Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months Binding: Video Game Brand: GameCube EAN: 0010086610369 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Label: Sega Team Manufacturer: Sega Team Platform: GameCube Publisher: Sega Team Sales Rank: 4294 Studio: Sega Team
Features:
Two Great Games On One Disk.
Can be played offline or online.
Plus eddition offers quests, challenges, and mini games that were only available online.
Rating: - Phantasy Star 1 & 2 Plus
great price and great Game I thought I already did this rating but if not sorry.
Rating: - Finally purchased for myself...
I have played PSO with my best friend for a couple years, and when he left for the Fleet in the Marine Corps, I couldn't play anymore because he took it with him :( I broke down and bought a NGC and this game was the first on my list. The game arrived in excellent condition and I've needed to buy another memory card just to keep up with my character list now ^_^
Rating: - Long time fun
Sega made a few mistakes. Particularly that you cannot move your characters between memory cards. So be sure your friend brings their own memory card to play, if they ever want to take their character elsewhere!
This game is highly repetitive after the first few times through.
But there are a multitude of "side quests" accomplished by taking Missions through the Hunter's Guild in a very specific order. [...]
The main draw of this game is being able to play with all your friends, as the online mode or simply the "all together in one physical room" mode of multiplayer with all four people allowed at once is really quite spectacular. The difficulty increases the more people are in the party. However, the highest difficulty level you can go to in multiplayer is limited by how high everyone in the party has gone. Meaning if one player hasn't passed Hard, but everyone else has, you can only select Hard or below if they are playing too.
Otherwise, the only point to the game is collecting dropped items. Or playing Online, in which even more quests, special event items or special item-grinding can be done.
The second revison has different cover art, and fixes the infamous shop-duplication bug.
Rating: - PSO.......Sweetness
I know almost no one is gonna read a review for this, so i'll put it quick and simple. I love this game. Its so sad they have discontinued it....."sniff"......But i think this is one of the greatest games of all time. You would need to play over 500-1000 hours to experience everything.40 - 50 days worth of playing, i mean. but it is so worth it.
Rating: - Pretty good... repetative... but good
This game is pretty darn good. It's graphics are detailed, the sound is of decent quality and the story line actually makes sense.
We'll start with the storyline. If you don't pay attention to the rambally of the principal at the beginning of the game you won't know why the heck your fighting until the 3rd or 4th level. It turns out you're in a spaceship with a ton of people looking for a new home planet -Your misson: Fight through the alien monsters and see if it's safe. There are no cutscenes which is a definite time saver but you end up forgetting about the story in general through out the game. The end of the game kinda leaves you hanging too...
Next, the gameplay. The game could definitly use a tutorial i got killed like 5 times before i got the rythem of the game. Other than that though it's great. You go around different areas such as forests, caves, mines, runes, temples, spaceships and some others and kill monsters. What's great about the maps of this game is that it has the "maze element" but not so much to the point where you get frusterated and turn the gamecube off. Occansionally you'll turn around and retrace your steps but you always find your way through. You attack in a combo up to 3 hits at a time. You can choose a fast, but weak attack, and slow but strong attack or a very slow but special attack (such as lightning, freezing, steal money, steal health etc.) in a rythmic pattern. As you progress though the game you can find and buy different weapons, powerups and armor. Nintendo pros will even spend much time on this game due to multiple things. #1 you can choose from 3 different classes: hunter (melee) ranger (gun-ranger) or a mage type (range-magic). #2 each class has different attributes such as robot, human male, human female, girl robot etc. #3 There are different difficulty levels, once you beat normal you can try hard, then very hard, then ultimate. And best yet you can play online! (requires and gamecube internet adapter though...)
Lastly, the graphics. If you're looking for a game with realistic, beautiful, colorful backgrounds, i can't say i'd recommend this game. The graphics are nice... but a little cartoony for my taste; the monsters don't have much detail (for instance it took me 3 months to relizes the evil sharks had dark green scails) and although the backgrounds are colorful, not realistic, for example most caves (or at least the ones i've seen) don't have lava waterfalls with a metal bridge going over them...
Anyway over all it's definitly worth buying and playing. (I'm still trying to beat very hard mode with a ranger...)
- Phantasy Star 1 & 2 Plus
- Long time fun
