Castle Fantasia 2 Renewal

Castle Fantasia 2 Renewal (Castle Fantasia 2: Seima Taisen Renewal) is a strategy game/H-Game fusion released by Studio e. Go on December 22, 2000, as an Updated Rerelease to the original Castle Fantasia 2. It was given a Fan Translation by BT Axis.

The original version had its sprites redrawn in high res, all characters were given full voice overs, and the music was resampled to CD audio quality.

That said, the story is as follows: You are Hewie, a general in the Injellan army, and your country is run by a theocratic regime that has declared war on the nation of Rusheria, and though Hewie follows his orders (mostly) loyally, he begins to question not only the purpose of the war, but whether it's actually true the enemy is, as his superiors keep saying, Exclusively Evil.

It's a fairly hard tactical RPG, but it also is an Eroge, which means that if you play your cards right, you can wind up in a romantic relationship with one of the women in the game, though it's far more concentrated on the strategy gameplay and character development by far.

The character list is now on its own page.


 * A Father to His Men (General Targistan, despite his hardassed demeanor, is really this, especially to Somia, who he promised to watch over
 * Exclusively Evil: What the the Injellan high command keeps calling the other side.
 * Animated Adaptation: It's 3 episodes long and covers a good deal of the game's story. However, Tia is not present for some reason. It hasn't been translated yet.
 * Badass, the entirety of the 7th Holy Corps.
 * Badass Normal: Hewie, Tia, Aria, Renoir are physical attack based, and can actually kick more ass than the magic users.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Hewie purposely dumbs down his intelligence to look lazy, but he's actually a remarkably cunning strategist.
 * Blade on a Stick: Tia, Ciruela, any enemy that uses a spear or lance.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: The 7th Holy Corps in general.
 * Even Evil Has Standards:
 * Honor Before Reason: Subverted. being honorable would be reasonable in this game, but try telling the antagonists, that.
 * Idiot Ball: The Injellan army occasionally plays dodgeball with this.
 * Naked First Impression: Hewie and Renoir, partially played straight. This is subverted with Aria, who you can accidentally see naked after meeting her.
 * Nintendo Hard: After a point, it actually gets easier, but the beginning of the game will punish you for tactical stupidity, and idiocy will get your team killed later.
 * Plotline Death
 * Porn with Plot: Very heavy on plot, with the very few porn scenes brief, mild, and tasteful, albeit unskippable.
 * Sergeant Rock: General Targisten can be a real prick, but he is actually a competent soldier who unfortunately is so loyal he willingly follows some pretty stupid orders and has a blind spot to dropping the hammer on disobedience, mostly due to almost crippling A Father to His Men tendencies.
 * Shout-Out: to Mobile Suit Gundam's meme of red things going three times faster at one point.
 * Subordinate Excuse: Hoo boy, this is played totally straight for not only your hero (in all but two cases, depending on your choices), but for Ducis as well, though to be fair his was kinda unavoidable.
 * We Have Reserves: Injella, at first, to Hewie's consternation
 * Villain Ball: Injella actually grabs this more than the obstensible villians at times.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: The cast has pretty technicolor hairstyles.
 * Hewie = Dark blue
 * Aria = Purple/pink
 * Cecile = Red
 * Renoir = Green
 * Somia = Silver/white/grey