Phantasy Star - Another RPG that's not Final Fantasy

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Book Thief said:
I could understand that for II or III, as they have plenty of issues that have become more apparent with age, but IV has aged like a fine wine.
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I would argue that the original Phantasy Star also aged beautifully. I played through it again last year and had a blast. Then again I've always liked how JRPGs played in the 8-bit days where they had a plot railroad but also allowed you to leave it at your peril.

I need to finish PSII, III, and IV at some point. I've owned all four for a long time now.
 
Book Thief said:
I could understand that for II or III, as they have plenty of issues that have become more apparent with age, but IV has aged like a fine wine.

That said, there do exist remakes of I and II on the PlayStation 2. They were released in Japan only, but they do have fan-translations. They were an attempt at updating the games to the then-modern era, and they do it pretty well for the most part, but they introduce a slew of new issues regarding some really annoying "Talk to NPC" story flags. Sometimes you gotta talk to the necessary NPC 5 times for him to give you the clue or item you need, sometimes you gotta talk to every NPC in town twice each in order to progress, sometimes you gotta use the Talk command from the menu several times to get a key a party member is hiding in his pants in order to unlock a plot-critical door. It's extremely arbitrary and annoying when it happens, and drags down what would be some pretty decent remakes of some classic Sega RPGs.
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I gave up on PS1 remake because of this, wandering around like a spare prick at a whore's wedding. guides on the internet didn't even help. speaking to every npc possible didn't fix it.will need to play ps4 as a little palette cleanser
 
So in other news...

My PSO obsession led me to watch PSO2: The Animation. Which I had heard for years was infamously bad.

I'm four episodes in and.... I dunno, I'm enjoying it. It's nothing remarkable, sure, but I do dig a lot of little things. Like of course the advertisement-anime thing of "even old people and blue-collar workers play this game!" and the hints that the game reality might be merging with real-reality.

Also all the Sega references. It's weird that for a character Sega never uses, they seem to never miss a chance to give Alex Kidd a cameo. (though conspicuously I notice there's no cameos from a certain blue hedgehog... and in the episode with the cosplay convention I wondered if there was anyone trying to dress as characters from PS1-4).

The Next Episode Previews are genuinely enjoyable to watch (done more as a comedy skit that vaguely hints at the next episode rather than telling you outright) and both the Opening and Ending themes are music that honestly I wish would be associated with Phantasy Star in general. Especially the ending theme, its so infectuous.

Again, not a remarkable anime, but not one I'm regretting so far.
 
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