In Dark Cloud 2, you play as Maximilian, a tech-minded whiz kid with a knack for creating strange inventions. Max recieved a red pendant from his father, and the pendant appears to be a time-travel device that can go to 100 years to the future.and after defending it from the attacks of a very demented clown, he meets Monica. Monica is a princess from the future on a grave mission. She's come to enlist Max's aid in thwarting an evil tyrant from the past who's erasing the future by meddling with the present. In fact, this great villain has already wiped out pretty much the entire world, except for Max's village. Everyone calls this great villian, Emperor "Griffon". Max and Monica are determined to stop this madness by visiting key points around the world and restoring the land, buildings, and people at those points to make the future what it should be.

The first Dark Cloud introduced the georama system, a world-building gameplay component that let you build and populate villages from the ground up. Dark Cloud 2 brings back and enhances the georama system, and this time it's a pivotal part of the gameplay, since you'll need it to literally rebuild the world. A huge assortment of buildings, small objects, plants, and landscape features are available so you can construct and mold a town to your liking. Georama gives you get a simple overhead interface for doing this, allowing you to move and rotate a piece before dropping it onto the terrain. You can even paint your buildings and add household effects like chimneys and fences.