Current Events > JAKAS Presents: Did you play this Genesis game? Phantasy Star II

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Phantasy Star is one of those few RPG series that Genesis fans can point at those Nintendo kids and be like, "Well yeah, so what you got Final Fantasy 4, 5, 6, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Breath of Fire 2, etc. etc. etc. We got PHANTASY STAR baby!"

I have actually only beaten the first game, as a re-release on the Switch (gotta love Sega Ages releases). As a kid I did get to play the second game but never beat it. Not gonna lie, I want the entire quadrilogy re-released as one package with some improved graphics and stuff. I'm woefully ignorant on the whole series besides the first game.

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I never played it on a Genesis but I played it on those Sega Genesis collections on PSP and PS3. That game really required a lot of perseverance. Overall the only Phantasy Star I like is IV, but that's an all timer.

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Yep

I dont recall playing this one

"No, but I played the sequels/prequel"

Only played 4 so far but I swear I'm going to play the rest at some point. I have the Switch Genesis collection with 2, 3, and 4 on it.

I'm not sure. It would have been on an emulator if I did. I owned IV only.

Is phantasy Star online counts as sequel?.

I played it a lot as a kid, never getting far. One year I made it a fair ways into the game and then rage quit at a certain death. Didn't beat the game until I emulated it years later with a speed up function and guides. Rough around the edges.

I forced myself to complete the first dungeon and just lost all motivation about an hour later.

I still can't get over the fact they made the *introductory dungeon* so goddamn long that by the end of it you're fighting the powered up pallet swap trope of enemies you fought on the first floor. >_>

Not to mention the dungeon design was just fucking awful and seemed designed just to waste time. <_<

Just 3 and 4

Yes

Yes, on Genesis

I have a semi active save file for the GBA quadrilogy where I'm trying to get through 2. It's kind of a struggle sometimes with these older games. I finished 1 before that and wow did it age poorly.

I might have originally tried it on Sega Channel? I remember I played an RPG or two in that, but it was so long ago I don't remember which it was. I got Sega Channel because my parents were trying to make it up to me that my sister got the SNES and we both preferred it.

Played quite a bit on the dreamcast

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Considering I own Phantasy Star I-IV? Yes.

Yes, but I've never played the whole game. The dungeon maps are so terrible that the furthest I've gotten is when you have to go to all those dams or whatever. Even with the map that came with the game, they were still awful

Thankfully, I bought it used so there was an end game file that let me kind of piece together everything that happened.

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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

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This. >_>