Phantasy Star Generation:4

What's changed

Phantasy Star Generation:4 reworks the English script and the proper nouns (weapons, monsters, places and names) of the Mega Drive classic. The name borrows from Sega's own Generation remakes of the first two games, whose fourth entry was never made. The project's aims are to:

• fix references to the earlier Phantasy Star games that were lost or mistranslated,
• follow the Japanese developers' intent in the story and its themes,
• make the dialogue, from townsfolk to main characters, more natural and expressive,
• add series lore and give more reasons for what characters do.

Graphics and sound are left as in Sega's English release, except that monsters cut from the Western version are put back.

Two versions

The patch comes in a "Purist" version and a "Working Designs" version; the latter adds a few extra lines of playful dialogue in the spirit of Working Designs' Sega CD localizations, without pop-culture jokes. The main story is almost the same in both.

Playing it

The patch is applied to your own copy of the game, following the instructions on the creator's page, which also gathers notes, a creator-commentary playthrough and other Phantasy Star resources.

Credits

Retranslation and relocalization by Ghaleon.