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Message: [QUOTE="Ikagura, post: 193485, member: 6930"] Phantasy Star IV is quite the quintessential entry in the whole franchise, a bit of a shame we'll never see Phantasy Star CD ever (unless someone created an MSU-1 style SCD romhack)... I thought there were only 3 Classic entries because of the GBA compilation (PS Collection) from the early 00's but I've discovered about IV The End of the Millennium with the PSP Genesis compilation which contained 2 - 3 - 4. Which makes me still wonder why Sega hasn't ever made a full Classic Collection containing all 4 entries, the two Game Gear spin-offs as well as the Text Adventure that served as a prequel to Phantasy Star II on consoles and PC... I know they made it for the PS2 under the Sega Ages 2500 Collection but it was Japan exclusive and honestly I don't feel like doing them in another language than English. [ATTACH type="full" width="239px" alt="1746436556093.jpeg"]65948[/ATTACH] There were remakes of 1 and 2 but they were quite low-cost and I understand why they haven't made it for 3 nor 4. PSO PC is quite a rare version I think because it was meant for the Asian market (thus why they've added Korean and Chinese languages exclusively to that version, not even Episode 1&2 got them). When I was younger I assumed that Episode 2 existed in standalone and that Episode 1&2 was a compilation but it's just Sega being confusing with the naming of their enhanced versions. I think that either internally or from fans it's dubbed as "PSO Ver.3" (to include both the GC and original Xbox ports). Blue Burst is the most complete version of Online so far but the issue is that you'll need online connection to a private server and some of them may change the rules (maybe a bit too much like Destiny and Ultima) so you'd go for the more purist approach like Ephinea (despite some QoL improvements). Ultimately you'd have to download and host your own private Blue Burst server to simulate a single player game but then again it'll mean you couldn't play with other people unless they can connect to your server. PSU is a bit of a mess to me because I'm not fan of being forced to play as Ethan even if I appreciate seeing a fully fledged single player story mode. Extra Mode is basically like Online but in solo where you have your custom Guardian but you'll only unlock it after completing the fourth Chapter of the main game (why Sega, why?). Ambition of the Illuminus is a tricky one, it's both an extension like PSO Ver.2 but also a sequel (which is basically Episode 2). I liked the slight political story about human supremacists in this compared to "the evil SEED alien invading the Ghural system" which is a bit too cliche imo but in the same time the solo campaign felt so much cheaper and almost like an afterthought. [/QUOTE]

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