If it isn't an eldritch horror that turns into a naked woman at the last form with some knockoff xenomorphs coming out of her curves, it ain't a JRPG final boss.
True. I think the best we got as a representation in that game was the Profound Darkness itself being a boss fight in the game, even though it looks nowhere near as creepy as in PS4 (though at least we get a nice remixed version of the theme for the first 2 phases)
@@torers Alis's descendant, also named Alis, was in Episode 5, as well as Lutz. Also, we did end up getting to fight the Fellwyrm. Hell, Alis's descendant even has the Laconium Sword. I dunno if you count it, but we also fought Mother on Earth in episode 4.
This game. THIS GAME. My folks rented this one for me four times in seventh and eighth grade before I finally got my own copy for Christmas of '96. It is my all-time favorite RPG and the very game that got me into writing in the first place. So many memories, all of them fond.
This game was such a hidden gem. I rented this three times from Blockbuster before beating it. The box was hideous if you remembered the illustration. No one would've known this was an RPG. After enjoying the story and the characters, this game had me look outside Final Fantasy for good JRPGs ever since.
@@jamesalvarado3961 When I look at RPG the last decade I feel like crying because of the lack of masterpieces... The JRPG genre is basically dead. It is nothing like it used to be... not even remotely close. No vision or imagination.
1999-2005 was the golden age of Personal Computer RPGs. Baldur Gate 2, Diablo 2, Icewind Dale 2, Planescape Torment, Fallout 2, they don't make games that good anymore.
I think this is probably the closest to the perfect JRPG ending anyone's ever achieved. You didn't play the whole game to find out whether your party was going to save the world. You played it because you cared about THEM, because the bond they form between each other mirrors the bond you form with them - as anyone does with fiction they enjoy - and now, you all have to let each other go.
I've beaten Phantasy Star 4 a few times, this was the hardest battle in Phantasy Star 4. The last part against The Profound Darkness is the most difficult part of the game.
I played this game so many times as a child, I never finished it until I hit 17 years old (maybe 16, don't really remember, I mean 1 or 2 years ago) This game means a lot to me, the story and the characters are unique and fantastic, the universe is fascinating, I wanna cry right now :(
Have always taken Gryz on the final battle ever since I was a kid. Love the dude's design and his extremely simple battle tactic of charging head on after a fear inducing battle cry. Love this game.
+Aaron Webb PS2 has got that incredible atmosphere going for it too. I just wish the Gen 2 version was more faithful with the music. (Though it'd be a bit better if first person dialog seemed more natural because it does get a bit weird at times.)
Just finished this game and loved it! The story and character development is one of the best in any RPG. The ending made me kind of sad with all the characters leaving, though, thank god Chaz gets Rika to stay with him.
I'll never understand how this game was received so well and a true sequel was never made. This is my favourite game of all time. The store, characters, dialogue, sounds, visuals, setting, its all perfect. This game just feels so good to re-live over and over. I wish for PS5. But all we got was PSO. An average game that was not a good representation of Phantasy Star IMO. Upsetting. my children will play this game for sure.
+Joshua Butt And of course, it was PSO that got an anime... Got to wonder what problems Rieko and company faced since she did say it was something they were thinking about in an interview...
PSO was incredibly influential in its own right and far from average. I actually am glad they never did a direct story sequel to the original series though. The quadrology is perfect as is, and some things are best lest free of the taint of franchise zombification. A spiritual sequel or non-connected distant sequel would have been nice though.
Actually, I may be remembering wrong but at the time all of the big name reviewers kind of gave it the ho-hum treatment. It only became the big hit it's seen as today later on, after SEGA - making their decisions based purely on various market stats - turned the franchise into an online experience. That's ALWAYS been Sega's Achilles, a complete inability to use anything in their decision making aside from hard numbers, and is why obvious no-brainer sales are lost. How many easy money franchises have been lost in the mix, now? Too many to count. Phantasy Star today exists in name and lore only I suppose, but the core philosophy behind the games is completely gone and sort of counts in that respect as a lost franchise.
Yeah, it’s bullshit we never got 5. Similar situation with star ocean, which is very phantasy star “like” star ocean the last hope international was the SHIT! But they fucking phoned it in with the latest one......
This game, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Seiken Densetsu 3, Breath of Fire 3, RPG's (or action RPG's in SD3's case) that today are still just as demanding for the player, and still as great as the day they were released.
This was such a phenomenal game for me. I rented this game from Blockbuster three times. Even now, I played the boss soundtracks when I ran tabletop games.
This is certainly one of the most fantastic RPG game i've been able to play since i was a young lad. And to think, this wonderful game was made by Sega; in a time where even the company got to rival Nintendo. It's works of art like this that make it stand out. It get's me every time...
My favorite RPG series of all time. Finished the game in 2006 after finally figuring out how Emulators work. Still searching for a physical copy of the game itself, since I'm now trying to restore what has been sold of my classics. I'm not mad at my parents for doing it, but finding a copy of this game (Not online.) is proving to be a difficult task.
