#porcoline rune factory

[mhk-87]

An unexpected confession!

(^_^)

[kuruna]

Porco :~)

[hug-kiss-marry-kill-farm]

[dimas-favorite]

…A “Fring”, you say???

Here’s a true Fring!

[ultimafangirl]

Today's character who makes me smile is

Porcoline

Makes me smile 107/?

[undatablebracket]

OUTDATED POST

Last updated 8/18/23, please check the bracket posts for the most up-to-date competitor list.

Sorted alphabetically by game for easy searching.

These are (almost) all of the bracket participants! There are a few who are still up in the air. Please do not get upset with me if your blorbo did not qualify; I did my best to research each game I was unfamiliar with. The most common reason for a character to be disqualified was being from a game without any romance at all.

Note that some of these may be removed, as my attempts at research may not have been sufficient.

Madoka Aoyagi from Aokana Four Rhythms Across the Blue

Reiko Satou from Aokana Four Rhythms Across the Blue

Nahara from The Arcana

Nazali from The Arcana

Nasmira from The Arcana

Natiqa from The Arcana

Brasidas from Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

Soma Jarlskona from Assassin's Creed: Valhalla

Alfira from Baldur's Gate 3

Volo from Baldur's Gate 3

Mallory from Black Closet

oniontheif from Blooming Panic: Full Bloom Edition

Mossie from Cattails

Guinevere from Code: Realize

Kotoho Sakuragawa from collar x malice

Antonio from Coral Island

Helene Leventis from Crown and the Flame - Choices (mobile app)

Owen Herriot from Cupid Parasite

Viktor Vector from Cyberpunk 2077

Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077

Goro Takemura from Cyberpunk 2077

Mayor Mingus from Dialtown

Jerry from Dialtown

Pierre from Dialtown

Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club

The Arishok from Dragon Age 2

Varric Tethras from Dragon Age 2

Avaline Vallen from Dragon Age 2

Vivienne de Fer from Dragon Age Inquisition

Cole from Dragon Age Inquisiton

Scout Lace Harding from Dragon Age: Inquisition

Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi from Dragon Age: Inquisition

Sten from Dragon Age: Origins

Quizzmaster Quinn from Dream Daddy

Morgott the Grace-Given from Elden Ring

Matthew Gursky from Emily is Away

Magnolia from Fallout 4

Nick Valentine from Fallout 4

Phila from Fire Emblem Awakening

The Gatekeeper from Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Hypnos from Hades

Orpheus and Eurydice from Hades

Chaos from Hades

Charon from Hades

Sisyphus from Hades

Alecto from Hades

Azami Koshiba from Hatoful Boyfriend

Blanc Lapin from Ikemen Revolution

Lyla Park from Life is Strange 2

Kyousuke Natsume from Little Busters!

Javik from Mass Effect

Urdnot Wrex from Mass Effect

Zaeed Massani from Mass Effect

Mordin Solus from Mass Effect 2 & 3

The Illusive Man from Mass Effect 2 + 3

Samara from Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3

Evfra de Tershaav from Mass Effect Andromeda

Zevin Raeka from Mass Effect Andromeda

Jeff "Joker" Moreau from Mass Effect trilogy

Moss Mann from Monster camp

Gerard from Monster Camp and Monster Roadtrip

Tate from Monster Prom

Sadie from Monster Prom 3: Road Trip and Monster Prom 2: Camp

Jerry the Murderer from Monster Prom series

Mali from My Time at Portia

Jaehee Kang from Mystic Messenger

Vanderwood from Mystic Messenger

Shinbi from Nameless (the one thing you must recall)

Soi from Nameless (the one thing you must recall)

Thirteen from Obey Me! One Master to Rule Them All

Aurora Emery from Open Heart - Choices

Jeremy King from Our Life: Beginning & Always

Miranda from Our Life: Beginnings & Always

Terry from Our Life: Beginnings & Always

Rio Iwasaki from Persona 3 Portable

Junpei Iori from Persona 3 Portable

Yosuke Hanamura from Persona 4

Kanji Tatsumi from Persona 4

Goro Akechi from Persona 5

Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5

Ryūji Sakamoto from Persona 5

Eothas from Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Grim from Romancelvania

