Dark Cloud 2

Original title: Dark Chronicle

Video Game
2002
T

IMDb RATING

8.2/10

322

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Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Mystery

Max receives a mysterious red stone and learns that the rest of the world has been wiped out by a creature named Griffon who's looking for the stone. With the help of a girl from the future ... Read allMax receives a mysterious red stone and learns that the rest of the world has been wiped out by a creature named Griffon who's looking for the stone. With the help of a girl from the future he sets out to rebuild the world and stop Griffon.Max receives a mysterious red stone and learns that the rest of the world has been wiped out by a creature named Griffon who's looking for the stone. With the help of a girl from the future he sets out to rebuild the world and stop Griffon.

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IMDb RATING

8.2/10

322

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 nomination total

Trivia
John Cygan (Master Utan) and Alan Oppenheimer (Mayor Need) have also later appeared in the Toy Story franchise on separate occasions, Cygan appeared in Toy Story 3 (2010) as Twitch whilst Oppenheimer appeared in Toy Story 4 (2019) as the old timer clock.

Quotes
Max: I was so scared then, but in a way it was really fun. I mean, every boring day had been just the same for me. But this, this was the beginning of a real adventure!

Connections
Featured in The Know's Top 10s: Top 10 PS2 Games (2018)

Soundtracks
Time Is Changing
Lyrics by Michael A. Reagan (as Mike Reagan)
Composition: Tomohito Nishiura
Vocals by Barbara Cohen
(US version only)

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Featured review

10/10

One of the most addicting JRPGs

There's nothing I hate more when people always tell me that the greatest JRPGs are one of those overrated franchises (I won't say which ones) when in fact they've never really played a lost gem like this before. When it comes down to the amount of things you can do in this game, the only word to describe it is, "endless".

It's played in real-time combat, much like hack and slash, where you can battle yourself through randomly generated dungeons and proceed to the next floors. Whenever you defeat enemies you will earn ABS (absorption points), which enables you to level up your weapons instead of your characters.

You also have a city-building aspect to the game, where you will be able to rebuild towns in order to restore the past to its former glory by meeting certain requirement goals for each objective.

I would say that I have spent over 100+ hours into this game and I'm still playing it to this day.

If there are any games you want to play in the JRPG genre you should definitely play this game, it has one of the best, if not the best, replay value in any games that I have ever played. So if you haven't played this game already, please do, and please tell Level-5 to make a sequel to it.