Shining Force and Phantasy Star are my top 2 picks. Theres money on the table and im glad these japanese companies recognizing the opportunities here. Lets do this!!
Shining series still exists but stopped being Tactical RPG series long ago. We only got like two of those games localized (Shining Tears and Shining Resonance)
I'm 40 years old, and Phantasy Star on the Master System was my first RPG. It was the game that taught me what an RPG was, and from then on, it became my favorite genre alongside fighting games. If SEGA ever revives the classic Phantasy Star, I won't be able to contain my excitement.
@@alkristopherI believe there's plenty of room, especially after reading *Phantasy Star Millennium Continuity Story* by Kazuyoshi Tsugawa and hearing about Yoshibon's *Phantasy Star: Delusion* idea. Both stories were drafts for the continuation of *Phantasy Star IV* until SEGA decided to go for online reboots. In any case, *Phantasy Star III* is set 1,000 years after *Phantasy Star IV* and those endings are also open.
@@alkristopher How could there be no room for a sequel? Its a video game not Lord of The Rings.Just make a new cast of characters in a realm and a new date.
Shining Force 3, either re-released in HD or even better a Remake. That would be a dream come true. Dragon Force. Panzer Dragoon Saga. A man can dream, right?
So overwhelmingly happy that many comments talk about Shining Force. If they revive that series it will be a dream come true. Shining Force 2 was, is and will be my favorite game of all time. So glad i am on this channel.
Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Making games that people loved is a good business strategy???? I would've never guessed! Man at this point i can be the CEO of a video game company
Shining Force series (maybe 2 gets the treatment Resurrection of Dark Dragon got), and the Phantasy Stars series would be so great to see with some more modern updates. Always enjoy the energy you bring to your videos
SF would need a more radical rework in order to be a competitive product nowadays, because of how the public is so used to optimized and refined srpgs. Even the SF Gba remake is very rough for respecting too much the old formula. A modern SF (remake or not) would have to be optimized in the same sense of how Fire Emblem after the Gba gen was heavily optimized compared to the early games. Now I just don't have a definitive opinion about going 2d or 3d. Or if it goes 3d, I have doubts about the characters being either more cartoony/deformed (3ds FE) or less deformed (Switch FE).
Wanted (I bought all the Phantasy Star single player games at launch): 1. Octopath graphics 2. Auto battle 3. Easy grind 4. All 4 games in 1 5. Phantasy Star V
I would love Skies of Arcadia, Shining Force, Dragon Force,, and Phantasy Star being active again. Newer but I would also like a new Valkyria Chronicles game Maybe a 7th Dragon collection Edit: And a Sakura Wars turn based games collection preferably having at least the first five main games and the two GBC games. And we know Phantasy Star IV wasn't the final battle against Dark Force so there's no reason there couldn't be games set later.
Just revive old good Overworks (AM1+AM7) series like Phantasy Star, Dragon Force, Magic Knight Rayearth, Sakura Wars (original games), Skies of Arcadia, Valkyria Chronicles, 7th Dragon, Shinobi, Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, The House of The Dead. All their franchises are now barely alive (Valkyria Chronicles, Sakura Wars, Phantasy Star) or dead.
@@tommylakindasorta3068 its not big deal, this is normal thing in japanese games / anime, and also PS4 reboot did that (Azami have 13 years old, Kamyiama is 20 years old). And if you played those games, you know its more like old Brother - little Sister relationship, not a romance, so there is no pedophilia in this series. More problem would be censorship and Woke localization, especially with Baragumi in Sakura Wars 2, when game makes joke about transexual and homosexual people.
@@tommylakindasorta3068 I figure that route goes something like the youngest princess route in Great Greed. No actual romance, or at least nothing remotely physical until a several year timeskip has passed. (Since the romance in Great Greed is just picking your preferred princess after the final battle and you could save pre-choice I made a save on my original copy so I could see the results of every choice)
Finally! I would LOVE to see a proper remaster of Phantasy Star 1-4. Sega has so many loved IPs that have not been given the attention they deserve. Thanks for the info.
@@davidvinc Agreed. I even liked the Panzer Dragoon remaster. Sad to not hear anything about a Panzer Dragoon 2 or Panzer Dragoon Saga remaster or even a re-release :( I would also love to see a remaster or a re-release of Burning Rangers.
Hiroyuki Takahashi's studio, Climax Entertainment, also worked on Landstalker and its sequels, Lady Stalker and Dark Savior, and his brother Shugo founded Camelot, where Hiroyuki would move to and become its president in around 1996-1997. The Takahashi brothers also worked on Golden Sun.
I really NEED classic style Phantasy Star to come back T _T I started my RPG journey with Dragon Quest and Phantasy Star, with both of those still being my favorites.
