The Legendary Axe II

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TurboGrafx-16 PC Engine
The Legendary Axe II
System(s): PC Engine, TurboGrafx-16
Publisher: Victor Musical Industries NEC Technologies
Developer: Red, Atlus
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1990-09-07 ¥6,2006,200 JC63007 US 1990-10

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The Legendary Axe II, known as Ankoku Densetsu (暗黒伝説) in Japan, is a platform action game developed by Red and Atlus for the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16, and the sequel to The Legendary Axe.

Gameplay

Items

	Star
	Extends the player's life gauge by one.
	Half Moon
	Refills one unit of the life gauge.
	Medallion
	Fully refills the life gauge.
	1 UP
	Awards an extra life.
	7 UP
	Awards seven extra lives.
	Royal Sword
	The player's starting weapon, for general combat.
	Sickle and Chain
	A weapon with a long reach.
	Axe
	A short-ranged weapon with high attack power.
	Magic Bomb
	Adds one to the player's stock of bombs.

Stages

	The Mountain Entrance
	The Water Caverns
	The Underground Temple
	Skull Dungeon
	Crypts of Slime
	The Cliffs of Chaos
	The Royal Palace

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	The Legendary Axe II	The Legendary Axe II
Japanese	暗黒伝説	Ankoku Densetsu

Comparisons

Main article: The Legendary Axe II/Comparisons.

Production credits

• Game Design: Kyon Kyon
• Program: Tsurumoku
• Dot Translation: Jyuroh Tsuji
• Music compose: Hiro. T. Suzuki
• Monster Design: Raoh Ohashi, Mika Akitaka
• Title Design: Kintaroh Chogoh, Yan Sakoguchi, Boku Kubo, Yoshifumi Ikeda
• Item Design: Kobuta Aoki, Hikari Mitomi
• Manual Design: Page 1
• Illustration: M. Iwasaki
• Test Player: Annen Nauto, Hidemitsu Fujita, Champ Kato, Koutei Arai, Tom Yukawa, Tora. Miyazaki
• Special Thanks: Hideyuki Yokoyama, Macco, Hajime Kusano, Takeshi Jesus Moriguchi, Kappa Yuzawa, Akemi Kobayashi
• Executive Producer: Satoshi Honda
• Producer: Harunobu Komori
• Controlled By: Masaru Yoshioka
• Presented by: Victor Musical Industries, Inc.

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Source:

In-game credits (JP)

Magazine articles

Main article: The Legendary Axe II/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

NEC Retro Average
Publication Score Source Computer & Video Games 91 №109, p136-137 Raze 68 №2, p35

	80
Based on 2 reviews

PC Engine version

PC Engine, JP
Cover
Card File:TheLegendaryAxeII PCE HuCard JP Manual.pdf Manual

TurboGrafx-16 version

TurboGrafx-16, US
File:LegendaryAxeII TG16 US Manual.pdf Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 cacc06fb MD5 cc264acf289ab120f52457d5311d7aec SHA-1 b6ae249f0a4954df6e53c21ba81646ecbc7c2945	256kB		Card (JP)
?	CRC32 220ebf91 MD5 fbcbb34f678f6f70795bde96d295bc2f SHA-1 3d537fbd2a7181639d297b829ce3f7d7556e831b	256kB		Card (US)

References

The Legendary Axe series of games
The Legendary Axe (1988) | The Legendary Axe II (1990)