Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II

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Dragon Slayer:
The Legend of Heroes II
Legend of Heroes II.jpg
PC Engine cover art
Developer(s) Nihon Falcom
Publisher(s) Hudson Soft
Epoch Co.
Sega
GMF
Falcom
Series Dragon 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
March 19, 1992
  • NEC PC-8801
    • JP: March 19, 1992
    NEC PC-9801
    • JP: July 24, 1992
    PC Engine CD
    • JP: December 23, 1992
    FM Towns
    • JP: February, 1993
    Super Famicom
    • JP: June 4, 1993
    Mega Drive
    • JP: January 20, 1995
    PlayStation (I+II bundle)
    • JP: June 25, 1998
    Sega Saturn (I+II bundle)
    • JP: September 23, 1998
Genre(s) Role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

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

Contents

Plot

The game is set 20 years 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 in 1998 for PlayStation on June 25 and for Sega Saturn on September 23. [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

Notes

  1. ↑ Japanese: ドラゴンスレイヤー 英雄伝説II, Hepburn: Doragon Sureiyā Eiyū Densetsu II

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