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Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon

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…

75 3 January 2008 ESRB E

Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Neverland, released 3 January 2008 on Nintendo DS.

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What Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is

Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Neverland and released in 2008. It was published by Natsume Inc.. It is available on Nintendo DS only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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 player to uncover the source of these premonitions and bring peace to the kingdom once more. In a first for the Rune Factory series, the story of Rune Factory 2 is multigenerational. Players begin the game as Kyle, a strange man who comes to Alvarna Village. Eventually, players will take on the role of Kyle's child, opening up a whole new adventure.
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Where it sits in the Harvest Moon series

Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is the 27th of 60 entries we hold in the Harvest Moon series. The next entry was Harvest Moon DS: Sunshine Islands in 2008. Its critic score of 75 is 9 points above the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life at 85.

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How it was received

Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon launched on 3 January 2008, within three weeks of Burnout Paradise, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV and Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Burnout Paradise, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.

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When did Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon come out?
Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon was released on 3 January 2008 for Nintendo DS.

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