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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 ^_^Best Deals for Phantasy Star Online, Episode I & II Plus
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...)
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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.
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If you haven't played this game yet but still own a gamecube, or Wii, you owe it to yourself to pick this one up. A fantastic game for those who enjoy co-op game play and strategic team combat. Explore forests, caves, and temples. Fight onslaught of enemies and big bosses. Plenty action and weapons to master. This game is just one of the few that really remind you of what gaming is all about. Just have a couple friends over, pop this game in and get ready for one of the best adventures in the last decade.
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