About that... i have serious doubts if a possible modern PS (remake or not) would be turn based. Sega doesn't seem to value these games after all since they are abandoned. So there are chances that it's turn based and chances that it's another thing.
A full Shining Force 3 remake/remaster would be the best thing ever. We only had one CD in the West, whch is such a shame! It was such an ambitious title! Pretty much what Radiant Dawn would do, 10 years earlier!
Remasters of all the Shining Force games would be awesome, especially for those of us who've never finished the old games since our Sega Genesis/Megadrives couldn't handle multiple hours of play time.
Remasters? Remakes? Sequels? Reboots? Any of it, all of it, please! Phantasy Star was my first (and preferred) RPG series before I ever played Breath of Fire or Final Fantasy. I would cry for joy to get Phantasy Star 2-4 HD-2D remakes.
Technically Sega started reviving old series since 2018/2019, when Shuji Utsumi & Haruki Satomi started working in Sega as a president / Chief Executive of Sega. They resumed: Valkyria Chronicles in 2018 (Haruki Satomi favourite Sega franchise, along with Yakuza), Sakura Wars in 2019 (Shuji Utsumi favourite Sega franchise), Samba De Amigo in 2022, and now Virtua Fighter in 2024. Haruki Satomi even worked on first Valkyria Chronicles on PS3, as a executive manager.
Hey Dave, did you know that most of the team that did Phantasy Star IV created Skies of Arcadia? And it's funny that you should mention landstalker being reminisce of Alundra. The Landstalker team made Alundra.
Remake and give sequels to ALL of them. Phantasy Star, Shining Force (And for the love of The Lord, KEEP THE OLD ART STYLE! And also less Humans and more Non-Humans.), Skies of Arcadia, Dragon Force, Panzer Dragoon Saga, etc.
The Game Boy Advance had the first three games bundled together, and was my introduction to the series. Most Sega Genesis/MD collections include the last three games, and some have the first as an unlockable title.
Phantasy Star, Altered Beast, After Burner, Alex the Kidd, Ecco the Dolphin, so many great, great games that have gone dark since Sega stopped making consoles. I cannot wait to see some of these revived. Phantasy Star in particular had some remasters that never made it here to the states, that I wanted to play so very, very badly when they were announced. I'd LOVE to see those brought over.
New Phantasy Star would be great! I'm making prayers to gods of blast processing that Sega really brings back lotsa old game series, new games and remasters! :)
Don't play with my heart, David. There is only so much I can handle, and a Phantasy Star revival might be too much (specially Phantasy Star Portable 👀)! 😍
Phantasy Star IV is a good choice. Phantasy Star III is an even better one. Why touch perfection when there's a perfectly good diamond in the rough that could actually benefit from such polishing?
Interessing how you like PS III. Is rare (i'm too like it)! The concept os generatiosn and choices on game was inovations, and to came some re-play's factor. Without count the grafics of sprites, is beatifull, most beauty than the PS II (my prefer, was my frist). Only thing is not nice is the battle system...these enemy's sprites move only one frame is very terrible!
a new modern Shining Force is probably one of my biggest wishes of my entire life, make a good looking modern SF 4 and I will buy it full price day one! and a Phantasy Star 5!!!
If only Sega wasn't blind to the potential of a modern SF. I have little hopes because nothing has been made... so Sega wasn't convinced of investing harder on SF even after the global breakthrough of Fire Emblem in the 00's. Like, there was that Gba remake of SF1, but it wasn't that good and clearly not enough. Sega in the 00's missed both the opportunity of the warmed up market for srpgs, and the opportunity of the handheld fever (Gba, Psp, Ds, 3ds, etc). Tragic, because an ambitious SF project (remake or not) had the best chances of doing great at that time, maybe on the Gba or Ds.
I remember buying a Sega Genesis (back when it was new) and asking the shop keeper for an RPG recommendation - as I had just gotten into them. They recommended Phantasy Star IV and it was such an amazing title. I would love a collection of the titles, both Genesis and the spin off GameGear ones for completion sake. I know other companies have done great collections recently - Capcom for example throwing in extras in theirs like promotional art, sketches, etc. They (SEGA) can do the same here. Go the extra mile, and include the original ROMs of the games - but also enhanced versions of the first three bringing them up to something closer to PSIV in terms of visuals and such; plus fixing of bugs, etc.
My idea for a new Phantasy Star: a thousand years or so have passed since PSIV. The Algo Star System has advanced and is peaceful. Colonists from Motavia and Dezoris are now settling a distant star system. All has gone well so far, but now a power struggle has broken out due to disagreements about what direction the colonies should take, and how much they should have to obey orders from back home. Your characters would belong to the familiar races (Palman, Motavian, Dezorian, Android, Numan, Musk Cat) and would hold familiar jobs like Hunter, Biologist, Machinist, Thief, Doctor, etc. So it would be a new story in a new setting with zero connection to the Dark Force saga, but it would use familiar tropes (abilities, equipment, enemies, etc.) and would have loose ties to what came before. Separate enough for new players, but rooted in lore enough to make old timers happy. Make the battle system, menu system, and overall anime-inspired look similar to what existed back in the day but update to current standards and tastes as necessary.
