Summary
Epic Battle Fantasy is the collective term used to describe the flash games and movies created by Matt Roszak. The series got its start back in 2006 with the flash movie "On More Final Battle", which featured rough versions of what would become the main characters in the EBF series. Three years later, Matt Rozak uploaded the game "Epic Battle Fantasy" to Newgrounds and Kongregate and it became an instant hit.
Fast forward to 2013 and Matt uploaded "Epic Battle Fantasy 4" to Newgrounds and Kongregate, only to get near universal praise. The game would later gain a release on Steam and currently holds a 97% (Overwhelmingly Positive) and is generally praised for its funny dialogue, colorful graphics and great soundtrack.
As for the games themselves, they started as simple "gauntlet style" RPGs with bare-bones plots. However, the third game changed this drastically, it changed the series into a full fledged JRPG with a world map to explore and quest to complete. At the time this sense of scale and scope was never really seen in flash games.
The series is also notable for having a fair amount of spin offs, such as an action/platformer RPG called "Adventure Story", a series of bullet hell games called "Bullet Heaven" and a timing game called "Brawl Royale".
On November 30, Matt Roszak uploaded "Epic Battle Fantasy 5" onto Steam, which featured a new and improved art style. All the old main characters are returning, with the supporting character NoLegs now appearing as a playable character.
Power of the Verse
Very powerful. Weaker weapons and characters are capable of country busting with utter ease. Most notably however, the verse contains many gods such as Akron and Godcat. Akron and Godcat’s Avatars are both Multi-Solar System level, with True Godcat being superior to the Glitch who is High Universe level. Later on, in Epic Battle Fantasy 5, Matt and the gang encounter The Devourer, the Low Multiverse level creator of the EBF world who was most notable for having erased and reset the world four times prior to the game, and who later tapped into the player's higher dimension and messed with the objects within it.
The series also has impressive hax, such as Death Manipulation, Life Sucking, Soul Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, Fear Manipulation and Reality Warping. Notably, several characters have been shown to be resistant to such hax, such as Matt, Natalie and Lance overpowering Akron's soul sucking and the same group surviving space-time being twisted all around them.
The verse is very fast too. Matt and his party were capable at moving at FTL+ speeds in Epic Battle Fantasy 3. In Bullet Heaven 2, Lance said that they were moving much faster than the speed of light and traveled to the galactic core in minutes.
Here is a blog post explaining the statistics, powers and abilities of various characters.
Status as an official series
The Epic Battle Fantasy series is primarily known as a series of freeware flash games and animations that have been shared on sites such as Newgrounds and Kongregate, and to this day are still released for free on the sites mentioned beforehand. However, since the Steam releases of "Epic Battle Fantasy 4" and "Bullet Heaven 2", the games have been commercially re-released on Steam to near universal praise, gaining the "Overwhelmingly Positive" and "Very Positive" review scores respectively.
This should elevate the series to "Official Series" status.
Supporters/Opponents/Neutral
Supporters
Opponents
Neutral
Characters
Heroes
Allies
Foes
Villains
- Akron
- Godcat
- The Glitch
- Dark Matt
- Dark Anna
- Dark Natalie
- Dark Lance
- Cosmic Monolith
- Cosmic Gigalith
- The Devourer
Weapons
Discussions
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