Gaius from Rune Factory 3

Illuminata from Rune Factory 4

Porcoline Tulle De Saint-Coquille from rune factory 4

Ventuswill from Rune Factory 4

Lin Fa from Rune Factory 4

Volkanon from Rune Factory 4

Terry from Rune Factory 5

Malix from Seduce Me the Otome

Halek Prince from Shepherds of Haven

Bao-Dur from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Clint from Stardew ValleyGus from Stardew Valley

Jodi from Stardew Valley

Kent from Stardew Valley

Krobus from Stardew Valley

Linus from Stardew Valley

Marnie from Stardew Valley

Mayor Lewis from Stardew Valley

Sandy from Stardew Valley

Robin from Stardew Valley

The Wizard (aka. M. Rasmodius) from Stardew Valley

Clemens from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Jacopo from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Karina from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Flora from Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life

Lars from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town

Brynjolf from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Cicero from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Erandur from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Faendal from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Hadvar from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

J'zargo from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Miraak from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Seranna from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Teldryn Sero from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Ondolemar from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Olivia Vanderwall Nevrakis from The Royal Romance - Choices

Iorveth from The Witcher 2

Vernon Roche from The Witcher 2

Julian Alfred Pankratz (Dandelion/Jaskier) from The Witcher 3

Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy from The Witcher 3

Karen Hanatsubaki from Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3

Arihiko Inui from Tsukihime

Yumizuka Satsuki from Tsukihime

Alicia Rosales from XOXO Droplets

[thunderberryz]

Star's Rune Factory 3 Special 1st Playthrough, Part 2: Quality of Life

Hello, everyone! Back at it again with blogging my first run of Rune Factory 3 Special and I have a lot to talk about since my last post.

So I've already beaten the second boss AKA Skelefang and the seasons are just about to change from spring to summer. As far as the cast goes, I've already got some characters that I love, some that I despise, and some who my opinions have shifted over time for better or for worse. Definitely the two that stand out for me are Shara and Gaius. Gaius, had he been a datable bachelor, would have been my first choice among the single boys in this game. I'm one of the fandom's resident Arthur simps, I married Martin during my one playthrough of RF5, and "dwarf blacksmith who loves forging so much he forgets to sell his weapons and falls asleep if he lets go of his hammer" meets all the standards that those two have set as some of the franchise's resident workaholics. (Why does this keep happening? Seriously?)

As for Shara, I'm very well aware of all the hate she got in the past for having been pushed as the game's canon candidate and with what I've seen so far... I absolutely love her. Of the available bachelorettes, her personality is by far the least quirky and most down to earth of the girls, and she is just so sweet and kind that one of the only other girls I do find myself interested in romancing is Sakuya. Sakuya is slightly more quirky, but compared to some of her fellow bachelorettes, her personality is probably the most "normal" outside her capitalist tendencies and lack of cooking skills.

And that is the big thing with RF3's cast for me. While RF4 certainly had its quirkier cast members like Porcoline and Illuminata, there are even more of them in RF3 and most in game days I find myself feeling very overwhelmed because many of the villagers are so out there. Even if I don't actually dislike their personality, there are some characters I talk to very sparingly because they're literally too much for me. Prime examples include Marian, Carmen, Sofia, Sherman, and Carlos. Of those, the one I like most is Carmen, but I still find myself not talking to her that much simply because I can't handle how loud she is, which sucks since she seems nice otherwise. (As an aside, I also like Kuruna, but the second I heard that she and Ondorus were childhood friends, my brain went in Directions because I am a sucker for Childhood Friends to Lovers LMAO)

Speaking of comparisons between RF3 and RF4, I do feel awful. I have a fair number of criticisms of RF3S from a gameplay standpoint, but pretty much all of them relate to missing Quality of Life features that were addressed later on in RF4. Stuff like depositing items in the shipping bin, crafting multiples of the same item, the request system, the lack of a fertilizer bin; RF4 ultimately fixed all those minor yet aggravating problems, so claiming that RF3 is the inferior game just because it's lacking those important QoL features, to me, feels very unfair, even if it is affecting my play experience. RF3S, outside those missing QoL features, plays very similarly to RF4S and has a lot of the same features, and whether the story and cast appeal to you is a matter of personal opinion. Overall, it's a solid game and I would recommend it to people who are curious as to how the older Rune Factory games played!