David, it's ONLY in Western countries that we see PS4 as being the literal "end" of the Profound Darkness and Dark Falz. At no point was this actually the case in Japan. They were going to make PS5 and were already planning it out before the Saturn was heavily pushed with online features, and instead of PS5, they decided on making a Phantasy Star Online experience. PS5 was never an issue, as it was the end of the Algol star system as the defacto holding cell for the Profound Darkness. Another 1,000 years or so and she'll be revived, as this is already baked into the lore. You can't destroy her, ever. Just defeat her physical form and she returns anyhow. It's just that she's no longer bound. Phantasy Star 4 was also deliberately chosen to take place BEFORE Phantasy Star 3; roughly 100~300 years. Meaning Dark Falz exists AFTER the defeat of its master. Meaning the Profound Darkness is just in reclusion as an energy source and unable to take form or have an individual will and direction. This is due to Eastern philosophy of good and evil versus Western bullshit. You can never truly destroy evil, as it's Yin and Yang and part of the whole. So long as light exists, so does darkness. Positive, so to does negative. You can overwhelm the other side, but the former will always be restored as it's intrinsically part of the system and existence. The profound darkness is more like the birthing of a will of darkness as a result of a lot of dark and evil deeds being carried out, alongside a need to balance existence as light takes actions, darkness has to also build itself in equal measure. It's just now an overwhelming situation as how do you write a story where the Profound Darkness can now spawn anywhere? Can hide itself? Do you take it from the perspective of tracking it down over multiple new games, by following the spawns of its will in the form of Dark Falz/Dark Force?
Those games are lame...The whole point of reviving the PS franchise is to bring back what made the CLASSICS great, not the generic schlock they call PS now.
@beebs_magoo Phantasy Star Universe was one of the best jrpgs on the PS2, it had a killer soundtrack, a story that kept you engaged, whether you played solo or co-op, likeable characters that were the just the right balance of serious and goofy. Also the theme song for both the base game and the expansion are all time classics to this day.
@@deathbykonami5487 Ewww, gross. Even back then, I couldn't stand it. They've abandoned the aesthetic and magic from the classic games in such a way that it could've been named anything else and nothing would've changed. Forgettable characters and music. It bums me out that this is what people think of when PS comes up. Generic animoo BS
That's legit amazing news. Sega has more banger abandonded franchises than most of their contemporaries have franchises period. As much as I played PSO, the original series ending has been a 30 year tragedy.at this point. I'd lay down serious coin to see the series continue, or even just to see remakes of the original in the vein of the Generation remasters they did of 1 and 2 on the PS2.
Phantasy Star being my favorite rpg of all time (IV to be exact but love the series as a whole as well) never clicked so fast on a video of yours. That image you used for Alis is pretty nice I got to say. Where did you nab it?
I played my first Phantasy Star game this year with PSIV on the NSO service. I did enjoy it a lot, enough to make me want to go play PSI and II. However, I am not sure if I want to deal with the older school sensibilities (I have found the 16 bit era is about as far back as I can comfortable go as someone who started gaming in 2000). Turns out, I won't need to since PS2 remakes were made back in the day for PSI and II, and, while passed on localization, fans have translated them. If anything, Sega needs to remaster those two and use them as a foundation to also remake III and IV (originally they were going to do IV for PS2--but not III) and/or build out into new numbered titles.
Shining Force and Phantasy Star are clear winners, if possible. Huge bonus if we get even just a port of Shining Force CD. What a fantastic game. Pretty sure it's on that recent retro console thing I can plug into a TV but I'd rather just have it on PlayStation (along with the whole series).
David, I was SO happy to see your video title this afternoon. I clicked on this video in .25 seconds man! I only had a Sega Mega drive growing up. My first RPGs were Shining Force followed by Phantasy Star 3. I know PS3 gets a lot of hate but that’s all I had as a kid and I remember loving it. I’m so happy these have a real shot at coming back. I love the new reincarnation of these older style games. They bring me back to a better time. They are more relaxed and still tell a great story. Even the newer IPs like Octopath and Triangle Strategy are great. Phantasy Star Remakes of 1-4 would be amazing followed by a new 5th one. Why did they ever stop!? Wish I could subscribe more than once pal love the videos.
I'm pretty sure they will continue changing own turn based franchises into button mashers, like they did with Phantasy Star, Shining Force, Valkyria Chronicles, and Sakura Wars. It's Sega, and they never learn.
love that style of anime aesthetics ,phantasy star is a great setting so that could be a hit in my book. I think having strayed from what made their money in the first place to chase trends and MORE money to end up wondering "where money?" is endemic to the gaming industry these days so you are on point there David.
