Bad Hair Man puts write what once went wrong!
Bad Hair Man. Write here, write now!
Bad Hair Man takes a left, then write.
Bad Hair Man doesn't think the word write looks like a real word anymore.
Bad Hair Man does it by wrote.
Okay, now that you know what kind of person I am, I will tell you why I'm here. I wrote a fanfic. Well, part of one anyway. But that's okay! Even just in part it's still pretty good I think. It's called The Hero of Algol and it's about... uh... somebody. Who was it again? ... Oh, that's right! The hero of Algol!
Kind of like Wingeye's Phantasy Star Replay (which is awesome, by the way) The Hero of Algol is a retelling of the story of Phantasy Star 1 from the beginning. Except instead of comedy, I use pretentious melodrama. And for every picture that Wingeye simply draws, due to the fact that my medium is pure text, I am forced to write one thousand words.
I did this because I really like PS1. It's my favorite game in the series, in fact. Even though IV has the best gameplay and storytelling, II has the best story, and III the best... uh... music! The first is my favorite because of its incredibly charming and earnest setting. It's like classic sci-fi mixed with classic fantasy. Seriously, it has swords and sorcery and laser-rifles and spaceships and clunky robots and dragons and a wicked king who's up to no good in his invisible flying castle.
My one complaint though, is the feeling of wasted potential that the game leaves me with. Against such an incredible backdrop some really imaginative storytelling and fun character development could have occurred, but the story the game tells is ultimately pretty thin. So I thought I'd try my hand at doing better.
I hope someone will let me know whether or not I have achieved any measure of success. Ooh, just a word of warning: I explicitly alter some of the canon (like, right there in the prologue I tell you what I'm screwing with). Please try not to get bent out of shape over this. I only did it because I think the story I want to tell will be better for it.