ANDREWJFISHER'S PROFILE

So I've completed this Phantasy IV follow on and it was nice to see what the "promising future" of Algo may have been like. Nice having the same or similar graphics and sound of Phantasy Star IV. That said, I wasn't so happy with the story, the characters and the way it ended. I couldn't care about this family of characters they way I could about the family of heroes in Phantasy Star IV, Chaz, Rika, Rune, Alys, Wren etc., who started to feel quite real to me. When I saw the beginning party was two heroines, sisters, and then had another heroine added to it, I thought perhaps the game was building on Phantasy Star roots of having a heroine leading the party or important heroines within the party. But I felt the trio of heroines were made into silly girls as the adventure progressed, with silly humour. I thought the returning characters were OK, true in some ways to Phantasy Star IV, not so true in others. As for the lead villain, he was ok, though not far progressed from Zio. When the character was introduced, I was hoping for something a bit more unpredictable.

Since completing Phantasy Star IV, I've always wondered what Algo's future would be like with this supposed source of darkness destroyed. The closing music is called "The Promising Future", but a couple of things indicate that life will still have its ordinary problems, Rune saying that he still has to continue watching over Algo as Lutz and Wren cautioning Rika that should she choose to live on Motavia with the humans, she'll experience pain i.e trouble finding acceptance.