Phantasy Star II Text Adventures

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caption = Title Screen of Eusis's (Rolf's) Adventure
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developer = Sega
publisher = Sega
release = vgy|1990
genre = Text Adventure
modes = Single-player
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platforms = Sega Mega Drive, Sega CD
media = Download
requirements = Meganet modem
input = Game controller

Phantasy Star II Text Adventures were a series of eight text adventure videogames available to users of Sega Meganet, a modem for the Sega Mega Drive in Japan, and later released as part of a compilation on Sega CD. Each of the games takes place shortly before Phantasy Star II, documenting the backgrounds of its characters, and explaining what brings them to the town Paseo where they eventually team up to investigate the pervasive troubles of the Algol Solar System.

Gameplay

Like most text-based adventures, the "Phantasy Star II Text Adventure" games consist of exploration, NPC and environment interaction, inventory management, and occasional battles. Combat uses random dice rolls as a multiplier against the attack value of the character's equipped weapon.

Development and Translation

Since the Meganet modem was not available worldwide, the games were restricted to a small audience. However, through the hard work of fans, three of the eight - Kain's, Amy's, and Shir's Adventures - have been translated to English. Efforts to translate the other chapters are in progress as well.

Rolf's Adventure

Rolf (Japanese: ユーシス ("Yūshisu" or Eusis)) is a government agent working out of the town of Paseo on Motavia, and the main character of Phantasy Star II. While on a mission, he rescues a young Numan girl named Nei from the Biosystems Lab.

Nei's Adventure

This chapter features Nei (Japanese: ネイ, "Nei") - a Numan created through an experiment to breed humans with biomonsters. After her escape from Neifirst, she is rescued by Rolf and adopted as his little sister.

Rudo's Adventure

This chapter features Rudolf "Rudo" Steiner (Japanese: ルドガー・スタイナー ("Rudogā Steiner" or Rudger Steiner)), who after the loss of his wife and child in a Biomonster attack, becomes a hunter dedicated to their extermination.

Amy's Adventure

Amy Sage (Japanese: アンヌ・サガ ("Annu" or Anne Saga)) has just finished her internship at the hospital in River Town, and has become a full-fledged doctor. Calm, yet strong-willed, she is dedicated in helping everyone who needs her medical aid. Her chapter takes place in the spring of AW 1284, shortly before the events of Phantasy Star II, giving the player some insight into why she became a doctor and decided to specialize in helping victims of Biomonster attacks.

Hugh's Adventure

Hugh Thompson "(Japanese: ヒューイ・リーン ("Hyūi Lean" or Huey Reane))" is a biologist who adapts his knowledge of anatomy to combating biomonsters.

Anna's Adventure

The emergence of biomonsters was soon followed by a new class of warriors. Called hunters, they devoted themselves to protecting the people of Mota from attack. Anna Zirski (Japanese: アーミア・アミルスキー ("Āmia Amirusuki", Amia Amirski)), however, is a hunter of a different sort - one who "hunts hunters", those who have become as much of a threat as the monsters.

Kain's Adventure

Josh Kain (or Kain Ji An, Japanese: カインズ・ジ・アン "Kainzu") is an 18 year old aspiring engineer who always loved machines, and had become quite knowledgeable in how electrical devices and robots function. He built many small devices, fixed appliances, and even learned to hack computers. However, due to being scatterbrained and clumsy, he would sometimes destroys the things he tried to fix. Eventually, after one particularly disastrous repair job, he gave up trying to be an engineer, deciding instead to put his "talent" for destroying things to good use. Thus did he become a "wrecker", his job being to trash anything electronic. He starts off joining a gang of rebels out to destroy Mother Brain, and eventually ends up teaming up with Rolf in Phantasy Star II towards that very end.

hir's Adventure

Shir Gold (Japanese: シルカ・レビニア ("Shiruka Rebinia", Shilka Levinia)) – the only child of a wealthy family in Paseo, she belongs to the well-to-do of Motavia. Growing up and wanting for nothing, Shir felt became a thief enough to remedy the monotony of daily life. She enjoys the outside air, the cool night breeze, and hanging around on rooftops, taking up the nickname "Shir of the Wind". Her adventure takes place in Autumn of AW 1282, about two years before the events that take place in Phantasy Star II, as she plans to steal a valuable painting entitled "Opa-Opa", which is on display in a hotel exhibit.