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While going around the Spring Village ofRune Factory: Guardians Of Azumaas the main character, you’ll quickly get introduced to the blight, which is the main problem being faced by this world, pushing it to its end. However, while you try to solve that, you’ll also get to familiarize yourself with various characters.
All of these characters have unique personalities and favorite items, includingHina. She’s one of the outsiders in Azuma, and will have a mysterious aura around her for a long time in the story. However, you can still bond with her quite early.
Birthday
Winter 16th
To unlock Hina in Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, yousimply have to progress through the prologue until the black dragon arrivesin Spring Village and starts wreaking havoc. As the dragon throws blight around, a flying ship will enter the scene and you’ll help them get rid of the dragon by telling them its weakness.
Once that happens, Hina will unlock as a bondable character andstart roaming around the village just like the other special villagers. When you only have the Spring Village unlocked, you can find her heading out of the ship every morning, which can be found by going down the stairs outside your Home Shrine and turning left.
Hinamight leave the ship earlyon some days, especially on holidays.
After you unlock the Autumn Village, you can find Hina’s home at the southern edge of it where you see a little path going into an open area. You’ll find her here at the start of each day, whileshe can commonly be found in the Summer or Autumn village for the rest of the day. You can identify her location by looking for her icon on the top right with a certain village’s map open.
Best Gifts And Hangouts For Hina
Once you unlock Hina in Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, she’ll get added to the profile menu where you’re able to check your current bond level with her. This level goes up to a maximum of ten, andcan be increased largely by any activity that involves the character, including taking them out to explore with you.
However, you’ll only get one or two bond points from most of these activities. On the other hand, if you hang out with the character every day bygiving them gifts or triggering one of their favorite hangout events, you’ll get a ton of bond value.
If you gift Hina something she dislikes or a hangout she doesn’t want,your bond value can also decrease by four or eight.
With that in mind, here are some of the perfect hangout events and gifts for Hina:
Loves
Fruit Smoothie (Best)
You can find the recipe for this on thewestern edge of the Outer Isle found to the northeastof the Summer Region. You can reach it by heading to the teleport near Hanging Bridge, walking to the edge on the right, and using Sacred Parasol.
This item can be crafted by using one Milk and one Mixed Juice, with the formerbeing available from cow-like enemiesthat you may find and tame around the world.
Kitsune Udon
You can make Kitsune Udon by combining Udon and Fried Tofu once you get its recipe from theFrog Statue on the southwestern side of the Autumn Village. Hina will mention this dish often when you talk to her.
It serves asone of the best gifts to give heronce you have a good supply of both the ingredients.
Fox Gratin
If you want to get this recipe in Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, you’ll first have to reach bond six with Hina. When that’s done,you can make a normal Gratin at any shopand cook together with Hina to trigger a unique recipe.
This requires milk, flour, and cheese to be made, but itcan be a great gift for her during the late game.
Likes
Orange Juice (Best)
you may unlock various fruit juice recipes as you explore the lands of Azuma. When you’re giving gifts to Hina,there’s a high chance that you’ll get one of these juices in returnas well.
Since Hina loves all of these, it’s recommended to give them to her as soon as you get your hands on them. If you’re looking to cook one of these juices, you’ll have toplant trees for their respective fruit except Pineapple, which can be regularly harvested.
Peach Nectar
Strawberry Milk
Strawberry Milk is one of the many recipes that you canget as rewards for interacting with a certain number of Frog Statuesand talking to the kid who gave you the quest. As you might expect, you can easily make it by combining strawberries and milk.
Melon Milk
While you might encounter this recipe a little late in the game, itcan be a good one for Hinaas you may easily farm Melons.
Gratin
Gratin is essentially the non-unique version of Fox Gratin, and you’re able to get itsrecipe for free by continuing the main questuntil you throw a party for Kanata.
Mochi Cheese Gratin
This is another recipe that gets unlocked later in the gameas you’re nearly done with all the Frog Statues around the world.
Hinadislikes vegetables with a passion, and you’ll instantly lose bond value with her if you gift her one of them.
Best Hina Hangouts
While clicking on the “Let’s hang out” button as you talk to Hina every day, you can trigger the"Talk about hobbies" or “Talk about dreams” to get a much higher bond valuethan the rest, with the latter giving the most. However, make sure to avoid “Tell a joke” as this is one of her disliked hangouts.
How Hina Works In Combat
Once you increase Hina’s bond level to one, you’re able to take her out in combat by adding her to your party from the main menu. She’ll alsoautomatically become your party member during the main storyas you hunt for certain shrines in the skies. Hina is an attacker, which means she deals a ton of damage, but she also has a lot of crowd control.
As you further increase her bond level, youcan unlock the following abilities on her, increasing her effectiveness in battle:
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3
Unlocks the Animal Repellent skill, whichdeals massive damage to animals.
4
Unlocks the Beast Stance skill, which lets her get anextra 20 percent ATK.
5
Unlocks the Spell Seal skill, whichsurrounds an enemy with a green seal, immobilizing them for a good few seconds.
6
Gives you the SEED Cap recipe, which can be a great item to use as an added outfit for your character. However,the stats it provides aren’t the greatestfor combat.
7
Unlocks the Foxfire Bullets skill, which fires abunch of blue-colored wisp projectilesthat damage enemies.
8
Unlocks the Foxfire Blast skill, which lets herscatter a bunch of her wisps around the area, dealing damage to multiple opponents.
9
Unlocks the Foxfire Barrage skill, which attacks anarea with fiery wisps.
10
Increases Hina’s M.ATK.
Outside of these abilities,Hina can also reduce the target’s M.DEF, making her a great pick if you’re using Talismans or Sacred Treasures as weapons often.
Hina Marriage Guide
Once you reach bond ten with Hina and finish all her bond quests until level nine, you may ask her out to the Fateweaver Shrineafter getting Divine Spirits and the Plum Branch in your inventory. You can only do this on a day when you don’t have a date planned with another character, and it lets you marry her.
Five days after the marriage, you can start theprocess of having your first kid,which lets you continue the main story to its true ending. Another bunch of days after your first kid, Hina will ask you if you’d like to have another one.
