Phantasy Star Generation:4
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Phantasy Star IV, released in Japan as Phantasy Star: The End of the Millennium (ファンタシースター 千年紀の終りに), is a role-playing video game released for the Mega Drive/Genesis in Japan in 1993 and Europe and North America in 1995. It is the fourth and final game in the original Phantasy Star series, concluding the story of the Algol Star System. It was the last Phantasy Star game until Phantasy Star Online (2000), which has a mainly unrelated story.[1]
The game was also made available on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on June 24, 2008, in the PAL regions on November 14, 2008, and in North America on December 22, 2008, for the price of 800 Wii Points.[2] Phantasy Star IV is also part of the Sega Genesis Collection on the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable and on Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Phantasy Star IV kept many of the gameplay elements of the previous game, including turn-based battles, overhead exploration, and magic spells. It received mixed reviews upon its release, but has been subject to positive critical retrospectives.
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Phantasy Star Generation:4 is a comprehensive retranslation and relocalization of PSIV, utilizing fan-translated PS scripts and resources and PS team interview, and created by a professional writer/editor team. As SEGA canceled “Phantasy Star Generation:4″ many years ago, this project aimed to create a definitive, series-ending Phantasy Star experience.
Goals:
Restore every mistranslated connection to the other PS games
Incorporate The Cutting Room Floor’s retranslation notes to best express Japanese creators’ meaning & intent in all dialog, esp. story dialog
A more colloquial, fun, and emotional script (from NPCs to main story)
Add PS lore gathered from PS team interviews and official SEGA resources
Add depth to character personalities and relationships
Explain the few plot holes and character choices that had been given no in-game reasoning (see project site for details – spoilers)
Proper grammar and capitalization
Restore censored content (A couple monsters readded)
Item descriptions for those that had none
Minor endgame character / item rebalancing
More accurate translation of proper nouns/items/monsters/etc.
Made some vague PS-series lore connections more obvious
Translated “comedic” character’s mis- and untranslated jokes
Include lory1990 bugfixes
8.0 - See readme for full - story dialog edits, typo/line break fixes, minor PS lore additions from PSII Text Adventures, PSGen1, and PSGen2 7.7 - Minor script enhancements/typos fixes 7.5 - Minor script revisions and review, mainly for Purist edition 7.0 - “Generation 4″ added to title screen thanks to BGE (French Phantasy Star IV fan translation)
Graphics/sound are unmodified from SEGA’s English release, besides Title Screen & adding in monsters present in Japanese that were censored in the West.
Features a few minor item/weapon buffs, plus updated descriptions, and also brand-new descriptions based on PS lore for items that had none.
Please visit the project website for more screenshots and “director” notes. (https://gamesdonelegit.com/phantasy-star-iv-generation-4-psiv-romhack-relocalization/)
Contact the author for a custom patch if you have different preferences for character names or other proper nouns!
“Found in Fanslation” podcast on the project site interviews key contributors to this project and to PS fandom for Westerners to enjoy.
Let’s Play Creator’s Commentary on YouTube (Complete):
If you're otherwise a fan of Working Designs-style RPG writing style (specifically Lunar and Lunar: EB on SEGA CD), you might best enjoy the additions.
NOTE on Character Names/Proper Nouns: Almost every English-speaking PS fan has their preferences for PS terms. Feel free to contact the author (if you'd like a version with all Japanese names, for instance) about custom patches.
More project info, screenshots, etc. at: [url]https://gamesdonelegit.com/phantasy-star-iv-generation-4-psiv-romhack-relocalization/
The author welcomes all feedback, good and bad. Make your voice heard so this can be even better!
More than 4 years of feedback helped make this project what it is today, which is aimed to bring you the optimal way to experience the best multi-game RPG tale in classic gaming – Phantasy Star!
★ Complete with Case, manual, gamecartridge
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★ Gameplay (In-Game) : English
★ Box / Manual : English
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