As one of the dying breed of Sega kids, it's my duty to sing the praises of anything Phantasy Star related. Siliconera brings us news of a new PS release that may make if you happy if your Japanese language ability is leveled up.
The Sega Ages 2500: Phantasy Star Complete Collection hits Japan on March 27th. The PlayStation 2 title includes all four classic Genesis/Master System RPGs as well as eight Phantasy Star II text adventures Sega released online in the 1990s.
This being a Japanese release, your only alternatives are the Sega Genesis Collection (PS2), which contains Phantasy Star II through IV, or the Phantasy Star Collection (GBA), which gives you the first three games. Sure, you could import the Sega Ages 2500: Phantasy Star Complete Collection, but that won't change those PSII text adventures to English.
Do you think we'll see this in the US? Where the hell are the remakes at? Were you a Phantasy Star kid? Do you still have hand-drawn graph maps of the dungeons like I do?
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10:09 AM on 01.17.2008
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The only one I played was Universe...
http://pscave.com/fangames/amia/
http://pscave.com/fangames/nei/
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only PS fanatic on DTOID.
I know everyone rags on III, but I loved that one. With some retooling and toning down the encounter rate, it'd be a really awesome remake.
1st one I played was on the DC and my buddy stole his net connection for that one, it was a pretty cool game at the time.
and if everyone just forgot about PSU..that'd be awesome.
and screw psu. i preordered that game cause I was so excited and found myself severerly disappointed. it took everything I love about ps and pso and destroyed it. my heart never fully recovered.
If this Collection is anything like the other Sega Ages Collections, the "Overseas" English versions of the SMS & Genesis games will be included in it. That doesn't help the Text Adventures, but at least that fan group is translating those.
I'm starting to think Sega doesn't want to make good games anymore.
Someone seriously needs to make a translation for this, because we know it's not coming here.
WANTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Goes to Japan.
Heres a cool idea. I Phantasy Star collection for PSP, PS2 and Wii. Translate those PS2 Sega Ages remakes and include the original games.
Dammit why does such a great game such as Phantasy Star have to be so underrated??
Dont get me started on the Genesis days of Sega and their underrated titles.