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''Castle Fantasia 2 Renewal'' (''Castle Fantasia 2: Seima Taisen'' (Sacred War) ''Renewal'') is a strategy game/H-Game fusion released by Studio e. Go on December 22, 2000, as an UpdatedRerelease to the original ''Castle Fantasia 2''. It was given a FanTranslation by [=BTAxis=].

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, AlwaysChaoticEvil.

It's a fairly hard TacticalRPG, 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, [[PornWithPlot though it's far more concentrated on the strategy gameplay and character development by far]].

Here's the character list:
* Hewie Elzard: TheHero, leader of the 7th Injellan Holy Corps and something of CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass with ObfuscatingStupidity (as far being the TheStrategist is concerned). As far as straight up fighting skill, he's the prototypical BadassNormal (even his special attack involves hitting people with his sword really hard, no magic involved). He also happens to be a subversion of the ChivalrousPervert, the second part anyway, in that he is Chivalrous, but he does actually care for women and their feelings.
* Gurou Esteban: A {{bishonen}} guy you won't be seeing much of, but he's is romantically involved with the leader of the 3rd Holy Corps, Seria, who gets killed via magical cannon attack. He's commander of the 4th Injellan Holy Corps.
* Ducis: Commander of the 1st Injellan Holy Corps, Hewie's best friend (and something of a FriendlyRival), who is a bit arrogant and hot-tempered, but a ultimately decent guy.
* Seria: See Gurou's entry.
* Somia Arusta: A Shinobi leader with a rumored AxCrazy streak. In the original game, she died, but this game gives you a chance to avert that.
* Aria Gartland: TheLancer of 7th Holy Corps, one of Hewie's lieutenants. She is follows the rulebook to the hilt, and frequently gets frustrated with her commander's laid back attitude. Not exactly a LethalChef, but she does suck at cooking pretty bad.
* Hannah Hamilton: FanGirl of Ducis, TheMedic and WhiteMage of the team. She is an excellent cook (to Aria's consternation), and is somewhat immature as a counterpoint to Aria, who's serious.
* Cecile Forward: A rather haughty (but goodhearted) witch who joins your team. She has an odd fetish with wearing what looks like CoolShades and a black lingerish top, and her BerserkButton is whenever someone calls her "lobster" (her long red hairstyle with antennae style {{Ahoge}} doesn't help). TheSmartGuy / DeadpanSnarker of the team (a title so co-holds with Aria at times).
* Tia: A halberd user who joins up with your team fairly early. Despite being chronologically old enough, she acts much younger (possibly a tad slow upstairs), who ironically has to be saved from a monster attack at first (she panicked and forgot she could fight).
* Ciruela: Originally commander of the 6th Injellan Holy Corps. Once she has her unit wiped out, she joins you. She looks like a YamatoNadeshiko, and fights with her own Blade on a Stick [a naginata].
* Renoir: Leader of a bunch of bandits, she originally captures you, but you wind up earning her trust, and she not only frees you, but joins you. She develops a LoveAtFirstSight relationship with Hewie after he sees her naked once. Also tends to give him cute nicknames and treats him like a wife.
* Judy: A Rusherian commander with heavy SamusIsAGirl obscuring her identity at first, she proves to be a WorthyOpponent, which hammers a huge nail through the beliefs of Injella that the enemy is the "forces of evil". It's possible to wind up with her, depending on certain story events.
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!Tropes common to the game are:

* AFatherToHisMen: General Targistan, despite his hardassed demeanor, is really this, especially to Somia, who he promised to watch over [[spoiler:on the request of her dying father]]
* AlliterativeName: Hannah Hamilton.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: What the the Injellan high command keeps calling the other side.
* AnimatedAdaptation: 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.
* AxCrazy: Somia is rumoured to be this
* BadassNormal: Hewie, Tia, Aria, Renoir are physical attack based, and can actually kick MORE ass than the magic users.
* {{Bifauxnen}} [[spoiler: Judy]], with the armor on, it's hard to tell she's a girl at all.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The 7th Holy Corps in general.
* CannotSpitItOut: Ducis, to Karawei.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Hewie purposely dumbs down his intelligence to look lazy, but he's actually a remarkably cunning [[TheStrategist strategist]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Rusheria has one officer [Gayak] who kills some soldiers who were planning to rape Ciruela, who actually falls for him, and Judy believes in not sacking defenseless villages and tries to negotiate an honorable cease fire with Hewie at one point, and it later turns out that Rusheria isn't nearly half as bad as Injella's high command would love to believe.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: Subverted. being honorable would be reasonable in this game, but try telling the antagonists [[spoiler: Injella's high command.]] that.
* HGamePOVCharacter: Hewie is a Type I.
* IdiotBall: The Injellan army occasionally plays dodgeball with this.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:How Somia dies if you let her, via spear to the heart]]
* IndyPloy: Hewie has improvised some brilliant plans at times.
* NakedFirstImpression: Hewie and Renoir, partially played straight. This is subverted with Aria, who you can accidentally see naked after meeting her.
* NintendoHard: 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.
* PlayingWithFire: Cecile's default magic attacks.
* PlotlineDeath" [[spoiler: Somia. the original version had her die no matter what, but the renewal version allowed you to avert this.]]
* PornWithPlot: Very heavy on plot, with the very few porn scenes brief, mild, and tasteful, albeit unskippable.
* SergeantRock: 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 AFatherToHisMen tendencies.
* ShoutOut: to ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'''s meme of red things going three times faster at one point:
* SquishyWizard: Cecile can dish out some awesome elemental magic, but in return, her defenses are non-existant.
* {{Stripperific}}: Cecile has a mild version of this going, with her lingerie style blouse
** Aria's outfit in the renewal version.
* SubordinateExcuse: 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.
* TheGlassesComeOff: Inverted - Cecile needs her glasses on in battle. [[spoiler:She's pretty timid without them.]]
* WhiteMage: Hannah serves this role for he 7th Injellan Holy Corps.
* WeHaveReserves: Injella, at first, to Hewie's consternation
* VillainBall: Injella actually grabs this more than ''the obstensible villians'' at times.
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