/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10183809
This guy >>10184380 is right.
I beat PS2. It's your typical dungeon crawler-style RPG (with top-down view I mean), but it has hellish mazes. I had to map them all out after the first half of the game.
the original hasn't aged that well though. first off, every time you get hit, the game pauses for a few seconds while the screen flashes bright red. second, the walk speed is atrociously slow.
it is still great if you like this kind of game, the challenge is what makes it good. BUT, you really want a patch for it that fixes the 2 issues mentioned above. it has surprisingly good depth for an early RPG, there are many good class and equipment combinations, and generally tactics do matter in combat. (alas, Phantasy Star 4 completely misses that part, though it's an improvement in most other directions)

>>9620368
I love Mother 1. This section is the harder part of the game, but it's filled with good items, so there's that. I always clear it just for fun and the items.
However, it has no shit on half of the dungeons in Phantasy Star 2. Picrel isn't even #5 hardest dungeon in the game.
And then, there are 3D dungeon crawlers, which are 100x harder to navigate in general, with obtuse maps that drop you one floor and stuff like that. Mother 1 factory is like a cakewalk compared to those.

finally beat this part. they didn't lie about it, I'd never beat it if i didn't map it out myself. nearly got served my shit by it
JUST LOOK AT IT