Epic Battle Fantasy 2

Epic Battle Fantasy 2 is the second game in the Epic Battle Fantasy series. Much like the first game, it's a simplistic linear RPG where you fight through many waves of enemies in a consecutive order, but it does introduce a few slightly more sophisticated mechanics.

Controls[]

Mouse: Interact with game menus

Plot[]

In the previous game, heroic duo Matt and Natalie saved the world from being destroyed by Zombie Goku, only to get caught in the nuclear explosion from his body that went off after they killed him. The earth itself hasn't been in much better shape since Zombie Goku's death; the undead menace's explosion had released seismic tremors and gamma waves that tore the planet apart. Now, years later, the earth's atmosphere is full of radioactive gasses, and creatures everywhere are being mutated into dangerous monsters from the extreme radiation. With all the chaos going on, the world's remaining survivors are struggling to figure out how to rebuild society. The disarray provides the perfect opportunity for an ambitious militaristic genius named Lance to step in and conquer the world. After raising an army of monsters and robots, Lance begins his conquest for world domination and is met with little resistance, at least for the time being...

Meanwhile, in the Kitten Kingdom, Matt and Natalie - previously presumed dead - have been recuperating under the care of the cats living there. After making a full recovery, the pair hears about Lance decides to leave the Kitten Kingdom to stop him, which for some reason causes them to be attacked by the Kitten Kingdom's soldiers. After forcing their way out of the kingdom, Matt and Natalie pass through a small forest full of bees and wind up in a weapon factory where they encounter one of Lance's most powerful robots, the Guardian. After taking it down, Matt and Natalie are visited by one of their former rivals from a long time ago, who offers to sell them items to help them on their journey. Meanwhile, Matt and Natalie's cat friend NoLegs is assaulted by the undead skeletons of cats from the Kitten Kingdom that he was forced to betray and kill in order to be able to help Matt and Natalie on their quest to defeat Lance.

Matt and Natalie leave the factory and arrive at a frozen beach inhabited by giant turtles and jellyfish. Eventually, they run into a Giga Golem made of frozen and molten rocks that has powerful magic. Despite the onslaught of fire and ice magic it hurls at them, the pair manages to destroy the Giga Golem and move on, landing them in a desert filled with more giant turtles along with some other monsters they encountered earlier. They also get attacked by the tail of a ferocious Sandworm along the way. Soon after, the heroes find the Sandworm itself and slay it. Weary from their travels, they decide to eat the Sandworm, only to discover that Sandworm meat is toxic and die. Luckily, though, an angel decides to come and resurrect them. Seeing that their morale is still low since treking through the desert wasn't much fun, the angel offers to sell Matt and Natalie some items to aid them; meanwhile, NoLegs is ambushed by another wave of skeleton cats.

Now in the final stretch of their journey, Matt and Natalie enter a haunted forest full of evil spirits and come face-to-face with a gigantic, two-headed Zombie Hydra. Although the battle is grueling, the heroes defeat the Zombie Hydra and finally reach Lance's fortress. After busting up some of his robots, the heroes confront Lance and defeat him by destroying his ultimate weapon, the Valkyrie tank. After his defeat, Lance realizes the error of his ways and becomes friends with Matt and Natalie.

Gameplay[]

Similar to the first Epic Battle Fantasy, Epic Battle Fantasy 2 is a marathon of enemy waves that have to be defeated one after another, but this time around there are some new features. Chief among these features is the save feature - at certain points in the game, you're able to save your progress so you don't have to beat the entire game in one sitting like with EBF1. You also get to give Matt and Natalie upgrades after completing each of the game's worlds. After reaching a checkpoint in the game, you get to play a minigame in which you play as NoLegs and have to kill skeleton cats in order to obtain as much gold as possible. Afterwards, you're taken to a shop where you can use the gold to buy items to help you during battle.