Seeing a new Phantasy Star RPG in the same vein as Metaphor ReFantazio would be great ... but I dunno, what if some yahoo on the Sega executive board decides to "reimagine" Phantasy Star as a looter shooter, or a hero shooter? What if the idea is that only the name brand has value and not the classic game design philosophy?
This year I finaly played Phantasy Star 1 from start to end, next year I will Phantasy Star 2, I hope we can have a PSO1 Remaster or a PH1 remake or a PH5
Never could get into the Phantasy Star games. A Shining Force Revival would be pretty dope, though. Also 3:36 no need to apologize here, you said it correctly 👍
Just preordered the Phantasy Star tabletop RPG that’s due out this summer. Not at all how I was planning on going back to the Algol Star System, but I will absolutely take it.
Phantasy Star IV needs a remake for sure. Was one of the best RPGs of the era and way ahead of it's time.
Remake, no. Remaster, yes.
@@poppaaz I agree, game is awesome, needs a remaster, not a remake.
I would be down with the 2d/HD treatment.
I couldn't get too excited about a remake/remaster unless it was a prelude or companion to a new game.
Would rather they just make a new game.
Shining Force and Phantasy Star are my top 2 picks. Theres money on the table and im glad these japanese companies recognizing the opportunities here. Lets do this!!
They should give Shining Force to Vanillaware and Phantasy Star to Atlus.
Shining series still exists but stopped being Tactical RPG series long ago. We only got like two of those games localized (Shining Tears and Shining Resonance)
@@wererat42 horrible games, btw. They must return to SRPG
@wererat42 but give Force to Vanillaware. Or Valkyria Chronicles
Shining Force 1+2, CD, and the Gamegear titles were pretty much staples in my childhood. I would definitely buy that collection.
I'm 40 years old, and Phantasy Star on the Master System was my first RPG. It was the game that taught me what an RPG was, and from then on, it became my favorite genre alongside fighting games. If SEGA ever revives the classic Phantasy Star, I won't be able to contain my excitement.
I need Skies of Arcadia before I die.
THIS
What about it? Remake? Sequel?
@ totally fine with that.
Phatasy Star 4 is about as perfect as an RPG can be. It's wild that the series has been dormant for so long.
The series had a pretty definitive ending that really didn't leave any room for a sequel.
@@alkristopherI believe there's plenty of room, especially after reading *Phantasy Star Millennium Continuity Story* by Kazuyoshi Tsugawa and hearing about Yoshibon's *Phantasy Star: Delusion* idea. Both stories were drafts for the continuation of *Phantasy Star IV* until SEGA decided to go for online reboots. In any case, *Phantasy Star III* is set 1,000 years after *Phantasy Star IV* and those endings are also open.
@@alkristopher How could there be no room for a sequel? Its a video game not Lord of The Rings.Just make a new cast of characters in a realm and a new date.
A refresh of Phantasy Star 4, I would pre order instantly.
Shining Force 3, either re-released in HD or even better a Remake. That would be a dream come true. Dragon Force. Panzer Dragoon Saga. A man can dream, right?
Dragon Force, Shining Force, and Phantasy Star 3 (Lol. 1,2,and 4 of course).
Can’t thumbs up this comment enough.
For Panzer Dragoon Saga their ONLY option would be a from-the-ground-up Remake. The original source code is lost.
Listing my top three favorite Saturn games? Yes please~
@@brokenclavicle d&d warriors of the eternal sun remaster would be nice
Phantasy Star on Sega Master System was my first RPG. Thanks for sharing this great news!
I would give anything for a revival of the original RPG series of Phantasy Star
They’ve made enough sequels to phantasy Star 3
Just replayed PSIV for the first time since I was a kid, it holds up and I want more.
So overwhelmingly happy that many comments talk about Shining Force. If they revive that series it will be a dream come true. Shining Force 2 was, is and will be my favorite game of all time. So glad i am on this channel.
Step 1: Call Camelot
Step 2: Shining Force??
Step 3: Profit
Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Making games that people loved is a good business strategy???? I would've never guessed! Man at this point i can be the CEO of a video game company
Shining Force series (maybe 2 gets the treatment Resurrection of Dark Dragon got), and the Phantasy Stars series would be so great to see with some more modern updates.
Always enjoy the energy you bring to your videos
Thanks for the support!
SF would need a more radical rework in order to be a competitive product nowadays, because of how the public is so used to optimized and refined srpgs. Even the SF Gba remake is very rough for respecting too much the old formula. A modern SF (remake or not) would have to be optimized in the same sense of how Fire Emblem after the Gba gen was heavily optimized compared to the early games.
