Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium
| Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium | |
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Packaging for the European version.
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| Developer(s) | Sega |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Director(s) |
Rieko Kodama Toru Yoshida Kiyoshi Takeuchi |
| Producer(s) | Jerry Markota |
| Artist(s) | Toru Yoshida |
| Writer(s) |
Akinori Nishiyama Tōru Yoshida (original story) |
| Composer(s) | Izuho Numata Masaki Nakagaki |
| Series | Phantasy Star |
| Platform(s) | Mega Drive/Genesis |
| Release date(s) | |
| Genre(s) | Role-playing video game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 87.06% |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| EGM | 7.75/10 |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| GameFan | 190/200 |
| GamePro | 14.5/20 |
| IGN | 9/10 |
| Nintendo Life |   |
| Mean Machines | 88% |
| Next Generation |   |
| RPGamer | 5/5 |
| RPGFan | 90% |
| Sega Power | 87% |
| Sega Pro | 95% |
| Sega Saturn Magazine | 90% |
Phantasy Star IV, released in Japan as Phantasy Star: The End of the Millennium (ファンタシースター 千年紀の終りに?), is a role-playing video game released for the Mega Drive/Genesis in Japan in 1993 and Europe and North America in 1995. It is the fourth and final game in the original Phantasy Star series, concluding the story of the Algol Star System. The game was also made available on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on June 24, 2008, in the PAL regions on November 14, 2008, and in North America on December 22, 2008, for the price of 800 Wii Points.Phantasy Star IV is also part of the Sega Genesis Collection on the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable and on Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Phantasy Star IV kept many of the gameplay elements of the previous game, including turn-based battles, overhead exploration, and magic spells. The game, which was initially met with positive to mixed reviews upon release, has been subject to very positive critical retrospective reviews, and has appeared on several lists of all-time best games.
Phantasy Star IV is an archetypal role-playing video game, featuring the staples of exploration, NPC interaction, and turn-based combat. Like the previous games in the Phantasy Star series, individual characters each have their own statistics and equipment that determine the character's performance in combat, improving their statistics by gaining experience levels (achieved through victory in combat). Additionally, non-android characters have access to "Techniques," i.e. magic spells, the use of which draw upon a character's pool of "Technique Points" (TP), with new techniques being learned as a character gains levels.
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