by Zio_Falz » Thu Dec 4, '14, 2:34 pm
Phantasy Star II, by far.
The game is just riddled with despair, and for anyone playing it for the first time, it will be an experience because of it's difficulty level for a first time player.
Phantasy Star II spoilers below.
But as far as story, it really is a bleak experience.
Talk about a day at work gone bad.
Granted stories in RPGs back then weren't as well fleshed out as common games today.
Despite less text from the characters, I found Nei's death much worse than Aerith's from FF7.
Thematically, I have yet to find a game with as bleak of a storyline.
Game starts off with Hero who has constant nightmares, then he goes to work to be sent on mission to investigate murderous biomonsters roaming the countryside.
Along the way, he has to rescue a girl who was held captive for ransom, and whose father resorted to murder to pay said ransom.
Kidnappers of girl are found killed in their own hideout by freak biomonsters.
Rescued girl reunites with father, only for father to murder her since he didnt recognise her.
Hero and his housemate adopted sister, who was an outcast from society due to being bioengineered and looking strange, embark to figure out what caused biomonsters.
Biomonsters attack them hundreds of times.
Girl finds out her evil biologic sister, has created biomonsters to kill people she loathes. Evil sister kills her biologic sister, the Hero's adopted sister.
Hero cries. Defeats Evil-sister, then he stops monster production.
After that we learn that the artificial irrigation system has caused massive ecologic flood emergency.
Also, his very government, has warrants for his arrest regarding anarchy and terrorism, and sends hundreds of robots to capture him.
Meanwhile, Hero attempts to stop flooding, only to then be arrested by the government he works for, without explanation, is accused to anarchist crimes, and is sentenced to death without trial.
Taken to artificial Satellite to await death, Hero passes out (or dies,) only to be rescued by Space Pirate, who tells him that the Satellite which they were on, crashed into his race's native original planet Palm, destroying the planet.
Hero finds out he must enlist help from an Anarchist on the 3rd distant planet, made of almost all ice and harsh to live on.
Space Pirate tells him expatriate Anarchist may be able to fix his problem of being a fugitive on the run from the government.
But he has no spaceship and space travel was outlawed 10 years ago.
Former Boss gives him last government spaceship, finally something goes right for Hero.
We also learn that, after talking to the supposed anarchist on the 3rd planet, apparently our Hero in addition to having a very bad day/days, has also had a bad life:
He was orphaned at age of 10 after his parents were killed in spaceship accident.
Anarchist tells hero the only option is to fight, and he must collect an arsenal of weapons and armour.
After that daunting task, Anarchist sends him to strange eerie spaceship in outer space, which our Hero had no idea existed.
Hero is only given vague information from the expatriate wizard man accused to anarchy.
He is told only that the enemy which controlled government and corrupted the solar system Super-computer, is on the spaceship, and must be vanquished.
Hero makes way to what he thinks is the enemy, a literal physical personification of evil, who is strong, difficult, and even corrupts Hero's team-mates.
Hero wins battle with evil supernatural entity. But wait, there is more.
Hero finds that the Solar system Super-computer itself is on spaceship, apparently corrupted by evil entity.
Hero has no choice but to defeat and shut down evil Super-computer, to save the solar system.
With no more Super-computer existing after it's defeat, all electricity, environmental, and planet sustaining capabilities shut off.
This caused his home planet of Mota, a former desert planet turned paradise, to hasten its return to harsh desert.
Also as a result, many of Algol's population dies. 90% death toll according to the Compendium.
Hero remains optimistic having defeated evil entity and evil Super-computer, and is eager to return home to help his planet.
Hero is then told by expatriate Anarchist Wizard from Ice planet Dezo, that Hero and party "cannot return."
That there is another enemy there in addition to the defeated evil entity and evil Super-computer.
Hero finds on spaceship are hundreds of corrupt, greedy, debased humans, who had the intention all along to bring the solar system into complacency, in order to ultimately destroy it and the 2 remaining planets, just as they did to former planet Palm.
Being outnumbered several hundred humans compared to Hero's party of 7 people, Hero realises exactly what it meant that he "cannot return," ultimately martyring himself and team to destroy the hundreds corrupt humans who started attacking his party.
There is absolutely no positive note in this nihilistic game's story.
Its a tragic, bleak, and very sad tale.
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Zio_Falz on Fri Dec 5, '14, 2:21 am, edited 3 times in total.