--- product_id: 369000808 title: "Rune Factory 5 Earthmate Edition - Nintendo Switch" price: "€ 240.09" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/369000808-rune-factory-5-earthmate-edition-nintendo-switch store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Fantasy farming mechanics Romantic storylines Fast-paced RPG combat Rune Factory 5 Earthmate Edition - Nintendo Switch **Price:** € 240.09 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌟 Level Up Your Life in Rigbarth! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Rune Factory 5 Earthmate Edition - Nintendo Switch - **How much does it cost?** € 240.09 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/369000808-rune-factory-5-earthmate-edition-nintendo-switch) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Romantic Pursuits:** Explore unique storylines and find your special someone in Rigbarth! - • **Seasonal Festivals:** Experience the magic of Rigbarth's festivals with friends and loved ones! - • **Epic Co-op Adventures:** Join friends in thrilling battles and unlock powerful link attacks! - • **Charming Community Life:** Engage in cooking, crafting, and fishing contests for a well-rounded experience! - • **Innovative Farming System:** Tame monsters to cultivate crops on the backs of dragons! ## Overview Rune Factory 5 Earthmate Edition for Nintendo Switch offers an immersive blend of action RPG combat, innovative farming mechanics, and engaging social interactions. Players can team up with friends, cultivate crops with the help of tamed monsters, and explore romantic storylines while enjoying the vibrant community life of Rigbarth. ## Description In the sleepy border town of Rigbarth, mysterious events are unfolding, affecting the runes that govern the balance between humanity and nature. As the newest ranger for the peacekeeping organisation, SEED, protect the frontier town by rounding up rowdy monsters with your official SEED-issued spell seal. When not on a mission, work with the people of Rigbarth to help the town flourish through farming, festivals and friendships. As the balance of peace begins to shift, however, it comes time to prove yourself. Team up with townsfolk and embark on a grand adventure to unravel the mystery befalling the land, embracing your inner power to halt the descent into chaos. Earthmate Edition includes Custom outer box featuring artwork from series illustrator Minako Iwasaki, Rune Factory 5 Nintendo Switch game card in an exclusive SteelBook case, Large 5.8” by 8.2” softcover artbook with over 70 pages of character illustrations, concept art, and more, Melodies of Norad' soundtrack CD featuring 15 songs specially selected from across the entire Rune Factory series, and 13 exclusive in-game costumes based on the marriage candidates (+ Dolce's ghostly companion Pico) from Rune Factory 4. Review: Overall Nice Stuff - I'd never in a million years recommend this game itself to anyone who's new to the series since you can pay less for a better game in Rune Factory 4 Special; however, for avid fans of the series this game will (despite many, MANY frustrations and poor design choices) satisfy the itch to play something new. As for the Earthmate Edition, it's got a nice little soundtrack CD in it (although the Japanese edition came with a nice jeweled case instead of a cardboard one), a cool artbook, and a steelbook case for the game with a little "Ranger's Pocket Guide" inside. I was a little miffed by the fact that you only get a Steelbook case with this and no regular one, but I have a regular case from the Japanese edition so I can just use that if needed. The steelbook is a nice case, but feels more like a display piece than a case to just throw about. I read some reviews other people wrote, and honestly I'm convinced that the people who "played" 4 never actually played it so take what they say with a grain of salt. Farming takes at least 2 times as long as it does in 4, pushing toward 3x or longer for some tasks unless you purely farm with monsters and by buying crystals at 50k a pop in which case it's still slightly slower than in 4. Movement is floaty as can be and is made much worse by the speed boosting boots you can make, and heaven forbid riding a monster having any proper physics since you'll constantly get caught on things or get off in areas you apparently can't move. The camera is extremely annoying since you need to constantly have your right thumb on the right analogue stick to move the camera which is frustrating since you need to use the ABXY buttons to actually do anything, and if you want to straighten the view you need to press R3. Skills are far, FAR grindier to level up and have much dumber methods that need to be employed if you want to have a remotely tolerable time hitting 99s. Grinding items? Hah, if you don't intimately understand the mechanics of the game and/or use the internet to figure stuff out, you'll likely never get some items since there are items that can only be obtained from the last or second to last boss at a 1% base drop rate. Oh, and you need multiple of them to be able to be a completionist. I could go on about other things and write an essay about performance issues and crashes, but I'll cut it off at this. The game does have some nice improvements from 4, but they're vastly overshadowed by a multitude of inconsistencies and poorly made design choices. My 5 star review is as an avid fan of the series and moreso based on the Earthmate Edition, although the costumes you get from the Earthmate Edition are pretty bad (at least the male options). Review: So far loving it!💗 - The Earthmate Editions box is much more durably made than Rune Factory 4 Special-Archival Edtion I had no damage to my box what so ever, absolute perfect condition. Lovely design as well The art book ( Although less pages than RF4 Special's) Is made in the same style and is beautiful to look at. Music Cd looked great, The disc art was a nice and the cd holder felt sturdy and well made. Steel case is So Gorgeous! Beautifully designed very happy with that. It does not come with the regular case ofcourse However it still comes with the Official SEED Ranger Handbook ( Mini Manuel basically which is about 28 pages ) Very cool Game play so far- I will update my review as I continue to play So far colors are beautiful very saturated and the characters are likeable. Moving around and stuff feels natural We all love RF4 but Please don't go into this game expecting a RF4 clone, this game is different and won't feel exactly the same but embrace it with fresh eyes and welcome what it offers as it's own game. ## Features - EARTHMATE EDITION INCLUDES - For complete details on all of the contents in the Earthmate Edition, see full description below - FAST-PACED ACTION RPG COMBAT - Venture into the vast, vibrant wilderness with friends from