The fourth and last game in the traditional series of Phantasy Star. There was a bit of change to see in this one, but it's still a very good game. This game, by the way, takes place 1,000 years after the time of Phantasy Star II.

You start out on the world of Motavia, controlling a woman named Alys Brangwin, and her just-promoted full-fledged partner, Chaz Ashley. You are members of a guild, known as Hunters, hired to exterminate monsters and investigate odd goings-on. It starts out with you heading to a town known for it's high learning, known as Piata.

There is a new system introduced in this game, where you can create pre-set battle commands for everyone in the group known as a Macro. This is useful for not having to hit the same button for people every time in a fight, and for pre-setting combination attacks which can be done with two or more characters.

There is a lot of humour in this installment, especially between Chaz and another character named Rune Walsh. There is also a command in the menu called Talk, which will sometimes give you a little insight on a character and will also remind you of what you're supposed to be doing right now in case you forget something.

Don't pass this up if you get a chance to play it, it's the kind of game you can enjoy easily without having to play every other one first. (I played this one first, and it prompted me to try the others)

The purpose of this hack is to enhance the already excellent gameplay experience of Phantasy Star IV. This was primarily achieved through refinement of the script and the elimination of numerous bugs. Other enhancements include the introduction of new items, the inclusion of two dummied enemies and one lost technique, making the naming conventions more consistent with earlier games in the series, tweaks to stats and abilities, and more.

We’re currently on version 1.1, the second release of this hack. 1.1 corrects a few minor bugs and makes small changes to the presentation. The primary content is largely unchanged from 1.0.

This hack was built from the ground up using the Phantasy Star IV Disassembly document by lory1990, available on this site. Please see the readme for complete details, and thank you to everyone who tries the hack!

Note: The difficulty level in this hack has not been increased in any way over the vanilla game. I'm adding this note in response to a review where the user appeared to be under the impression that the difficulty in the hack had been increased, leading to a bad user experience.

Database match: Phantasy Star IV (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Genesis (v. 20210226-213851)
File/ROM SHA-1: BC7FF6D6A8408F38562BC610F24645CAD6C42629
File/ROM CRC32: FE236442

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