+Star64DX You are better off searching online. Most retro game stores I encounter are huge fans of price hiking and passing them off as "online price matches" when they are actually 150% mark-ups.
***** Seems that way sadly. So far I've been on quite the luck streak, finding the Genesis for $15 (The only one available the guy had was the Model 2, since the TV switch for the Mega Drive model was broken D:) and games like Sonic 1 and Comix Zone in the flea markets I have visted for less than five bucks so far. The only reason I've been trying to find the games offline is because of my current position in being able to purchase things from online sources. But are there any online sources that you do recommend doing business with?
My fav RPG. I liked Shining Force, Final Fantasy, etc. Always return to this every so often to play it. reminds me of good times, better times, care free 90s.
my brothers got the first one master system a few months before I was born in 88. they played it until about 94 stopped playing it and never finished it. I started playing it and it took me 3mths to beat it because I got stuck on a few parts mostly the last part where your at the bottom of the mayor's office.
your profile is amazing (corrsion as a skill, kinda sus), but your playthrough of this is triggering, and I can't tell you how much I was screaming at my monitor. also, ty for the vid, that was some nice nostalgia
For some reason I find the ending very depressing. Having read up on all the entries in the classic Phantasy Star series (including the disliked 3) over the years I have developed somewhat of an affection for the universe. I find it rather sad that the advanced civilization of PS1 and 2 is gone and will probably never return, or that the protagonist Alis Landale is dead even though I know she died two thousand years ago, probably after living a long and full life. Heh the game is 21 years old and I still feel sad.
Me too. Tears well up in my eyes every time I hear The Promising Future 1 or 2. It's even sadder if you read the mangas and the Phantasy Star Compendium.
***** Are those tracks also from PSIV Also which mangas are you talking about? I have been looking for expansion material on the classic PS series. And with the Compendium, do you mean what Yoshida-sh had in mind for Chaz and Rika's future?
TheDutchGhost Yes, those are the official track names for the two individual ending sequences. The mangas can be found on pscave (quick google search will find it). And yes, I'm referring to that where Chaz dies at the age of 40 and Rika and their child end up becoming the greatest Hunters that ever lived on Motavia.
***** I do know that site (have it book marked) but all I can find are comics made by fans, comics based on PSO, and those loose 'gag' comics. Would you happen to mean those 'choose your own adventure' books? (Phantasy Star Futubasha) From what I understand Chaz would die before he reached his thirties (shows how harsh Post Collapse Motavia has become :( ) It is sad that they never made a Phantasy Star V and instead went with PSO. Truth be told I much more prefer the Classic Phantasy Star universe (the planets, settings, species, lore, and so on) over the online games. I know PSIV is a proper ending to the saga but I would have loved to have seen a fifth game, perhaps showing a somewhat recovered Motavia and Dezolis that has re establish a new civilization, and dealing with the Great Light as the producers of PSIV were considering. Personally I think the Great Light does not necessary have to mean that it is good. The Profound Darkness was of course evil, it wanted to destroy everything, but I think that that also came from the fact that it was locked away, just getting angrier and angrier over the centuries as it wanted to get out. I don't think it necessarily 'hated' the Palmans, Motavias, Dezolians etc. it just 'stepped' onto them so to speak in an effort to gain its freedom, and it made use of people's dark side and desires to control them for that goal.
TheDutchGhost The Great Light wasn't inherently good, Chaz's reaction to being a Protector is great evidence of that. I could of swore there was two official mangas, most of them are fan made though, yes. I prefer the whole franchise up until PSO2.
My local corner store had this game for rent. I must've rented it 10 times. I only beat it on an emulator when I was in my twenties. I love this damn game.
Using both Deban & Blessing is redundant. The game will default to the last one used, it's not cumulative. So you're best off using the stronger one, and that one only (which is Blessing). So use that & Wren's Barrier, and have Rika use Saner. Then have Rika use Shift twice, on both Chaz and then herself. Then use: Posibolt, Crosscut, Double Slash, Effess, St. Fire... as they are the strongest attacks your 5 guys have against PD. Also the Psycho Wand limits magical damage, so I'd have someone use that in the first round against PD's final 2 forms. It works against Shadow Flare, Another Gate, and Megid.
Ander01SE How do you manipulate the characters into doing that? I know all the combos, I even used Grand Cross before but I haven't figured out what actually triggers them to do it. I think speed is involved right?
***** Basically you need to get the order right with no enemy attacks in between. 'Safest' is to start with the char who usually attacks last in a macro that way the enemies should usually have finished their attacks, really depends on the enemies though. :p In general the combos are more successful if you put the combo chars first or last in the macro. And the order they're cast also plays a part, Efess need to be cast before Crosscut if I remember correctly. Been a while since I played it. O_o
I don't know how I missed this game as a kid. Just played through it and finished it tonight. What a fantastic game! Easily top 3 RPG of that era and it's now one of my favorite games!
