Phantasia Remake (70 Mb)
Phantasia rpg is an rpg remake, and not to be confused with the entirely different games Phantasia 1 & 2 by BigFish games. The story is that the world's elements are slowly losing their power. And when the Elements completely lose their powers to protect the planet Gaia, that world will be destroyed, and the evil Demon Lord: Asmodeus shall be awakened to pass judgment upon the land. It’s up to a young hero named Max to rekindle the elements and prevent Asmodeus' awakening.
The five best 2D RPG Game Maker rpg games are noted in the rpg games community to be:- the Laxius Power trilogy; The Way Eps 1 - 6; A Blurred Line; Phantasia rpg Remake; and Alter A.I.L.A. I wouldn’t try to split hairs and rank them; they all have notable features unique to each one. I haven’t included Dragon Destiny rpg in the list, simply because of its having puzzle logic games alongside the rpg element and the low initial money - emphasis on trading initially, together with the few places to obtain experience points. In all other respects, Dragon Destiny rpg equals and ranks with the best! Some less traditionalist rpg players might even find Dragon Destiny rpg the most fun to play! But on with the Phantasia remake . . .
The Phantasia remake has new characters, a side-view battle system and a heavily remade storyline. - And dozens of side quests. The bugs in the Beta version reviews have been fixed in the latest download version. Features unique to the game include; 1. For when you reach a critical condition in a battle a cut scene then new skills temporarily granted as a last resort for you to try to defeat the enemy/boss, though you still die if you then fail even with the added new skills to defeat the enemy/boss; 2. The addition of color Elemental Fields, which randomly appear in battle changing the form of certain skills. For example the main character begins with a standard sword technique that will suddenly change to fire element if a fire field should appear. But some of these changes may lessen instead of enhance your battle ability! 3. A balancing system for enemies partly based on your experience points. If you have higher experience points, the enemies can sometimes inflict more damage should you let them! Generally any time there are enemies that use physical attacks, they will be fairly easy to deal with. Any time an enemy is capable of using skills, particularly spells, you're going to die horribly/quickly unless you've spent a lot of time grinding! - These all amount to a particularly good battle system.
You're going to need to find the four elemental orbs (Earth, Air(as Wind), Fire, Water), to restore the world’s elements’ powers. In the first two hours of gameplay, you’ll be rescuing Princess Sara from ‘Garland’, beating down some pirates to acquire a ship, and eventually trekking off to a cave in order to reclaim the Earth Orb to start saving your dying village. Very much ‘a la’ Final Fantasy 1 albeit with name changes and some new events thrown in, as the game’s author very freely admits! The game is (deliberately) rarely clear about where you have to go next, and is usually satisfied with telling you to go directly North or West etc even if that's going to lead you straight to an ocean or mountain range that you have to find a way across or around.
The ‘hero’ Max leaves the village for ‘vague’ reasons (fame and fortune!), and the ‘travelling companions’ you’ll meet and venture with have little in common apart from your and their desire to 'restore the world'. When Max runs into his best friend Annette, he decides to help her out in saving the village that is turning into an uninhabitable state. The ‘hero’ is also rather ‘anti-feminist’ in that he sometimes (very occasionally!) spends his time 'listing' the measurements of every female he encounters and saying how hot he thinks everyone female is?! Whether you’ll find this amusing, funny, or insulting depends on your own view on such matters! He also gives people he is acquainted with nicknames. Whether he is a likeable or not-so likeable rogue, the fate of his world is largely in his/your hands.
Annette studied in the Magic Academy for a couple of years outside Lain Village, she only managed to learn the basic elements, but even then it was a miracle that she even managed to learn 4 spells at once, but it shows that she will be able to learn even more powerful magic in the near future. She is on a mission to return her village to its former self, but she is going to require the right warriors needed for reviving their village Lain, even it if means getting Max to help her, but little does she know that Lain isn't the only place that is in major peril.
Not much is known about Renault. From what he says, he is a fisherman who hangs around the Port Town of Arvis. But it appears that there is something more to him than from what he says... and he always seems to accidentally leak out stuff he shouldn't be saying, perhaps there is something Renault is keeping from the group that he doesn't want them to find out about...
Celia is an archer in the forest town of Ratians. She is usually well versed in nature, (which is why she specializes in Earth elemental attacks...) and her abilities with the Bow are very unique. She is a very distant person and doesn't open up to people very often except for her Uncle; Who lives far from her village and is very knowledgeable about what's happening to the world. She won't leave her village because she thinks she needs to stay and do whatever she can and help the people. But what is it that will motivate her to leave the village?
You'll have to find out about other characters as they appear in the game!
There is of course a huge map to explore the large world area, with many a side quest to divert on if you wish, before finding all four elemental orbs, naturally! As usual with these games there’s a fair smattering of good humor around, good music/sound and very many enemies and bosses to deal with on your travels.
Most of the dungeons are full of small empty (?) rooms, and you'll usually only spend a short time in one room before moving on to the next. One puzzle you might particularly enjoy is a teleport maze.
You are partly more constrained in your initial choices and the game/characters guides you through the first part of the game. There is also a fair amount of emphasis on the storytelling. Later on though, you are freer to explore and take up side-quests if you wish.
The optional dungeon "Abyss" now has more bosses to defeat before you reach the final floor, think you can take them on?
There isn't a manual with the game, nor online, but there some ingame tutorials, and you can always check the YouTube partial walkthroughs if/when you get stuck. 'Arrow' keys to move, 'Spacebar' to advance dialogue, talk to people when next to them, examine items or perform actions such as open doors, 'Esc' or 'X' key for inventory and 'Alt + Enter' keys to switch full-screen/ windowed mode. A lot of the file download size is mp3 music!
This is sincerely a great game, and not one to be missed if you like a good Rpg!
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo1Pp40j3_8 - Plenty more on YouTube!
Download HERE
RPG Game Maker RTP Run Time Files HERE (Either version should do)
Older RTPe Run Time Files (If above RTP files don’t work for you) HERE - but shouldn’t be needed as game made with 2003 version.
