Hello everyone! Let me give you a little synopsis of my history with Phantasy Star.
I started with PSP2, and immediately fell in love. It's definitely one of the best games I've ever played. However, I wasn't satisfied with my knowledge on Phantasy Star. When I like something, I tend to want to know EVERYTHING about it.
This lead me to start the infamous PSO. I got up to the epic dragon fight, and loved every minute of its nostalgic gameplay, however I quit due to having nobody to play with after that.
Years go by, and I now find myself wanting to experience this series in full.
I got PSP2i, and I'm super excited to start it. I've played Japanese games before (grr, Tales) so I'm not concerned about that. However...
I decided instead to play through every other Phantasy Star game first, to truly understand and respect the series.
In this past week, I finished Phantasy Star I, II, III, and am currently halfway through IV. I also started playing PSO again, and am coincidentally at the dragon fight yet again. (Yet again alone as well.)
I can't describe my joy at understanding the series more and more. It's a gift that keeps on giving, and I know I'm going to make it through PSP2i with 10x the amount of satisfaction at seeing all of the references I wouldn't have gotten if I hadn't played the other games.
This lead me to come here, as now I'm brimming with questions. Questions that, as I have seen thus far, are hard answered.
If I were to ask about the connections between all of the games and their sub-series, where would it be best asked? Is there a general story section?
Speaking of the series, I wanted to know if I was correct in my assumption...
From what I can tell, Phantasy Star is split into 3 distinct series.
-The original 4 games, chronicling the Algol system,
-PSO, with Coral and Ragol, including PSO2 and possibly PS0 (zero)?
-Lastly, PSU and the Gurhal system, including PSP1 and 2 (and Infinity)
I'm really excited to learn more and more about this series! I'll finish Phantasy Star IV soon, and see if I can get a little farther in PSO.
Anyway, that's enough of a post for now. I'm happy to join PSO-World as a budding fan of Phantasy Star! Nice to meet all of you!
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