In 1990 Phantasy Star 2 was considered the best game of the year. Nearly 40 years later, have you played it?
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In 1990 Phantasy Star 2 was considered the best game of the year. Nearly 40 years later, have you played it?
Yep. It's a great game but the dungeons can get brutal. The soundtrack is my favorite of the classic Phantasy Star series. I played the prequel text adventures after, which were also very entertaining. Also Shir best girl.
I played all four Phantasy Star games last year.
Sort of lacking even compared to the original. Cool music and setting though and I like the crazy ending where you murder a bunch of Earth refugees
PSII had a lot going for it but the execution was sloppy. There's the usual jank common to JRPGs of that era, but that aside it was still lacking in many aspects.
>Incredibly interesting setting and narrative
>Setting is barely expounded upon by npcs
>Noxesitent character development* when each playable character could easily have an interesting, deep backstory based on their profiles which could also expound on the setting
>No first person dungeons when said dungeons are one of the best parts of PSI
>Incredibly repetitive gameplay
>A E S T H E T I C boss theme which is among the best Genesis tracks
>Game only has 4 bosses
>Two of which are in the final dungeon
>One of which is just an unwinnable cutscene
The ending was pure kino though. I really wish there was a new game set right before PSII or an anime or something. They built an interesting world.
*There's the text adventures but I haven't played them. Either way my point stands.
clearly a product of its rapid development, they cut a lot of corners in order to get the game out a year and a half after shipping PS1, and for new hardware no less.
If only there was a (2d) remake of PS II to include all of the story of the text games as well to flesh out the world, along with adding more bosses, etc.
I have a love/hate for PS II, for every one thing thats great with it there is another thats mad jank. It still interesting at the very least.
I'm still playing it. It's taking a while.
Yes, a few(?) years ago and I need to return to it. I remember when it was new but being a child I had neither money nor a Genesis. Only had an 8-bit NES back then.
It’s just a classic rpg that’s from a better time.
Played it, didn't finish it. As with every Phantasy Star but IV.
It's not nearly 40 years you chode.
Yeah, he could of worded differently, but it's closer to 40 than 20.
Closer to 40 than 20.
But closer to 30 than 40.
At this point what's the difference?
What's the point in saying accurate things?
Is that what you're asking?
I can think of a few reasons..
could just say nearly 100 years old as it's nearly half way there
The absolute state of (what remains of) GameFAQs
>In 1990 Phantasy Star 2 was considered the best game of the year.
You mean on Sega?
Considering Dragon Quest IV came out the same year I doubt it
Started a couple days ago, can't even get safely out of the starting city.
Will get good, I swear.
I tried to play it but the dungeons drove me insane. What's crazy is I was able to beat the first Phantasy Star but for some reason I couldn't stomach this one. I do appreciate the story, which is very good considering the game's age.
PS1 has a balance between dungeons and overworld, and the dungeons start small and don't get huge until the end of the game.
PS2 is frick overworld, dungeon all day erry day, the dungeons are mazier, harder to map because of the visual change, and they get big from early on.
I'd forgive all of that if PS2's dungeons were actually interesting like Bard's Tale or something, but they're just monotonous stair-maze labyrinths without anything going on.
PS1's dungeons are equally simple in terms of what's inside them, but by staying smaller for most of the game + spending a decent amount of time in the overworld, that worked fine.
PS1's dungeons are also more interesting just because they're different with the first person aspect.
Yes and it's complete shit and no one considered it the best game that year. No one considers anything other than complete trash.
By who? It's not even a top 50 game of 1990
I played the PS2 remake of PSII and it wasn’t bad. Improved on all the boomer shit from the original game. You can even save Nei and have her in your party until the end of the game
Nei is, unironically, , better off dead, at least if Neifirst kills her she can die believing her friends can still save the world
I have played it. It was fine. But the dungeons were kind of bullshit.
Please, Step Up!
If the concept of “genki” had a soundtrack
Yeah I've played it through about three times on original hardware twice and emulation once. It's my favourite 16-bit game. Phantasy Star IV is technically better, but it's also too easy and too linear. And I prefer the Phantasy Star 2 aesthetic... That overworld music...
Out of PS1, 2, 3 & 4
2 is the least fun to play...but it has the most SOUL
Are there any other RPGs as bleak as PS2? Like Nei'ss death is just the beginning and things just get worse from there.
Final Fantasy 2, Final Fantasy 3, every entry in the MT/SMT franchise
Final Fantasy Adventure (mana) is grim
You could say FF IV because characters get offed left and right but then everyone but Tellah turns up OK at the end.
'Member the gay piano teacher?
Briefly.
I normally like JRPGs but for some reason I always drop this one not too far in.
What the FRICK were they thinking with Blasters?
can you skip 3 to play IV? I don't want to play that game because it looks like a piece of shit
Easily. There's one area that references 3 and one of your party members is an android from the same production line as a character from 3 but it's literally never brought up.
They seriously expect people to do these dungeons without a guide?
In the early 90s this was par for the course for dungeons. Even LoZs last dungeon is about this size and that was considered small compared to wizardry shit.
They're not even comparable. Loz/Wizardry maps can be easily drawn on graph paper, unlike the shitshow from PSII.
>In the early 90s this was par for the course for dungeons.
No it fricking wasn't lmao.
The original genesis version came with a mini guide book with maps for all of the dungeons.
It kills me that the early dungeons are some of the most difficult to navigate
I beat PSII without a guide and I still have my ugly Notepad maps to prove it. Pretty time consuming, but I kind of enjoy mapping sometimes.
The dungeon tiles can naturally be grouped into 2x2 blocks so you only need half as big a grid as it may seem at first.
As Nerd would put it, "A good game, but a hard son of a b***h."
The PS2 dungeons were all a nightmare even with the included hint book.
I have played it, briefly, but I am trash. I finished the Sega Ages version of Phantasy Star 1 and I started the second game and got my ass kicked. I'm going to go back with a guide and play it hehe
Yes.
yes but i got bored and never finished it. Shining Force 1 & 2 were much better Genny rpgs
ive tried like three times and always stop when i get to the water dungeon. game is such a fricking gauntlet. phantasy star iv is such a miracle its unreal.
>In 1990 Phantasy Star 2 was considered the best game of the year.
No