His upper arms are colored differently on the cover, also. Here they're golden, but the cover has them gray. I kind of think this picture just might be the corrupted version of the character. This same picture was labeled as Didalos in the Sega Video Game Illustrations book. So maybe his colors change from this appearance to the cover appearance when he is repaired and becomes a good guy again.
That makes sense and maybe that's the real explanation.
As I see in the posts above, is there a reference to Odin/Tylon ? (an explicit one) No trace of Lutz and Myau ?
(About Odin, I was always a bit sad to see few ties to him in all the following Phantasy Stars...)
Tylon/Tyrone/Odin was a hero to Aleck and Minina. Apparently, the events of PS1 game story became a legend and, surprisingly, this time around it seams that the importance of Myau and Lutz is omitted. Things like that happens all the time - for instance, in PSIV, in Termi, the main heroes from LaShiec's demise were only Alis and a cat. In any case, both young heroes learn the PS1 legend through Minina's adoptive father (the Elder of the village of Tedo).
"Now, it's AW813, a time of growing unrest. Aleck and Minina are two youths from Tedo Village, who revere the legend of Alisa and Odin, as told by the elder who raised Minina, an orphan."
I always wondered why would they reference Odin at the beginning of the game if he never appears nor mentioned ever again. Even a little reference like the appearance of a laconian axe would be enough... but no. There's actually some "Psycho wand", "Frade Mantle" and "Persesus Shield" in the game, but no "Laconian Axe". The only laconian pieces are the items from PSI that now belong to Alis.
I imagine he temporary replaced Alis on her duties as ruler or in military strategy while she left to Copto... and that he also would be dead by now. Where would he be? Maybe in Palma (or Dezolis if we believe that the "
The glorious man who used to fight to save Algo is buried here." from PSII refers to Odin - however, it could be a bad translation and a reference to Lutz or even Alis herself which in latter games appears to be).
In any case, this fan translation is limited and has many problems that influenced the game experience for worse. The ending is also altered - the real ending is here -
http://www.sceneryrecalled.com/trans/psgtwist.txtHere's the translation of the manual:
http://www.sceneryrecalled.com/trans/psgmanl.txtWhat I never understood about this game was "Aresaland" and "Copto".
Is "Aresaland" the name of the planet or the name of a conquered region of a planet?
Was Copto the name its sun and solar system were the story takes place?
Was copto the name of the planet?
Does anyone know this?