History Headscratchers / RuneFactory3

* Why do stumps suddenly pop up in the fields? It's not like someone could just grow a tree and then cut it down overnight.

** Just so people know which couple is canon, for those obsessive about continuity.

* What's the point of a canon heroine, anyway? Especially in this game.

* Is Ondorus really the only person in the area who has ever heard of the "bond beyond the races"? The Sharance Tree folklore seems pretty well-known in town...

** About that sacred tree: How can it be fireproof? Wells says it is. Come to think of it, how does he ''know'' that it's fireproof?

* Shara is content to let a perfect stranger live in the town's sacred tree?

* Why are there no couples in this entire game, beyond you and your wife? At least there's Gaius and Evelyn.

** She's manipulative, too. Her whole family is. In one of the dates she says that she wants to marry while her Grandpa's still alive, and then starts talking about how close you two are. And her sister and grandfather each have requests where they effectively guilttrip you into admitting love for her. If you don't say that you do to Wells, he frowns and says something like "you're not like most people". And Monica starts to tear up thinking about you marrying someone other than Shara. Come ''on!''

** Yeah, Shara's a lying bitch. She told me to eat flowers, but when I did, I nearly died! The dungeon boss then killed me.

* Isn't the canon couple girl supposed to be nice? Since I've married Shara, all she's done is complain about not being able to use the field (who said she couldn't?), compare me to a pet because I'm half-wooly, say that she can't believe I ever said something so insulting (what the heck did I say, anyway?), and she even gave me Ironleaf for my lunch, which killed me when I ate it.

* The whole layout of Sharance bugs me. First, there's a desert a few steps away from an ice land (okay, [[AWizardDidIt it's magic]], whatever). Second, there doesn't seem to be a way out of it. Where do the travelers who stay in Shino's inn ''come from''? The only road that you see is in the distance when you're in the Privera Flower Field, but you can't get to it. Another thing about that road: It should go right into the desert, based on the map. And the desert, which "stretches out forever" according to you and Raven, would cross right over Vale. Even if Vale wasn't there, how can there be a sea to the north of town if the desert continues northward?

* ...why are all of Pia's mermaid Tropes spoilered out? If it rains on the second day of the game, you can figure it out.

** On all the on-again off-again racism, here's my two cents: Try going in Wooly form around town before the secret is revealed and talking to people. Almost everyone goes "CUUTE!" and tries to hug/shave you. The problem seems mostly one that Kuruna, Marjorie and Wells have. Sakuya's scared of them, but only because they interfere with business, and Shino's one scene seemed more like she was worried what customers would think, not her own prejudices (At least, that's why I haven't added it here yet). Most of the town just seems afraid the monsters'll attack. Same problem applies to the travellers, and you can't exactly blame the univir for thinking the townspeople'll attack them if they get too close. Once you've established you're friendly, no reason to be afraid. The Unity Festival can basically be described as the entire non-Micah cast going "Hey, these univir/Hornless DON'T want to kill us! Let's be friends!" Once you've established you're intelligent, no reason to keep you as a pet. This'd be why there's never a problem with Gaius, Pia and Daria, and why Raven'd be accepted, too.

* Micah's attitude. his [[DeadpanSnarker snarkiness]] is pretty hilarious, but there are times when he crosses the line. He tells Sofia ''to her face'' that her family has genetic defects. Not to mention other times when he makes rather cruel jokes or insults to/about people [[KickTheDog ''right in front of them.'']]

** That can always be improved in the next game. ALternatively, your children really are zombies.

** Then again, the bird is really colorful and pretty-like.

* Did it bother anyone else that, once you show everyone in town your big secret, they're all just "Oh, that's okay, as long as your just a cute little Wooly." Isn't the point of the story to get rid of the racism altogether? What if, say, Raven had made The Reveal instead? You know what I mean. How would they have reacted to ''that''?

* And another thing about the only-sometimes-racism. How does Aquaticus manage to justify kidnapping Raven, if she's your fiance, with the argument that a half-monster freak like you shouldn't be allowed to marry a human? Last I checked, Raven was half-monster, too! She even says to you after you beat Aquaticus that SHE thought that YOU wouldn't love her because SHE'S a "Half"!

* This is similar to the one above about other girls flirting with you after you're married. In the middle of the whole thing with Aquaticus near the end of the game, while waiting for Cucumbers to grow, I did a quest for Kuruna, in which she asked that I take her to talk to Wells. Wells then comments that the Sharance flowers have yet to grow, and suggests that the "bond between the races" might be love. So he recommends that I ''DATE KURUNA.'' DUDE, that is NOT something that you say to a guy whose fiance has just been kidnapped!

** (Original Troper) Oh, yeah, I forgot about Gaius. And it's not really a secret. In one of Sofia's early quests, she off-handly mentions that a mermaid works at the bathhouse when you walk by it. I assumed that she was joking at the time... So, it seems to be common knowledge.

** Note that she says you discovered her ''secret.'' Whether or not the townspeople know about it, she thinks it's a secret.

*** Alternatively, because she's too busy hating on squids, they know she's too much of a ditz to be a threat. Also, notice Raven's boss (what's his name) is a dwarf.

* Why are the humans okay with a friggin' MERMAID walking (er, hopping) around whenever it rains (which is fairly often), but the idea of speaking to a human with a horn, or a dwarf (who looks JUST LIKE all other humans) is NOT okay?

** Maybe they like {{Shotacon}}? Like, it's a big fetish there, similar to many cultures liking fat people. Your character fits the mold.

** It's your fault for making them like you anyway. :P

** Doubly creepy/funny when they do in ''in front of your wife.''

** Of course, it could mean that your wife had an affair...

** And then you can ''[[VideoGameCrueltyPotential ship it]]''.

* I like how you don't lose an item if you drop it. But my wife made me ice cream and she put in on the floor (we were outside at the time, and she dropped it on the stairs.) She then proceeds to go into labor. We get a year and a day in a TimeSkip. ''The ice cream is still there.'' Gross!