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This has been the best download for me during quarantine and great to relive the best of all RPG games... I completed IV and III and currently working on II. For anyone with issues on saving for PSII the trick is to save the game in the data center in the actual video game, and NOT use the top right hand save button that the app gives you... I was using the top right button at first which makes you wait the 30 seconds every time you do so and midway through the game it would freeze and stop working and reboot. I was devastated thinking I couldn’t continue this complex game without save but I tested and went to a data center in the actual game located in the town (the logo outside the building looks almost like a division sign with dot and lines)... save in the slot there and then once you exit and restart the game you can access it that way by clicking start when PSII comes up. IT WORKS and is better and faster than the app button which is faulty anyway. And when you are further into PSII and have Shir the thief steal the visaphone from the headquarters in Paseo once she is at level 10, this device lets you save ANYWHERE and at any point in the game and yes, it works!! You can thank me later!! Enjoy your playing! This app has brought back so many great memories of the late 80s and early 90s for me. Totally worth it for free but I would’ve paid.

It's hard to believe this game came out in 1989! Back then it was the largest cartridge game ever but memory was still a limitation so it came with a 100 page manual with maps, hints, descriptions of weapons, techniques, etc. The iOS port is pretty much an exact replica so I recommend finding that info on the web (unless you like frustration!) One cool addition is the cloud save feature which literally lets you save your game anywhere! I even saved the game during the closing credits! It's a good thing too as the regular 'data save' feature quit working about halfway through. The most annoying thing was the control buttons blocking large portions of the screen. I didn't find out until my last day playing that you could adjust the opacity! Oh well... Another bug I found: whenever I tried to use the Neisword to return to Lutz, the game froze and I had to exit and restart from my last save. (I am on an iPad with 10.3.3). I just used Hinas to get back so it wasn't a big deal. Five stars to Sega for allowing me to relive a small portion of my youth! One more thing, I paid to remove the ads and there was only one Sega ad that would pop up when you first start the game. Not as annoying as the reviews led me to believe.

What can I say. It’s not like playing on the Genesis, but it’s a solid emulation, it’s cool that you can save at anytime and the game works perfectly. The controls feel odd with that iconic Sega D-pad beneath your left thumb, but unless you have Nomad this is the best way to play Phantasy on the go. Phantasy Star 2 is an old school RPG but the translation is good so the hints actual make since of you use your head you can figure out where to go and what to do with relative ease. Phantasy Star 4 is probably my favorite RPG of all time so I was happy to see it here still plays great still looks great, though the models may seem a bit smoother than they do on the system. The sound isn’t as good as it was on the Genesis, but it is on the phone after all. With all that said it is exactly as my title says, Phantasy Star on the phone.

I think many people having issues are just dopes - I have no issues at all, works perfect. The sound quality of the emulation isn’t great - that’s really the only complain. If you don’t like ads then buy the game - pretty simple solution - this isn’t a free to play, it’s a port of a Genesis game. Also the control options are good - and you can customize them, I’ve had zero performance issues, and there are no issues with iOS 12, including betas. Overall this is a great game and hopefully Sega releases the rest of the series AND even more importantly I hope they create a new classic Phantasy Star game - not that garbage Universe stuff - but a proper PS5, Octopath has proven there’s a big market for these games still.

I bought this title several years ago and it worked flawlessly. Sometime in the past year or so they updated the game giving it cloud saving. Ever since that update, I have extremely frequent black screen issues. If I press the home button on my iPhone 7 Plus it goes right back to where I left off, but with this happening every minute or two it’s essentially broken. Please fix or refund the currently broken title.

Edit: as of 2018, the game is fine, except for if one doesn't have internet connection, saving will not work and the game will freeze. I'm glad I edited my review. I'd love for an offline mode saving, like on Steam. Great game. Original review from 2017: I love Phantasy Star 2, but as of June 2017, the app store's version will regulary lose your hard-earned saved game data. I'll change my review soon as an update comes. Don't play this game until they fix it!

It's great to play Phantasy Star IV again. I know how the story is and how the game is supposed to be played out. However, every time I try to save state, the game crashes. And this is frustrating considering I reached Reipard LaShiec on my second try at the Air Castle. You got that right. SECOND try. The first time around, I didn't get to the three Xe-A-Thouls who stole the Eclipse Torch, and I wanted to save state the game. But it crashed. Now I started all over again, and the second time I was lucky enough to make it to LaShiec. But he overtook me and now I have to go through the Air Castle all over again just because I was ambitious enough to do it all in one go. TL;DR: Emulation needs to have a working save state feature to save the tedious trial and error players go through just because they can't console save the game in a dungeon. If you can find a way to fix this issue, then I'll be very grateful.

I LOVED Phantasy Star II on Genesis, and am so excited to be able to play it again, but every single time I save the state, the app crashes. So the process is to save the game in the game, save the game through the interface, watch an ad, app crashes, load the app, choose to restore the game, watch another ad, load my save in the game, then I can continue playing. It’s very annoying, but I’m afraid that if I don’t do all that, I’ll lose my progress. Please, please, please fix the save game crash. I would gladly pay the $5 for the full ad-free experience, but I can’t bring myself to pay for something that is just going to crash on me all the time, and I would very much like to play through all three games.

