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| 4 | ''Cosmic Fantasy'' was the flagship RolePlayingGame franchise from Creator/TelenetJapan's Laser Soft division, created exclusively for the Platform/PCEngine's CD attachment, with one CompilationRerelease for the Platform/SegaCD and masterminded by manga artist Creator/KazuhiroOchi. |
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| 6 | Like Sega's own RPG franchise ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar'', ''Cosmic Fantasy'' combined anime presentation with a [[ScienceFantasy mixture of fantasy and sci-fi]]. However, by utilizing the CD format, ''CF'' was among the first such games to rely on fully animated and voice-acted cutscenes not unlike Nihon Falcom's popular ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'' games or Game Arts' ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' games. |
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| 8 | It's also fairly notorious for being one strong case of NoExportForYou -- only [[SequelFirst the second game]] ever saw a release outside Japan, thanks to Working Designs. In 2024, publisher Edia, who have also been porting other items from Telenet's catalog, released a localized port of the first Switch collection in the west. |
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| 10 | Games in this series include: |
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| 12 | # ''Cosmic Fantasy: Bōken Shōnen Yū'' (1990) |
| 13 | # ''Cosmic Fantasy 2'' (1991) |
| 14 | # ''Cosmic Fantasy 3: Bōken Shōnen Rei'' (1992) |
| 15 | # ''Cosmic Fantasy Stories'' (1992) (The only non-Turbo release; remake of the first two games for the Platform/SegaCD) |
| 16 | # ''Cosmic Fantasy 4: Ginga Shōnen Densetsu - Totsunyū-hen'' (1994) |
| 17 | # ''Cosmic Fantasy 4: Ginga Shōnen Densetsu - Gekitō-hen'' (1994) |
| 18 | # ''Cosmic Fantasy Collection'' (2022) (An UpdatedRerelease of the first two games for the Platform/NintendoSwitch) |
| 19 | # ''Cosmic Fantasy Collection 2'' (2023) (An UpdatedRerelease of the last five games, also for Switch) |
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| 21 | !! This series provides examples of: |
| 22 | * AllInARow: Your party dutifully follows behind you in the overworld. |
| 23 | * AnimalMecha: Marley, a robotic cat. |
| 24 | * TheAnimeOfTheGame |
| 25 | * CatFolk: Very common through the franchise |
| 26 | * CoolMask: Galam. |
| 27 | * OneGameForThePriceOfTwo: The fourth game splits the adventure between the protagonists of 1 and 2. |
| 28 | * RescueThePrincess: Van for Laura. |
| 29 | * ScienceFantasy |
| 30 | * SpacePirates: Or '''Cosmic''' Pirates, rather. |
| 31 | * TakeOverTheWorld: Galam's plan. |
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