Update: I've finally won this game, fought the four spider robots, then I glitched the very last boss to cornering it and destroyed it with bomb attacks, the ending was ok, but the music was beautiful.
I have bought this game for the Wii virtual console hoping it would be a fun shooter game boy was I wrong. This game is frustrating and super hard unless you play the Sega 3D Classics Collection on 3DS with save states.
You start off with 2 low lives and very low HPs and go very slow. You control your spaceship and shoot and drop bombs at monsters so you can go into warp zones, aliens which bombard you very fast and most of the time you die in one hit. Also the boss fights are super hard to fight and after you win, you don't have much time to collect money.
Yes the game could be enjoyable if you have powerups including the auto fire, fire bombs, laser, fire shot, big shot, big twin bombs, weight drops, red potions and blue potions jet engine, turbo engine, rocket engine which makes it hard to control, and you hopefully don't lose energy and die.
Also it's very hard to grind for money and choose which items you buy in stores which gets very expensive and the worst part, is the shooting and bomb weapons have a time limit which makes it very pointless to buy them unless you use it quickly on the boss and this game is very unforgiving. If you lose all your lives then you start all over back at level 1.
Also the continue item is worthless because if you lose all of your ships, then you go back to low HPs. Also buying extra lives is a waste of money on the Sega 3D Classics Collections since you have save states. Also the smart bomb items are worthless, the weight bombs could work but they drop down vertically so I don't use them much but it's highly recommended to use on the last spider boss as they're hard to shoot at and they try to trap you in the web lines.
There's an arcade version of this Fantasy Zone II game which is much different than the Sega Master System version it's on Sega 3D Classics Collection, there's a light zone and dark zone you can warp to, 3 different endings either good ending or bad ending and updated graphics and music but the game's still hard to play not to mention that shops only come and go.
Although the art graphics are funny looking and the music is beautiful but that's the only good things I can say about this junky hard challenging game.
Whatever you do, do not play Fantasy Zone II for Sega Master System or the former Wii virtual console unless you have a save state feature. Thankfully there's a 3DS game called Sega 3D Classics Collection which allows the player to use a save state which is the version I highly recommend for players.
But it doesn't change the fact that I'm still very disappointed in the game developers for designing this piece of junk Fantasy Zone II is without the save state features. It had high potential to be a fun game but nooo, the creator of Fantasy Zone II had to make it freaking hard as hell, even with the save states it's still annoying to get killed by the enemy.
If you want to see the mediocre ending to this game, watch it on youtube or play the Sega 3D Classics Collection on 3DS with save states, otherwise save yourself the trouble of playing through this video game torture.