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Instruction booklet · November 1991

Final Fantasy II

Role-playing (RPG)Adventure1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

The fourth entry in the Final Fantasy series was released as Final Fantasy II in the West, because the second and the third games were not released there at the time. The game is a Japanese-style RPG with top-down world map navigation, automatic leveling up, and random enemy encounters.

Specifications

Released
November 1991
Developer
Square
Publisher
Square
Players
1
Genre
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
Final Fantasy
Themes
Action · Fantasy
View
Bird view / Isometric · Side view

What the magazines said

8
9
7
8
EGM · four reviewers
8
7
9
7
Famitsu · four reviewers
Players
70/100 (93 ratings)
GameRankings
89%
Dragon
4/5
RPGFan
91%
Nintendojo
10/10
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Week of November 1, 1991
Nov. 1

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💵 A Super NES was $199.99 at launch · about $473 today

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