The game itself, at least the fourth installment is fun and works as it should so far. The problem comes when the ads enter the picture. I’m all for company’s making money but WTH Sega. Every time you save a game you have to watch a video that is 15-30 seconds. This may not sound like much but it kills the momentum of the game. To make matters worse the ads won’t play until I put the game in the background then resume. This makes the ads even more tedious and make me not want to play one of my favorite games of all time, sigh. Shaking my head in severe disappointment.

PS2 is by far my favorite game of all time, but Sega did a pretty poor job porting it to the iPad. There are bugs all through the game, but most annoyingly is that the save doesn’t work, and you still need to use the in-game save for teleports. One accidental “no” and all progress is lost up to the point of their “save state feature”. *WARNING: spoilers ahead* 2nd, the last part of the game is bugged, so you cannot finish. When you talk to Lutz for the first time after gathering all of the Nei items and receive the Neisword, the sound bugs out, and never works again (even through saves). Sure you can live without sounds, and as you continue to teleport to Noah and continue to play all seems fine (without sound of course), but if you try to teleport back from Noah via the Neisword, which you will, it locks the game. It was fun while it lasted, but I guess I better break out the Genesis to finish this game again.....

I absolutely love the Phantasy Star game for starters. Having theses games on my phone is like retro nostalgia for me, a total trip down memory lane. I use the free version and don’t really mind watching the annoying ads because I understand that the developer needs to make a buck. No problem there. What I do have a problem with is the ads that wont let you save your game! Now most ads go through their 15-30 second play time and let you press X to exit, with the game finishing the save process afterwards. But there are some ads ( LIKE THAT INFURIATING “TIK TOK” AD!) that absolutely will not let you exit the ad screen!!! That is REALLY frustrating when you’ve been grinding levels for an hour and suddenly you can’t reach the save screen! Lesson for Developers: If the ad doesn’t give you a way to exit it, you need to get rid of it.

Update: still no fix for cloud save or quick save, so I am reducing my rating to two stars. It is limiting my ability to play the game. See below for original review: I’ve been playing Phantasy Star II, and I paid to remove ads. The game works well and is like I remembered it though the graphics are a bit blocky on a higher resolution screen. Music is what I remembered also. Wouldn’t it be great if Sega did remakes like Square/Enix does with their old games? However, there are two big things that keep this from being a five star game: 1. The quick save feature not only doesn’t work, but it crashes the game when used with PS2 on both iPhone 8 and iPad. So, you think you are saving the game, but you crash instead. Saving the game like you would on the old console at a data memory center works just fine. However, I want the quick save to work like it is supposed to. I hope they update and fix this. 2. The original Phantasy Star is not in this collection and is nowhere to be found on ios as far as I can tell. I know it’s an old 8 but Master System game, but I want to play it.

Initially when I had downloaded this game, I was excited to play one of my all time favorite RPGs and the whole reason I purchased a Sega Genesis back in the day. I quickly fired up the game, paid to remove ads, and began on my nostalgic journey. At first, the game played pretty well. I was enjoying playing and remembering a lot more of the game than I thought I would have. I did notice that the music and sound was a bit off, but the core game was still intact. And then the problems started to show up. First of all, when you pay to remove ads, you still get a splash page ad upon launching the game. This is unacceptable for having paid to remove ads. Next, you could save your game via either the save places in the game or the cloud save. I relied on the cloud save a few times in addition to the in-game save. Frequently, the cloud save said that it saved only for me to find out that it did not and I would lose an hour or more of progress. Now I have updated the game only to find out that not only are all of my in-game saves gone, but you can’t even make new ones. In addition, I have cloud saves and I can load them, but it will crash the entire app every single time. Take this review as a warning. Do not put any money towards this app! In fact, don’t even bother trying to play it at all. An epic RPG game without a working save game system is completely worthless. If I could get a refund, I would!

I wasn't completely enthusiastic with this version of PS2. Sega put out a far more superior version came out years ago, with no ads or invasive features--it was just the game. But I guess some people got greedy and decided to pull that version, and replace it with this one, where you have to pay to remove ads. That's highway robbery any way you look at it, but I tolerated it because I adore this game and wanted to play it again on my phone (I guess I'm the typical sucker that these types of developers love to cheat). Then a new update comes out, and guess what? I can't access my saved file. At all. Every time I try, it completely crashes the app. And having a Game Center account doesn't help at all--the game has completely erased itself. But the game still manages to shove stupid ads in my face. Doesn't crash then. Way to go, Sega. *golf clap* UPDATE: It's lagging now too. Horribly. And the audio is completely unlistenable. I didn't realize "upgrade" means "to destroy the functionality of something that didn't need fixing in the first place." I will never buy anything associated with Sega again--I just can't afford to keep getting ripped off.