Aside from these new features, EBF2's gameplay is largely the same as in EBF1; your party and the enemy team take turns using abilities to attack opponents or defend themselves. Your team consists of Matt the swordsman and Natalie the mage; they each have their own unique abilities. Matt is the damage-dealing warrior of the pair, and has a variety of heavy-hitting physical and magic attacks as well as a few support skills that can debuff enemies or help him and Natalie. He's also able to switch between a number of different swords, each one having different elemental properties and stat bonuses. Natalie is the support unit, able to sustain herself and Matt with many protective skills, but she also has some very powerful magic attacks. She can also summon various creatures to help the duo, including a Scan Bot which collects data on new enemies and adds it to a Bestiary so you can learn more about the enemies you scanned.

EBF2 brings two new mechanics to the combat system; the first is elements - different attacks from both the heroes and the enemies now deal different types of elemental damage; as such, enemies in this game have elemental weaknesses that can be exploited if you use the right elements against them. The second mechanic introduced in EBF2 is Limit Breaks, which are extremely powerful attacks that Matt and Natalie get to use in place of their basic attack after taking enough damage.

Normal vs. Magic Attack/Defense[]

Like most traditional JRPGs, EBF2 distinguishes damage dealt between normal and magic. Normal attack damage mainly concerns physical attacks, while magic attack damage usually comes from spells and magic-powered attacks. On a similar note, normal defense only reduces damage against normal attacks while magic defense only reduces damage against magic attacks.

Difficulty Settings[]

In EBF2, you can choose between four difficulty levels when starting a new game.

Easy: Enemies are 20% weaker than normal.
Normal: Enemies have normal stats.
Hard: Enemies do 20% more damage than normal, and some have new attacks.
Epic: Enemies do 40% more damage than normal and also have other buffs.

Elements[]

Fire: Fire and heat attacks.
Thunder: Electric attacks, which can sometimes stun targets
Ice: Frost attacks, which can sometimes freeze targets.
Earth: Ground- and stone-based attacks.
Poison: Deals almost exclusively in inflicting the Poison status on targets.
Bomb: Explosive attacks. Most enemies can't resist this element.
Wind: Air attacks, usually associated with speed and evasion.
Water: Aquatic attacks, usually involving bubbles or water blasts.
Holy: Light-themed attacks and "positive" magic. Aside from powerful attacks, this element is also associated with healing spells.
Dark: Dark and cosmic attacks, also associated with the supernatural/undead. It is the most destructive element in the game.

Items[]

Consumable Items[]

These items are used in-battle to help out your party members.

Potion: Partially heals a party member.
Max Potion: Fully heals a party member.
Ether: Partially restores a party member's MP.
Max Ether: Fully restores a party member's MP.
Mist Potion: Heals both party members.
Attack Potion: Buffs a party member's attack.
Magic Potion: Buffs a party member's magic attack.
Antidote: Cures Poison.
Water of Life: Revives a dead party member.

Attack Items[]

These items are used in-battle to damage enemies in various ways.

Stunner: Stuns and deals Thunder damage to an enemy.
Shuriken: Poisons and deals Wind damage to an enemy.
Bomb: Deals Bomb damage to an enemy.

Status Effects[]

Status Effects are special conditions that can be inflicted on any character during battle through various attacks. Some help characters through various means, while others bring harm. They are as follows:

Attack Up/Down: Increases or decreases the target's normal attacking power.
Defense Up/Down: Increases or decreases the target's normal defense.
Magic Attack Up/Down: Increases or decreases the target's magic attacking power.
Magic Defense Up/Down: Increases or decreases the target's magic defense.
Dispel: Removes any buffs and positive effects from the target.
Blind: The target's accuracy is reduced by 50%.
Seal: Prevents the target from using anything except their most basic attacks.
Stun: The target is stunned and can't do anything.
Freeze: The target is frozen in ice and can't do anything. The target takes extra damage if attacked while Frozen.
Poison: The target loses some HP every turn.
Regen: Automatically restores some of the target's HP at the start of every turn.
Autolife: Allows the target to instantly revive if killed.

Skills[]

Matt's Skills[]

Bushido[]

These are offensive skills that primarily focus on dealing damage, usually concentrated on a single enemy.

