is a 1996

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for the

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. It was developed by Copya System, and published by Asmik Corporation.

Story

The game takes place on the moon named "Eltz" that orbits the planet "Raiga". The first game took place on Lennus, another moon of Raiga. The plot centers around a hero, Falus.

Gameplay

Gameplay is fairly similar to the original ''Lennus'' / ''Paladin's Quest'': * The player can swap out mercenary equipment. * There have been some revisions to the magic system. ** There are eight spirits: Fire, Light, Wind, Gold, Earth, Sky, Water and Void, with one spell for each spirit and each pair of spirits, for 36 spells. ** Falus starts the game with three of the eight spirits, and can gain the powers of the other five through sidequests. He can only cast spells from the spirits he currently has equipped, and only has a limited number of slots (starting with only a single slot, with three more slots unlockable through sidequests for a maximum of four, allowing up to 10 of the 36 spells to be available at a time), and can only swap spirits outside of combat. ** Much like in ''Paladin's Quest'', each mercenary has a fixed repertoire of spirits, which are automatically equipped and cannot be swapped out. ** Instead of building up spirit skill ratings by repeatedly casting associated spells, in ''Lennus II'', spirits are powered up by defeating monsters, who yield a sort of spirit-specific experience points in addition to regular

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Development

The game was developed by Copya system, and published by Asmik Corporation. It is a sequel to ''Lennus: Memory of the Ancient Machine''.

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brought the original ''Lennus'' to

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as ''

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''. The game was directed and written by Hidenori Shibao, who also directed the original. The music for the game was made by Kohei Tanaka. Shibao was writing

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s and making 20 million yen per year, but working on ''Lennus II'' he was only making 2 million yen a year. The game took four years to finish, instead of the planned two years. Shibao said: "It was like the entire project was cursed!" Developer Copya System changed its name to "Shangri-La" in 1996.

Release

''Lennus II'' was released on July 28, 1996 for the Super Famicom. A

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version was released on December 1, 1997. According to Shibao the game didn't sell well and he described it as "a huge bomb". For that reasons, plans for ''Lennus III'' were shelved, and the game was never made. The plot for the third game would have focused on the planet Raiga itself, and the construction of the two moons. Enix had closed its American headquarters by this time, and focus shifted to the

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. The game has never been released outside of Japan, but a

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of the game into English was created for it in 2008. Two tracks from the game were recorded by the

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for release on the Orchestral Game Concert compilations.

References

External links

* {{moby game, id=/lennus-ii-fin-no-shito, name=''Lennus II: Fūin no Shito''
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