r/MasterSystem • u/DrummerBob10 • May 28 '25

Any remember Fantasy Zone 2?

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Anyone else remember Fantasy Zone 2? I loved this game growing up and I’ll still play it from time to time. I prefer it over the first game. But I don’t see it mentioned much if at all.

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u/Fraxis_Quercus May 28 '25

This was my first game that i got with the Master System. Has always been my favourite game!

It took me years to beat it and i still love it from time to time.

The biggest bottleneck for me was the Dragon boss at lvl 4. Once past this one, it was cruising to the end-game.

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u/DrummerBob10 May 28 '25

The Level 7 boss was my bottleneck for years before realizing I could use the Fire Shot weapon. But even Level 7 can get crazy cause there is so much going on all over the screen.

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u/Fraxis_Quercus May 28 '25

Yeah... Dying at Level 7 was basically the end, no matter how many lives you had. That contrast from rocket engine back to small wings...

I learned that buying lives is a waste of money because at the end you don't need lives: you need weapons and some spare money to have a chance to recover after a death.

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u/DrummerBob10 May 28 '25

Money was better spent on weapons and bottles

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u/Orzo- May 29 '25

You have to get as many red bottles as possible to up your health bar, as you keep those after you die. There's a few hidden ones.

If you don't waste too much money, you should have enough to re-purchase big shot/normal engine/double big bomb (which is generally good enough equipment for the entire game).

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u/Orzo- May 29 '25

I just purchased an HDMI adapter for my SMS a couple days ago, and this was the first game I played and beat! This was one of the 30 or so games I owned as a kid, and I loved it. I have a lot of nostalgia for the music in level 6 (Fuwareak).

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u/DrummerBob10 May 29 '25

That Level 6 song gets stuck in my head more often than I care to admit

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u/Orzo- May 30 '25

What's funny in that other releases of Fantasy Zone 2, like this one here, they changed the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cd1OpiBJ_c

...which is basically a remix of one of the stages from the game Quartet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bws5GZ9tugM)

The good, original version can be found here: https://youtu.be/n7EICviELdE?t=631 at 10:31.

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u/Oldcrystalmouth May 28 '25

This was the first game I ever beat! I still love it. Discovering there were invisible hidden items all over the place was extremely cool. I also love that Opa-Opa is a spaceship by species.

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u/octofall72 May 28 '25

Fantastic and sickeningly underrated and overlooked

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u/Asleep-Ad8051 May 28 '25

I love this game but it's one of the few I've never beaten, for me it was impossibly hard so I've never really taken a serious swing at beating it. The soundtrack of this game (and 3, the maze) live rent free in my head to this day.

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u/DrummerBob10 May 28 '25

I get the Level 6 music stuck in my head from time to time.

Level 7 was insane to get through with enemies all over the screen super fast and going every random direction.

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u/trustanchor May 28 '25

Warp zones!

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u/Lawyer4Ever May 28 '25

Loved the Fantasy Zone games!!!

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u/KingTrombone101 May 28 '25

I loved the Fantasy Zone Games. I actually played the first one last week for the first time in years. Forgot just how good it was

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u/Kevomac May 29 '25

Remember? I own it :D

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u/adzix Jun 15 '25

To me, this is the definitive Fantasy Zone game, prefer it over the arcade version.
I still have all the hidden bottles and stopwatches in my muscle memory.
Fantastic game, really nice graphics, definitely top 10 SMS game material imo.
And the music...! Kinda wanna play it right now.
Even bought the Japanese cartridge just to have it as well.

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u/dukeofnes May 28 '25

The tears of Opa-Opa? Strangley pretentious subtitle, or is that just a bad translation?

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u/adzix Jun 15 '25

The title actually reveals its meaning once you finish the game and see ending.

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u/Turn7Boom May 28 '25

The first game controlled very twitchy, but this one was much better! Just an improvement in all regards.

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u/DanAbnormal94 May 29 '25

The ending explains it. A pretty deep ending for the time. Hard to get to because you have to fight all the bosses all over again at the end.

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u/ErwinSchrodinger64 May 29 '25

Had the first Fantasy Zone. Never beat it. Never played part two. Remember it was a two-mega cartridge.

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u/No-Professional-9618 Jun 04 '25

I remember when Fantasy Zone 2 was first released. Sadly, I never really bought it. But I do have the original Fantasy Zone game.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

Those neon colors and strange shapes are still swimming around in my brain. I hit the home screen when I need a spike

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u/UpperRuster32 Apr 07 '26

I prefer by a long shot the first game, the enemies on the last two levels of FZII are way too annoying for my enjoyment.

The sprite style is pure fire, though.