Playing PS2 for the first time

>Very first line of the game
>"PS1 was all just a dream lol"

We're off to a great start.

It never says that. He has a dream about the events of phantasy Star 1 which happened a thousand years ago.

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>First time playing PS2
>Nei learns Sak in the middle of a dungeon
>hey i wonder what this does
>try it

6/10 made me grin pretty big.

Wrong

Phantasy Star is the only JRPG that has decent continuity that I know of.

Phantasy Star 1 is about Alis and her crew killing King Lassic who has gone insane due to some cursed armor. You find out Dark force is behind it and kill him.

Phantasy Star 2 you play as a descendant of Alis and it's about the computer that controls Motavia's environment goes nuts and you find out the reason is humans from Earth came here to control you and they were brought here by dark force. Palma is destroyed in this one.

Phantasy Star 3 is about the descendants of the survivors on Palma that escaped it's destruction in giant space ships. They were on the ships for thousands of years and it turns out part of dark force got onto the ships with them and has been destroying them one at a time

Phantasy Star 4 is back in algol 1000 years after the events of 2. Due to the destruction of Palma dark force can't be put back to sleep so you have to kill him for good.

I actually wish RPGs did more of that instead of "we assume no one played the previous games so we have to tread the same ground again". Just continue the fucking the fucking story.

There's a lot of shit that ties into it, too, like the telecom games that tell the "before" stories of PS2's characters, and the weird CD drama that takes place before PS4.

Sega in general liked to try interesting stuff back then, like PS3's generational system(I guess agarest war took another stab at that? I haven't played them.)

I liked the three-game set of Shining Force 3, too, where each game was telling the same ongoing story from a different Force's perspective, and the shit you did in each game would affect characters and events in the next one. Asking people to buy three games seperately for that was kinda retarded though.

>I liked the three-game set of Shining Force 3, too, where each game was telling the same ongoing story from a different Force's perspective, and the shit you did in each game would affect characters and events in the next one. Asking people to buy three games seperately for that was kinda retarded though.

It was Fates before Fates, but actually good. I'm just glad fan translators exist or we would've never had the chance to play SF3 in its entirety.

Demi best girl.

>best character in the game
>only usable for a short time prior to the final dungeon
Bringing Raja was like playing on easymode, why the fuck was he so good.

>tfw even if you made her your waifu, she will cuck you in favor of your car, washer and dryer, or any other powerful and useful machinery you have around the home

Living with Demi is feeling constantly inferior to your electric screwdriver, and not fully understanding why.

Why is Rolf with the Phantasy Star 4 cast?

If you mean in the front row with the staff, that's Kyra.

Oh, right, the psychic chick. I completely forgot she existed.

>comparing shining force to fates
no, just no

I need to play this again.

Is Universe/Illuminus/Portable good? In terms of story mode, I mean.
Is it actually true that I need to watch Episode 3 on YT?

I like how kinda control your end game difficulty by choosing a companion
>Gryz is a useless piece of shit that will probably turn the game hard
>Raja wrecks shit like noone's fucking business

Portable 2 is pretty decent. I don't remember if it emulates well though. I think PPSSPP fixed the halfway-in-the-floor problem, but IIRC there were other issues with it.

Universe/Illuminus is pretty decent, but yeah. episode 3 was online only(as was episode 2 before illuminus), so until that clementine private server gets up to fully playable status - if it ever does - that's what you're stuck with for now.

I thought OP meant Playstation at first, I was so confused.

I emulated it a while ago on the recent version, played a couple of hours without issues. Pretty good.

>that's what you're stuck with for now.
Welp, time to find a decent playlist for Ep3 once I finish with Illuminus.
Thanks, user.

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This is where I sort of stopped playing PS2. Fighting her with three people, after that long-ass trek through the dungeon, and she hits like an angry freight train on steroids. Fuck me.

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>"PS1 was all just a dream lol"
You idiot. That is neither implied or true. PS1 happened.

>King Lassic who has gone insane due to some cursed armor.
Yer just making stuff up. That's not the deal at all. He's just a Dark Force worshipper.

Also, why are you randomly spoiling the games? At least your summaries are inaccurate as shit.

>PS1
>Motavians are rat Jawas
>PS4
>Motavians are now cute fuzzy bird things

What happened?

>game has spells in a made up language, so you can't just look at the spell name and assume what it is
>game provides no text to describe what it does

for what fucking purpose

Git gud, user. The game is not really that hard, aside from insane dungeons.

>Universe
No. Like the gameplay the setting is ambitious but falls flat, and the characters are arse.
>Illuminus
An improvement in both story and gameplay, but in the end can't fix what is fundamentally flawed. Practically no new single player content.
>Portable
No. Universe offline with even worse story and talking heads/visual novel cutscenes.
>Portable 2
Fixes a LOT that needed fixing, but ironically throws away the few good gameplay ideas that Universe had. Missions are now the same every time you play them, there's only a single small lobby area, no towns. But a some annoying shit has been removed too. Story is talking heads again and the English language version has had the voices removed! Only the Jap-exclusive Infinity version is worth playing.

>Is it actually true that I need to watch Episode 3 on YT?
Yes. They're online only and the game is dead.

The instruction manual states he was given an evil suit of armor from the priests of a new religion then he began turning evil.

If you can't handle the game dropping heavy bombs at you right at the beginning maybe you should play something else?

>mfw I share the same name as the PS4 lead.

Back then games had instruction manuals your were supposed to read.