With all of the big games that have come out lately, it's hard to keep up.

It's now been a couple of months since Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. released an English version of "Dark Cloud 2," a role-playing game for PlayStation2, but this is a game that deserves coverage.

In "Dark Cloud 2," players assume the role of Max, a young man who must save his planet's present and future from monsters through the use of a time-traveling pendant.