Sixteen years before the game's story begins, monsters called Beast Fiends start to appear, destroying everything in their way.

At the time of the game setting, new Beast Fiends have been appearing, and the government overextends its forces trying to protect the entire kingdom.

The story starts when the kingdom has just successfully completed the research project, and devised a tool known as the "Runic Engine".

Roland, a knight in training, is accidentally imbued with this new power, and fights the Beast Fiends, Master Mattias and the Shadow Frost Witch.

[1] As with the previous game, famed sound designer Yasunori Mitsuda and his studio handled all the audio mixing and mastering.

Instead, composers Yoko Shimomura, Akari Kaida, Yoshino Aoki, and Shunsuke Tsuchiya wrote the soundtrack, while Mitsuda acted as sound producer.