Rigbarth by your side to unlock powerful and stylish link attacks that encourage teamwork and strategy - FANTASY FARMING TAKEN TO NEW HEIGHTS - Tame monsters to serve as your helpful farmhands as you grow a wide variety of crops on the backs of dragons - RELAX IN YOUR NEW HOME - Take time out of your adventure to enjoy the gentler pace of town life; Compete in cooking, crafting, and fishing contests or invite your sweetheart to join you for stargazing during one of Rigbarth's many seasonal festivals - FIND YOUR SPECIAL SOMEONE - Forge friendships and get to know the eligible marriage candidates of Rigbarth by completing their unique storyline; Fall in love, pop the question and even start a family ## Images ![Rune Factory 5 Earthmate Edition - Nintendo Switch - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81+iqxZAriL.jpg) ![Rune Factory 5 Earthmate Edition - Nintendo Switch - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51rb4KfeN+L.jpg) ![Rune Factory 5 Earthmate Edition - Nintendo Switch - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71wCaSWUaAL.jpg) ![Rune Factory 5 Earthmate Edition - Nintendo Switch - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+DCHL48kL.jpg) ![Rune Factory 5 Earthmate Edition - Nintendo Switch - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71HWzuwD14L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Edition** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Overall Nice Stuff *by Q***N on April 13, 2022* I'd never in a million years recommend this game itself to anyone who's new to the series since you can pay less for a better game in Rune Factory 4 Special; however, for avid fans of the series this game will (despite many, MANY frustrations and poor design choices) satisfy the itch to play something new. As for the Earthmate Edition, it's got a nice little soundtrack CD in it (although the Japanese edition came with a nice jeweled case instead of a cardboard one), a cool artbook, and a steelbook case for the game with a little "Ranger's Pocket Guide" inside. I was a little miffed by the fact that you only get a Steelbook case with this and no regular one, but I have a regular case from the Japanese edition so I can just use that if needed. The steelbook is a nice case, but feels more like a display piece than a case to just throw about. I read some reviews other people wrote, and honestly I'm convinced that the people who "played" 4 never actually played it so take what they say with a grain of salt. Farming takes at least 2 times as long as it does in 4, pushing toward 3x or longer for some tasks unless you purely farm with monsters and by buying crystals at 50k a pop in which case it's still slightly slower than in 4. Movement is floaty as can be and is made much worse by the speed boosting boots you can make, and heaven forbid riding a monster having any proper physics since you'll constantly get caught on things or get off in areas you apparently can't move. The camera is extremely annoying since you need to constantly have your right thumb on the right analogue stick to move the camera which is frustrating since you need to use the ABXY buttons to actually do anything, and if you want to straighten the view you need to press R3. Skills are far, FAR grindier to level up and have much dumber methods that need to be employed if you want to have a remotely tolerable time hitting 99s. Grinding items? Hah, if you don't intimately understand the mechanics of the game and/or use the internet to figure stuff out, you'll likely never get some items since there are items that can only be obtained from the last or second to last boss at a 1% base drop rate. Oh, and you need multiple of them to be able to be a completionist. I could go on about other things and write an essay about performance issues and crashes, but I'll cut it off at this. The game does have some nice improvements from 4, but they're vastly overshadowed by a multitude of inconsistencies and poorly made design choices. My 5 star review is as an avid fan of the series and moreso based on the Earthmate Edition, although the costumes you get from the Earthmate Edition are pretty bad (at least the male options). ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So far loving it!💗 *by A***. on March 24, 2022* The Earthmate Editions box is much more durably made than Rune Factory 4 Special-Archival Edtion I had no damage to my box what so ever, absolute perfect condition. Lovely design as well The art book ( Although less pages than RF4 Special's) Is made in the same style and is beautiful to look at. Music Cd looked great, The disc art was a nice and the cd holder felt sturdy and well made. Steel case is So Gorgeous! Beautifully designed very happy with that. It does not come with the regular case ofcourse However it still comes with the Official SEED Ranger Handbook ( Mini Manuel basically which is about 28 pages ) Very cool Game play so far- I will update my review as I continue to play So far colors are beautiful very saturated and the characters are likeable. Moving around and stuff feels natural We all love RF4 but Please don't go into this game expecting a RF4 clone, this game is different and won't feel exactly the same but embrace it with fresh eyes and welcome what it offers as it's own game. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pretty happy about it so far. *by L***O on March 25, 2022* I haven't played it yet. (Though I had played previous installments before.) Just got it. I was surprised the box fit inside my mailbox, and it came earlier then planned. As seen in photos, the box have a holographic finish. The quality is OK. The art book have anything between the character art/information, to a game artwork. The paper itself feels a bit like craft paper. Gives off a rustic-like feel. Though personally I like magazine-like quality paper. It feels like the print would of been sharper, and would last better. P.s. my pages were all printed properly in order. I've seen someone getting it with messed up order. Unfortunate dud. The steel book is good. It includes the basic colored manual, which is rare with European games these days. Overall, I wanted to play this game, and for what you get, I felt like it was a steal. 7 years ago or so, the steelbook would cost $10, the soundtrack $15 and art books would go for $15-$25. At least that's how I remember it to be on average if you buy it separately. But it always depends on the game. Even if you take a $60 game and digital content away, I think it's still worth more then just those extra $20 you pay. But I know not everyone puts value in the small things and collectables. And you don't have to. Unless you really want it, or you can afford throwing extra $20 away, I think it's worth buying games that comes with so much. 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