I finally went back to beat this game again. I went even lower level this time Level 37 average this time. It was hella hard I couldn't afford making a mistake in the PD 3rd form. Bought alot of Star dews and Sol dew as back up in case Raja died, cause that megid would take out 70%-80% of my entire team hp (except Wren he a tank) Phase one I just saved all my tech and skills til phase 2 and 3. Would use items like gaurd rod and cheap tp healing and buff everyone up with ,barrier, Deban, shift and Saner. And just use regular attacks one phase 1 and 2 Them sol dew and star dew are a must have. They saved me from a mess up I did, the damn PD 3 used cancel and lost all my buff and lost Raja,Rika,rune since megid did way too much damage without my barrier. And thanks to Wren hp he basically solo healed the entire party and Chaz just healed up with star dew til Raja was back up. Man I love this game. And big shame a phantasy star 5 continued.
Yeah, keeping Saner, Blessing and Barrier up at all times is a necessity, but you can beat the thing at level 37 with them. You'll get a few scares where you have to revive Raja, but even just strolling through the game with no grinding will leave you with a fat stack of Moon and Star Dew to recover when your usual everyone-attack-raja-heals pattern gets broken.
Raja was literally my main pick for the final party member. His magical prowess and group healing allowed me to make the fight an aggressive head on clash. I have a tendency to grind and over level so Profound Darkness did not fare well against my party.
I know it's a matter of preference, but this game worked well with just doing the battles that the game presents you with as you go through the game, only at a couple of spots I felt the need of grinding a couple of levels. The thing is that the boss fights tend to be not too far in difficulty from the mook battles, so you have to get accustomed to the random battles being tough. A battle where that wasn't the case was Lashiec, there's no outsmarting his nukes, you have to be at least level 31 or so across the board to even get a chance to heal between his attacks.
i still love, that the first 2 phases got such a slow, almost goofy, soundtrack . But when the last phase starts then the soundtrack suddenly picks up quiet alot
Look like Chaz finally get to spend the rest of his life with Rika, something that Rolf haven't got the chance during Phantasy Star 2. At least they finally beat the root of the Algo System's sorrows.
Saddest ending for me. I almost cried when I was like 12 and watching this ending. Like, But...rune...never? You'll never come and visit? Just once? No visiting the other planet? No one will see each other again? Im sooooo sad.
Big Moore Now I have to play this game all over again. I bought this brand new badass PC, and I find myself playing Playstation 1 and Sega and Supernintendo games on it cause of all these heroin like nostalgic memories i get from playing them.
I felt like it took me ages to beat this boss. I look back and it only took me a few months in reality (the game, not the boss) but that feeling when I finally beat it was so awesome, and bitter sweet. I was 12 I think when I played it and spent many a weekend night up all night playing. But when I beat it, I got sad as I loved the game, and series, and now it was over.
This guy/girl knows how to play. Barrier and Deban are absolutely crucial for this shit. barrier every single turn with wren and just dish out the damage with Chaz, Rika, and rune, heal with raja.
I have no idea how I beat this with level 40-50 characters. I remember that raja was the mvp of the team. Cause if I remember correctly he had magical attacks that damage darkness type and he had alot of mp to heal the whole team and he even had a revive ability which was very very crucial. Wren would carry revive items since he can tank damage and the rest would be damage dealers.
The only thing I have to complain about this game is the difficulty. It so damn easy and takes away the feeling of actually accomplishing something monumental as such as it should have seemed. That's why I like ps2 over it.
I had great memories with this game went I got it. It was so awesome. I played through this game so much and even experimented with character build and even best the final boss with Griz, the worst character, as my fifth member without much trouble once.
Damn, I never realised how good the animation in this game is… PS1 is personally my favourite of the series, but this game definitely has its merits. I should play it again
There were changes to the script of the English version over Japanese version. Namely PD/GL being armies of a sort. What confuses me now, is if they were ever "whole" like the English states in the very beginning. And what Le Roof said, "[GL] has gone away..." what exactly would the line in Japanese have been? :S
The way I've non-canonically assumed what happened is that Le-Roof and the others were denizens of that same army of light spirits. The Great Light happened to leave the Algol Star System to create new seals throughout the cosmos. This would work in tandem with the fact that Dark Falz appears elsewhere in the universe besides Algol in later installments in the franchise.
did u know? guys! it looks emotion dis step of ending on dat game u feel crying for a Joy & Happiness coz da Ending Theme of dat phantasy Star 4 althought u can think Alyss right here is Died now it looks sad if u think dat after alyss is died now after ending.........! it makes u cry for a Happiness Joyable on dat Coz u are thinking bout? Alyss Gurl it looks like da Theme song dis Game is came from da Baby those u still makes him sleep afterall
Lots of boss fights in this game are more of a marathon than a sprint, keep hitting them for some completely ordinary amount of damage and keep your buffs and health up, and you'll outlast them It was super blatant with the witches in service of Lashiec, if you used your favorite area damage combos you got total party killed by them, so, patiently take them out one by one and heal/revive your team mates.