Revenge: Jumping slash attack that deals more damage the lower Matt's health is.
Drain: Leeches an enemy's HP, giving it to Matt.
Windslash: Dash attack that damages all enemies. Is most effective with the Swift Brand.
Quake: Earth-based attack. Is most effective with the Stone Edge.
Iceberg: Ice-based attack. Is most effective with the Blizzard.
Eruption: Fire-based attack. Is most effective with the Inferno.
Unleash: Triggers the special effect of Matt's weapon.
Seiken: Holy-based attack. Is most effective with the Heaven's Gate.
Legend: Powerful attack that hits the target multiple times.

Special[]

These skills serve to either support the heroes or dehabilitate enemies.

NoLegs: Summons NoLegs the cat to bring a random support item and use it on either Matt or Natalie.
Temper: Buffs the party's attack.
Protect: Buffs the party's defense.
Air Strike: Bomb-based attack that either hits one enemy with a big bomb, or hits all enemies and lowers their magic defense with smaller ones.
Screamer: Dark-baed attack that hits all enemies and lowers their magic attack.
Power Metal: Hits all enemies and heals the party. Is most effective with the Razorback.

Swords[]

These are the different weapons Matt can equip; they each have different elemental properties and most of them boost the power of certain skills.

Heaven's Gate: 50% Holy. Boosts the power of Seiken.
Rune Blade: 20% Holy. Boosts the power of Seiken.
Blood Blade: 20% Poison. Boosts the power of Drain.
Stone Edge: 50% Earth. Boosts the power of Earthquake, Iceberg, and Eruption.
Inferno: 75% Fire. Boosts the power of Eruption.
Blizzard: 75% Ice. Boosts the power of Iceberg.
Black Fang: 50% Poison.
Swift Brand: 50% Holy. Boosts the power of Windslash.
Anarchy: 50% Dark.
Soul Eater: 20% Dark.
Razorback: 20% Holy. Boosts the power of Power Metal.

Nataile's Skills[]

White Magic[]

These are support skills that almost exclusively deal with keeping Matt and Natalie standing in battle.

Purify: Removes negative status effects from both party members.
Heal: Basic healing spell that heals one party member.
Barrier: Boosts the party's magic defense.
Flare: Blinds all enemies, heavily debuffing their accuracy.
Healmore: Advanced healing spell that heals both party members.
Revive: Revives a dead party member, or inflicts Autolife on a living one.
Judgement: Holy-based attack that also heals Natalie when used.

Black Magic[]

These are Natalie's attack skills, capable of heavily damaging enemies as well as debuffing them in various ways.

Lucky Star: Basic non-elemental attack that deals random damage to an enemy.
Fireball: Fire-based attack that sometimes lowers enemies' magic defense.
Glacier: Ice-based attack.
Thunderbolt: Thunder-based attack that sometimes stuns enemies.
Toxic: Poison-based attack that Poisons enemies.
Syphon: Seals all enemies.
Pulsar: Dark-based attack that hits all enemies and deals massive damage.

Summons[]

These are creatures that can be called into battle to fight for the heroes.

Scanbot: Scans enemies to reveal their attributes and unlock their entries in the Bestiary.
Slime Bunny: Gives the party Regen status.
Beholder: Usually fires a laser to deal non-elemental damage to all enemies and debuff their magic defense, but occasionally instead uses a physical attack that Poisons one enemy.
Meow Meow: Uses a very powerful non-elemental physical attack on all enemies.
Ion: Uses an extremely powerful non-elemental magic attack on everyone.

Worlds[]

Kitten Kingdom (Waves 1-5): The (formerly) friendly kingdom which Matt and Natalie are forced to fight their way out of in order to begin their adventure. Enemies here consist primarily of Kittens, along with a few other weak enemy types.
Bee Forest (Waves 6 and 7): A small forest area filled exclusively with Bees.
Weapon Factory (Wave 8): One of Lance's strongholds, protected by the mighty Guardian robot.
Frozen Beach (Waves 9-13): A beach that's been frozen over. It's inhabited by Jellies and Turtles, along with the Giga Golem and its Bits.
Desert Ruins (Waves 14-16): A desert area containing a mix of mid-tier enemies, mostly Bees and Turtles. The Sandworm also shows up here.
Haunted Woods (Waves 17-19): Another forest, this one overrun with the undead, namely Spirits and the Zombie Hydra.
Lance's Fortress (Waves 20-22): Lance's base of operations, where you have to plow through Flybots and other high-tier enemies before fighting Lance himself.

