Rune Factory Frontier has Swimsuits, Other Stuff

If you are like me, you heard about the original Rune Factory on DS and thought that it would finally be awesome to fight monsters and tend to your own personal farm at the same time. Unfortunately, as is generally the case with me, I can't stay interested in a handheld game for much longer than a week, regardless of how cool it is in theory.

Well, as you know, Marvelous is gearing up to release a home console remake of Rune Factory in the near future. Titled Rune Factory Frontier, the remake brings all of the farming and fantasy goodness to the Wii next month in Japan, and should be seeing North American release sometime after that.

The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu has shed some new light on this remake, detailing how the game will utilize the Wiimote, some of the activities, places, and townsfolk accessable in the game, and ... SWIMSUITS (which are, of course, a staple of any good JRPG).

Check out the scans below for more fantasy farming goodness.



Rune Factory Frontier will be available in Japan on November 27, 2008.

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