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Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Nintendo DS

Brand: Natsume

Platform : Nintendo DS |

Rated: Everyone

206 ratings

Multigenerational storyline lets you play as your child!
Befriend monsters to help on your farm!
Exciting new gameplay modes via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection!
Upgrade your skills and forge your own powerful weapons and tools!

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Product description

Rune Factory 2 is set several years after the first game. The evil Sechs Empire has been defeated, and the Kingdom of Norad is once again at peace. Things may not stay that way for long, however, as dark premonitions foretell of dangers to come. It’s up to the player to uncover the source of these premonitions and bring peace to the kingdom once more. Over the course of the story, players will build and develop a farm, befriend townspeople, raise monsters, take on quests, and find a wife. Rune Factory 2 offers innovative Touch Screen controls, easy-to-use menus, and an all-new compelling storyline.

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ASIN

B001BWRBA8

Release date

November 18, 2008

Customer Reviews

206 ratings

4.5 out of 5 stars

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#40,620 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#354 in Nintendo DS Games

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Product Dimensions

4.1 x 2.9 x 0.3 inches; 3.67 Ounces

Binding

Video Game

Rated

Everyone

Item model number

719593100140

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Yes

Item Weight

3.67 ounces

Manufacturer

Natsume

Date First Available

July 3, 2008

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Morrow

Two Gens, One great game.

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2020

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Amazing title in the series. I highly recommend coming back to 2 and 3, even if you started with RF4. 2 is the only entry in the series with two generations. The first gen, you play as Kyle who is seeking for a purpose in life by traveling. After marrying someone in the game, it will eventually go to the second generation, where you play as the kid of Kyle and his wife. Kyle leaves for story reasons, so you are left alone with your mom. You go through school life, and choosing one of the girls to date. There is no marriage for second generation.

The gameplay is a little slower, in all regards--both farming and combat, compared to Tides of Destiny, Frontier, and 4. Original convos don't always happen daily in this. Sometimes it's repeated things from the previous days. I believe new things they say is either based on events, festivals, and affinity---or it's just random. Despite these few negatives, the game still holds up to this day. The music is amazing and the world is very detailed. There are only 4 dungeons in the part im on, but more might be available later, as the map is fairly big. They are more enjoyable to explore and see, compared to RF4.

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FantasyFan

Good but Flawed

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2018

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To start, I really loved this game. The characters are interesting and I love the four areas that have a yearlong season so you can always grow spring strawberries, fall yams, and so forth. The taskboard in-town to do favors or tasks for the people in the town was great. It got me to explore the world with more purpose, let me get to know the people better and to advance friendship and relationship status with marriage candidates in a much more fun way than just giving them their favorite item.

It has a lot of flaws though. Most can be chalked up to it being an older game.

First and most irritating: you can't put anything down if you're holding it. If you try to put something down if your bag is full, or if you just miss the shipping crate (urr) the item (or stack omg) disappears forever. I lost so many items and so much money by accidentally standing a millimeter too far back or to the side of the shipping crate.

Switching between tools and abilities is rather clunky and I kept fumbling for how to do it even when I was playing constantly. The the bag being a single horizontal line at the bottom of the screen when you opened it also made it a slog to find things as you have to scroll sideways as it would take awhile to get what you wanted.

The map is large, but there's only so far in the map you can explore during the first part of the game - there are fences and statues in the way and there's nothing further to do there than farming - which does get kind of annoying as there are monsters constantly hacking at you (and occasionally killing you) while you're watering your crops. And I do mean there's nothing to do but farming. There are the requests, but for your own activites all you can do is farm and fight monsters - no cooking or crafting of any kind. This really stagnates the game as the story starts to go nowhere.

Once you do get to the second half of the game though, you are basically starting over an entirely new game (stamina included) that is a clone of the previous, but now you can craft and cook. I was pleased at first, but eventually these activities were what made me put the game down. To learn a new receipe or item to craft you have to do a very boring mini game of checkmarking what the "teacher" tells you on a list of items - and you can only learn 2 a day of ANYthing. Also, success is hit-or-miss. You can make Apple Juice many times (only ingredient is an apple) and have it fail and lose the ingredient because you haven't leveled up cooking enough to have more than an 80% chance of success.

It was a fun game if you're patient, but not one I could play for long. I would recommend Rune Factory 4 instead as it has none of these problems and is overall a better game.

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fishyks

RF2 great game

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2013

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I am a Mom and I love this game. My kids and I used to play Harvest Moon when they were growing up and we loved those games. My oldest daughter 25 has still a Harvest Moon game for the WI and her and my youngest daugher 14 still play this game. I decided after playing 2 Etrian Odyssey games to buy Rune Factory and I started with number 2. I figured Harvest Moon and a bit of monster batteling of Etrian Odyssey should make a great game. Now the batteling is for sure not like in EO, but it gives you a brake of monotomy of being a farmer. I love this game and can't wait until I will play RF3. It is fun, you can grow all your veggies etc. You can train your animals to help you which I love and you also have dungeons to explore and monsters to fight. I absolutely like the idea of requests from the villagers and I also like that there is a 1. Generation and a 2. Generation. The way you learn how to forge items, cooking etc. You build your own school and barn. I just didn't like the lay out of the village and it is hard for me to remember where all those villagers are at, since I am older and my memory has gotten worse. The game is well worth it and so much fun. People who are fans of RPG games and Harvest Moon with a bit of a dungeon crawler game won't be disappointed.
So I have made it to the 2. generation and I didn't marry Mana but waited a bit. I still love playing this game. Once I start playing I can't put it down. I did also buy RF3 and I am glad that they have made the village map better. That is one thing about RF2. The village map is really bad. Great game.

