Bleah
Just finished Phantasy Star Portable and there's just so many things that just annoy me. Maybe I'm just scrutinizing on petty crap but I dunno...maybe it's because I see "Phantasy Star" and I'm disillusioned that I'm supposed to be playing an actual Phantasy Star game.
So I very much enjoyed the series since Phantasy Star 2 on Genesis, brother rented it one day from Phar-Mor (long since defunct) when they had a video rental section. Then borrowed it from a friend and replayed it many times thereafter.
It came when Final Fantasy only had 1 and "2" (aka IV) and I really didn't have much say in RPG's at the time. Plus I didn't own a Super Nintendo. Being so drastically different and actually being hard and time consuming for once (I found Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy being way too easy for being such big title games) yet still story driven, I liked it. Two other worlds to explore, English didn't make too much sense and the dialogue was too minimal for me to figure out what was going on at the time (pieced it together later and understood it), but there was a lot to the game I liked. Plus I guess I was an anime geek at the time, plus I liked the cheesy soundtrack.
Can't say I cared much for Phantasy Star III, although I did go through the pains of getting every single ending possible, which became really easy after the 3rd playthrough.
Phantasy Star IV, while I didn't enjoy quite as much as II (although it was far more expansive and the macros were...a little too much for me, but at least wasn't forced upon you), was still something I liked to play especially since all three games (to some extent) were still connected to each other although IV moreso than III.
Now fast forward to Phantasy Star Online. Yeah I could forgive the fact that it has very little to do with the PS universe, it even integrated some elements from the series along with amusing easter eggs or just fun stuff (like a Sega Saturn mag). The story was pretty thin but at least it could explain that the game was taking place in a completely different universe altogether and Dark Force could expand beyond that of Algol (to "Ragol" which sounds suspiciously close...). Sure there were still Humans, Numans (or Newms/Newearls), and Casts, but whatever I can live with the unexplained reasons those races exist in other worlds too.
The game was fun though as long as you could disconnect yourself from (or never played) the original Phantasy Star games, and because the references to the old games were pretty minimal, it was fine. I liked it, it was new.
Since then, it's been PSO Episode 1 & 2, PSO Episode 1 & 2 Plus, PSO Episode III (C.A.R.D. Revolution), PSO Blue Burst, and Phantasy Star Universe. Now Phantasy Star Portable takes place where PSU left off.
Here's the problem I have. Sega, why the heck can't you make a Phantasy Star V? It's been something fans have been asking for years, kind of like, you know, another Streets of Rage game. I mean, there's obviously enough material to make a new game, it's just freaking doing it. It sure beats using REFERENCES from the PS series yet leaving all the elements out from the original series.
I mean, c'mon. Moatoob/Motavia. Newdaiz/Dezolis. Parum/Palma. Landeel/Landale. Gahhh seriously. Yeah it's great you're redoing the series from the PSO standpoint but why keep teasing people? Just rename the stupid series and make it it's own franchise. Blah.
And using the excuse the The Profound Darkness may have shut down possibilities for sequels, but then what's with Dark Force/Falz in PSO?
It's almost like people are purposely mispelling everything to make it bootleg.
Needless to say, I think I'm going to start a brand new character. Hah.
So I very much enjoyed the series since Phantasy Star 2 on Genesis, brother rented it one day from Phar-Mor (long since defunct) when they had a video rental section. Then borrowed it from a friend and replayed it many times thereafter.
It came when Final Fantasy only had 1 and "2" (aka IV) and I really didn't have much say in RPG's at the time. Plus I didn't own a Super Nintendo. Being so drastically different and actually being hard and time consuming for once (I found Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy being way too easy for being such big title games) yet still story driven, I liked it. Two other worlds to explore, English didn't make too much sense and the dialogue was too minimal for me to figure out what was going on at the time (pieced it together later and understood it), but there was a lot to the game I liked. Plus I guess I was an anime geek at the time, plus I liked the cheesy soundtrack.
Can't say I cared much for Phantasy Star III, although I did go through the pains of getting every single ending possible, which became really easy after the 3rd playthrough.
Phantasy Star IV, while I didn't enjoy quite as much as II (although it was far more expansive and the macros were...a little too much for me, but at least wasn't forced upon you), was still something I liked to play especially since all three games (to some extent) were still connected to each other although IV moreso than III.
Now fast forward to Phantasy Star Online. Yeah I could forgive the fact that it has very little to do with the PS universe, it even integrated some elements from the series along with amusing easter eggs or just fun stuff (like a Sega Saturn mag). The story was pretty thin but at least it could explain that the game was taking place in a completely different universe altogether and Dark Force could expand beyond that of Algol (to "Ragol" which sounds suspiciously close...). Sure there were still Humans, Numans (or Newms/Newearls), and Casts, but whatever I can live with the unexplained reasons those races exist in other worlds too.
The game was fun though as long as you could disconnect yourself from (or never played) the original Phantasy Star games, and because the references to the old games were pretty minimal, it was fine. I liked it, it was new.
Since then, it's been PSO Episode 1 & 2, PSO Episode 1 & 2 Plus, PSO Episode III (C.A.R.D. Revolution), PSO Blue Burst, and Phantasy Star Universe. Now Phantasy Star Portable takes place where PSU left off.
Here's the problem I have. Sega, why the heck can't you make a Phantasy Star V? It's been something fans have been asking for years, kind of like, you know, another Streets of Rage game. I mean, there's obviously enough material to make a new game, it's just freaking doing it. It sure beats using REFERENCES from the PS series yet leaving all the elements out from the original series.
I mean, c'mon. Moatoob/Motavia. Newdaiz/Dezolis. Parum/Palma. Landeel/Landale. Gahhh seriously. Yeah it's great you're redoing the series from the PSO standpoint but why keep teasing people? Just rename the stupid series and make it it's own franchise. Blah.
And using the excuse the The Profound Darkness may have shut down possibilities for sequels, but then what's with Dark Force/Falz in PSO?
It's almost like people are purposely mispelling everything to make it bootleg.
Needless to say, I think I'm going to start a brand new character. Hah.