You know Japan, I've been thinking, and realized I kind of hope you die some days. You get every freaking game I want while I sit over here in the US festering in my hopes that even one of these titles will get imported, and they never do, and I played Phantasy Star games faithfully as a child but what do I get, a get an INCOMPLETE COLLECTION ON THE GAMEBOY ADVANCE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN PHANTASY STAR IV, WHAT KIND OF CRAP IS THAT?
*deep breath*
Yeah, anyway, Japan gets Phantasy Star Collection for the PS2 on March 27th. I think there's more information, but I'm not sure what it is, exactly. From a translated Famitsu page:
Some no-claims bonus will be with the report/ratio like the possibility of accelerating the speed of play (displacements, texts, etc.) and the access to modes of difficulty a little easier than at the time.
I definitely don't read moonspeak, but looking at the screenshots (see gallery) you will see there is an option to set the game's difficulty to "very easy." So basically, what Sega has done here is take one of the most beautifully challenging RPG series of all time and given you an option to play it without challenge. Person at Sega who thought up this brilliant plan, I hope you die in a house fire.
Also interesting to note, a few of the screens look like the fabled text adventure Phantasy Stars that we talked about in last week's RFGO, so I can't help but wonder if those have been added into this version of the game too. You know, to add insult to injury that this game will never come out in America. Did I mention Phantasy Star Collection will retail for about $15? That price had better be wrong.
I hate you, Japan.
[Via Famitsu - thanks, Justin]
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12:26 PM on 02.29.2008
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GIVE ME THIS IN ENGLISH NOW. I'll even settle for engrish
And about japanese, well, I can speak it a bit, but since it takes me 3 hours to play 30min of FFV on the super famicom, I'm waiting at least until summer to re-try (I,ve got about 50 super famicom games!!!).
How willing are you to play these titles.
SEGA can keep Phantasy Star Universe in Japan and release the others.
Even though the GBA collection is incomplete, between that and the Sega Genesis Collection on PS2/PSP you can have Phantasy Star I-IV in slightly easier to locate form. On a side note, I started Phantasy Star the other day for the first real time (as opposed to the 5 minutes of dicking around I did when I bought the GBA collection a year ago.)