Now I just don't have a definitive opinion about going 2d or 3d. Or if it goes 3d, I have doubts about the characters being either more cartoony/deformed (3ds FE) or less deformed (Switch FE).
Thats why they delisted the Genesis collection.
Damn I would be so hype to see Phantasy Star make a comeback. Phantasy Star IV is what got me I to RPGs forever ago
Phantasy series has been my favorite early RPG to never get done modern justice, a full PS4 overhaul would be mind blowing.
Wanted (I bought all the Phantasy Star single player games at launch):
1. Octopath graphics
2. Auto battle
3. Easy grind
4. All 4 games in 1
5. Phantasy Star V
I would love Skies of Arcadia, Shining Force, Dragon Force,, and Phantasy Star being active again. Newer but I would also like a new Valkyria Chronicles game Maybe a 7th Dragon collection
Edit: And a Sakura Wars turn based games collection preferably having at least the first five main games and the two GBC games. And we know Phantasy Star IV wasn't the final battle against Dark Force so there's no reason there couldn't be games set later.
Just revive old good Overworks (AM1+AM7) series like Phantasy Star, Dragon Force, Magic Knight Rayearth, Sakura Wars (original games), Skies of Arcadia, Valkyria Chronicles, 7th Dragon, Shinobi, Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, The House of The Dead. All their franchises are now barely alive (Valkyria Chronicles, Sakura Wars, Phantasy Star) or dead.
OG Sakura Wars might be tough to release today, considering that the game lets you romance a 10-year-old.
@@tommylakindasorta3068 its not big deal, this is normal thing in japanese games / anime, and also PS4 reboot did that (Azami have 13 years old, Kamyiama is 20 years old). And if you played those games, you know its more like old Brother - little Sister relationship, not a romance, so there is no pedophilia in this series. More problem would be censorship and Woke localization, especially with Baragumi in Sakura Wars 2, when game makes joke about transexual and homosexual people.
@@tommylakindasorta3068 I figure that route goes something like the youngest princess route in Great Greed. No actual romance, or at least nothing remotely physical until a several year timeskip has passed. (Since the romance in Great Greed is just picking your preferred princess after the final battle and you could save pre-choice I made a save on my original copy so I could see the results of every choice)
Finally! I would LOVE to see a proper remaster of Phantasy Star 1-4. Sega has so many loved IPs that have not been given the attention they deserve. Thanks for the info.
It would be amazing to see these games get the love they deserve!
@@davidvinc Agreed. I even liked the Panzer Dragoon remaster. Sad to not hear anything about a Panzer Dragoon 2 or Panzer Dragoon Saga remaster or even a re-release :( I would also love to see a remaster or a re-release of Burning Rangers.
Hiroyuki Takahashi's studio, Climax Entertainment, also worked on Landstalker and its sequels, Lady Stalker and Dark Savior, and his brother Shugo founded Camelot, where Hiroyuki would move to and become its president in around 1996-1997. The Takahashi brothers also worked on Golden Sun.
As an RPG fan, I wonder what RPG series will be coming back!
I've clicked on your RPG news everyday waiting for this announcement.
It’s been a long time coming, right?
I really NEED classic style Phantasy Star to come back T _T
I started my RPG journey with Dragon Quest and Phantasy Star, with both of those still being my favorites.
About that... i have serious doubts if a possible modern PS (remake or not) would be turn based. Sega doesn't seem to value these games after all since they are abandoned. So there are chances that it's turn based and chances that it's another thing.
A full Shining Force 3 remake/remaster would be the best thing ever. We only had one CD in the West, whch is such a shame! It was such an ambitious title! Pretty much what Radiant Dawn would do, 10 years earlier!
Remasters of all the Shining Force games would be awesome, especially for those of us who've never finished the old games since our Sega Genesis/Megadrives couldn't handle multiple hours of play time.
I just wish they'd release even just a port of Panzer Dragoon Saga Complete.
I wholeheartedly endorse this. Hopefully it doesn't get trapped in copyright hell with Camelot, especially since the mobile adaptation fell through.
As long as they keep the campy English voice acting, I'm on board.
Yes please!
need phantasy star 1-4 remakes
Phantasy Star III especially needs it. The premise and narrative are amazing but the presentation is dreary.
An example of other media: A licensed Phantasy Star tabletop RPG has been announced for 2025.
Just preordered it. We need to show Sega that the fanbase will open up our wallets for their old IPs, no matter what form they take.
Remasters? Remakes? Sequels? Reboots? Any of it, all of it, please! Phantasy Star was my first (and preferred) RPG series before I ever played Breath of Fire or Final Fantasy.
I would cry for joy to get Phantasy Star 2-4 HD-2D remakes.
Phantasy Star I-IV needs to come back. Sega is just sitting on money, and I'm glad they seem to be waking up. I really hope this happens!!
