The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch
January 21, 2023
This article is about the third video game in the series, titled "The Legend of Heroes II" in North America. For the second entry in the series, see Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II.
The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch[a] is a 1994 role-playing video game developed by Nihon Falcom. It is the third game in The Legend of Heroes series, and the first in the "Gagharv" trilogy, but was retitled to include a "two" in the title for its North American release. Originally released for the NEC PC-9801 in 1994, it was later re-released on several other platforms, including the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and Windows, before being released on the PlayStation Portable in 2006, the only version to be translated into English.
The Legend of Heroes II:Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch
A Korean conversion of the original PC-9801 version was released for the MS-DOS/IBM PC by Mantra and Samsung in 1997.[1]
There is some continuity confusion with the series because the fourth game in the series, The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion, was released before this game in North America, without any sort of number attached to its title. This resulted in the inconsistent re-titling of The Legend of Heroes III to The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch in North America.
The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch has an aggregate score of 65% on GameRankings.[2] Critical reception to the game has been mixed. Anoop Gantayat of IGN gave the game a generally positive preview, writing that it managed to avoid the pitfalls of many other "role-playing launch titles", praising the sharp graphics and fully developed world, and stating the game was "a good time overall".[4] However, a later IGN review by Jeff Haynes was far less enthusiastic criticizing the game's plot for being "...extremely generic and bland..." and the battle system for being "flawed with some over balancing issues".[5]Greg Kasavin of GameSpot was more forgiving, saying that "it doesn't noticeably improve on any aspect of its predecessor, including the story, characters, or quality of the text translation. But while some games have accomplished much, much more on these fronts, other games have done a lot worse".[6]GamePro praised its "fairly long quest, memorable characters, and the addictive Pet System" but stating that the game is slow-paced in the first three or four hours.[3]RPGFan said it was a generally good game that was greatly hampered by a poor English translation.[7]
Notes
^Japanese: 英雄伝説III 白き魔女, Hepburn: Eiyū Densetsu III: Shiroki Majo, lit. "The Legend of Heroes III: White Witch"
References
^"A History of Korean Gaming". HardcoreGaming101. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
^ ab. GameRankings. Archived from the original on 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
^ ab"The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch for PSP Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
legend, heroes, prophecy, moonlight, witch, this, article, about, third, video, game, series, titled, legend, heroes, north, america, second, entry, series, dragon, slayer, legend, heroes, 1994, role, playing, video, game, developed, nihon, falcom, third, game. This article is about the third video game in the series titled The Legend of Heroes II in North America For the second entry in the series see Dragon Slayer The Legend of Heroes II The Legend of Heroes II Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch a is a 1994 role playing video game developed by Nihon Falcom It is the third game in The Legend of Heroes series and the first in the Gagharv trilogy but was retitled to include a two in the title for its North American release Originally released for the NEC PC 9801 in 1994 it was later re released on several other platforms including the Sega Saturn PlayStation and Windows before being released on the PlayStation Portable in 2006 the only version to be translated into English The Legend of Heroes II Prophecy of the Moonlight WitchDeveloper s Nihon FalcomPublisher s Namco Bandai GamesWriter s Tadashi HayakawaSeriesThe Legend of HeroesPlatform s NEC PC 9801Sega SaturnPlayStationWindowsPlayStation PortableReleaseMarch 18 1994 NEC PC 9801JP March 18 1994Sega SaturnJP February 26 1998PlayStationJP March 19 1998WindowsJP April 23 1999PlayStation PortableJP December 16 2004NA June 20 2006Genre s Role playingMode s Single player Contents 1 Release 2 Reception 3 Notes 4 References 5 External linksRelease EditA Korean conversion of the original PC 9801 version was released for the MS DOS IBM PC by Mantra and Samsung in 1997 1 There is some continuity confusion with the series because the fourth game in the series The Legend of Heroes A Tear of Vermillion was released before this game in North America without any sort of number attached to its title This resulted in the inconsistent re titling of The Legend of Heroes III to The Legend of Heroes II Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch in North America Reception EditReceptionAggregate scoresAggregatorScoreGameRankingsPSP 65 2 MetacriticPSP 63 100 3 The Legend of Heroes II Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch has an aggregate score of 65 on GameRankings 2 Critical reception to the game has been mixed Anoop Gantayat of IGN gave the game a generally positive preview writing that it managed to avoid the pitfalls of many other role playing launch titles praising the sharp graphics and fully developed world and stating the game was a good time overall 4 However a later IGN review by Jeff Haynes was far less enthusiastic criticizing the game s plot for being extremely generic and bland and the battle system for being flawed with some over balancing issues 5 Greg Kasavin of GameSpot was more forgiving saying that it doesn t noticeably improve on any aspect of its predecessor including the story characters or quality of the text translation But while some games have accomplished much much more on these fronts other games have done a lot worse 6 GamePro praised its fairly long quest memorable characters and the addictive Pet System but stating that the game is slow paced in the first three or four hours 3 RPGFan said it was a generally good game that was greatly hampered by a poor English translation 7 Notes Edit Japanese 英雄伝説III 白き魔女 Hepburn Eiyu Densetsu III Shiroki Majo lit The Legend of Heroes III White Witch References Edit A History of Korean Gaming HardcoreGaming101 Retrieved 10 October 2017 a b The Legend of Heroes II Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch for PSP GameRankings Archived from the original on 2019 12 09 Retrieved 2021 02 13 a b The Legend of Heroes II Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch for PSP Reviews Metacritic Retrieved 2021 02 13 Gantayat Anoop 2004 12 20 Gagharv Trilogy Playtest IGN Retrieved 2016 02 06 Jeff Haynes 20 Jun 2006 2006 06 20 Legend of Heroes II Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch IGN Page 2 IGN Retrieved 2016 02 06 Kasavin Greg The Legend of Heroes II Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch Review GameSpot Archived from the original on October 2 2013 Retrieved February 19 2016 RPGFan Reviews The Legend of Heroes II Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch Rpgfan com 5 May 2007 Retrieved 2016 02 06 External links EditOfficial website in Japanese MobyGames com Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Legend of Heroes II Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch amp oldid 1133589058, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
