Phantasy Star IV: The Return of Alis

Perhaps one of the least-known titles in the Phantasy Star franchise -
Phantasy Star IV never saw a commercial release. Developed within
Sonic Team shortly after the release of Phantasy Star III - Phantasy
Star IV was to be the magnum opus of the Phantasy Star series for it's
time. A game so large, that the only medium which could justifiably
hold it was the Sega CD (though a stripped down Genesis version was
also planned). It originally weighed in at over 240MB, much of which
was fully digitalized music and FMV cutscenes. Though it also sported
game maps 20 times the size of previous games and highly detailed 3D
dungeon sequences similar to the first game.

Unfortunately, due to sagging sales of the Sega CD and numerous delays
in the project - Phantasy Star IV was eventually scrapped and
production resources were transfered to Phantasy Star: End of the
Millenium.

AirRaid wrote:

God, what a sad little life you lead. Do you actually go out and just
research stuff to spam groups with, do you really have that much time on
your hands?

Bel

The only PS project on a CD/DVD I knew was the PS2 port. It was a completly
redone game.

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On May 22, 10:20 pm, "Jack (www.villagebbs.com)"
villagebbs.com> wrote:

I don't know of any confirmed actual work done for the CD or cartridge
version of
PSIV: The Return of Alis. nothing of it has been seen in magazines or
the internet as far as I'm aware.