I know it's a cultural thing, but I never understood why they all had to leave Chaz alone. It was like they were friends then just f'ed off like to tell him 'you know, we really didn't like your company to start off with anyway' XD
I enjoy this fight cause there's some struggle to it. It embodies a good end boss fight. I feel like i ruined the feeling on my last run when i just stomped it with OP bs
In 1995, i finished this game on my Sega genesis, my 16 years son finished the game today, and i saw him and enjoyed the moment as 20 years ago :,)
+Jose Rubio Timeless classic.
+Jose Rubio I finished it in '96, I'm glad to see it's held up over the years. Kudos to you and your boy :)
+José Rubio Like Father, like son.
Awww that's awesomee
How old are you when you had a kid? 20?
If it isn't an eldritch horror that turns into a naked woman at the last form with some knockoff xenomorphs coming out of her curves, it ain't a JRPG final boss.
Just like the first Persona game.
i love how the last thing you see is the Alis Landale statue.
shit man, what a series.
+superfan4 It's a shame to see how it isn't getting much representation with PSO2 other than bland references.
True. I think the best we got as a representation in that game was the Profound Darkness itself being a boss fight in the game, even though it looks nowhere near as creepy as in PS4 (though at least we get a nice remixed version of the theme for the first 2 phases)
It hit hard for me because i remembered Alis Landale is the main character in the original game.
@@torers Alis's descendant, also named Alis, was in Episode 5, as well as Lutz. Also, we did end up getting to fight the Fellwyrm. Hell, Alis's descendant even has the Laconium Sword.
I dunno if you count it, but we also fought Mother on Earth in episode 4.
Hearing the music change for 3rd form always gives me goosebumps, omg memories!
Epic Newman Ooze is best final boss music ever.
This game. THIS GAME. My folks rented this one for me four times in seventh and eighth grade before I finally got my own copy for Christmas of '96. It is my all-time favorite RPG and the very game that got me into writing in the first place. So many memories, all of them fond.
This game was such a hidden gem. I rented this three times from Blockbuster before beating it. The box was hideous if you remembered the illustration. No one would've known this was an RPG. After enjoying the story and the characters, this game had me look outside Final Fantasy for good JRPGs ever since.
RIP and thank you forever Rieko Kodama 🙏
The composer passed? Damn.
mid 1990s was the rpg golden age I feel.
Agree!! Chrono trigger, Phantasy star 4, FFVII, FFVI, secret of Mana, illusion of Gaia, shinning Force, breath of fire, and so many more.
@@jamesalvarado3961 When I look at RPG the last decade I feel like crying because of the lack of masterpieces... The JRPG genre is basically dead. It is nothing like it used to be... not even remotely close. No vision or imagination.
1999-2005 was the golden age of Personal Computer RPGs. Baldur Gate 2, Diablo 2, Icewind Dale 2, Planescape Torment, Fallout 2, they don't make games that good anymore.
I think this is probably the closest to the perfect JRPG ending anyone's ever achieved.
You didn't play the whole game to find out whether your party was going to save the world. You played it because you cared about THEM, because the bond they form between each other mirrors the bond you form with them - as anyone does with fiction they enjoy - and now, you all have to let each other go.
I've beaten Phantasy Star 4 a few times, this was the hardest battle in Phantasy Star 4. The last part against The Profound Darkness is the most difficult part of the game.
How did you fare against the three Wizards in Lassic's Air Castle? Half the time they wasted me with their combo attack
@@lapisgamer5549 at the time that’s one of the hardest fights unless you power level
I played this game so many times as a child, I never finished it until I hit 17 years old (maybe 16, don't really remember, I mean 1 or 2 years ago) This game means a lot to me, the story and the characters are unique and fantastic, the universe is fascinating, I wanna cry right now :(
Have always taken Gryz on the final battle ever since I was a kid. Love the dude's design and his extremely simple battle tactic of charging head on after a fear inducing battle cry. Love this game.
This is one of the most bittersweet conclusions to a story I have ever experienced.
New games come out with 100x improvements graphically and gameplay wise and yet this is what comes to my mind when i think of my fav game
I love this game so much! After so many years, still the best Phantasy Star game ever created! 6:35 epic boss battle theme!
+RpgmaniacNo1 nah PS2 or PS3, better music, and to me my favorite RPG's music set the mood
+Aaron Webb PS2 has got that incredible atmosphere going for it too. I just wish the Gen 2 version was more faithful with the music. (Though it'd be a bit better if first person dialog seemed more natural because it does get a bit weird at times.)
Yeah.. Sure
as you say yes correct 💯
Just finished this game and loved it! The story and character development is one of the best in any RPG. The ending made me kind of sad with all the characters leaving, though, thank god Chaz gets Rika to stay with him.
