Cosmic Fantasy 2

[GohanX]

The encounter rate in the game is pretty brutal, but it masks the fact that the game is very short for an RPG. Stick with it, you'll get through the game in no time.

[spenoza]

Cosmic Fantasy 2 is quite a conflicting game. The characters are decently interesting, the story is pretty good, and I love the big twist. On the other hand, as an RPG, the game is pretty poor. Poison doesn't work, damage isn't random at all, and there's really not much strategy or choice in the battles. The actual gameplay portions of the game are just so... weak. And yet I enjoyed playing the game when I was younger and felt it was all worth it. I'm not sure I'd make the same judgment call now.

[SignOfZeta]

I absolutely loved the game back in the day. At the same time, I'd have to say it has some of the poorest combat in the history of JRPGs.

[nodtveidt]

I tend to overlook the game's shortcomings because it's a 64K game... but at the same time, I get the feeling that the game was never completely finished. Obviously status effects were intended but never coded in, many items serve absolutely no purpose (Ball Of Lito, Royal Sword, etc), and there are just too many characters that are templated off of other characters. Also, the US manual depicts playable characters that never seem to actually show up in the game, but one of them shows up as an NPC in the secret town. Savegame hacking can create a whole mess of new characters for your party. My favorite is when you can play as a chicken.

[Duo_R]

Savegame hacking? How???

[nodtveidt]

I released an early build of a CF2 savegame editor on the Frozen Utopia site some years ago.

http://www.frozenutopia.com/downloads.html

Not all the features I wanted in it are implemented, but you can edit any one of the 338 bytes of the game's savefile. It works on emulators, or on the real thing if you have a flash cart.