Cosmic Fantasy

Cosmic Fantasy was the flagship Role-Playing Game franchise from Telenet Japan, created exclusively for the PC-Engine's CD attachment, with one Compilation Rerelease for the Sega CD and masterminded by manga artist Kazuhiro Ochi.

Like Sega's own RPG franchise Phantasy Star, Cosmic Fantasy combined anime presentation with a 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 Ys games or Game Arts' Lunar games.

It's also fairly notorious for being one strong case of No Export for You -- only the second game ever saw a release outside Japan, thanks to Working Designs.

Games in this series include:

1. Cosmic Fantasy: Bōken Shōnen Yū (1990)
2. Cosmic Fantasy 2 (1991)
3. Cosmic Fantasy 3: Bōken Shōnen Rei (1992)
4. Cosmic Fantasy Stories (1992) (the only non-Turbo release; remake of the first two games for the Sega CD)
5. Cosmic Fantasy 4: Ginga Shōnen Densetsu - Totsunyū-hen (1994)
6. Cosmic Fantasy 4: Ginga Shōnen Densetsu - Gekitō-hen (1994)

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Tropes used in Cosmic Fantasy include:

• All in a Row
• Animal Mecha: Marley, a robotic cat.
• The Anime of the Game
• Catfolk: Very common through the franchise
• Cool Mask: Galam.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: While 2 was still fairly censored in its localization, not all of it was, notably Babbette's Shower Scene.
• One Game for the Price of Two: The fourth game splits the adventure between the protagonists of 1 and 2.
• Rescue the Princess: Van for Laura.
• Science Fantasy
• Space Pirates: Or Cosmic Pirates, rather.
• Take Over the World: Galam's plan.
• Totally Radical: Good luck finding someone who doesn't use the word "Cosmic" in an unironic manner anymore.
• Unfortunate Name: Van, and did they really need to use the long A sound for Galam's first syllable?
• Updated Rerelease: Stories is such for the first two games.