Created by Alice-Soft
Rance 02 ~The Rebellious Maidens~
Rance 02 is a graphical upgraded version of Rance 2, with the only other changes being the addition of a BGM mode and CG mode. So unlike 01 and 03, it maintains the exact same story and gaemeplay as the original, which means its kinda boring.
In this episode of Rance’s life, Sill takes him on a quest he didn’t want to take and ends up having to take the virginity of four mage girls to save to a town of people and sleep with the mayor’s daughter. Other then some of the mages being important girls later on, little of what I would call important happens in this game. A lot of the lore wasn’t really set up, and sometimes you can tell they are making stuff up to let things work out. I would consider this game to be something only someone who truly cares about the story should play, and actually they should either play the remake or read the Rance 1+2 digest which conatins Rance 1 and 2’s stories in visual novel form, without the grinding and boring combat.
Fights in this one are turn based, standard combat. You select either attack, special attack, item, or run. You really only get two different items, and your allies take care of using them well enough that you will ever really only need to attack. That just leaves dealing with stamina, but your character auto rests when they don’t have enough, so eventually I just held ctrl down and kept clicking the special attack button and won every match. That’s while you are playing Rance, but you also get to play as Sill where you will also be in charge of healing. Its not really anymore fun, but you at least get more options. Other then that the game is a dungeon crawler with silly puzzles and rape. It’s also fairly short even with the 4~ sidequests the game has. Really, only diehard fans should play this, its not very fun and even Rance 3 at least has a story and lore to tell unlike this one.
Save- All cg’s unlocked, may not work with English version. If it doesn’t, just say so and I’ll see about doing it.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/exchdcuyc2ddadc/Rance+02+saves.rar
Ah, this game. I have fond memories because this was around the time I started learning how to use Cheat Engine. That was fun. This game though? Without CE it was boring. It was okay at the start but it gets grindy later on. I remember there was like a search quest where you have to be at a specific area of the map or something, and overall the only positive thing I can say is that “at least it’s not the original I and III”.
H scene was decent though, IIRC. Honestly, if it wasn’t for Sengoku being so good, and this was the only other translated “modern” game at the time? I probably wouldn’t have played it. But at the very least, I can say that with CE and enjoying Sengoku, it was fun for me like 10 years ago so take that as what it is.
God, I feel so old just from that, I actually don’t want to play this game now because I’m afraid it’ll just tarnish those memories.
Sengoku was 10+ years ago huh… If any Rance game had been translated first instead of Sengoku, I doubt the series would have any popularity in the west.
How do i add to use this? Everytime nothing happens when i add to save data. Unless i am using the wrong version
It should just be replace the actual game’s save files. Nothing special.
So it might be a version issue. I never tested with the official English release, updated script or not. Sorry if that’s the case, at some point I might go back and finish 02 official version. I’ll put a note in the post about that.