History Fridge / PhantasyStarIV

* Every time Chaz is alone, he's looking for Alys. Once in the intro, once at the Academy, and again at the Anger Tower. [[spoiler: The final time, he's looking for Al'''i'''s.]] It's a subtle nod to his search for answers and guidance for pretty much the whole game (and possibly his entire life).

* [[spoiler: Gumbious Temple]] is destroyed by what one NPC calls "waves of pure hate", and we know that's what Megid is. It seems that the Profound Darkness' first reaction was a burst of rage at the holiest place she could reach (it's easy to imagine that Gumbious probably shines like a beacon to her senses) and once realizing her reach extended outside her prison, she tried to ''bore through Motavia'' the second time and succeeded.
* [[spoiler: Re-Faze will kill Chaz if he accepts the offer to learn Megid]] but what sense does that make if doing it will mean the end of life in Algo?]] Anybody who has to consciously decide to learn it has to be tested for ambition, otherwise you end up with another Zio: somebody who came into some dangerous amoral powers and used them for his own gain, but it's not taboo to ''know''. Rolf and P.D. come by it naturally, but if Re-Faze is going to just hand it to a hero, he has to be sure he's not creating a new boss fight out of Lutz's corrupted champion.

*** This isn't necessarily true. Though Motavia had regressed in its terraformation since Phantasy Star II, there were many factors that contributed to the environmental crisis. Without Mother Brain, a lot of the AI systems on Motavia went rogue, thus causing the de-terraformation. Not to mention Zio had been ''deliberately'' screwing with the control systems as part of the will of the Dark Force. He knew that if Motavia went back to its normal stasis that all Parmenians would die on the planet. As for the Motavians, he was slaughtering them outright. By the end of the game though Zio [[spoiler: is dead]], and every AI system on Motavia has been dealt with. They had also [[spoiler: effectively destroyed the Profound Darkness once and for all]]. Wren and Demi implicitly state that everything ''will'' be fine. Motavia won't go back to being like it was in PSII, but it's not going to get any worse with climate systems stabilized and their monitoring the planets from Zelan. And they plan on monitoring Motavia until it's able to properly sustain itself. This isn't going to happen overnight, but it ''will happen on Motavia''. Not to mention they keep the Landale, so if things screw up on Motavia again they just need to fly back down there and fix it again.

* Wren is 998 years old, meaning he was built two years ''after'' the destruction of Mother Brain and the defeat of Dark Force in Phantasy Star II, which means he was also built after Parma was destroyed. He's the top AI in existence, he basically has sysadmin privileges for the entire solar system, and he has sufficiently sophisticated programming that he developed emotions. With no Mother Brain to rule the system and no Parmanian scientists to develop him and with the Daughter project being on the books but incomplete, who built Wren? It was probably '''Dark Force.''' Wren is sophisticated enough that building him, as a highly-specialized custom Wren-type android, would have taken a while. [[spoiler: Dark Force had just destroyed Parma and gained the ability to spawn multiple expressions of itself in Algo, and there was already one on Kuran by the time Chaz and company got involved.]] At the end of Phantasy Star II, the only creature in the system that had any reason to build a customizable and heavily-armed android capable of overriding every directive in the environmental control system (particularly the Climate Control on Dezolis and the Plate System on Motavia) was Dark Force itself...

* Less horror, more tear-jerker: Very early in the game, Alys criticizes Chaz because "his swing is too slow". Cue Chaz's gaining level 13, where he learns Airslash, the skill where he swings his sword so fast that the vacuum left in the wake of the blade causes damage to every enemy on the screen. Unless you put unusual effort into level grinding, Chaz will generally get there right around the time Demi joins the party. [[spoiler: It's actually the last thing Alys says to him as a teacher. After leaving the Academy, she's still the unopposed party leader, but she doesn't have anything else to say about his skill as a combatant. He was working on it the whole time, and finally mastered it just as he lost his mentor.]]