I'm still sad that Rune is alone...
We miss this game after it ended in short you cry so much in ending of game so touching 😭😔😔😭
imagine the children they would have made...
I'll never understand how this game was received so well and a true sequel was never made. This is my favourite game of all time. The store, characters, dialogue, sounds, visuals, setting, its all perfect. This game just feels so good to re-live over and over. I wish for PS5. But all we got was PSO. An average game that was not a good representation of Phantasy Star IMO. Upsetting. my children will play this game for sure.
+Joshua Butt And of course, it was PSO that got an anime... Got to wonder what problems Rieko and company faced since she did say it was something they were thinking about in an interview...
PSO was incredibly influential in its own right and far from average.
I actually am glad they never did a direct story sequel to the original series though. The quadrology is perfect as is, and some things are best lest free of the taint of franchise zombification. A spiritual sequel or non-connected distant sequel would have been nice though.
Actually, I may be remembering wrong but at the time all of the big name reviewers kind of gave it the ho-hum treatment. It only became the big hit it's seen as today later on, after SEGA - making their decisions based purely on various market stats - turned the franchise into an online experience. That's ALWAYS been Sega's Achilles, a complete inability to use anything in their decision making aside from hard numbers, and is why obvious no-brainer sales are lost. How many easy money franchises have been lost in the mix, now? Too many to count. Phantasy Star today exists in name and lore only I suppose, but the core philosophy behind the games is completely gone and sort of counts in that respect as a lost franchise.
Yeah, it’s bullshit we never got 5.
Similar situation with star ocean, which is very phantasy star “like” star ocean the last hope international was the SHIT! But they fucking phoned it in with the latest one......
It's a great game, no doubt, but ps2 story was way better, especially the end (you could also choose the characters and the music was awesome)
I picked Hahn for this battle
I thought that it was only fair that our first partner ever had to be with us on the final struggle
I had this on the Sega Genesis collection on my PSP. Possibly one of the best RPGs of that era
This game, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Seiken Densetsu 3, Breath of Fire 3, RPG's (or action RPG's in SD3's case) that today are still just as demanding for the player, and still as great as the day they were released.
@@Bloodreign1 and Shin Megami Tensei II
This is my penultimate RPG ever, I still play this even after first touching it 20 years ago.
I don't think you know what penultimate means
This was such a phenomenal game for me. I rented this game from Blockbuster three times. Even now, I played the boss soundtracks when I ran tabletop games.
I saved Algo today again, this game is perfection in every way possible, classic Phantasy Star series is so fucking marvelous.
I'd say Phantasy Star 1, 2 and 3 had their flaws, but yes, they are amazing iterations in gaming's history.
This is certainly one of the most fantastic RPG game i've been able to play since i was a young lad.
And to think, this wonderful game was made by Sega; in a time where even the company got to rival Nintendo. It's works of art like this that make it stand out.
It get's me every time...
My favorite RPG series of all time. Finished the game in 2006 after finally figuring out how Emulators work.
Still searching for a physical copy of the game itself, since I'm now trying to restore what has been sold of my classics. I'm not mad at my parents for doing it, but finding a copy of this game (Not online.) is proving to be a difficult task.
+Star64DX You are better off searching online. Most retro game stores I encounter are huge fans of price hiking and passing them off as "online price matches" when they are actually 150% mark-ups.
***** Seems that way sadly. So far I've been on quite the luck streak, finding the Genesis for $15 (The only one available the guy had was the Model 2, since the TV switch for the Mega Drive model was broken D:) and games like Sonic 1 and Comix Zone in the flea markets I have visted for less than five bucks so far.
The only reason I've been trying to find the games offline is because of my current position in being able to purchase things from online sources. But are there any online sources that you do recommend doing business with?
+Star64DX ebay is your friend. If it doesn't work, you are guaranteed your money back.
the sonic ultimate sega genesis collection has all 4 games on it.
JamcalX Funny thing is, that's where I've been introduced to this game. The PS2 version of that collection to be specific.
Definitely one of the best RPGs out there, visuals and music are timeless, and an amazing cast if characters. It'll never get old.
My fav RPG. I liked Shining Force, Final Fantasy, etc. Always return to this every so often to play it. reminds me of good times, better times, care free 90s.
my brothers got the first one master system a few months before I was born in 88. they played it until about 94 stopped playing it and never finished it. I started playing it and it took me 3mths to beat it because I got stuck on a few parts mostly the last part where your at the bottom of the mayor's office.
just finished this today and shed a little tear... i'm 25
your profile is amazing (corrsion as a skill, kinda sus), but your playthrough of this is triggering, and I can't tell you how much I was screaming at my monitor.
also, ty for the vid, that was some nice nostalgia
For some reason I find the ending very depressing.
Having read up on all the entries in the classic Phantasy Star series (including the disliked 3) over the years I have developed somewhat of an affection for the universe.