Enemies[]

Kittens[]

The armed forces of the Kitten Kingdom.

Kitten: Uses basic physical attacks. Sometimes enters the battle carrying a shield which halves all damage it takes, but it loses the shield after being hit once.
Kitten Kart: A mobile stone tower that uses powerful physical and Bomb attacks.

Bees[]

Flying enemies that can debuff your party.

Red Bee: Uses physical attacks that can Poison your party or debuff their defense.
Spiky Moth: Has the same abilities as a Red Bee but has higher health and does more damage.

Arms[]

The Guardian robot's extra arms.

Guardian's Sword: Gives the Guardian an extra turn; the Guardian uses it to deal moderate non-elemental damage.
Guardian's Shield: Gives the Guardian an extra turn and doubles the Guardian's defense while it's in the battle; the Guardian uses it to deal moderate non-elemental damage.

Jellies[]

Floating jellyfish that can inflict various status effects.

Red Jelly: Uses Poison attacks and can Stun or Poison your party members.
Blue Jelly: Uses Thunder attacks and can Stun your party members.

Turtles[]

Large defensive enemies with elemental properties.

Glacier Eater: Uses Ice attacks, can Freeze your party, and can buff its defense and magic defense.
Rock Eater: Uses Fire attacks and can buff its attack and magic attack.

Bits[]

Chunks of rock with elemental properties.

Ice Bit: Uses Ice attacks and can Freeze your party, but does low damage.
Fire Bit: Immediately suicide bombs the party on its first turn, dealing Fire damage.

Turrets[]

The Valkyrie tank's attachments.

Tank Top: Uses Bomb attacks.
Cooler: Uses Ice and Poison attacks, and can Freeze or Poison your party members.
Satellite Dish: Uses Thunder attacks and can Seal or debuff your party members.
Omega Lazor: Uses powerful non-elemental attacks and can charge up to use an extra-powerful attack.
Nuke: Launches itself into the air after a few turns; when launched, it explodes and deals massive non-elemental damage to your party members. The number of turns it takes to launch depends on the difficulty (it takes 4 turns on Easy, 3 on Normal, 2 on Hard, and 1 on Epic).

Miscellaneous[]

Other enemies that don't fit in any particular group.

Sandworm's Tail: Uses non-elemental attacks and can Stun your party members. During the Sandworm's battle, it can't be killed directly; it hides for a while when its health is depleted, and can only be killed by killing the Sandworm.
Spirit: Uses Holy attacks, can Seal your party members, and begins the battle with Auto-Revive.
Flybot: Uses non-elemental and Bomb attacks, and can debuff your party's defense.
Lance: Uses non-elemental attacks, able to use his gun to fire powerful single shots or sprays of weaker shots, and can also use the Ion summon against your party members. Can't be killed permanently; when his health is depleted he retreats for a while and then rejoins the fight sometime later.

Bosses[]

Guardian[]

The Guardian is a superpowered military-grade robot, perhaps one of Lance's most powerful creations besides the Valkyrie, that you encounter in the game's eighth wave which is situated in the Weapon Factory. It has a pair of arm attachments - the Guardian's Sword and the Guardian's Shield - which act as separate entities and each give the Guardian an extra turn as long as they're intact. Between the arms and the main body, the Guardian can deal quite a lot of damage, so your first priority should be to get rid of the arms. The Guardian does have a healing ability that lets it regenerate its arms (or just restore their health if they haven't been completely destroyed), but you can prevent it from using this ability by Sealing or Stunning it.

