--- product_id: 1929737 title: "Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Nintendo DS" brand: "natsume" price: "€ 195.30" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Natsume" url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/1929737-rune-factory-2-a-fantasy-harvest-moon-nintendo-ds store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Multigenerational gameplay Monster friendships Skill upgrades Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Nintendo DS **Brand:** natsume **Price:** € 195.30 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > 🌈 Dive into a world where farming meets fantasy! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Nintendo DS by natsume - **How much does it cost?** € 195.30 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/1929737-rune-factory-2-a-fantasy-harvest-moon-nintendo-ds) ## Best For - natsume enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted natsume brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **🌾 Farm Your Fantasy:** Immerse yourself in a vibrant world where farming meets adventure and magic! - β€’ **βš’οΈ Craft and Conquer:** Upgrade your skills to forge powerful weapons and tools that elevate your gameplay! - β€’ **🌐 Connect and Compete:** Unlock exciting new gameplay modes through Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for endless fun! - β€’ **🌟 Play Across Generations:** Experience a captivating multigenerational storyline where you can play as your child! - β€’ **🀝 Befriend Unique Monsters:** Cultivate friendships with whimsical monsters to enhance your farming experience! ## Overview Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon for Nintendo DS offers a unique blend of farming simulation and RPG elements, featuring a multigenerational storyline, monster friendships, and skill upgrades, all enhanced by Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for a truly engaging experience. ## 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. Review: Even more satisfying the original Rune Factory - Typically, where novels or films are concerned, a sequel seldom attains the quality of the original. Where games produced by Natsume are concerned, the reverse often is true. This certainly is the case with respect to Rune Factory 2, one of the greatest games of all time, in my view. Rune Factory 2 spans two Generations. In the first, your character is male but in the second Generation, you play as your first character's child, giving you the option to play either as a girl or as a boy. The plot in the 1st Generation is devoted mainly to basic survival and a wealth of courtship opportunities. In fact, the main purpose of your character in the 1st Generation is to choose a wife and have a child. Most Events occur in the course of performing 'Requests' for characters. These are 'Quests' of various kinds that appear on the community bulletin board and offer romance, humour, danger as well as chances to discover more about the other characters in Alvarna. Although you can defeat or tame Monsters in the 1st Generation, it is only in the 2nd Generation that the real 'action plot' unfolds and every area on the map is unlocked. Cooking, forging weapons and accessories and creating other items becomes possible only in the 2nd Generation when your child attends the School built by the father. Do not underestimate the enjoyment of the 1st Generation of the game by mistakenly perceiving it as nothing more than a conduit through which the 2nd Generation game becomes available. The 1st Generation game resembles a traditional Harvest Moon game in many ways, offering opportunities to farm, ranch, fish, mine and court an eligible girl. If there were no 2nd Generation component, Rune Factory 2 in the 1st Generation would be a wonderful game. The fact that it offers two games in one makes it utterly incredible. Characterisations in Rune Factory 2 are even more detailed than those in the original game and the combination of humour, romance and adventure is irresistable. The graphics and music in both Rune Factory and its successor are breathtakingly exquisite. Added touches in the form of showers of cherry blossoms in Spring, the twinkle of fireflies in Summer and colourful falling leaves in Autumn make the landscape truly magical. A player could be content to live in this world for many years! Finally, Rune Factory 2, like its predecessor, stands as an eloquent testament to the fundamental philosophy of Harvest Moon. The message of these games is to learn to appreciate all forms of life, to work with society and the land in creating a partnership that is beneficial to all. Selfishness and greed result in missed opportunities. It is only when your character interacts with every individual in a positive fashion, exercising patience, understanding and compassion, that you will gain the ultimate rewards and in doing so, create a better world for every one. Review: Good but Flawed - 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. ## Features - 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! ## Images ![Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Nintendo DS - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81chURGjsoL.jpg) ![Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Nintendo DS - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31Ba7dIpXuL.jpg) ![Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Nintendo DS - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Yw80J1DFL.jpg) ![Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Nintendo DS - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31ha3UwzrVL.jpg) ![Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Nintendo DS - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31VYO3sympL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Even more satisfying the original Rune Factory *by F***K on February 12, 2009* Typically, where novels or films are concerned, a sequel seldom attains the quality of the original. Where games produced by Natsume are concerned, the reverse often is true. This certainly is the case with respect to Rune Factory 2, one of the greatest games of all time, in my view. Rune Factory 2 spans two Generations. In the first, your character is male but in the second Generation, you play as your first character's child, giving you the option to play either as a girl or as a boy. The plot in the 1st Generation is devoted mainly to basic survival and a wealth of courtship opportunities. In fact, the main purpose of your character in the 1st Generation is to choose a wife and have a child. Most Events occur in the course of performing 'Requests' for characters. These are 'Quests' of various kinds that appear on the community bulletin board and offer romance, humour, danger as well as chances to discover more about the other characters in Alvarna. Although you can defeat or tame Monsters in the 1st Generation, it is only in the 2nd Generation that the real 'action plot' unfolds and every area on the map is unlocked. Cooking, forging weapons and accessories and creating other items becomes possible only in the 2nd Generation when your child attends the School built by the father. Do not underestimate the enjoyment of the 1st Generation of the game by mistakenly perceiving it as nothing more than a conduit through which the 2nd Generation game becomes available. The 1st Generation game resembles a traditional Harvest Moon game in many ways, offering opportunities to farm, ranch, fish, mine and court an eligible girl. If there were no 2nd Generation component, Rune Factory 2 in the 1st Generation would be a wonderful game. The fact that it offers two games in one makes it utterly incredible. Characterisations in Rune Factory 2 are even more detailed than those in the original game and the combination of humour, romance and adventure is irresistable. The graphics and music in both Rune Factory and its successor are breathtakingly exquisite. Added touches in the form of showers of cherry blossoms in Spring, the twinkle of fireflies in Summer and colourful falling leaves in Autumn make the landscape truly magical. A player could be content to live in this world for many years! Finally, Rune Factory 2, like its predecessor, stands as an eloquent testament to the fundamental philosophy of Harvest Moon. The message of these games is to learn to appreciate all forms of life, to work with society and the land in creating a partnership that is beneficial to all. Selfishness and greed result in missed opportunities. It is only when your character interacts with every individual in a positive fashion, exercising patience, understanding and compassion, that you will gain the ultimate rewards and in doing so, create a better world for every one. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good but Flawed *by F***N on September 24, 2018* 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Game - Simple as that *by R***S on January 12, 2009* First off I must say I bought the first Rune Factory and I loved that game. The only issues I had with that was that it was too short but seriously it took me a good 40 hours to still beat it and it didn't even force me to actual marry someone (I just like beating games and not really doing side quests). Which was all well and good for me, because it was very satisfying game. This game is a lot more fun (still playing in fact). First you start of as a boy that needs to marry someone to get to the "real" game. At first I was in a hurry to marry someone so I can have a kid and be that kid. Let me tell you guys, being the first generation is okay, all you experience don't go away it gets transferred to your child. So my communication level was pretty high before I switched over to the point where my animals were hearting me at one a day and that still happened when I transferred to my kid which was a big help! Also if I knew this before - your plants that are in dungeons don't go away, this would have been super helpful to me because the dungeons get a million times harder as the second gen and so having those mana there from crops would have helped a ton! I guess my point is - do not rush through the first gen like me. I'm sort of an impatient person and at first I just wanted to marry one girl so I can move on to what I thought was the "real" game and didn't take full advantage of all the things I could do as the first gen which is the only thing I regret. Though I still had a lot of fun as the sec gen, the dungeons are way harder than the first one. Another interesting thing is things are super more expensive than the first one so it does cause you to "save your pennies" and really think about what you want to buy and if you really need it right now which I thought was a wonderful add on, you're just not all willy nilly with buying things like a lot of other games are. I think this is a wonderful idea to enforce good spending habits on the younger gamers that play this. This game is super fun. For anyone that likes Harvest Moon with a little bit of an RPG spin. As a warning it gets pretty addicting, sometimes I think I'll only play for an hour and 3 hours have gone by, usually I'm pretty good at keeping my gaming time. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/1929737-rune-factory-2-a-fantasy-harvest-moon-nintendo-ds](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/1929737-rune-factory-2-a-fantasy-harvest-moon-nintendo-ds) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-07-11*