Sadly Phantasy Star III isn't very good either. If you you are wanting to play it to completion you'll have to commit to the reality of grinding, check out character profiles and when you have the four you want don't bother grinding up anybody else, and do yourself a favour of looking up dungeon maps as it will make the game much less painful.

It's great as a history piece but it has not aged well. Because of that I did not have very much actual fun playing it for the same reasons you listed. I played Phantasy Star II for the first time back in 2010 so it didn't have any nostalgia factor with me. I finished generation 1 without using a guide but generation II is way harder, I don't know, why the hell did they design it like that. I don't know, am I doing something wrong or the game is hard for no reason. And what made me rage quit, that companion who are going to join you after the first dungeon are level 1, and one of my main is level 30 and with the experience being split now four ways instead of two, you have to grind some more so they don't get KO after one hit from random low level monsters.

The grinding is through the roof, in the first dungeon, one of the characters even reached level 30, and I'm just 3 hours into the game. You can't run from battle 99% of the time, even if the enemy is weak that can be killed in one turn using level 1 attack, you just can't. The first dungeon is complex with useless dead ends that doesn't contain any chests and with the high encounter rate it get tedious fast. The encounter rate is too damn high, whether in the over world or in the dungeon, every 3 steps you have random battler, even the music can't get itself to loop because of random battle interruption. I chosen to play remake for the expanded story and (well better graphics), I finished first one, while it wasn't bad but was nothing to write home about, the story was very light which I understand because it was the first Jrpg for sega.īut holy fucking shit Phantasy star generation II, is the first JRPG game to make me rage quit, and I have played many hard and tactical SRPG but god damn. I have decided to play the phantasy Star main numbered series I - IV.

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