Phantasy Star - Gameplay Sega Master System

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Phantasy Star (1987)

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Phantasy Star 1987 Sega Master System

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Phantasy Star is a role-playing video game developed by Sega and released for the Master System in 1987. It is the first installment in Sega's renowned series of the same title. It is considered one of the pioneers amongst role-playing video games, both for its advanced graphics technology, and for being one of the first story-driven games released in the West. It is also notable for being one of the first games featuring a female protagonist after Ms. Pac-Man.

Gameplay

Phantasy Star was one of the pioneers of the traditional console RPG format, featuring fully traversable overworld maps, complete with interactive towns, and sprawling dungeons. The player engages in random enemy encounters, both on the overworld map and in dungeons, which saw a change from the top-down perspective to a first-person view. Unique amongst all games of the time was the faux 3-D graphics of Phantasy Star's dungeons, a widely praised technological feature. Also notable were the animations of the enemy sprites, which featured considerably more frames than were common at the time. Battles featured the standard at the time turn-based format, with each player using a combination of weapons and magic to fight enemies. As the game progresses, the weapons and magic get increasingly more impressive. The option to talk was sometimes a useful alternative, but only for the few enemies that were able to communicate with Alis.

Plot

Phantasy Star is set in Algol, a solar system consisting of three planets. There is the lush and green Palma, the arid and barren Motavia, and finally, the icy and desolate Dezoris. As the story begins, Algol is ruled by King Lassic, who while originally benevolent, becomes a cruel, sociopathic tyrant after converting to a new religion. After a string of harsh political changes, small pockets of rebellion emerge but are mostly ineffective against Lassic's iron rule.

When Nero Landale, the leader of one such rebellion, is killed by Lassic's Robot-cops, his sister Alis swears revenge. As she travels and witnesses the many victims of Lassic's oppression, Alis' objective becomes less about revenge and more about liberation for the people of Algol. Joined by Myau, a talking cat, Odin, once a member of Nero's rebellion, and the Esper Noah (Lutz in the Japanese version and further English games), Alis embarks on an adventure spanning all three planets. Along the way Alis talks to the towns' people who may help her or give her secret information for finding special items. She encounters many personalities, from the well-meaning Governor of Motavia to the eccentric Dr. Luveno and other countless enemies on the way to find the weapons and other items are needed to eventually engage King Lassic and determine the fate of Algol.

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