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* Why does the Profound Darkness hit the BishonenLine of becoming more formed ''as'' you fight it back? Because the heroes ''aren't''; it's already reaching through the gap in reality, and you're effectively blasting it mid-escape. The further the final battle rages on, the more and more of it manages to manifest in this reality, up until the final form of its seeming true self that the party has to ultimately ''kill'' instead of simply resealing because it's simply too late to try.

* Re-Faze's Megid does more damage than the Profound Darkness' Megid, and Re-Faze clearly doesn't give a rat's ass about murdering Lutz's chosen champion if it comes to that. Given that the whole crux of the game is finding out that the Great Light gives zero fucks about the people of Algo, and given that Re-Faze is a Tower Guardian and presumably has a role in the Light's endgame plans, that kind of implies that Re-Faze is the killswitch for the entire Algo project; if the Profound Darkness does succeed in escaping its prison, the only thing left in Algo that can hurt it is Re-Faze, and he only knows how to do one thing.

** Rika is the only other character besides Alys to learn Saner, which increases the party's agility (ie, their speed in the initiative order). The most effective strategy in ''any'' turn-based combat is winning the first strike and the opportunity to kill an enemy before it gets a chance to attack at all, of ''course'' a distance fighter like Alys prizes getting the drop on the bad guys and of course she'd teach Rika her technique for supporting her partner's speed.

* Less horror, more tear-jerker: Very early in the game, Alys criticizes Chaz because "his swing is too slow". Cue Chaz's gaining level 13, where he learns Airslash, the skill where he swings his sword so fast that the vacuum left in the wake of the blade causes damage to every enemy on the screen. Unless you put unusual effort into level grinding, Chaz will generally get there right around the time Demi joins the party. [[spoiler: It's actually the last thing Alys says to him as a teacher. After leaving the Academy, she's still the unopposed party leader, but she doesn't have anything else to say about his skill as a combatant. He was working on it the whole time, and finally mastered it just as he lost his mentor.]]

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* Every time Chaz is alone, he's looking for Alys. Once in the intro, once at the Academy, and again at the Anger Tower. [[spoiler: The final time, he's looking for Al'''i'''s.]] It's a subtle nod to his search for answers and guidance for pretty much the whole game (and possibly his entire life).

* Less horror, more tear-jerker: Very early in the game, Alys criticizes Chaz because "his swing is too slow". Cue Chaz's gaining level 13, where he learns Airslash, the skill where he swings his sword so fast that the vacuum left in the wake of the blade causes damage to every enemy on the screen. Unless you put unusual effort into level grinding, Chaz will generally get there right around the time Demi joins the party. [[spoiler: It's actually the last thing Alys says to him as a teacher. After leaving the Academy, she's still the unopposed party leader, but she doesn't have anything else to say about his skill as a combatant. He was working on it the whole time, and finally mastered it just as he lost his mentor.]]
* Kyra likes to think of herself as a big sister figure to Chaz. It makes particular sense then that she uses boomerangs and slashers like his surrogate mother figure.
* The Great Light created the three planets of Algo and created a race for each one, intending for them to serve as Protectors of the Seal; the Motavians, Dezolisians, and Parmanians. So what about Rykros? It's still part of the Algo solar system and is just as important as the other planets, but it's only populated by the survivors of the Great Light's original conflict with the Profound Darkness, so who represents Rykros among the people of Algo? ''The Espers!''

* The Great Light created the three planets of Algo and created a race for each one, intending for them to serve as Protectors of the Seal; the Motavians, Dezolisians, and Parmanians. So what about Rykros? It's still part of the Algo solar system and is just as important as the other planets, but it's only populated by the survivors of the Great Light's original conflict with the Profound Darkness, so who represents Rykros among the people of Algo? ''The Espers!'

* Kyra likes to think of herself as a big sister figure to Chaz. It makes particular sense then that she uses boomerangs and slashers like his surrogate mother figure.