Yahwa 2 is more of a straight brawler than its predecessor. Although with a JRPG type levelup system, the game apparently dropped the simulation part.

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FEW's brawler/RPG mix got a sequel as well. Once again FEW's incapability to create sympathetic protagonists becomes the otherwise solid game's biggest problems. Was the player forced into the role of a douche in Booking Man, here the hero is just a complete moron: He let's himself getting beat up for all of the much too long introduction because he promised his equally unlikable girlfriend not to get into fights anymore, and just continues to take beatings even after she dumps him, anyway.

The controls are explained by a huge gorilla who just happens to cross his way when the main game finally begins.

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Britra falls into the Diablo inspired action RPG category, although combat is more player skill/timing based and it has a stronger emphasis on dialogue with the hero's mutant friend that follows him around but is nonexistant during combat.

The game has its strength, but the difficulty totally spoils it. The odds against the player are just utterly ridiculous and make Britra possibly the hardest action RPG ever.

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Quo Vadis seems to fill a similar mold as Britra, but like Bloody Aria, it doesn't run at all on most modern systems7.

A rather peculiar title in FEW's late catalog, the prehistoric platformer Goindol (only about the third Korean game to carry that exact same title, not including the Prehistoric Man series, which is also known as such in Korea) uses sketchy hand-drawn 2D art instead of the usual render fare.

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Gaksital is the adaption of a 1970's comic book series by Huh Youngman. Both are set in times of Japanese colonial rule, where a mysterious avenger—called Gaksital after the tradional mask he's wearing—gives the foreign occupiers a hard time by sabotaging their operations.8

In the game the protagonist isn't the original Gaksital, though, but the young Yi Gangto, who like his father is a collaborateur with the Japanese and frequently does errands for the local garrison, which earns him quite a few enemies in his rural village. This ends, however, when his girlfriend is abducted by the new garrison leader Kimura, and Gangto storms the Japanese residence, fights his way through to the kidnapper, who he finds already in a fight with the legendary Gaksital. In the confrontation, both the Kimura and Gaksital get killed, and Gangto finds himself pushed to pick up the mask and continue his legacy.

Large chunks of the game are played strictly as an (oriental style) Adventure, where one mostly walks around talking to the right people in the right order, doing errands and the like. Only occasionally the game switches to—usually lengthy—combat scenes. Enemies are fought in real-time, practically like a brawler in isometric perspective. The awkward controls and especially the hit detection make this harder than it should be, although Gangto can purchase guns and melee weapons to change the stakes in his favor.

Even though Gaksital also features the FEW-typical rendered graphics, here its artificial charme makes it look a bit more artistical than in their previous efforts.

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Busters is a 3D brawler similar to Fighting Force, but with prerendered backgrounds and fixed camera angles like Bloody Aria.

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Now we're getting into rather vague territory. Developed in the final days of FEW before they merged with HiCom into eSofnet, the existence of Dragon Lord is not quite secured. There are sources that suggest it was released9, however no solid proof of a copy showing up anywhere. The few known screenshots have a strong Castlevania flair.