When attacking, the Guardian attacks with its Sword first, then with its main body, and then with its Shield. The Sword and Shield simply use a fairly powerful non-elemental attack, but the main body can use non-elemental, Bomb, and Thunder attacks, with the latter being able to Stun your party members. The amount of damage the Guardian can do to your party with all these attacks can be discouraging at first, but it can be managed if you make frequent use of defense buffs and healing abilities like Healmore and the Slime Bunny summon. On the offensive side, stick to Bomb and Thunder attacks as those are the Guardian's weakness. Matt's Screamer is also useful here since it can debuff the Guardian's magic defense, making it more vulnerable to the duo's Bomb anf Thunder attacks which deal magic damage.

When dealing with the Guardian, try to destroy its Shield first; in addition to giving the Guardian an extra turn, it doubles the entire boss's defense, resulting in the Guardian and its arms taking half damage from your party's attacks. Once it's gone, you can whittle down the Guardian's health more easily.

Giga Golem[]

The Giga Golem is a huge golem capable of wielding potent ice and fire magic; it's encountered in the thirteenth wave, at the end of the Frozen Beach. It has a unique gimmick: it's able to switch between two different elemental forms - a fire form and an ice form - with different attacks and weaknesses. In both forms, the Giga Golem spends two turns using powerful physical attacks (including one especially powerful attack that hits both party members), and then uses its third turn to use a magic attack, summon some Bits, and change into its other form.

The Giga Golem's ice form uses Ice attacks which can Freeze your party members, and is weak to Fire, Earth, Bomb, and Dark attacks. Its fire form uses heavy-hitting Fire attacks and is weak to Ice, Water, Bomb, and Holy attacks. As you may have noticed, Bomb is a consistent weakness between both of the Giga Golem's forms; thus, using Bomb attacks like Air Strike or the Hand Bomb item is the best way to bring it down. As with the Guardian, it's also important to keep buffing your party's defense and health up throughout the battle as the Giga Golem is capable of dealing very heavy damage.

The Bits that the Giga Golem summons should also be dealt with appropriately, as they can cause problems if left unattended. Fire Bits should be destroyed immediately - otherwise, they'll suicide bomb your party on the next turn, dealing heavy Fire damage which can potentially leave your party members on low enough health to be killed by the Giga Golem. Ice Bits aren't as much of a threat since they deal low damage, but are capable of Freezing your party members. Simply Stunning them will keep them out of your hair.

Sandworm[]

The Sandworm is a giant sand-dwelling worm encountered in the sixteenth wave, at the end of the Desert Ruins. Much like the Guardian with its arms, the Sandworm has an extra appendage of its own - the Sandworm's Tail. The Sandworm's Tail only uses basic attacks but can sometimes Stun your party members, so it's probably best to neutralize it first before focusing on the Sandworm itself. The Sandworm's Tail isn't particularly powerful or hard to kill, and also shares the Sandworm's weaknesses - Water, Ice, and Poison - but it can always respawn a few turns later, so you may be better off just Stunning it using Stunners or Natalie's Thunderbolt.

The Sandworm itself is dangerous for its ability to Poison and Blind your party members, which can be crippling. These status effects can really build up after a while, so if they start to get too overwhelming, use Antidotes or the Purify skill to remove them. Also, as with the previous two bosses, keep using defense buffs and healing skills to keep your party members healthy. When going on the offense, bombard the Sandworm with its weaknesses. Poison attacks are especially effective, as the Poison status effect they inflict can be stacked without a limit, so spamming Poison attacks like Toxic will eventually lead to the Sandworm losing a huge chunk of health after each turn.

Zombie Hydra[]

The Zombie Hydra is a undead two-headed dragon encountered in the nineteenth wave, at the end of the Haunted Woods. Each head acts as an individual unit with its own health bar. However, both heads have the ability to revive the other head if one of them has been killed, completely restoring all of the dead head's health, so you have to kill them both within one or two turns to prevent the beast's heads from being revived. The best way to do this is to try to keep alternating between the two heads with single-target attacks to even out the damage done to them, although if you're in a pinch you can prevent the Zombie Hydra from using its reviving ability by Sealing it.

