newtmonkey
Arcane
This is sort of seen as the "premier" PC Engine series of RPGs, alongside Tengai Makyo. The games are very typical 16-bit console RPGs, but I guess the appeal is the anime characters and situations. The games are often called "character games" by Japanese players, which means a game you play for the characters and situations, rather than because the game itself is any good.
The series consists of four core games:
The series consists of four core games:
- Cosmic Fantasy: Boken Shonen Yuu (1990)
- Cosmic Fantasy 2: Boken Shonen Van (1991)
- Cosmic Fantasy 3: Boken Shonen Ray (1992)
- Cosmic Fantasy 4: Ginga Shonen Densetsu (1994) (split into two games):
- Cosmic Fantasy 4: Densetsu he no Prelude
- Cosmic Fantasy 4: Hikari no Umi no Naka de
- Cosmic Fantasy Visual Shu (1992) - A collection of cinema scenes from the first two games.
- Cosmic Fantasy Stories (1992) - A remake of the first two games, released on the Mega Drive CD.
- Cosmic Fantasy Collection (2022) - A Nintendo Switch collection of the first two PCE games.
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