News: Phantasy Star (SMS) properly englished

December 21, 2006, 10:29 AM

by brandon, via SMS Power -
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SMS Power has put up a new version of Phantasy Star for SMS, featuring a script reworked by TheRedEye, aka frank cifaldi, aka Gamasutra features editor, Lostlevels.org guy and insert credit sometimes writer person. He says the script 'really needed' to be redone, so there you go. Plus this is the english version of the original Japanese one, which had a special sound chip, making the music much improved when compared to the original (official) english localization.

The guy in charge of the project was about to rename Dark Force as Dark Phallus, because he thought that's how the original kana read. I'm...pretty glad he decided not to go with that.

Update: christian nutt of Games Radar tells me that there's official sega backup for "dark phallus," in an art book he has. In english no less! So that's a bit unfortunate. And indeed, in PSIV, there is a normal enemy called 'prophallus', which is a different version of the same boss from PSI. One wonders if they knew what 'phallus' means? If so, I blame rieko kodama. Sounds like something a girl would design as a final boss.