All that said, the biggest thing that has already killed RF3S for a lot of people is the representation; many people have chosen not to buy RF3S because there is no female protagonist option, no datable bachelors, and no same sex marriage, and you know what? It's a perfectly valid reason. As a straight cis woman, my biggest gripe with RF3S is not being able to play as a girl and I'm pretty sure the only reason I'm able to put up with it is because I'm painfully used to it as someone who grew up in an era where the vast majority of game protagonists were straight men. It does help that Micah, much like Frey/Lest and Alice/Ares, has an actual personality and so I don't need to come up with one for him just to enjoy his story or any of his potential romances. He's just a friendly sheep boy trying to put up with the insanity that is the town of Sharance and I 100% vibe with that.

All right, next area is the windy river place. Unfortunately, I have a lot of skills I need to work on, facilities to upgrade, and items to gather. I'm probably going to be grinding for quite a while...

[silverdragon-imagines-blog]

Okay, just some Rune Factory 4 things for now

I can see Margaret eventually being the one to ask Forte out, since Margaret seems like someone who would say what’s on her mind and isn’t afraid to say how she feels. Margaret feels safe with Forte, and Forte feels stronger around Margaret. They talk and grow closer until they are able to decide what to do next. 

Doug and Dylas are rivals to lovers for sure. It doesn’t click how much they actually care about each other until Doug gets badly injured in the second arc of the game. After that whole mess, they’re basically inseparable. Dylas definitely worries about Doug a lot, but he’s willing to give him space and such. Also can and will call Doug out on his bullshit. Doug does the same for Dylas and they just end up closer until eventually they get married. Dylas probably opens his own restaurant or takes over for Porcoline. 

As for everyone else, I can see a few relationships clicking and making sense, but they are so much less concrete.

I could see Arthur ending up with a few different people, or even in a polycule. Leon could be a good match, starts with the usual teasing and friendly banter until they grow to enjoy each other’s company more and more. Then it’s just the logical next step to Arthur. Another one would be Dolce, and that just cuz I can see her sitting in his office as a quiet place for her to do her sewing/knitting/embroidery while Arthur does paperwork. Mutual respect for each other then grows into a nice little friendship where they have tea and breakfast in the early morning before Porcoline opens the restaurant fully. Then it’s again, the logical next step. The three of them together also makes sense, just following a similar path where Leon jokes and teases both of them, and then it progresses. 

Amber I’m very unsure about, but maybe it would be cute if she was with Kiel? Something about exploring the world together and going on their own type of adventure.

For Clorica, Xiao Pai, and Vishnal I really have no idea who would fit for them. Like, I guess I could see the three of them together? But I couldn’t tell you how that would go. The more I play Rune Factory 5 tho, I could see some of them getting together with the characters from Rune Factory 4. I’ll have to play the game more to tell for sure tho.

[fisherman-fight]

ROUND TWO

QUEEQUEG from MOBY DICK vs DYLAS from RUNE FACTORY 4

PROPAGANDA:

QUEEQUEG - "Constantly carries his harpoon around. Has a top hat he really likes that he once sat on (this is like the second thing he does once the reader is introduced to him). Probably gay. Canonically a cannibal."

DYLAS - "[Fishing] is his greatest joy and hobby! When he's not helping at Porcoline's restaurant, you can usually find him at the lake fishing! He always takes top place in the fishing contests. His first ever friend taught him to fish, and he has carried on the hobby his whole life." "He's also a giant horse monster sometimes."

[flambeaufelid]

I grew up playing Harvest Moon DS. I also had a few of the GameCube ones, but they didn't stick in my memory.

Harvest Moon DS is an extremely clunky, glitchy, and poorly-translated game. I think that was part of what I liked about it. It was, dare I say, a touch bit "liminal". The game really seems to expect you to have played a HM game before, it really just jumps into everything with little explanation, making for a very weird and confusing experience for ~7-year-old me.

I loved it a lot, but I never got far. Even when I got older and figured out how everything worked, it was just so grindy...

I really wanted something to replace it. I had hoped Stardew Valley would be it.

I followed ConcernedApe's devlog very closely, checking it almost every day, for years, despite new info sometimes taking months to be posted. I just wanted to love it so bad. And the older I got, the less I could put up with Harvest Moon.

And then, finally, it released, and-

-I didn't like it.

It was like Harvest Moon DS, except cleaned up a bit. Less of a grind, better writing, etc. And I'd thought that was what I'd wanted, so I was confused. I couldn't figure out what my problem with it WAS exactly, all I knew was that it got boring fast, and stayed boring when I forced myself to keep playing it anyway.