I find it rather sad that the advanced civilization of PS1 and 2 is gone and will probably never return, or that the protagonist Alis Landale is dead even though I know she died two thousand years ago, probably after living a long and full life.
Heh the game is 21 years old and I still feel sad.
Me too. Tears well up in my eyes every time I hear The Promising Future 1 or 2. It's even sadder if you read the mangas and the Phantasy Star Compendium.
***** Are those tracks also from PSIV
Also which mangas are you talking about? I have been looking for expansion material on the classic PS series.
And with the Compendium, do you mean what Yoshida-sh had in mind for Chaz and Rika's future?
TheDutchGhost
Yes, those are the official track names for the two individual ending sequences. The mangas can be found on pscave (quick google search will find it). And yes, I'm referring to that where Chaz dies at the age of 40 and Rika and their child end up becoming the greatest Hunters that ever lived on Motavia.
***** I do know that site (have it book marked) but all I can find are comics made by fans, comics based on PSO, and those loose 'gag' comics.
Would you happen to mean those 'choose your own adventure' books? (Phantasy Star Futubasha)
From what I understand Chaz would die before he reached his thirties (shows how harsh Post Collapse Motavia has become :( )
It is sad that they never made a Phantasy Star V and instead went with PSO.
Truth be told I much more prefer the Classic Phantasy Star universe (the planets, settings, species, lore, and so on) over the online games.
I know PSIV is a proper ending to the saga but I would have loved to have seen a fifth game, perhaps showing a somewhat recovered Motavia and Dezolis that has re establish a new civilization, and dealing with the Great Light as the producers of PSIV were considering.
Personally I think the Great Light does not necessary have to mean that it is good.
The Profound Darkness was of course evil, it wanted to destroy everything, but I think that that also came from the fact that it was locked away, just getting angrier and angrier over the centuries as it wanted to get out.
I don't think it necessarily 'hated' the Palmans, Motavias, Dezolians etc. it just 'stepped' onto them so to speak in an effort to gain its freedom, and it made use of people's dark side and desires to control them for that goal.
TheDutchGhost
The Great Light wasn't inherently good, Chaz's reaction to being a Protector is great evidence of that. I could of swore there was two official mangas, most of them are fan made though, yes. I prefer the whole franchise up until PSO2.
6:30 that moment when a younger version of myself realized now the fight begins, after I had been going though my strongest abilities.
My local corner store had this game for rent. I must've rented it 10 times. I only beat it on an emulator when I was in my twenties. I love this damn game.
Using both Deban & Blessing is redundant. The game will default to the last one used, it's not cumulative. So you're best off using the stronger one, and that one only (which is Blessing). So use that & Wren's Barrier, and have Rika use Saner. Then have Rika use Shift twice, on both Chaz and then herself.
Then use: Posibolt, Crosscut, Double Slash, Effess, St. Fire... as they are the strongest attacks your 5 guys have against PD.
Also the Psycho Wand limits magical damage, so I'd have someone use that in the first round against PD's final 2 forms. It works against Shadow Flare, Another Gate, and Megid.
Oh, thanks. Didn't really bother to check if the damage was cumulatively reduced.
***** You should use Efess with Crosscut, combos into Grand Cross. :p
Ander01SE
How do you manipulate the characters into doing that? I know all the combos, I even used Grand Cross before but I haven't figured out what actually triggers them to do it. I think speed is involved right?
***** Basically you need to get the order right with no enemy attacks in between. 'Safest' is to start with the char who usually attacks last in a macro that way the enemies should usually have finished their attacks, really depends on the enemies though. :p
In general the combos are more successful if you put the combo chars first or last in the macro. And the order they're cast also plays a part, Efess need to be cast before Crosscut if I remember correctly. Been a while since I played it. O_o
Figured as much. I'll create more macros for combos in the future.
I don't know how I missed this game as a kid. Just played through it and finished it tonight. What a fantastic game! Easily top 3 RPG of that era and it's now one of my favorite games!
I finally went back to beat this game again. I went even lower level this time
Level 37 average this time. It was hella hard I couldn't afford making a mistake in the PD 3rd form.
Bought alot of Star dews and Sol dew as back up in case Raja died, cause that megid would take out 70%-80% of my entire team hp (except Wren he a tank)
Phase one I just saved all my tech and skills til phase 2 and 3. Would use items like gaurd rod and cheap tp healing and buff everyone up with ,barrier, Deban, shift and Saner. And just use regular attacks one phase 1 and 2
Them sol dew and star dew are a must have. They saved me from a mess up I did, the damn PD 3 used cancel and lost all my buff and lost Raja,Rika,rune since megid did way too much damage without my barrier. And thanks to Wren hp he basically solo healed the entire party and Chaz just healed up with star dew til Raja was back up. Man I love this game. And big shame a phantasy star 5 continued.
