Selection I & II: Erabareshi Mono & Ankoku no Fuuin

The Sword of Hope, released in Japan as Selection: Erabareshi Mono, is a role-playing video game developed and published by Kemco for the Game Boy. It was released in 1989 in Japan and 1991 internationally. In 1992, it received a sequel, The Sword of Hope II. These two games were rereleased in Japan as a single Game Boy cartridge, Selection I & II, on May 1, 1998. The Sword of Hope was also released for the Nintendo 3DS' Virtual Console in Japan on December 7, 2011 and the Nintendo Classics service for the Nintendo Switch on May 23, 2025. Another sequel titled Selection (セレクション) was released for mobile phones on 2008.