Langrisser, the legendary holy sword which only the "Hikari no
Matsue" (descendents of light) may wield. Langrisser is a video
game series created by NCS/Masaya, which originated on the Sega
Megadrive and since then made its appearance on many different
consoles. The Langrisser series may be catagorized as Strategy
RPG's or "SLGs" (SimuLation Game). The difference between
Langrisser and some other strategy games, say Shining Force, is the
idea of commander/troop mechanics, and artwork by famous anime
artist Satoshi Urushihara (works include transformers, plastic
little, legend of lemnear). In addition, some of the Langrissers
have multiple plot branches instead of a linear story. The first
Langrisser game was translated as "Warsong" by the now defunct
Treco. (The translation was rather poor.) Because of lack of
interest in this game, future releases of Langrisser have been
Japanese only.
Langrisser 2 came shortly after the success of the original and was
initially released for the Mega Drive. The game opens as an army of
intruders invade a small village in search of a game named Riana.
Her childhood pal Hein isn't too happy about this, and after
enlisting the help of his friend Elwin, the son of Redin from the
first game, to protect her from evil. But what does this army want
to do with this girl? How does this tie in with the empire of
Rayguard and their quest for the holy sword? And who is that
sinister looking doppelganger of Riana? The cast of Langrisser 2 is
quite a bit larger than before, and features a few faces from the
original.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langrisser_II
cool vids of the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhKiOTG7TOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJmoEgSVS2o