Phantasy Star Generation 1 Walkthrough - Introduction

Hello, everyone! My name is Filipe Engleth and this is a walkthrough for Phantasy Star Generation: 1. This game wasn't released in English and since there are a lot of people trying to play it without knowing the Japanese language, I did my best to help you guys out. I'll give you some instructions, suggestions and I'll be teaching how to play the game and using the menus in the walkthrough itself during the game. I hope you guys will like it! Since this is a walkthrough for a game written in Japanese, there will be some spoilers about the plot here. So I recommend you read it only when you're playing it, so you won't ruin any possible surprises!

First of all, I'll give a very useful tip. Have you ever heard about Katakana? It's the name given to a Japanese alphabet used for foreign words, adapted to the Japanese accent (the words sound pretty weird in the beginning, but once you get used to them, they're not too bad). There are a lot of them. Approximately 95% of the game items are written in that alphabet, which means that if you learn it (46 symbols), you'll be able to read the name of 95% of the items you're buying, equipping, selling, using, etc. It's very useful! Don't worry because they're not that kind of super complex ideograms, they are symbols with a maximum of 4 strokes. Search on the Internet. There are people who could learn it in only a week. It may sound difficult in the beginning, but if you do your best, you can do it. It's not as hard as it may sound. It's worth it to learn it, because it makes the game so much easier. There are a lot of tools on the web to learn them, including memorization games. But if you want to try playing the game without learning it, that's ok, because I will give you all the item names with their functions here, but it's a lot easier if you can actually read them instead of consulting the item list all the time to know what you're using. The same goes for the magic spells.

I guess it would be interesting to teach how to use the game menu, since it's in Japanese, right? It can be accessed at any time by pressing the triangle button. I decided to "translate" it, look:

I guess this says a lot, right? "Status" is to see your character's attributes, "Items" is to access the item list, "Spells" is to use certain magic spells at certain moments (like healing spells), "Consult" is to make your characters talk (it can be accessed by pressing the L1 button instead of through the menu) and in "System" we have a lot of options that will be detailed below:

The options speak for themselves. Configure them the way you like best. Just be careful with the "Break" option, because it's sort of an emergency function and it doesn't really save the game. To save it, you gotta go to specific points available in every city. Like the one on the following screen:

To save the game, choose a slot and choose between "yes" (はい) and "no" (いいえ).

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