Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium
You are Chaz Ashely, a rookie Hunter straight out of training who is supported by Alys Brangwin – a crafty veteran whose good looks and prowess with the blade have earned her an awesome reputation. The two…
Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium is a role-playing (rpg), released 17 December 1993 on Wii, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Linux and Mac.
What Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium is
Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium was released in 1993. It was published by Sega. It is available on Wii, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Phantasy Star IV takes place 1,000 years after the events of Phantasy Star II. After an event called the Great Collapse, much of the once-thriving planet Motavia has been reduced to desert, and life has become progressively more difficult for the planet's inhabitants. To make matters worse, there has been a marked increase in the numbers of the "biomonsters," a catch-all term for the strange and violent aberrations of Motavia's flora and fauna. Keeping these creatures under control is the job of "hunters". During an investigation into such an outbreak, Chaz Ashley, a young hunter, learns of the relationship between the biomonster problem and the planet's ecological crisis. The planet is in…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Phantasy Star series
Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium is the seventh of 51 entries we hold in the Phantasy Star series. It arrived a year after Phantasy Star Gaiden. The next entry was Phantasy Star: Fukkoku-ban in 1994.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 2.0 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and 32MB or greater graphics card. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium launched on 17 December 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Mega Man X, SimCity 2000 and Theme Park.
Released around the same time: Doom, Mega Man X, SimCity 2000, Theme Park.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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