TouchArcade: This week's entry, like many of the games we cover here, is an interesting case. The Phantasy Star brand has cast a fairly wide net over the years, with its most popular entries being in the Phantasy Star Online series that started on SEGA's last piece of gaming hardware, the Dreamcast. The series got its start, of course, as a single-player JRPG series that spanned two generations of hardware. For whatever reason, SEGA brought just one of the classic games to iOS during that brief period of time where they were tossing Genesis games out by the bunch. So we're left with the odd situation of neither the first nor last title being available to iOS gamers, but one of the middle installments. At least it's the more well-regarded of the two middle chapters. As it happens to be the only one on iOS, I'm going to be talking about Phantasy Star 2 [$2.99] specifically in this article, but you just know I can't resist using it as an excuse to talk about the entire original series.
Sega Genesis had a handful of outstanding RPGs like Phantasy Star IV and Shining Force II. Outside of the very best examples, many of the Sega Genesis RPGs did not get the amount of recognition they deserved.
Yes OMG.. I didn't know it was called this.. In Europe it was called Soleil.
I remember restarting it as soon as I finished it..
Story of Thor, Light Crusader deserve a special mention!!!
Hell yes.. I remember reading about that code in a gaming magazine when I was a kid, lol
Sega is bringing its massive catalog of retro games to a mobile platform near you.
WELL DAMN!
Really smart and tech conscious move though. I mean everyone is downloading these for free anyway on mediocre emulars on their phone anyway, so do this and you give a much easier and more refined way to do so that not only allows them to browse/discover games they never played but will certainly earn Sega some good publicity to the masses
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Mobile...urgh
Why not give console players a bigger, better Sega Ultimate Genesis Collection
This whole thing would have been so much better on console....guess they are just pursuing the mobile market as its big in Japan.
hmm... I get a "cannot be installed on your device's country" error when attempting to install....So not available in the US yet?
I read another article that said it starts on Thurs. And today is wed. (In the u.s.) so check back tomorrow.
Started working about an hour ago (Still wednesday here) and Sonic just went free too.. you just have to manually search for it since the link on the Sega Forever site is broken (Sega delisted the $2.99 version and relisted it as free)
If there’s one game I can say changed the way I thought of storytelling and narrative, it was Phantasy Star II. Hands down one of the greatest JRPGs I played, it is a powerful work of science fiction. It was also what convinced me for the longest time that Sega had the edge in the 16-bit console wars.
Sega really needs to start digging from a lot of their past games. They could make a fortune!
Ahhh, the Phantasy Star series. Amazing games.