Phantasy Star: Fringes of Algo

by **Thoul** » Sat Jul 2, '11, 12:00 am

This is the title screen for Phantasy Star Complete Collection, the most extensive gathering of Phantasy Star games to date. It includes Japanese releases of all the classic Phantasy Star titles, plus the official English translations that were released in North America. Several bonus features are also present for most games, such as image galleries for each game that include cover art, character artwork, full scans of the Japanese game manuals, and early advertisements used in Japan.

In future Image of the Day installments, we will be examining some of the images in the Phantasy Star Complete Collection galleries. Some of these will be images we have not seen previously, but there will also be some repeats. This collection's galleries are more balanced among the games than those of the Saturn collection, foregoing the extensive character designs of Phantasy Star IV in favor of higher quality artwork for titles such as Phantasy Star and Phantasy Star Gaiden. And even though we will see some repeats, they will often feature better quality images. In fact, the quality in general is so good that I actually have to reduce it to keep the files at a managable size.

by **newsblade** » Sat Jul 2, '11, 9:08 pm

I bought two copies of this PS2 release for many reasons (besides those you already mentioned).

It was the best emulation of this game in a console so far. Although the sound/music was only 90% well emulated (some instruments were missing or playing incorrectly) -at least in PSIV-, the picture quality was the best I have seen compared to other Sega collection releases.

Also, if you played this game on a European PS2 console, it would play the games just like the European Mega-Drive did on the old days (not as frenetically fast as NTSC and with a great BGM)... to me that was the best.