The game introduces combination attacks, which are devastating attacks performed by combining certain techniques and skills from different characters in a particular order. It is the sum of the character's Mental with bonuses added by armor and other equipment. Mental Defense: Reduces the damage taken from certain kinds of enemy attacks.It is the sum of the character's Dexterity with bonuses added by armor and other equipment. Defense: Reduces the damage taken from enemy attacks.It is the sum of the character's Strength with bonuses added by weapons and other equipment. Attack: Determines the damage done by physical attacks.Dexterity: Increases the chance that a character will hit an enemy and not miss with an attack.Agility: Increases the character's priority in the battle order.Mental: Determines the effectiveness of some techniques and skills.Strength: Used as the base value for the character's attack power.Using a technique costs TP and cannot be done if its cost exceeds the current TP. TP: A pool of energy required for using techniques.HP: The amount of damage that the character can sustain from enemy attacks before dying.When the enemies are defeated, the party earns meseta and surviving party members gain experience.Īs the characters gain experience points, they increase in level, gaining access to new techniques and raising their statistics: Characters and enemies are defeated when they run out of hit points. Battles can involve up to four foes and up to two different enemy types, and the player can target individual enemies. The character reverts to attacking after using an item or a support technique (such as a healing ability) but continues using offensive techniques until given a different order. When issuing commands, the player can choose to order a character to attack, use a technique (a special ability that costs technique points to use), use a skill (a limited use ability unique to the character), use an item, or defend. The player can also attempt to run from an encounter. The player can set up to eight different macros. On each turn, the player can choose to issue individual commands to each character or to select a macro, a set of predetermined actions for every character in the party that can be programmed by the player outside of battle. Characters can equip separate one-handed weapons or shields in each hand or a single two-handed weapon.īattles are turn-based and use a third-person perspective (combining the character sprites from Phantasy Star II with the changing backgrounds of the other two games).
The party earns meseta, the in-game currency, from defeating enemies in battle, which can then be exchanged for items, equipment, and services in towns. Dungeons additionally have treasure chests for finding items. Dungeons and the overworld have random enemy encounters as the party moves through them. The game uses a top-down perspective for towns, dungeons, and the overworld. The party shares an inventory of items, but each character also equips his or her own weapons and armor pieces. Additional characters join and leave the party as the story progresses, each having different strengths, weaknesses, and abilities. The player controls a party of as many as five characters, initially formed around the Hunters Alys and Chaz. Phantasy Star IV is a role-playing game and plays similarly to its predecessors. Joined by others along the way, they connect the world's troubles to a cult leader called Zio, "The Black Magician," whose aims appear to be total annihilation of not only Motavia but of the whole Algo solar system. Hired by Piata Academy on Motavia, the renowned Hunter Alys Brangwin and her young apprentice Chaz Ashley begin their investigation into the relationship between the biomonster problem and the planet's ecological crisis.
Keeping these creatures under control is the job of "Hunters." Furthermore, there has been a marked increase in the numbers of the "biomonsters," a term for the strange and violent aberrations of Motavia's flora and fauna. The once-thriving planet Motavia has largely reverted to its original desert state as the climate and biosphere-controlling devices installed over a thousand years previously begin to fail, and life has become progressively more difficult for the planet's inhabitants. The death of Mother Brain ushered in a period of decline known as the Great Collapse, in which the majority of the population of the Algo star system died and its advanced technological culture was lost. Phantasy Star IV takes place a thousand years after the events of Phantasy Star II (and a thousand years before the era of Phantasy Star III).
Monster attacks have swelled the ranks of those who call themselves "Hunters." But as the attacks become ever more frequent and powerful, an elite few begin to wonder what is behind this outbreak.
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