Cosmic Fantasy 2

Cosmic Fantasy 2, known in Japan as Cosmic Fantasy 2: Bouken Shounen Ban (コズミック・ファンタジー2 冒険少年バン) is a role-playing video game developed and published by Nippon Telenet in Japan, and localized and published by Working Designs in North America, for the TurboGrafx-CD (PC Engine CD-ROM²) video game console. It is the second game in the Cosmic Fantasy series and the only one released outside Japan.

Gameplay

The gameplay is dungeon crawling typical of its era, with an overhead viewpoint and turn-based battles. The one distinguishing feature is in the predictability of the battles: all of the enemies, even the bosses, are unable to use spells, items, or special moves of any sort, and are restricted to performing a normal attack each turn. Furthermore, neither enemies nor player characters can miss with attacks, and there are no critical hits aside from certain weapons which unleash spell attacks on random turns. This leaves the enemies' choice of target for each of their attacks as the one element of uncertainty in battles.

Reception

Cosmic Fantasy 2 was awarded Best RPG Game of the Year for 1992 by Electronic Gaming Monthly. They stated that, with "dozens of detailed cinemas, an original plot, a huge world to traverse" and a challenging quest, "this CD literally blows away all of the other RPGs to date!"^[5]

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