacle. Giga Swing, an Axe/Hammer rune ability.Since it also moves through enemies while doing damage, it can easily hit several enemies who are lined up. It does a lot of damage and it travels in a straight line for a while and until it stops, anything in its wake gets hit. It's one of your earliest damage dealing Rune Abilities found in the second dungeon and it's useful for the second boss who melee'ing isn't quite so simple. Forte also has this ability by default but she rarely uses it in battle. Getting it is a bit hard since it's in Sechs Territory and you have to solve a puzzle to obtain it from a chest. This can help you defeat some bosses if you play wisely but can result in a quicker defeat due the fact that you take more damage. This means that whenever you would normally be stunned and be left vulnerable, you instead take more damage but stay standing. It lowers your defensive stats.but makes it so your character can't be stunned when attacked, period. Steel Heart, a Long Sword rune power that you can equip is a mixed blessing and a curse.At a high enough level, you can easily kill most non-final bosses like this in under a minute. Combined with the Lucky Charm and the natural long range that spears offer for striking distance means that melee opponents will often die the moment the battle begins. Upon having the skill level for spears hit level 10, your charged attack followed a normal attack in rapid succession results in you doing a flurry of blows so fast that normal enemies can't even move until your assault is over. The spear shares a similar trait, but only for one of the arts that you learn should you get that weapon skill level to 10.The added fact that they also hit more times than the other weapons and that the ultimate art for them results with you doing multiple hits if you are successful means that most bosses aren't going to stand so much of a chance before their already close to defeat. Dual Blades are ridiculously good if you get the Lucky Charm accessory, making each hit do a critical hit which does more damage.

Game-Breaker: Lest/Frey aside due to them normally due to story mechanics.

When the Special Edition came out, she even got her own story about marrying Lest alongside the actual marriage candidates in the 'Another Episode' DLC (though she still can't be married in the main game).

Ventuswill is so popular, many Japanese fans often joke that the game is glitched because she can't be married.

There are many who wish Porcoline was one of the possible love interests for Lest and/or Frey.

While some fans were glad to see a more realistic love subplot that allowed for more steps to the relationship (in contrast to other games where you could move from ostensible friendship to marriage quickly and with few romantic cutscenes for development), others were frustrated that the game was essentially punishing them for trying to view more than one romantic arc when romances are a staple of the franchise and one of the most interesting parts. Rune Factory 4 was part of a shift away from the mechanic, with Harvest Moon franchise games typically all turning to the 'going steady' option players face penalization for deciding to 'harem' and face far more difficulties trying to romance multiple romantic options.

Earlier Harvest Moon and Rune Factory games allowed the player to potentially romance all the available love interests to the point of proposal with no penalty, and fans would often 'harem' to see all the romantic cutscenes, wedding scenes, after-marriage dialogue, etc.

Likely a way to counter the fact that the entirety of Leon Karnak/The Forest Of Beginnings must be done in one swoop with no means of saving in-between. After a fight against Rafflesia, the two Anubi statues and Sarcophagus himself are pitifully easy to defeat, even without filling up on potential healing items.

Anti-Climax Boss: The final bosses of the First Arc of the game certainly feel like this.

Does he truly support Lest/Frey and care about their well being, or is he only supporting them due to their status as the prince/ss of Selphia? While most of the game leans towards the former interpretation, the prologue and the Town Event 'Someone Has the Wrong Idea' appear to hint at the latter.

Alternate Character Interpretation: Volkanon.

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