Dragon Knight II

Dragon Knight II
PC Engine cover art
Developer(s)	ELF Corporation TamTam (PC Engine)
Publisher(s)	ELF Corporation NEC Avenue (PC Engine)
Director(s)	Fumiko Suzuki
Producer(s)	Sachio Ishihara Toshio Tabeta
Designer(s)	Masato Hiruta Takami Sugimoto
Programmer(s)	Atsushi Kanao Takefumi Kawakami Hideki Iwatsuki
Artist(s)	Hiromitsu Suga Atsuki Mizusawa Kouichi Mikado
Composer(s)	Torou Hara Tomoyuki Hamada Shinji Yoshikawa
Series	Dragon Knight
Platform(s)	MSX2, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Sharp X68000, PC Engine Super CD-ROM²
Release	PC-98 December 20, 1990 X68000 February 28, 1991 MSX2 March 1991 PC Engine August 7, 1992
Genre(s)	Dungeon crawler, eroge
Mode(s)	Single-player

Dragon Knight II (ドラゴンナイトII) is a fantasy-themed eroge role-playing video game in the Dragon Knight franchise that was originally developed and published by ELF Corporation in 1990-1991 only in Japan as the first sequel to the original Dragon Knight from 1989. The game is an erotic dungeon crawler in which a young warrior Takeru fights to lift a witch's curse that has turned girls into monsters.

Following the commercial and critical success of Dragon Knight II, ELF followed up with Dragon Knight III / Knights of Xentar in 1991. A censored remake of Dragon Knight II was published by NEC Avenue in 1992.

Dragon Knight II is available only in Japanese. Its gameplay system has not changed much since the first Dragon Knight game, as it is still a standard dungeon crawler with first-person view perspective and 2D graphics. The player spends most of the time navigating mazes and fighting enemies. As progress is made, the mazes will become more complicated, but as in the first game there is an aid for the player in the form of a of minimap with grid coordinates. The player can also visit shops and converse with non-hostile NPCs.

The game starts with just one player character, Takeru, but two other characters join up later on. The game's battle system has also undergone minor changes. It still features turn-based battles that are mostly randomly generated, but the fights are better balanced than in the first game. The player can attack, defend, and use spells and items to deal with various types of female enemies (such as berserker, banshee, catgirl, centaur, elf, harpy, ninja, mummy, werewolf, and so on), who are being fought only one at a time. These enemies are actually girls who have been transformed into monsters, and whenever player character fights off one of them, the subdued enemy loses her clothing. Later, when the enemies revert to their normal self, in their grattitude they offer themselves to have sex with the protagonist in a cutscene. There is also only one boss to beat.