Chapter 3: BeatingThe Game - Rune Factory 2 Guides
When you are ready to finally beat this game the first thing you have to do is prepare yourself heavily for the difficulty spikes in each of the dungeons. You should make a good weapon and two Accessories then also spend some time farming money to buy food from Yue or make it yourself. Also getting the Cure Spell is a good idea for the longer dungeons. For more information about all of this check the section before this one.
Once you've sufficiently prepared yourself and leveled up the first thing you will want to do is finish collecting all of the Tablet Fragments from each of the dungeons. This will involve fulfilling every Statue request and defeating the above ground boss in each of the dungeons. Every dungeon has an above ground boss and an underground boss which you will fight in the Shrine.
The above ground boss will drop a colored Tablet Fragment and the boss you fight in the Shrine will drop an Ancient Stone Tablet Fragment. You'll need to collect all of these but at the start you should focus exclusively on the colored fragments, they're the easier ones to get.
Below is a list of every statue that you can find in each of the dungeons and the request that you must complete for it.
Trieste Forest - Aegis Falls Statue: Give the statue 3 Pink Turnips.
Green Tablet Fragment
Trieste Forest - River Stream Statue: Give the statue 12 Apples.
Trieste Forest - Great Tree Statue: Defeat 4 Tricky Mushrooms in Trieste Forest - Mushroom Patch; they appear at night.
Trieste Forest - Ruins Statue: Defeat the Terror Tree boss in Trieste Forest.
Blessia Island - South Beach Statue: Give it 6 Pineapples at night time.
Blue Stone Tablet Fragment
Blessia Island - Center Statue: Answer 4 questions correctly. The answers are (A, C, C, A) A - Dance Festival, C - Onion, C - 10pm and the final question is A - Goblin Don.
Blue Stone Tablet Fragment
(South) Blessia Island - Silent Cave Statue: Defeat 3 Death Stalkers at Blessia Island - North Beach. They only appear during the night.
Blessia Island - Dense Overgrowth Statue: Defeat 3 Death Stalkers at Blessia Island - North Beach. They only appear during the night.
Blue Stone Tablet Fragment
(North) Blessia Island - Silent Cave Statue: Till all of the fields at Blessia Island - Southeast Beach.
Blue Stone Tablet Fragment
Blessia Island - Ruined Shrine Statue: Defeat Octopirate, the boss of this dungeon.
Blue Stone Tablet Fragment
Blessia Island - Cliff Top (Ruined Shrine) Statue: Give the statue 6 Moondrop Flowers and 5 Pink Cats.
Blue Stone Tablet Fragment
Messhina Valley - Ruins Statue: Defeat 3 Buffalo at Messhina Valley - Giant Boulder; they are only there during the day. You'll also need to defeat 4 Queen Bee at Messhina Valley - Holy Statue (Night) and 5 Hobgoblins at Messhina Valley - Withered Road (Day).
Red Stone Tablet Fragment
Messhina Valley - Holy Statue: Sow Crops in every field in this area and inspect the statue when they are fully grown.
Red Stone Tablet Fragment
Messhina Valley - Cave Hall: Give 5 Silver and 15 Scrap Iron to the statue
Messhina Valley - Bridge to Shrine: Defeat the Bane Dragon boss. You can summon him by walking across this bridge after you defeat the Trieste Forest and Blessia Island bosses.
Trieste Forest Terror Tree: This is an extremely easy boss fight, just get in the bosses face and spam your attacks to defeat it. Unless you're extremely low level you should have no issue eating all the attacks this boss dishes out at you. As far as attacks go he has a root attack which shoots out of the ground from under you, a regular melee attack and an attack which shoots apples down the screen. He will also turn purple and charge you during the fight as well.
Blessia Island Octopirate: He throws spike balls at you and moves forward while swinging his tentacles. The spear he is holding rarely gets used, when he does use it he'll stab in front of himself in a small radius. For me when he got to half health he started throwing out explosive barrels too, they were easy to dodge once you learn the animation. One thing to note is that you can only damage him by attacking the exposed portion of his body. Attacking his shell will do 0 damage.
When Octopirate gets low on health he will become enraged and will glow red. During this phase he will move faster and he'll use an ink move which makes black splotches appear all over the screen. They don't hit very hard but they will push you away from the boss and keep you away.
Messhina Valley Bane Dragon: Bane Dragon's main attack is going to be running up and down the narrow walkway to damage you. You won't be able to squeeze past him on the bridge while he is rampaging down or up it so your only alternatives are to run away and avoid the attack or eat the damage from the attack and let the boss run through you.
He has a few other attacks too such as a ground pound, an attack that causes Paralysis and two energy ball attacks. One energy ball attack he will use while still on the bridge, this will zig zag down or up from where he used it. The other energy ball attack he uses when he spawns next to the bridge; this one is kind of a frontal cone attack that hits targets in front of him.
This boss can be really challenging if you lack the levels or defense to eat his attacks. If he's giving you trouble I recommend you spend some time leveling up then challenge him again.