What about skies of arcadia? 🥹
More shining and phantasy PLEASE
The negative to all this is they want to start a subscription service 😅
Technically Sega started reviving old series since 2018/2019, when Shuji Utsumi & Haruki Satomi started working in Sega as a president / Chief Executive of Sega. They resumed: Valkyria Chronicles in 2018 (Haruki Satomi favourite Sega franchise, along with Yakuza), Sakura Wars in 2019 (Shuji Utsumi favourite Sega franchise), Samba De Amigo in 2022, and now Virtua Fighter in 2024. Haruki Satomi even worked on first Valkyria Chronicles on PS3, as a executive manager.
Thanks for the info. The whole movement makes sense.
Hey Dave, did you know that most of the team that did Phantasy Star IV created Skies of Arcadia? And it's funny that you should mention landstalker being reminisce of Alundra. The Landstalker team made Alundra.
And Sakura Wars 1-5 & Valkyria Chronicles (but only the first game on PS3).
Sega has such a massive amount of franchises that they've dropped over the years. They literally have a near infinite well to choose from.
If so, I’ll be loud and clear:
BRING BACK SKIES OF ARCADIA!
Phantasy Star V, come on, SEGA. 🤞
Remake and give sequels to ALL of them.
Phantasy Star, Shining Force (And for the love of The Lord, KEEP THE OLD ART STYLE! And also less Humans and more Non-Humans.), Skies of Arcadia, Dragon Force, Panzer Dragoon Saga, etc.
Great news, and I'm loving the Phantasy Star music in this video.
a phantasy star collection would be insanely good!
The Game Boy Advance had the first three games bundled together, and was my introduction to the series. Most Sega Genesis/MD collections include the last three games, and some have the first as an unlockable title.
@@alkristopher i was able to play phantasy star 4 for the first time due to a sega collection, i was hoping for a remaster of them lol
Phantasy Star, Altered Beast, After Burner, Alex the Kidd, Ecco the Dolphin, so many great, great games that have gone dark since Sega stopped making consoles. I cannot wait to see some of these revived. Phantasy Star in particular had some remasters that never made it here to the states, that I wanted to play so very, very badly when they were announced. I'd LOVE to see those brought over.
PS4 prequel starring Alys would be pretty hype.
SEGA has less than a year to do that, since the creator of that story will retire next year.
I NEVER thought we would even hear buzz about breath of fire and phantasy star revivals
I think Phantasy Star was the first jrpg game I played! ❤
@@SimpleHealth83 mine too. It blew my mind first time I saw it running on the Master System
we need all the old shining force and phantasy star games as a good remaster or better a new remake
New Phantasy Star would be great! I'm making prayers to gods of blast processing that Sega really brings back lotsa old game series, new games and remasters! :)
I would like to see them re-release / update Albert's Odyssey from Sega Saturn
Phantasy Star 4 is my ALL TIME FAVORITE ❤❤❤ Let’s REMAKE it🎉
I'm very excited for the Phantasy Star TTRPG that's coming out.
I've been following it closely looking for any information that they put out.
Don't play with my heart, David. There is only so much I can handle, and a Phantasy Star revival might be too much (specially Phantasy Star Portable 👀)! 😍
Phantasy Star 2 NEEDS a remake with redesigned dungeons
Hi David! Phantasy Star???? YES PLEASE!
PHANTASY STAR - OH MY GOD!!!
Phantasy Star IV is a good choice. Phantasy Star III is an even better one. Why touch perfection when there's a perfectly good diamond in the rough that could actually benefit from such polishing?
Interessing how you like PS III. Is rare (i'm too like it)!
The concept os generatiosn and choices on game was inovations, and to came some re-play's factor. Without count the grafics of sprites, is beatifull, most beauty than the PS II (my prefer, was my frist). Only thing is not nice is the battle system...these enemy's sprites move only one frame is very terrible!
This pleases me very much.
Just release Skies of Arcadia remaster already.
a new modern Shining Force is probably one of my biggest wishes of my entire life, make a good looking modern SF 4 and I will buy it full price day one! and a Phantasy Star 5!!!
If only Sega wasn't blind to the potential of a modern SF. I have little hopes because nothing has been made... so Sega wasn't convinced of investing harder on SF even after the global breakthrough of Fire Emblem in the 00's. Like, there was that Gba remake of SF1, but it wasn't that good and clearly not enough.
Sega in the 00's missed both the opportunity of the warmed up market for srpgs, and the opportunity of the handheld fever (Gba, Psp, Ds, 3ds, etc). Tragic, because an ambitious SF project (remake or not) had the best chances of doing great at that time, maybe on the Gba or Ds.
I remember buying a Sega Genesis (back when it was new) and asking the shop keeper for an RPG recommendation - as I had just gotten into them. They recommended Phantasy Star IV and it was such an amazing title.