Aside from its reviving ability, the Zombie Hydra is a huge threat because of its movepool consisting of very powerful physical, Poison, and Dark attacks. Most of these attacks just take out huge chunks of your party members' HP, but one of them is a Dark attack that can instantly kill one of your party members but has low accuracy. Thus, your highest priority for this battle should be keeping your party members protected by Autolife, alongside the obligatory defense buffs and healing skills - though the latter two aren't necessary if you managed to Seal both heads, which prevents them from using anything except their most basic physical attacks.

Valkyrie[]

The Valkyrie is an enormous battle tank built by Lance to help him take over the world. It's his most iconic weapon, and also his second most powerful - its strength is surpassed only by the dreaded Ion Cannon. You fight it in two phases, which both involve the Valkyrie attacking using a combination of its own built-in weapons and various attachments it's capable of outfitting itself with. Luckily, the Valkyrie maintains the same weaknesses - Thunder, Earth, and Bomb - throughout both of its phases, making it fairly easy to deal hefty amounts of damage to it using the right skills. However, the Valkyrie is capable of dealing massive amounts of damage via its myriad of attacks - now more than ever, the most important thing to do during this battle is to constantly use support skills to heal your party members and buff their defense!

Phase 1[]

In the first phase, you fight the Valkyrie on its own, and your objective is to destroy its upper turret, called the Tank Top. In this phase, the Valkyrie has a fairly straightforward combat style; it can attack by using the Tank Top to deliver powerful Bomb and Fire attacks, pelting your party members with shots from its machine guns, or simply running them over. This phase of the fight can be reasonably dealt with as long as you keep your party's defense buffed, and heal when necessary.

Phase 2[]

In the second phase, the Valkyrie begins summoning various attachments for backup to replace the Tank Top that was just destroyed. It can have up to two of these attachments at a time - they include Omega Lazors, Coolers, Satellite Dishes, Nukes, and even Lance himself, each posing their own threats. They're all very powerful enemies and have different abilities that range from annoying to extremely dangerous.

The Valkyrie always begins this phase with Lance and an Omega Lazor joining the fray. The Valkyrie can also still use its machine gun and ramming attacks in this phase.

Among all of the Valkyrie's helpers, Lance is the easiest one to deal with, despite his high attack power. Being the only non-mechanical enemy present in this battle, he's very susceptible to status effects and is weak to Poison and Fire attacks. He can be neutralized by Stunning him repeatedly with Stunners or Thunder attacks, or quickly be removed from the equation by Poisoning him. Take full advantage of this attribute - getting rid of Lance eliminates the risk of him using his Ion Cannon on your party members, which is capable of almost completely depleting their health in a single blow.

Satellite Dishes aren't much more trouble to contend with; they're able to use a sonic attack that Seals your party members, but they can also be Sealed themselves, which restricts them to using a basic Thunder attack that deals moderate damage - effectively making them almost a nonthreat as long as you keep your party's defense up. Coolers are a bit more of a nuisance, not necessarily because of their damage output so much as their ability to inflict status effects. They can Freeze or Poison your party members, so you're probably better off taking them down. Omega Lazors are real powerhouses and should definitely be disposed of as soon as possible - they focus solely on dealing damage, as they're able to fire lasers to deal very heavy non-elemental damage. They can even charge themselves up for a stronger blast!

Once the Valkyrie's health gets low, it'll start spawning in its most dangerous attachment - the Nuke! Nukes don't do anything at first - they spend a few turns counting down. But when their countdown hits zero, they detonate and deal enough non-elemental damage to almost defintiely kill your party members!! Luckily for you, Nukes have relatively low health compared to the rest of the enemies summoned by the Valkyrie, so if a Nuke ever pops up, focus all your firepower on it!

Errors[]

Two of Matt's swords, Swift Brand and Razorback, are said to be Wind-elemental in their in-game descriptions, but they actually deal Holy damage.

Trivia[]

The music that plays in the Haunted Woods is a zen remix of Tsuna Awakens, a music track from an anime called Katekyo Hitman Reborn.
This is the only Epic Battle Fantasy game where every boss has its own dedicated boss theme.
The two Turtle enemies in this game were originally supposed to just be one enemy, but the developer couldn't decide whether to make it an ice monster or a fire monster, so he picked both and made two different Turtle types.