>>49148678>>49148753the problem between Rune Factory 5 was mostly the fact that they spent almost every cent of the budget in the most expensive seiyuus in Japan available, while on the other side of the coin, the programmers, level deisgners, graphical designers, 3D animators and such all of them got underpaid and worked overtime. Thus resulting into a massive pile of garbage gameplay.
It's irrelevant towards pointing dev since the publishers Exseed and Marvelous let this franchise to a different developer under their wing since the previous one went bankrupt and closed in 2013.