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"Making an application that launches other applications makes me feel like a powerful hacker."
―Matt Roszak, https://kupogames.com/2020/10/25/ebf-collection-prototypes-2/
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The Epic Battle Fantasy Collection, or EBF Collection for short, is a compilation of Matt Roszak's older works. It contains a variety of his older games, each of which have not been previously released on Steam and most of which are receiving significant revisions and improvements.

Contents[]

The Epic Battle Fantasy Collection contains Epic Battle Fantasy, Epic Battle Fantasy 2, Adventure Story, Bullet Heaven, Brawl Royale, Mecha Dress Up Game, The Kitten Game, and Cat Cafe. In addition, it also has some old images, concept art, prototypes, and other forgotten, insignificant flash-based materials that would normally be hidden in the app under most circumstances.

Each game has received significant improvements in gameplay, audio, and various additions. In the case of Epic Battle Fantasy, Brawl Royale, and the two illustration books, they have been somewhat censored as potentially copyright-infringing material has been removed.

On the 13th of November 2021, Matt stated that although the collection is almost finished, any further development has been halted as Matt is now developing his games for the iOS and Android (this has since been rendered moot on February 20th 2022, as Matt has since resumed work on the Collection). Also on the former date, Matt announced that an android port of Epic Battle Fantasy 2 was underway.

On April 1st, 2022 (not a joke), Adventure Story was complete and the EBF Collection was deemed 100% done by May 28th.

Specific details can be found on each game's page. More information will be filled in if applicable.

Epic Battle Fantasy[]

Most of the overwhelming amounts of bugs in the game have been fixed. The game has been rebalanced, and features an entirely new soundtrack by Forger343. The copyrighted content has been replaced with original content made by Matt. A new checkpoint system is one of the new features introduced, alongside volume control, "zero" difficulty, full screen mode, and game speed modifiers.

Epic Battle Fantasy 2[]

Most of the overwhelming amounts of bugs in the game have been fixed. Some quality of life changes have been made, such as adding a fourth choice of Skill Bonuses when upgrading, and putting a limit on how many times foes like the Zombie Hydra can repeat their attacks.

The game has also been balanced around the new changes, and many entirely new skill bonuses are available. Three new difficulties were also added, Epic+, ++, and +++ where enemies have 160%, 180%, and 200% of their base Attack and Magic Attack respectively. There are no Medals to be acquired by beating these difficulties, they're only if you want a challenge.

Adventure Story[]

Five new levels have been added to the game, including four bosses that are meant to be harder versions of the main game bosses. Asides from bug fixes, other new features includes controller support, new "extreme" and "zero" difficulties, new equips, increased level cap, and a new boss rush level.

Bullet Heaven[]

Four new playable characters are now available to unlock, new game options, and some achievements are now easier to unlock. The four characters are Green Bush, Slime Bunny, Dry NoLegs, and Drill Bot. Handicap options (2x Foe Damage, 33% More Foe HP, and Speed Up Game) were introduced in the v1.9 update.

Brawl Royale[]

Brawl Royale has been completely rewritten, and has both better mechanics and different difficulty modes. The copyrighted content has been replaced with original content made by Matt and new music has been composed by Phyrnna.

Mecha Dress Up Game[]

Mecha Dress Up Game is almost completely rewritten, with various new options and items to play with (like changing the mecha's color!). The soundtrack has also been replaced with originals by Forger343, also due to copyrights.

The Kitten Game[]

The game now includes a new soundtrack by Phyrnna consisting of unused tracks, and new achievements. An auto-clicker is now available by default (making the game less strenuous on the hand), and volume controls now exist (making the game less strenuous on the ears!), as well as having quieter sound effects. Like EBF, copyrighted content has been modified to not bare actual resemblance to the original source.

Cat Cafe[]

Some changes have occurred, including bug fixes and modifications to make the game easier to play on PC (as it was originally developed as an Android app). Some achievements had been updated.

Prototypes and Easter Eggs[]

Main article: Epic Battle Fantasy Collection/Prototypes
Main article: Epic Battle Fantasy Collection/Easter Eggs

Reception[]

The game was released on the 30th of May 2022 and despite making less money than EBF5 on launch day, it has so far received very positive reviews on Steam. Much like EBF5, the Steam forums and the Discord server received bug reports, ranging from lag (particularly in Bullet Heaven and Adventure Story), bugs and missing features, most of them having been patched throughout later updates, alongside new features added in.

Trivia[]

  • All the games featured will have a combined total of 150 medals, more than any other previous games. For comparison, that's around 13%/17 more medals than the full version of Epic Battle Fantasy 5!
    • The 1.7 update adds seven new medals for EBF2, making it now 18% more medals than the former game.
  • The main reason that Brawl Royale was reprogrammed is that according to Roszak's blog[1], his original .fla (Adobe Animate Flash) file was corrupted due to age and it wouldn't run on Flash (it uses ActionScript 2, whereas most of his other Flash games, including the redux version, runs on AS3). It would make sense to remake the game by using the same programming as the other games without suffering the needs of backwards compactability.
    • Due to this factor, this may also be the reason why the rerelease of Cat Cafe and mobile ports of Brawl Royale, Mecha Dress Up Game, and Epic Battle Fantasy were announced from 23rd of September 2021 onwards.
    • Those games are now currently available on Android only. The iOS ports have been cancelled, likely due to lackluster sales of the EBF5 iOS port.

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Games
Main series
Epic Battle Fantasy - Epic Battle Fantasy 2
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 - Epic Battle Fantasy 4 - Epic Battle Fantasy 5
Spin-offs
Bullet Heaven - Adventure Story - Bullet Heaven 2 - Bullet Heaven 3
Other
Mecha Dress Up Game - Brawl Royale - The Kitten Game
Cat Cafe - Epic Battle Fantasy Collection - Hidden Cats
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