History VideoGame / PhantasyStarII

''Phantasy Star II: The End of the Lost Age'' is the second game in Creator/{{Sega}}'s long-running ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar'' series of [[ScienceFantasy science fiction/fantasy]] {{Eastern RPG}}s. This is the first entry in the series released for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, and it is widely considered the [[NintendoHard most difficult]]. It was also hailed as the best RPG on the system, only unseated by ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV'' five years down the line.

In 1990 and 1991, Sega produced a series of prequel [[InteractiveFiction text adventures]] centered around a different party member each, providing much needed backstory, Nei's in particular. A total of eight were produced, covering the entire playable cast. They were first distributed through the Sega Meganet service, and were included in the UsefulNotes/SegaCD compilations ''Game no Kanzume Vol. 1'' and ''Game no Kanzume Vol. 2'' a few years later. Naturally, [[NoExportForYou none of these left Japan]], though FanTranslation patches exist.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: Palma.

In 2005, following on the first game's remake, ''Phantasy Star Generation 2'' was released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, also only in Japan, which added such enhancements such as redone graphics and sound, more techniques for the cast, a greater amount of dialogue amongst your party members, item crafting, and the ability to save a particular doomed character.

* PaletteSwap: Like you would not ''believe.'' Enemy sprites start to be recycled before you even reach ''the very first dungeon in the game''.

%%* PrisonShip: Gaila.

* CloningBlues: Averted. It's rather specific that if a character dies, you don't have them revived, you have a clone of them made. This doesn't seem to bother any of them, though.

* OffModel: While nowhere near as [[YouDontLookLikeYou unrecognizable]] as in the the infamous American box art, Nei looks really off in the back of the Japanese box.
* OneBadMother: Mother Brain.

* PrisonShip: Gaila.
* PsychicPowers: Techniques
* PsychoPrototype: Neifirst

* DownerEnding: The party succeeds in saving the world by ushering it into a new technological dark age, and has its own BolivianArmyEnding to boot. And shortly before the ending, the original game's main planet blows up, [[KillEmAll killing most of humanity]].

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* WeNeedToGetProof: Your first assigned mission at the start.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Most of Kain's techs only work on machines, which you probably will have encountered none at the point he joins you giving you no reason to bring him along. [[spoiler: Come the time Mother Brain sics all the robots on Rolf, and he becomes an invaluable member of the party, inflicting status effects to machines the way Hugh did for the Biomonsters. He proves his worth AGAIN in the final dungeons if you stuck with him, when his 8TP 50% accuracy instant death technique he learns works on EVERYTHING in the invisible towers, and even the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, save the bosses.]]

* ContemptibleCover: The Genesis version's North American box art turns Rolf into a middle-aged man while Nei becomes a pretty average-looking woman whose ears were somehow turned into ''horns''. Making matters worse, Mother Brain was depicted a brain with an eye, looking more like a rip-off of Metroid's Mother Brain. The cover even got mocked by Sega years later in ''Segagaga''.