Posts with tag phantasy-star-3
The VC Advantage: Phantasy Star Tree
VC Tuesday: Phantasy Detective Club
It's a rather small week on the Japanese Virtual Console, and one that means virtually nothing to gamers outside of Japan. Usually, Japan's releases allow us a look ahead at what's coming for us. This week's two releases just aren't useful for that purpose.There's extremely little chance of any of Nintendo's Famicom Tantei Club (Famicom Detective Club) games being released outside Japan, which is unfortunate, because we'd love to play these Nintendo-developed text adventures. The one released today is a Super Famicom remake of the second Famicom Disk System game, whose subtitle translates to "The Girl Standing in the Back."
Phantasy Star III is already out in the U.S. and Europe. The most interesting thing there is why Sega chose to release it elsewhere before Japan. That's pretty rare!
- Famicom Tantei Club II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
- Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (Mega Drive, 1 player, 700 Wii Points)
VC Monday Madness video wrap-up 4/21/08
Well folks, we're back with video commentary and ready to give you the lowdown on this week's Virtual Console releases. This week will go down in history for us, as it shows the release of one of the best NES games ever here in the United States. So what are you waiting for? Hit up the video above, then cruise past the break for the rest.
VC Monday Madness: River City Ransom and some other game
- River City Ransom (NES,1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
- Phantasy Star III Generations of Doom (Sega Genesis, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
April VC releases for Japan: Dracula X leads an awesome month
Other than the amazing Dracula X, there's actually a lot of really great stuff coming out in April. It has actually renewed our faith in the Virtual Console, which is why we're starting to think we're being fooled by a tragic April Fool's Day joke on Nintendo's part. Metal Slug and The Legend of Valkyrie are standouts, as is the incredibly vintage RPG Bokosuka Wars, if only because it reminds us of this shirt.
Famicom:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Sky Kid
- Volguard II
- Bokosuka Wars
- Famicom Detective Club Part II
- Heracles no Eikou IV
- Wonder Boy
- Musha Aleste
- Phantasy Star III
- Phelios
- Kirby 64
- Riot Zone
- Legend of Valkyrie
- Dracula X: Rondo of Blood
- Digital Champion: Battle Boxer
- Monster Lair
- Metal Slug
The Virtual Console soon to be full of Phantasy Stars
According to the USK (the German ratings board), three new Mega Drive games will be available on that country's Virtual Console soon (and therefore the rest of Europe's, and therefore everywhere soon afterward): Gleylancer, Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom, and Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium. Gleylancer is notable for being another Japan-only game, and the Phantasy Stars are notable for being great RPGs (yes, even III). IV is regarded as the best in a series of already-wonderful games.This should come as no surprise, really, because the major deciding factor for VC availability of any Genesis/Mega Drive game is "Is it on the Sega Genesis Collection disc?" as both Phantasy Star 3 and 4 are. We go on and on about that disc, but it continues to be relevant! We'd never begrudge Sega for making these great games available in as many formats as possible, though.
