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At the end of this month Phantasy Star: Complete Collection comes out in Japan. Besides bundling the four offline Phantasy Star games on one disc, Sega is adding interface tweaks. The movement speed option does just what it says. Playing with it makes the party run faster. Characters in Phantasy Star I can walk twice as fast. In Phantasy Star II and III the party can move up to four times faster.
Back when Phantasy Star II came out it was a challenge. Compared to modern RPGs it’s a beast. To make the four classics more accessible Sega has a novice difficulty option too. Players can chose between Normal, Easy and Very Easy. The easier levels reduce encounters and grant more Meseta/experience from fights.
Individual games offer a few changes too like hiragana for Phantasy Star I (note: the original was completely in katakana) and extra save slots for Phantasy Star III. So far there isn’t any sign the English ROMs will be part of the package and unfortunately they probably won’t.
Update: As Savory points out there really is an English language option in Phantasy Star: Complete Collection. Thanks for pointing this out.
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5 Responses to “Play classic Phantasy Star at warp speed”
March 13th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Actually, if you look at the Phantasy Star Collection page on the Sega Ages site, it shows a screen shot with in-game English text:
http://ages.sega.jp/vol32/
Look at the Nei shot from PSII. I hope this is a good indication the English versions are in it.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:53 am
@jeffx - Octomania is being distributed by Atlus, but Conspiracy still has a hand with it. Actually, Atlus partnered with them to bring Panzer Tactics DS to a wider audience too.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:57 am
@Savory - Wow! Thanks for pointing it out. After reading the adjacent caption there is an English option. I’m pretty surprised Sega is including both sets of ROMs here.
March 13th, 2008 at 9:40 am
i see in the tags section that you added ps2 as a tag, but i think maybe you should mention what system this is for somewhere in the article or headline. coming from the main page, i wasn’t sure … unless i missed something, which is entirely possible.
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March 13th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Such a shame this won’t see an English release. I remember when Conspiracy Entertainment were slotted to localize the previous compilation. Now look at the crap they’re releasing… except Octomania. Their page says Q4 2007. What happened with that, Spencer? Wasn’t that eventually picked up by Atlus??