Phantasy Star IV: Talk - Rika

This small portrait is shown above dialogue boxes when Rika speaks.

Phantasy Star IV introduced many features not used by many other RPGs at the time it was released. Many of those features have become standard fare that gamers expect in nearly every video game released today. One such feature is a visual identification of a person speaking, allowing players to follow conversations without reading each character's name like a movie script. Small portraits like the one shown here are used for all the major, and many minor, characters in the game. Even the cutscenes included these portraits.



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I think if you took some of those unique-at-the-time mechanics of PSIV, like talk character portraits (among others), and combined them with some of the unique-at-the-time (and still unique...) aspects of Earthbound, like the rolling hit point meter (again, among others), you'd have one awesome RPG.

Bumping up this former Image Of The Day!

A very small image of Rika! She is still beautiful.

Large or small, Fal/Rika is always beautiful !

Rika!

Fal ! What a great girl she is