Yeah, keeping Saner, Blessing and Barrier up at all times is a necessity, but you can beat the thing at level 37 with them. You'll get a few scares where you have to revive Raja, but even just strolling through the game with no grinding will leave you with a fat stack of Moon and Star Dew to recover when your usual everyone-attack-raja-heals pattern gets broken.
Awesome game, one of my all-time favourite RPGs.
it makes u cry after it ends now ur game like u can effect wat happens in ur game Guys!
I love the tv static transition between forms
Old man can’t handle this. Tears again.
6:25 That moment when the kid version of myself figured out this is when the final battle actually begins
It just hit me. This is my favorite rpg of all time.
I'll be damn.
For Alys! Kill that fucking monster!! FLAELI MOTHER FUCKER
Skip to 6:15 for the ultimate hype song of all time.
Spam Megid on him.
It takes a ton of hp on that freak
grandcross works too, i wonder
This is how it all ends.... Nothing more..... Nothing less.
I have Sega genesis it was given to me at Christmas so I enjoy the games but my favorite is phantasy starVl and moster worldVl
Genesis Mini?
Raja was literally my main pick for the final party member. His magical prowess and group healing allowed me to make the fight an aggressive head on clash. I have a tendency to grind and over level so Profound Darkness did not fare well against my party.
I know it's a matter of preference, but this game worked well with just doing the battles that the game presents you with as you go through the game, only at a couple of spots I felt the need of grinding a couple of levels. The thing is that the boss fights tend to be not too far in difficulty from the mook battles, so you have to get accustomed to the random battles being tough. A battle where that wasn't the case was Lashiec, there's no outsmarting his nukes, you have to be at least level 31 or so across the board to even get a chance to heal between his attacks.
@@orzConqueror agreed Air Castle was very hard. I consistently was in the mid 30s for that
Such an amazing game. This was my first rpg when I was a wee lad. I wish this series would make a come back and ditch the mmo direction.
i still love, that the first 2 phases got such a slow, almost goofy, soundtrack . But when the last phase starts then the soundtrack suddenly picks up quiet alot
I am playing this game in my PS3 mega drive (the song is kinda creepy) I love this game
Damn I forgot how emotional the ending is
Look like Chaz finally get to spend the rest of his life with Rika, something that Rolf haven't got the chance during Phantasy Star 2. At least they finally beat the root of the Algo System's sorrows.
Saddest ending for me. I almost cried when I was like 12 and watching this ending. Like, But...rune...never? You'll never come and visit? Just once? No visiting the other planet? No one will see each other again? Im sooooo sad.
Big Moore Now I have to play this game all over again. I bought this brand new badass PC, and I find myself playing Playstation 1 and Sega and Supernintendo games on it cause of all these heroin like nostalgic memories i get from playing them.
Big Moore Agreed. It was a really sad ending. Just listening to The Promising Future makes me want to cry.
NOOOO I CAN'T CRY I'M OLDER NOW
WHYYYYY THIS IS SO SAD, ALYS I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
Hey, I'm 23, no big deal lol.
i still have the Original Game. I bought form KB Toys
That's epic. I never got any games, but they carried stuff like the X-Men board game. I still miss them!
@@jayesper4390 It didnt sell well from what I remember i got it for $20.00. First tried it out on the SEGA channel (if you remember that)
This music is classic final boss material. But nothing beats the phantasy star 2 boss fight music.
Place of Death/Death Place/The Place of Death is great but Ooze is still one of my top ten favorite final boss tracks of all time.
Why not use Ataraxia to refill Chaz's TP so he can spam Megiddo in the final part of the fight?
His boss fight tactics aren’t very good. Still enjoyable video
I felt like it took me ages to beat this boss. I look back and it only took me a few months in reality (the game, not the boss) but that feeling when I finally beat it was so awesome, and bitter sweet. I was 12 I think when I played it and spent many a weekend night up all night playing. But when I beat it, I got sad as I loved the game, and series, and now it was over.
13:47 rip
This guy/girl knows how to play.
Barrier and Deban are absolutely crucial for this shit. barrier every single turn with wren and just dish out the damage with Chaz, Rika, and rune, heal with raja.
Barrier doesn’t stack
I wish this game were as hard as Phantasy Star II, but not only in the dungeons, but in the bosses
One can easy do P. Darkness with 4 members only
Let me tell you something.
The developers of this game did everything right, even the eldritch horror appearence of the final boss.
21:46 Right in the feels..
the best boss !!!!
trimate ,dimate,motavia .tonoe,chaz!##!!!
epic game!!
i love phantacy star 4 !
If I ever get a sega again i will definitely add this to my list of must plays! I have a rom at the moment though. :|
Get the game!
The JP version has better art tho!
Love how the third phase music is the same theme for the profound darkness in pso2
Raja is by far the best 5th character to take on this fight.
