Rating : 77/100 After getting hooked into Rune Factory 5 , I decided to try my hand into the game that came out before it, Rune Factory 4 , the Switch version to be more specific. Rune Factory 4 was originally released on the 3DS in America in 2013, but after that, Neverlands bankrupcy left…
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