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{{stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', 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]].
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{{stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', 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]]''.
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The Legendary Axe II
System(s): PC Engine, TurboGrafx-16
Publisher:
PC Engine
Victor Musical Industries
TurboGrafx-16
NEC Technologies
Developer:
Genre: Action































Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
PC Engine
JP 		¥6,2006,200 JC63007
TurboGrafx-16
US

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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.

Story

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

Notavailable.svg

The Mountain Entrance

Notavailable.svg

The Water Caverns

Notavailable.svg

The Underground Temple

Notavailable.svg

Skull Dungeon

Notavailable.svg

Crypts of Slime

Notavailable.svg

The Cliffs of Chaos

Notavailable.svg

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.
The End
Source:
In-game credits (JP)

Magazine articles

Main article: The Legendary Axe II/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

NEC Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
91 №109, p136-137[2]
68 №2, p35[3]
PC Engine
 80
Based on
2 reviews

PC Engine version

PC Engine, JP
AnkokuDensetu PCE JP Boxback.jpgNospine-small.pngAnkokuDensetu PCE JP Boxfront.jpg
Cover

TurboGrafx-16 version

TurboGrafx-16, US

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
PC Engine
 ?
CRC32 cacc06fb
MD5 cc264acf289ab120f52457d5311d7aec
SHA-1 b6ae249f0a4954df6e53c21ba81646ecbc7c2945
256kB Card (JP)
TurboGrafx-16
 ?
CRC32 220ebf91
MD5 fbcbb34f678f6f70795bde96d295bc2f
SHA-1 3d537fbd2a7181639d297b829ce3f7d7556e831b
256kB Card (US)

References

  1. ↑ EGM US 015.pdf, page 82
  2. ↑ CVG UK 109.pdf, page 136
  3. ↑ Raze UK 02.pdf, page 35


The Legendary Axe II

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