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Its comming to Xbox too.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 84
Date: December 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Just wait till Phantasy Star comes to the Xbox. The release dates will be very close (if not the same), but the Xbox version will be much much better. Not just the better graphics and sleaker controls, but the fact that voice chat and faster online gameplay, thanks to Xbox's broadband, will add a better experience to the whole world of Phantasy Star.

bad, no no no no no!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: July 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Do not get this game!!! Very very boring. Battling is painfully unrealistic and stupid. Takes forever to gain levels.
Every aspect of this game is disappointing.

It's only fun if you don't get corruption or FSOD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Hello all of you reading this who don't have PSO, READ THIS!!!:

Ok, first if you only play this game offline, you're fine. However, if you ever decide to play online with this game, Sega has a HORRIBLE server. There are two thing that can happen when you play online. The first is known as FSOD, frozen screen of death, the screen freezes, and all your unequipped items vanish, because the only way to unfreeze is to turn off the GC. Next is corruption. Since the games has a "double save", the memory card can sometimes reject the second save, causing your card to get corrupted, and all your saved info, ERASED. This even happens with a Nintendo made memory card. So, if you're thinking of playing this game online, create a backup character, learn how to dupe, and dupe all your items to that character on a DIFFERENT memory card. I was the head of a club, and part of many other clubs, and now it's all gone due to corruption. Players BEWARE!!!

Don't even pick it up....what a waste of time and money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: December 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Yes...I know, you RPG fans won't pay any attention to me, but leave this horrible game alone. Don't buy, or even rent this disgrace to RPG games. I was very dissapionted with this game. You don't even have to think when you play this game. THE PUZZLES ARE NOT THE LEAST BIT CHALLENGING. All you do is run around and shoot stuff.
Try staring at a wall for an hour. PSO is exactly as entertaining
as a wall. If there was a category for very boring games, this game would get the gold medal. Even if you see PSO for cheap, just walk
away from it, unless you can't get to sleep. Play this game for a few minutes and you'll be sound asleep

PROS: Good multiplayer/online play
+Play this if you can't get to sleep

CONS: Levels are waaaaaaaay too long
-Puzzles are simple
-as exciting as a wall
-Barely any plot lines
-an overall horrible game

Great game...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: April 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you didn't have to pay 9 bucks a month for it. Go find the original unopened and a Dreamcast. It's free and basicaly the same expierience. The 9 dollar fee is totaly uncalled for and not worth it. Skip this game. It's great but not 9 bucks a month great.

Come on People it is the same thing over and over again!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 28
Date: July 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Alright this game is one thing you going through a world that is not that huge and shoot run shoot run, the enemys that come up in the same place over and over again this game is NOT a RPG at all and there is no posible way you can say that it is, it is a adventure game, there is mention of a story at the start but through the level's (the orignal dreamcast one has only 4) You hear nothing at all about the story except from thies little kiosk things and even that is like "our ship crasted we were stranded" all and all if you can do the same thing over and over agin and have fun then you might like the game, the only reson I gave this two stars is because it is fun for about 3 weeks, then you wake up, but just dont fall into the hype people who want a RPG for GC this is not one in the lest bit, you are looking at a pure hak and slash. Granted I have only played the Dreamcast version, but from my understanding they are not changing much, or adding a story.

Same thing over and over and over and over again

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 18
Date: December 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Since my parents wont let me get an account this review is based on the offline play.
First of all this game is VERY, VERY monotonous. Monsters are repeated very, very much. The designers got so obsessed with a monster they made like about 7 types of that monster, and the only thing that varied the types were the color and size. Also there aren't many different monsters in the game.
Also, most of episode 1 takes place underground; underground mines, caves and ruins. And at each place the same freaking rooms are repeated over and over again.
The game play at first is OK, as well as the weapons, character types (well balanced) and character creation. But this game will bore you in a week or two, that is if you don't play it so often.
It has the same graphics as the dreamcast version.

This game is pretty cool

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: September 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, its ok except for the cheats for online, i mean that takes the fun out of it. It should be like starcraft or something, like you can only do cheats offline. Oh well, this game is still pretty cool, I CANT WAIT TILL IT COMES OUT! The demo was sweet, you can create a cool character. I almost made me.. hehe, just kidding. All in all this one deserves 1 and a half thumbs up.

Why not

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: June 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is great it is very fun doing almost all of the missions except for the ones with the people that always die than i get mad and break my controller. the only other bad thing about this game is that online people try and give you illegal items which are sometimes good and other times they kill you. to top it off with that people try to pk you which means they cast the opposite of resta(a healing spell) and it kills you in one hit than they collect your items and money and sigh off. overall this will be a great game if they are able to block people who pk u.

Great RPG; but GO ONLINE!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

To start off PSO I&II is a good game. Anyone who says this game is stupid is stupid themselves, I'd like to see them create a video game. In the beginning, you choose from one of four empty slots and create a character. The 3 temporary char. slots are for transferring characters from another memory card. There are 3 classes of characters and 4 specific types in each. The three classes are Hunters (good with swords), Rangers (good with guns) and Forces (good with techniques, which is basically magic). The 4 types consist of Androids, Humans, and Newmans (Newmans are like Humans but with pointy ears.) Androids cannot use techniques like Humans and Newmans, but they can see and use traps. Beginners should use Droids since they regain hp and cannot get poisoned or anything, plus they have no technique points to worry about. TP (Technique points) are like hp but go down when you use spells. You can customize characters and during the game, collect new weapons. That's about where the fun ends offline. No puzzles are involved in the levels, just figure your way around and kill enemies. There aren't even very many types of enemies. In 1p mode there are quests but in 2-4player mode you just play through levels, and in this multiplayer mode you cant save. There are lots of items, almost too many. It's complicated since 2 items with the same name can raise different stats. Be sure to read through the whole instruction book before playing. I have never been online because of the fee but if you can, DO IT ONLINE. There are even downloadable quests. And now that i think of it there are practically no people to talk to offline(only in the pioneer 2 ship where you warp to levels) and there is basically no story and if there is you never really learn it. If you want to go online with gamecube this is your only way right now (and will probably be one of very few online cube games.) Now, you decide if you want this game or not.

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