Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II

Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II[lower-alpha 1] is a role-playing video game developed by Nihon Falcom Corporation, part of the Dragon Slayer series and the second entry in the sub-series The Legend of Heroes. It was first released in 1992 for the NEC PC-8801. Over the next few years, it was also ported to the NEC PC-9801, FM Towns, PC Engine, Mega Drive, Super Famicom and MS-DOS.

For the video game released as "The Legend of Heroes II" in North America, see The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch.
Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II
PC Engine cover art
Developer(s)Falcom
Publisher(s)Hudson Soft, Epoch Co., Sega, GMF, Falcom
SeriesDragon Slayer
The Legend of Heroes
Platform(s)NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, PC Engine CD, FM Towns, Super Famicom, Mega Drive, MS-DOS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn
Release
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Plot

The game is set some time after Prince Selios, the hero of the original game, has defeated the demon god Agunija. Iseruhasa is at peace. Selios has married Dina and she has given birth to Atlas. At the age of fifteen Atlas and his teacher Lowel spot strange beings in spacesuits outside of the capital city. They do not recognize the spacesuits and believe them to be monsters.

Release

The game was ported to different platforms: it was published by Hudson Soft for PC Engine on December 23, 1992;[1] by Epoch Co. for Super Famicom on June 4, 1993;[2] and by Sega for Mega Drive on January 20, 1995.[3] A bundle containing updated versions of both The Legend of Heroes and The Legend of Heroes II was released by GMF for PlayStation on June 25, 1998, and for Sega Saturn on September 23, 1998.[4][5] A Korean conversion of the original PC-9801 version was released for the MS-DOS/IBM PC by Mantra and Samsung in 1996.[6]

Reception
Reception
Review score
PublicationScore
Famitsu23/40 (PCE)[1]
26/40 (SFC)[2]
20/40 (MD)[3]
23/40 (PS)[4]

Notes
  1. Doragon Sureiyā Eiyū Densetsu II (Japanese: ドラゴンスレイヤー 英雄伝説II)

References
  1. https://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=23578
  2. https://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=17365
  3. https://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=939
  4. https://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=18133
  5. https://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=941
  6. "A History of Korean Gaming". HardcoreGaming101. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
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