RF3 info

RUNE FACTORY 3: A FANTASY HARVEST MOON

-What is it?
Harvest Moon with RPG elements.
4th game of the series. Yes. There was 1 spinoff (kind of, it's still a RF game) between RF2 and RF3.

-Why Japanese/NOT Japanese?
Text doesn't matter now, unless some version has less text boxes.
By holding Select, the text appear at once, so the text speed doesn't really make a difference.
As for why I use a certain version.. no special reason.

-Since I can't understand just from watching, then what's the story?
You're Micah, a guy who lost his memories. Yay.
This game even lampshades this fact, IIRC.

-What's in each building/why entering them/why talking?
I must talk to everyone and enterevery building; it's my 1st request, and I can't do any others before completing this one.
Starting from the Sharance tree, which is my home: going east, we have:
*an Inn, which is ran by Shino, her daughter Sakuya and her adopted(?) daughter Pia. You can take a bath to recover HP/RP, buy rune abilities and monster drops. Finally, there's a very important person for a speedrun that may appear here: Yue! She sells a lot of things, even powerful magics that aren't available normally until later.
*a Diner, where Blaise and his children Collette and Rusk live. Funnily, you can only buy kitchen utensils and breads here (breads are used to learn recipes).
*more to the east, it's the plaza, used for events.
From the tree, going to the south exit:
*a General Store, ran by Hazel and her daughter Karina. Sells crop seeds, crops and food ingredients. Later, sells furnitures as well.
*a Flower Shop, ran by Wells and his granddaughters Shara and Monica (well, Monica doesn't run, but probably will eventually =p). Sells flowers, flower seeds and magic seeds.
*a Blacksmith, ran by Gaius and Raven. Sells weapons and equipments. Later, sells a barn (and expansions), forge and workshop.
Southwest of this area, we have:
*RAINBOW! Or rather, Daria's house. Also the entrance of Privera Forest, the 1st dungeon with a spring climate.
Southeast exit from previous area:
*a Fishing Resort, where you can fish hard-to-get fish for a price. Useful for normal play, but not used at all in the run.
East from previous area:
*Apothecary: ran by Marjorie and her granddaughter Marian. Sells herbs, medicines, magic weapons, magic attacks, cures me from statuses, and later sells a pharmacy for my house.
*Mansion: Sherman and his daughters Evelyn and Sofia. Evelyn sells clothes and furnitures.
East from this area is the entrance of Oddward Valley, 3rd dungeon and fall climate.
Finally, from the tree, going west, we have:
*to the north, Vale River, 4th dungeon and winter climate.
*south, Sol Terrano Desert, 2nd dungeun and summer climate. There's a "hidden" Univir village here too, with 3 residents (besides monsters): Kuruna (the elder; they live longer, so she doesn't look old), Ondorus, and Zaid.

-What are the glitches?
Only one, but it's very useful.
When you're buying something:
*choose any item you don't want. The cheaper, the better;
*move the cursor to the item you want to buy, or prepare to touch it (or both);
*press A or/and touch the item you want;
*before the item get to the lower right box, press X. Note that you can choose more than one item if you're fast enough.
If you did it right, you'll buy the item(s) for the price of the previous.
I believe you can now understand how powerful this is. Not only you can get easy money from it, but also some powerful magic, weapons, food, etc.
Combining this glitch with Yue, it becomes awesome.

-OK, so you can use the glitch with Yue to get good stuff, but isn't her stock random?
Fortunately, no. It's a strange way to do something random, but it might be the only option they found to work like it works in the game. Who knows, I didn't make the game.
Anyway.. her stock is related to when the game starts. This includes after a reset. The seconds will define what she'll offer.
Here are some important Yue stocks:
*Right at the start of the game: http://i.imgur.com/3lTQg.jpg
*After defeating Skelefang: http://i.imgur.com/SlORS.jpg
Sorry for low quality, but Imgur likes to downscale it, even though it doesn't have 1MB.
How to look at it: the top left picture is her stock when the seconds point to 0 seconds. Going to the right, it increases by 1s each. Down is +10s.
One more important thing: remember that the game takes a while to start, even from a reset. My DS, for example, takes about 1s to restart the game after a reset. So if you want a stock from 45s, you need to reset about 1s before.

-Why Are those specific points important?
*The first visit is where I get most of the things: Explosion, used for most bosses; Grand Impact, a useful hammer/axe rune ability; darkness, for the hardest part of the run =p; food to recover RP; dried sardines because they're one of Daria's favorites; and some other stuff I don't remember/not really important to list here/listed later/whatever.
*Second visit is when Levelizers appear. You might understand what it does from the name: it levels you up from each drink you get. It's usually expensive, but note how they always appear with a failed dish. (From this, you might want to believe that they actually knew about the glitch and did this on purpose =p)

-Daria? Why Daria?
I need to marry someone to finish the game. I chose Daria because her requests are pretty short.
Shara is pretty close too. But there's one request where I need to wait until 7PM. I had a route where I'd do a lot of things in one day so I wouldn't jsut wait until 7PM, but it was still annoying.
Another thing is the fact that Daria gives me Platinums as reward, so I don't need to look for one. Shara doesn't.
However, she seems to have her LP increased faster. I don't know if it really does.
Anyway, Daria for me, thanks.

-What are the necessary items?
*4 Pink Turnips
*4 Cucumbers
*6 Spinachs
*4 Turnips
*1 Toyherb
*1 Moondrop
*1 Pink Cat
*1 Charm Blue
*5 Silvers
*2 Platinums
*1 Emerald
*1 Ruby
*130 wood
*Don't know about money, I'll have a lot anyway
Crops are for last dungeon. Flowers and most stones are for a bouquet. 2 Silvers and Ruby are for engagement ring (need at least 10/11 skill to be able to make one as well). Wood is for workshop and double bed.