I would love a collection of the titles, both Genesis and the spin off GameGear ones for completion sake. I know other companies have done great collections recently - Capcom for example throwing in extras in theirs like promotional art, sketches, etc. They (SEGA) can do the same here.
Go the extra mile, and include the original ROMs of the games - but also enhanced versions of the first three bringing them up to something closer to PSIV in terms of visuals and such; plus fixing of bugs, etc.
“Just stick in there, somewhere”
My idea for a new Phantasy Star: a thousand years or so have passed since PSIV. The Algo Star System has advanced and is peaceful. Colonists from Motavia and Dezoris are now settling a distant star system. All has gone well so far, but now a power struggle has broken out due to disagreements about what direction the colonies should take, and how much they should have to obey orders from back home. Your characters would belong to the familiar races (Palman, Motavian, Dezorian, Android, Numan, Musk Cat) and would hold familiar jobs like Hunter, Biologist, Machinist, Thief, Doctor, etc. So it would be a new story in a new setting with zero connection to the Dark Force saga, but it would use familiar tropes (abilities, equipment, enemies, etc.) and would have loose ties to what came before. Separate enough for new players, but rooted in lore enough to make old timers happy. Make the battle system, menu system, and overall anime-inspired look similar to what existed back in the day but update to current standards and tastes as necessary.
All I want is a remaster of Shining the Holy Ark
David, it's ONLY in Western countries that we see PS4 as being the literal "end" of the Profound Darkness and Dark Falz. At no point was this actually the case in Japan. They were going to make PS5 and were already planning it out before the Saturn was heavily pushed with online features, and instead of PS5, they decided on making a Phantasy Star Online experience.
PS5 was never an issue, as it was the end of the Algol star system as the defacto holding cell for the Profound Darkness. Another 1,000 years or so and she'll be revived, as this is already baked into the lore. You can't destroy her, ever. Just defeat her physical form and she returns anyhow. It's just that she's no longer bound.
Phantasy Star 4 was also deliberately chosen to take place BEFORE Phantasy Star 3; roughly 100~300 years. Meaning Dark Falz exists AFTER the defeat of its master. Meaning the Profound Darkness is just in reclusion as an energy source and unable to take form or have an individual will and direction.
This is due to Eastern philosophy of good and evil versus Western bullshit. You can never truly destroy evil, as it's Yin and Yang and part of the whole. So long as light exists, so does darkness. Positive, so to does negative. You can overwhelm the other side, but the former will always be restored as it's intrinsically part of the system and existence. The profound darkness is more like the birthing of a will of darkness as a result of a lot of dark and evil deeds being carried out, alongside a need to balance existence as light takes actions, darkness has to also build itself in equal measure.
It's just now an overwhelming situation as how do you write a story where the Profound Darkness can now spawn anywhere? Can hide itself? Do you take it from the perspective of tracking it down over multiple new games, by following the spawns of its will in the form of Dark Falz/Dark Force?
Let's bring back ALL of Working Designs games!!! Popful Mails magical Adventure anyone!!
Hopefully this means we're getting a remaster of Phantasy Star Universe, which has both the base game and the Ambition of the Illuminatus expansion.
Those games are lame...The whole point of reviving the PS franchise is to bring back what made the CLASSICS great, not the generic schlock they call PS now.
@beebs_magoo Phantasy Star Universe was one of the best jrpgs on the PS2, it had a killer soundtrack, a story that kept you engaged, whether you played solo or co-op, likeable characters that were the just the right balance of serious and goofy. Also the theme song for both the base game and the expansion are all time classics to this day.
I hope so. I poured nearly two hundred hours in the base game but never got around to play the DLC. A remake that combines both would be perfect.
@@deathbykonami5487 Ewww, gross. Even back then, I couldn't stand it. They've abandoned the aesthetic and magic from the classic games in such a way that it could've been named anything else and nothing would've changed. Forgettable characters and music. It bums me out that this is what people think of when PS comes up. Generic animoo BS
I wouldn't mind a remake of Sub-Terranea, Lanstalker and Rocket Knight
That's legit amazing news. Sega has more banger abandonded franchises than most of their contemporaries have franchises period.
As much as I played PSO, the original series ending has been a 30 year tragedy.at this point. I'd lay down serious coin to see the series continue, or even just to see remakes of the original in the vein of the Generation remasters they did of 1 and 2 on the PS2.
Phantasy Star being my favorite rpg of all time (IV to be exact but love the series as a whole as well) never clicked so fast on a video of yours. That image you used for Alis is pretty nice I got to say. Where did you nab it?
An international compilation of the Shining Force 3 games would certainly get some attention.