I started thinking, much like Whales is suggesting of himself above, that maybe I just don't like this kind of game. I mean, people say that Stardew is the pinnacle of the genre, so if I don't enjoy it, what could that possibly say about me, if not that I just don't like the genre in the first place?

But then I gave Rune Factory 4 another shot a few months back for some reason, fell absolutely in love with it, and stayed up late every night for like two weeks in a row playing it.

I had bought the game on a whim like seven years ago, gotten bored after the second boss, and dismissed it. But it turns out it was the game I'd been waiting for all this time.

It encourages manual farming because doing so levels your skills, which makes you better at everything (like, if I remember correctly, using your watering can a lot will make you better at water magic, for example), and the cooking system is FAR more fleshed out than Stardew or HMs (and eating food, especially food you've not tried yet I think, levels your eating skill, so you're really encouraged to try new dishes), so farming is just more rewarding in general.

Although ultimately the thing I loved most were the characters.

When I started playing the game, I didn't talk to the townsfolk much. I didn't see a point in it. Because HM and Stardew had trained me not to.

But eventually I realized: I didn't seem to be getting very much repeated dialogue from day-to-day.

I started talking to the characters more and more. All of them, every day I could, for the entire first in game year.

And each day, they would all almost always have something new to say.

That's what ultimately cinched it for me. Stardew's characters, charming though they may be, are not that deep. Even some of the duller Rune Factory 4 characters blow all of them out of the water.

I want to play it more, but I think I burnt myself out. Also my 3DS's circle pad is broken (technically functional, but has sharp bits of plastic jutting out of it), which I powered through for long enough to get to the credits, but is juuuuuust annoying enough that I've not gotten back to enjoy the rest of the game- and there's apparently still a FUCKTON left.

Also you can't even marry the dragon or Porcoline or be gay so actually 0/10.

I played Harvest Moon on the N64, and it was pretty much my favorite game of that era. I was in high school, and I would get done working on my uncle's farm and then go over to my friend's house to play virtual farm with him, switching off every other day. (I didn't have an N64 of my own until much later, because we were poor.)

When Stardew Valley came out, it was like ConcernedApe had been playing there with us and understood exactly what I wanted out of Harvest Moon, which for various reasons the actual Harvest Moon successors never ended up delivering on. I thought it was a little bit weird that people were praising its originality, as though it was doing something unique and unprecedented, since it was so obviously just an indie dev version of Harvest Moon rather than a unique game that had sprung up from nowhere, but I loved Stardew Valley, and played it a bunch. And then I kept thinking "how are was ConcernedApe the only one to do this?"

Well, we're now deep into the wave of games that followed in the wake of Stardew Valley, and I've played enough of them to start thinking that ... maybe I just don't actually like them?

I picked up Fields of Mistria, which had "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews on Steam, and is very much in the "copy what Stardew Valley copied from Harvest Moon" genre. Here's your dilapidated farm! Here's your shitty equipment! Here's your quest to talk to all the 20-some townsfolk! Plant some potatoes!

It might be the core gameplay loop that's irritating to me now. Watering the crops every morning is not actually that good from a gameplay perspective, and I keep scratching my neck and saying "come on, where are the sprinklers, where are you hiding them, I know you must have them". I think my watering-the-crops tolerance had just steadily gone down as the years have gone by.

Very possible if I keep playing Fields of Mistria, I'll find something that grows on me, but in spite of being a polished game in a genre I once adored, I think it's almost certainly going to get a refund. I've just played too many of these, I guess, and the prospect of romancing the villagers by giving them a gift every day is leaving me cold.

(Also I have always thought that these games would be much better if there was an option to romance every villager, even the ones who were married. If I want to be a homewrecker, I should be allowed to be. If I want a really problematic forty-year age gap between me and the mayor's father, that's my God-given right. Obviously I know those romance storylines, to be done right, require a significant amount of work, but still ... there's got to be a way.)

[sassyfever]

Used to? Doug, what the fuck happened to Porco

[kuruna]

The Porcoline oc x canon art from 2022....

[ungalobrando]

Reading through old messages and found this gem

@funnyvalentineswife Our chaotic cook boyfriends

[joyfulsanctuary]

October Chibi Challenge

Day 19: Porcoline Tulle De Saint-Coquille

💕💕 Joyous Joy! It’s @chickchickee‘s birthday~ 💕💕

[flyinurfries]

Himb

[selphiahaven]