I have no idea how I beat this with level 40-50 characters. I remember that raja was the mvp of the team. Cause if I remember correctly he had magical attacks that damage darkness type and he had alot of mp to heal the whole team and he even had a revive ability which was very very crucial. Wren would carry revive items since he can tank damage and the rest would be damage dealers.
How come no combos like destruction? Blackhole? Etc. One of the best rpg's ever.
What level were you one here? Im crazy so I usually go 90+ so seeing one posibolt made me blink lol
Epic Newman Can't remember, but I couldn't have been more than 55.
***** i had chaz at 90...
+Epic Newman Probably wasted all but one on scrubs xD
The only thing I have to complain about this game is the difficulty. It so damn easy and takes away the feeling of actually accomplishing something monumental as such as it should have seemed. That's why I like ps2 over it.
also lucky 2nd phase didn’t hit you with an “another gate”
6:35 jesus this is pretty much a djent song.
I had great memories with this game went I got it. It was so awesome. I played through this game so much and even experimented with character build and even best the final boss with Griz, the worst character, as my fifth member without much trouble once.
Wow. And Gryz sucks, despite being a great character.
I have this on Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection on the PlayStation 3, as well as the WAD from the Wii Virtual Console. What a masterpiece.
My phone farted at the beginning at least 10 times.
Damn, I never realised how good the animation in this game is… PS1 is personally my favourite of the series, but this game definitely has its merits. I should play it again
There were changes to the script of the English version over Japanese version. Namely PD/GL being armies of a sort. What confuses me now, is if they were ever "whole" like the English states in the very beginning. And what Le Roof said, "[GL] has gone away..." what exactly would the line in Japanese have been? :S
The way I've non-canonically assumed what happened is that Le-Roof and the others were denizens of that same army of light spirits. The Great Light happened to leave the Algol Star System to create new seals throughout the cosmos. This would work in tandem with the fact that Dark Falz appears elsewhere in the universe besides Algol in later installments in the franchise.
>tits right at the center of the screen
they knew what they were doing. More games should have giant evil women as the final boss.
I don,t get what diligence and agility is but i like the way you played :)
first round should be all single hit attacks. don’t waste the heavy hitting stuff on it until round 2 and 3
did u know? guys! it looks emotion dis step of ending on dat game u feel crying for a Joy & Happiness coz da Ending Theme of dat phantasy Star 4 althought u can think Alyss right here is Died now it looks sad if u think dat after alyss is died now after ending.........! it makes u cry for a Happiness Joyable on dat Coz u are thinking bout? Alyss Gurl
it looks like da Theme song dis Game is came from da Baby those u still makes him sleep afterall
This final boss is a great finish to a Genesis RPG game.
So many tag team combos you could had used lrunes efess in tandem with chazs cross cut to make the Grandcross for ex
Ataraxia restores TP
You didn't think to use that during this final boss gauntlet?
If we can get Silent Hill as a motion picture, why on earth can't we get Phantasy Star IV as a movie too??? 😮
Oh man, I remember this so well. What a great game, and what a great last boss and end scene. Cheers to an awesome RPG!
Its kind of funny how combo spells didn't do diddly to this boss.
Lots of boss fights in this game are more of a marathon than a sprint, keep hitting them for some completely ordinary amount of damage and keep your buffs and health up, and you'll outlast them
It was super blatant with the witches in service of Lashiec, if you used your favorite area damage combos you got total party killed by them, so, patiently take them out one by one and heal/revive your team mates.
In fact, I didnt understand if the woman in the last batle was a real woman, or a possessed woman, by some evil force, like Dark Force.
Pretty sure that's just the form it took.
is it just me or does this part of the game give vibes of Stranger Things, The Upside Down alternate dimension, and the main villain, the Mindflayer?
Dunno, but PSIV is only a few decades older than that show, hahahaha.
I know it's a cultural thing, but I never understood why they all had to leave Chaz alone.
It was like they were friends then just f'ed off like to tell him 'you know, we really didn't like your company to start off with anyway' XD
I enjoy this fight cause there's some struggle to it. It embodies a good end boss fight. I feel like i ruined the feeling on my last run when i just stomped it with OP bs
This was a master piece
This is awesome jrpg, i played with emulator, amazing jrpg and blow today modern jrpg
Whats the theme that plays before enzering the fight?
That's titled "The Black Blood"
No Saner or Barrier? Living dangerously
_Chara [🔪]_
_HP : 123_
_TP : 99_
_ATK : 108_
_DEF : 108_
_MENTAL : 198_
_AGILITY : 108_
_LV : 21_
Amazing story line, and great great music!!! I love it T-T
Thank you for this.
***** No problem! Glad someone else can get enjoyment/help from this.
+torers though I never played this. it looks interesting
this game was next level hard
Nah it really wasn’t
the ending is sooooooo fuckingggggg genesisssss
I see a ton of PS 2 here, never got to play this
Mi nieta años mas tarde hiso un juego parecido esta llamado eternal darkness mystic tactis