
While they are not controlled directly, they offer items and abilities.

Townsfolk can be brought to assist in dungeons as well. Monica has the ability to transform into monsters, obtaining their special attack and the use of communicating with the same breed. Ridepod can be upgraded by customizing different body parts from shops or inventing your own. Max, as an inventor, brings his robot called Ridepod, a slow but formidable fire and defensive power. New gameplay features that are introduced into the franchise are the ability to change or transform into a secondary character that can be used in dungeons. When all abilities have been met, players can build up their weapon, increasing its effectiveness while also altering its appearance.Īs the story unfolds, Max and Monica gain more powerful weapons and abilities to aid them on their quest. Weapon abilities include Attack, Flame, Lightning, Smash, Beast, Durable, Chill, Exorcism, Cyclone, and Scale. These are then used to merge with synth spheres to gain extra abilities. The player collects ABS points to level up their weapon improving their attack power and synthesis points. This is not the case in the sequel, and now the player only loses experience. The difference between the first game is that if the player's weapon broke it was gone forever. The majority of the game is set in the past, where the player will have to meet certain conditions in order to restore the future to what it once was. Just like its predecessor Dark Cloud, the game is a randomly-generated dungeon crawler with town building and weapon synthesis mechanics.


Dark Cloud 2, also known as Dark Chronicle, was developed by Level-5 and published by Sony.
