While the Valis series is popular among the Japanese and Turbografx-16 crowd, Valis still flew right past SNES and Genesis gamers back then, probably due to its female protagonist and anime art style. The series started on PC-88, a doujin-like game called Valis: The Fantasm Soldier, made by Telenet Japan. Valis has a total of 4 games, starring a schoolgirl named Yuko Assou, chosen to become a magical warrior by Reiko, her classmate, secretly a magical warrior. She is now charged with protecting three realms from Demon Kings, by wielding the powerful sword called Valis. The game starts with a lengthy six-minute animated introduction, explaining the plot of the game and a synopsis of the series' past entries. The game might start easy but quickly turns into a test of patience past the Test of Braveness, midway into the game. It is definitely a PC Engine port, with its graphics being almost the same as the PC Engine CD game, but the soundtrack more than makes up for it. Technically all three Valis games are available on Genesis, an awful chibified remake of Valis II is also on the console, named Syd of Valis, which we won't talk about on this list.