Often time, these are just fetch-quests, but they’re a good means of making money and acquiring items. Completing this quest could result in you receiving money, seeds, food, a new tool or 100 pieces of wood.

Every new level of friendship with a townsperson means a new errand or quest on the bulletin board from them. It actually motivated me to make friends with all the villagers, instead of just the girl I wanted Kyle to marry. The message board is a wonderful new innovation. Don’t worry about making accessories, forging weapons, cooking or making medicine – you don’t get into any of that until generation 2. Instead, your time is better spent talking with the people in town, giving gifts, tending your farm, raising monsters and taking message board requests. The difficulty level on all four dungeon areas is one star, so level grinding isn’t really an option after you reach level 10 or so. The focus of the first generation of Rune Factory 2 is socialization and farming. After meeting the item shop owner Douglas and his daughter Mana, the main hero, we’ll call him Kyle, decides to settle in Alvarna and work the abandoned farm there. (Surprise surprise.) He happens upon the town of Alvarna during the cherry blossom season, and finds the town peaceful and charming. He doesn’t know what it is, or why he’s traveling, because he has amnesia.

Rune Factory 2 begins with a nameless young man on a quest for, well, something. The focus of the first generation of the game, where you play as a young man with amnesia who decides to settle in the town of Alvarna, has a different feel and sense of purpose than the second generation, where you play as the son or daughter of the young man. In a way, Rune Factory 2 is like having two games in one.

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