Phantasy Star Generation:4

Phantasy Star Generation:4 is a comprehensive retranslation and relocalization of Phantasy Star IV, utilizing fan-translated scripts and resources, all created by a professional writer/editor team.

As SEGA canceled “Phantasy Star Generation:4″ many years ago, this project aimed to create a definitive, series-ending Phantasy Star experience.

Goals:

• Restore every mistranslated connection to the other PS games

• Incorporate The Cutting Room Floor’s retranslation notes to best express Japanese creators’ intent in all dialog.

• A more colloquial, fun, and emotional script (from NPCs to main story)

• Add PS lore gathered from PS team interviews and official SEGA resources

• Add depth to character personalities and relationships

• Explain the few plot holes and character choices that had been given no in-game reasoning (see project site for details – spoilers)

• Proper grammar and capitalization

• Include lory1990 bugfixes

NEW: Added dialog to 3 story scenes connecting one of the major antagonists to a party member, per an unearthed, recent developer interview.

We now have a clearer understanding of these two characters’ motivations, and as well as how they came to be where they are at the start of PSIV. In the author’s opinion, this revelation (which was cut because of deadlines) mends the only weak part of PSIV’s story.