Hello. Well, i really felt like sort of summarizing what i think of the main PStar quadrilogy.
Did anyone else play PStar 4 first and then get filled with a desire to see how it all started and led up to that game, what with it being such a great, captivating story? PStar 4 was almost a religion for me, I was so taken by the story. When i did get to playing the first 3 games I felt they were so inferior that it was like heartbreaking. I'd try my best to look at the good parts in them, but lately just said "Nah, screw it they're just bad". I even tried rewriting the stories of PStar 1 and PStar 2 to relieve my disappointment a bit (as for PStar 3, I reckon probably better if that had never been made).
Well I think that the main thing...the stories of games 1 and 2 are just either too
thin or too strange (or stupid). PStar 4 seemed to sort of steer the story into an easier to follow, much easier to appreciate and really get involved in, form.
They'd quit the references to earthmen from PStar 2 (they actually made it seem as though Mother Brain had been created by the Algoians, and basically as though it had been good for Algo).
I kind of wish they hadn't put in the part where they discover one of the PStar 3 ships (though at the time i was kind of happy that PStar 3 was being bought more into line with the PStar 4 story).
A few things about games 1 and 2...now the graphics of those games don't fault the series much at all. I still find PStar 1 really cute and for a while it can be really fun and satisfying just walking around the planets or towns, admiring everything. As for PStar 2, they're clearly the basis for the PStar 4 graphics anyway, and they're fine (though it did suck only having 2 planets to explore).
But with both games, it just got so drudgerous going from planet to planet or dungeon to dungeon, without having a good story to keep you going. The dungeons were just too long for me. I know some people like doing the whole map-drawing, stat-building thing, but I don't and thats where PStar 4 was good, cause u really didn't need to map the dungeons and also u could just kind of move easily through the game without having to spending time "training" and building up your stats so u can move on to the next part.
Also, I know PStar 1 and 2 were remade anyway with more detailed story. I've watched some youtubes but they're in japanese.