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Jay

Don’t buy “new”

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2021

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The game works but the circuit board is loose inside somehow. I’m honestly still trying to figure out if it’s a repro. DS games are hard like that. I do know the game wasn’t “new”and was resealed because of the booklet inside was used. In the future, I would just go for the used cartridge for less.

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Emma

My favourite Rune Factory game

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2016

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My favourite Rune Factory game. I've been looking for it for a long time and I was delighted to find it here. When I recieved the game I was worried as it had and "E" rating (the US rating system) and on the back it even said "For sale, rental and use only in USA, CANADA, MEXICO and LATIN AMERICA". After some research I tried it out and it does work fine on my PAL 3DS XL. (Bought from seller VGP_VideoGamesPlus.
-Emma.

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N. J. Ridsdel

LEGEND OF ZELDA MEETS FARMVILLE

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2015

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great game, fun casual concept, just right for killing time in the evenings ( or mornings, or afternoons...!)

Minnimoo

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2014

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Very pleased thank you

Tara Harris

Harvest moon vs rune factory fans

Reviewed in Canada on January 14, 2015

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I have been a big fan of the series but unfortunately I'm playing them in reverse. Loved both 3 and 4, (4 is my favourite game ever) this one not so much. It takes a long long time to get the story moving. I had to look it up because I was so bored of doing the same thing every day and nothing advancing. If you are a big fan of harvest moon (I am not for this reason, yawn) then maybe you will really enjoy it. If you like how RF3 and 4 were made then pass on this because it's not anywhere near as good. I have not played 1 to reference this but seeing how the series progressed I think I will pass

harlequeen

Keine direkte Neuerung...

Reviewed in Germany on January 7, 2011

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"Rune Factory 2" ist farbenfroh, heiter und hat, im Vergleich zu seinem Vorgänger, ein paar interessante Neuerungen.
Der Anfang der Handlung ist allerdings gleich, der namenlose Held (von der Spielleitung wird der Name "Kyle" angeboten, wie zuvor auch "Ragna" in Teil 1) stolpert verwirrt in eine ihm fremde Umgebung und wird dort von einem Mädchen in Empfang genommen, das ihm ein leerstehendes Haus zuweist und ihm freundlich alles erklärt, was er über seine Farmarbeit wissen muss. Die naheliegende Stadt mit ihrer angenehmen Musik ist schnell erforscht, und so stößt Kyle nicht nur auf interessante neue Bekanntschaften, sondern auch auf die insgesamt vier weitläufigen Dungeons, die den kriegerischen Teil des Spiels darstellen. Jedem Dungeon (Padova-Mountains, Messhina-Valley, Trieste-Forest und Blessia-Island) ist eine bestimmte Jahreszeit, ein bestimmtes Schwierigkeitslevel und bestimmte Monstergattungen zugeordnet. Im Gegensatz zum Vorgänger sind alle Dungeons von Anfang an erreichbar, wenn auch unter räumlichen Einschränkungen.
Festivals und Wettbewerbe peppen den Alltag auf, Kyle kann Monster zähmen und für sich arbeiten lassen und natürlich auch mit den Dorfmädchen anbandeln. Auch gibt es eine neue Funktion, das Schwarze Brett. Hier nimmt Kyle Aufträge der Menschen entgegen, die ihm nicht nur Geld und kleine Geschenke einbringen, sondern auch Beliebtheit und unterhaltsame kleine Zusatzgeschichten.
Wenn Kyle schließlich heiratet (jedes Mädchen hat dafür ein individuelles Vorgehen, wie man um sie freien muss) und eine Schule baut, bekommt er mit seiner Frau ein Kind, dessen Geschlecht man auswählen darf und das dann automatisch das Ruder im zweiten Teil der Handlung übernimmt.
Hier wird es für mich etwas kritisch. Erst im zweiten Teil können Fähigkeiten wie Schmieden, Kunstschmieden, Kochen, Alchemie, usw. erlernt werden, weshalb der Spieler mehr oder weniger dazu gedrängt wird, schnell ein Kind zu bekommen. Im Vergleich zum ersten Teil, wo das Baby eher lieblos der Mutter auf dem Rücken klebte, ist das Kind hier zwar endlich Handlungsträger, gleichzeitig ist es aber eben nur ein Kind und wird von den Personen folglich nicht ernstgenommen, da es erst sieben Jahre alt ist.
Nach dem Zeitsprung verändern sich die Menschen äußerlich nicht, und die Beziehungen sind nicht mehr so schön detailliert. Das liegt vor allem daran, dass es bei den Heiratskandidatinnen einen "Joker" gibt. Wenn man ein Mädchen heiratet, das sonst einen anderen Mann geheiratet hätte, nimmt dieser Joker den Platz ein, damit wie geplant ein Kind aus der Ehe hervorgehen kann, das dann mit Kyles Kind zur Schule geht. Da das Spielkonzept also nicht wissen kann, ob die geplanten Paare alle zustande kommen (insgesamt sind es vier), bleiben die anderen Ehen sehr unpersönlich und kalt.
Der Schwierigkeitsgrad zieht im zweiten Teil kräftig an, wenn Kyles Level also zu niedrig ist und er recht wenig Geld hat, hat auch sein Kind einige Schwierigkeiten.

Insgesamt hat mir so etwas die Individualität gefehlt. Das Spiel orientiert sich an seinem Vorgänger und übernimmt sogar einen Charakter daraus, auch andere Charaktere meint man wiederzuerkennen. Es gibt sowohl Fort- als auch Rückschritte, allerdings denke ich, dass bei der durchaus gelungenen Weiterentwicklung des Dungeon-Systems die Charaktere etwas auf der Strecke geblieben sind.

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