Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Phantasy Star 2 - Sega's long awaited sequel to their premiere RPG series back on the Master System... now on the Sega Genesis! As a follow-up to such a beloved Master System RPG, is Phantasy Star 2 a worthy successor to the original Phantasy Star? ...It's complicated. Let's talk about it - both the original Sega Genesis release (played with some M2 improvements), and the Sega Ages 2500 Series remake released over in Japan on the PS2. It's a doozy, but I hope you enjoy the review regardless :)

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CREDITS

- Music -
(in order of appearance)

Sailor Bae - Roman
youtube.com/watch?v=WgQj1A9NOB8

Fighting in the Street - Streets of Rage
youtube.com/watch?v=yln1vew2mFs

Phantasy - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=vbRORnX_MQk&t=5s

Step Up - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=1FrArZp9vHg&t=8s

Checker Dance - Deltarune Chapter 1
youtube.com/watch?v=j54JPLQWdyQ

Bracky News - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=tj2w4oLCvLs&t=1s

Pressure - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=BJiYLeP8gFw

Pleasure - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=xU6_tlO_-iM

Extra Stages - Super Monkey Ball
youtube.com/watch?v=y861fueZdrw

Restoration - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=kwFF9gD1XCE&t=9s

Phantasy - Phantasy Star Generation 2
youtube.com/watch?v=0hqwDojoAZk

Silent Zone - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=StCBMaVWgHY

Dream - Phantasy Star Complete Sound Collection
youtube.com/watch?v=Q7QMtXrSixM

Mystery - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=EdO_qQo6ngE&t=22s

Gene Gadget Zone Act 1 - Sonic 3D Blast Saturn
youtube.com/watch?v=yEIwqlXfUVs&t=11s

Rise or Fall - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=VZpbDDdMGcQ

Rise or Fall - Phantasy Star Generation 2
youtube.com/watch?v=Ibs2WnU7_Vc&t=27s

Secret Ways - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=IpQmbOUvisk&t=12s

Secret Ways - Phantasy Star Generation 2
youtube.com/watch?v=JCC4RTWbuFk

Stardust Speedway Good Future - Sonic CD US
youtube.com/watch?v=dc5DBfqF0-o

Quartz Quadrant Good Future - Sonic CD US
youtube.com/watch?v=JZf14To9Lng&t=4s

Advanced - Phantasy Star 2
youtube.com/watch?v=08MdIUTIGKQ&t=1s

Ending 2 - Phantasy Star Complete Sound Collection
youtube.com/watch?v=v8qDYXB0k_c&t=1s

Field Medley - Phantasy Star Complete Sound Collection
youtube.com/watch?v=gfFCG-dzSfU&t=181s

- Footage -

Main Space Background
youtube.com/watch?v=eTD0WWFIDAg&t=53s

Hyper Speed Background
youtube.com/watch?v=EJ-ieHfdCa4&t=4s

Top 10 footage from Screwattack's old Top 10 Genesis Games
youtube.com/watch?v=a57cMffbtl4&t=205s

Final Fantasy 1 Footage
youtube.com/watch?v=fTdlzqhSdt8&t=154s

Phantasy Star 2 Commercials
youtube.com/watch?v=q431-u3RvOw
youtube.com/watch?v=H1XZgXVFksc

Sega Genesis Commercials
youtube.com/watch?v=fdeVZHl9akU&t=136s

All other footage was captured by yours truly! Minus the memes of course but I don't wanna lay all of those out. To anyone who reads this far, I appreciate you checking out the description and all of the credits, but not even I can go that far LOL. Hope you enjoyed the video, mayhaps even enough to like and subscribe...? Next review will most likely be Phantasy Star 3, I wanna talk about the main quadrilogy, I'm having a blast! Hope to see you there :)