I played my first Phantasy Star game this year with PSIV on the NSO service. I did enjoy it a lot, enough to make me want to go play PSI and II. However, I am not sure if I want to deal with the older school sensibilities (I have found the 16 bit era is about as far back as I can comfortable go as someone who started gaming in 2000). Turns out, I won't need to since PS2 remakes were made back in the day for PSI and II, and, while passed on localization, fans have translated them. If anything, Sega needs to remaster those two and use them as a foundation to also remake III and IV (originally they were going to do IV for PS2--but not III) and/or build out into new numbered titles.
It’s definitely a good time to be a Phantasy Star fan!
Sega finally remembering what money is after Yakuza, Persona, and Metaphor actually made some.
Shining Force would make bank.
The only classic srpg that is alive and well is Fire Emblem. It needs a rival and fast. SF could totally be rival.
Yey for Phantasy Star! Now, if only Natsume can re-release the Lufia series….😳😳
Yeeeeeees. I love coming here. I feel like I always get good news.
Shining Force and Phantasy Star are clear winners, if possible.
Huge bonus if we get even just a port of Shining Force CD. What a fantastic game. Pretty sure it's on that recent retro console thing I can plug into a TV but I'd rather just have it on PlayStation (along with the whole series).
When you mentioned a multi platform strategy game it's gotta be Shinning Force 3. If they bring that remastered for all platforms people will buy it.
As much disdain as I have for PSII, it's also one of my favorite classics. I'd love a revival of I-IV!
Albert Odyssey was a banger too. My favorite game on the Saturn for sure. Damn I’m old lol.
I wish the Old YS games get remake in their modern style of party group battles and graphics, like YS8 and YS9.
David, I was SO happy to see your video title this afternoon. I clicked on this video in .25 seconds man! I only had a Sega Mega drive growing up. My first RPGs were Shining Force followed by Phantasy Star 3. I know PS3 gets a lot of hate but that’s all I had as a kid and I remember loving it. I’m so happy these have a real shot at coming back. I love the new reincarnation of these older style games. They bring me back to a better time. They are more relaxed and still tell a great story. Even the newer IPs like Octopath and Triangle Strategy are great. Phantasy Star Remakes of 1-4 would be amazing followed by a new 5th one. Why did they ever stop!? Wish I could subscribe more than once pal love the videos.
Shining force better not be another generic anime action RPG, they better stick with the Camelot soft magic
I'm pretty sure they will continue changing own turn based franchises into button mashers, like they did with Phantasy Star, Shining Force, Valkyria Chronicles, and Sakura Wars. It's Sega, and they never learn.
But isn't SF technically only the srpg? The arpgs are "Shining [something else]".
love that style of anime aesthetics ,phantasy star is a great setting so that could be a hit in my book.
I think having strayed from what made their money in the first place to chase trends and MORE money to end up wondering "where money?" is endemic to the gaming industry these days so you are on point there David.
Seeing a new Phantasy Star RPG in the same vein as Metaphor ReFantazio would be great ... but I dunno, what if some yahoo on the Sega executive board decides to "reimagine" Phantasy Star as a looter shooter, or a hero shooter? What if the idea is that only the name brand has value and not the classic game design philosophy?
But it's truly naive to believe that a possible new PS would still be turn based, for example. That could happen or could not happen as well.
God I hope so the old none MMO type Phantasy stars are some of my favourite games of all time and new Panzer dragoon games would be welcomed.
A Panzer Dragoon Saga revival would be great! Lost source code be damned.
My first ever rpg is phantasy star 1 and this is my beloved series that I love ❤️
Lol took me 6 minutes to realize the background music is from phantasy star.
I feel like the world of Phantasy Star has a lot of room to explore other stories.
This year I finaly played Phantasy Star 1 from start to end, next year I will Phantasy Star 2, I hope we can have a PSO1 Remaster or a PH1 remake or a PH5
Good luck. Phantasy Star II is very unforgiving and ruthless.
Never could get into the Phantasy Star games. A Shining Force Revival would be pretty dope, though.
Also 3:36 no need to apologize here, you said it correctly 👍
man what i would give to see some new shining force games or even a full HD release of shining force 3.
As a card-carrying Nintendo kid, I never got tomolay any of these series back in the day. So bring them on, there's definitely an audience for them.
Phantasy Star Online was incredible!! But no, I don't need another one. I don't have the time to sink into something like that again 😂
Don't you do this to me David. Don't you dare give me hope!
Just preordered the Phantasy Star tabletop RPG that’s due out this summer. Not at all how I was planning on going back to the Algol Star System, but I will absolutely take it.
I wish video game companies would focus on making new games.
I'd love to finally get to play Skies of Arcadia as I missed it back in the day. It looks pretty neat.
Thanks for the news. Subbed. Happy holiday, David 🎮
You're welcome and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
2:52 Leakage conversation from Executive meeting
Sega: "Phantasy Star 3 remake!"
David: "Oh. ... ... ...Never mind."
(goes back to waiting for Lunar)
Cheer up, you will get to 100K Followers early next year!
Thanks! I really hope so!