Phantasy Star II

Phantasy Star II is a science fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. It was released in Japan in 1989, North America in 1990, and in Europe in 1990.^[1] It was later ported to a variety of different platforms.

An updated remake, Phantasy Star Generation 2^[b], was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2005 in Japan.

Phantasy Star II is the second installment in Sega’s acclaimed Phantasy Star series and serves as a sequel to the original Phantasy Star for the Master System.

Phantasy Star II takes place 1,000 years after the events of its predecessor and follows the journey of a government agent named Rolf and his friends,

who are on a mission to discover why the protector of the planet Mota, Mother Brain, has started malfunctioning.

Phantasy Star II was the first video game to use a 6 mega-bit cartridge, making it the biggest video game on a console at the time.^[2] Since its release Phantasy Star II has been the subject of critical acclaim.

Gameplay – Phantasy Star II

Gameplay is similar to the original Phantasy Star, the first game in the series. Its battle system is turn-based as well as menu-based, allowing the player to choose commands for their party of up to four characters.

The game abandoned the first-person view that the first game used for dungeons and battles. Phantasy Star II instead uses a top-down perspective for exploration and a third-person view in battles.

Plot – Phantasy Star II

Somewhere deep within the Andromeda Galaxy lies the Algol Star System. The parent star, Algol (referred to as “Algo” by this point in the timeline), has three planets orbiting about it. First is Palm (“Palma”), the home of the government.

Governors, treasurers, and great thinkers dwell here in great ivory towers, away from the hubbub of everyday life. Next is Mota (“Motavia”), the shining jewel.

Once a dry desert planet infested with ant lions, Mota has been transformed into a blue and green tropical paradise.

Domed farms grow crops, and the water is regulated into dammed rivers. Life on Mota is sweet, peaceful, and easy.

The people have everything they want and do not need to work. Farthest out is Dezo (“Dezoris”), the ice planet. Little is known about this mysterious and dark planet.

One thousand years have passed since Alis and her friends liberated Algo from the evil Lassic in the previous game; Algo has since prospered under the care of a giant computer called the Mother Brain.

The Mother Brain regulates the Climatrol tower which has terraformed Mota, the biosystems lab, and all other things that provide whatever the people in Mota need.

The game begins with the character Rolf recalling a strange recurring nightmare he has been having. In the dream, a young girl who Rolf does not recognize – but who resembles Alis – is battling a demon.

Finally, just before the demon would kill her, Rolf awakens. From his home in Paseo, Mota’s capital, Rolf goes to the central tower to meet with the head of government on Mota, in order to receive his newest mission.

The first threat is an increase in dangerous biomonsters (biologically altered animals).

Rolf sets off with his companion Nei, a humanoid with catlike features, to investigate, accompanied by six others with each different, but same purpose

. Along the way, the group discovers a human-biomonster hybrid named Neifirst, who reveals that Nei’s origins are the same as her own.

Being part biomonster, she is an outcast from society, causing her to loathe mankind and, because of this, sabotage both Mota’s climate control system and the biosystems laboratory.

Nei confronts Neifirst and battles her in a one-on-one fight, but is defeated and killed.

Anguished, Rolf and the remaining party defeat Neifirst, causing the biosystems laboratory to self-destruct and bringing an end to Mota’s Biomonster hazard.

However, this sets another incident in motion: the explosion of the lab damages the Climatrol equipment and causes the central lake, the residential reservoir of Mota, to overflow with water.

To prevent a massive flood, Rolf and his friends decide to open up the surrounding four dams.

After unlocking the last one, they are captured by Mother Brain’s security robots, charged with causing the environmental disaster, and sentenced to death upon the Gaira satellite.

However, the satellite malfunctions and collides with Palm, destroying both. Rolf and company are rescued in the nick of time by a space pirate, Tyler.