It doesn't change your child's status, abilities … heck, it doesn't even change the hair color. The game pushes you heavily toward Mana, but your choice of marriage has no influence at all on your second generation protagonist.

Your goal is to get married, but this doesn't matter at all either. There are fewer things to do in this first generation than there are in the original SNES Harvest Moon, and that is just depressing to veterans who find the lengthy 'tutorial generation' a waste of time. The end result is that Rune Factory 2's first-generation character can't do anything except plant and farm, talk to people and capture monsters. There are no real dungeons, and the dungeons that you can explore are all limited to the first three screens without any bosses and weakened enemies. You can't cook, you can't forge weapons, and you can't learn new magic or abilities. Almost all of the gameplay features are sealed during the first generation. This is a pretty neat idea, except it has one fatal flaw: The first generation is a complete waste of your time.

Once your character gets married, has a child and builds a schoolhouse, the game will instantly advance seven years, and you'll take over gameplay as your character's son or daughter. Rune Factory 2 switches up things from the original Rune Factory with the introduction of a new plot mechanic. Unfortunately for Kyle, his forgotten past is going to come back to haunt him … and his children. Before long, Kyle has proven himself an adept farmer and sets out to run a successful farm and begin his life anew. Before he can so much as object, Mana discovers his amnesia and promptly gives him an abandoned farm located on the outskirts of town - although not before charging him his last few gold for the farming tools necessary to run the place. While wandering, he finds his way into the small town of Alvarna and is promptly waylaid by a seemingly friendly young lass named Mana. Rune Factory 2 puts you in control of Kyle, an amnesic young man from an unknown land. Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is the sequel to the first game, and while it doesn't change much, it brings more of the same fun gameplay that Harvest Moon fans have come to expect. It seemed like an odd combination, but the end result was extremely solid. The biggest change of all, however, came from Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon, which changed the formula by combining Harvest Moon's traditional farming gameplay with the sword-and-magic action RPG inspired by games like Zelda. Some are focused on interpersonal relationships, some on farming, some on marriage, and some on collecting items. Natsume's Harvest Moon games, for all their similarities, tend to do a lot of things differently.

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