RE: https://retro.pizza/@outofprintarchive/116064288947407971

As someone with hundreds of hours into classic Phantasy Star Online (primarily Blue Burst), Episode 3 Card Revolution is a strange game. It also has more story in its opening crawl than all of Episode 1 and 2.  

I kinda love the presentation of it (a lot of the stages are so cool, the music is incredible, and the mechanical voice declaring phases is really fun), but the mechanics are... well, you roll a d6 for your number of points to spend on playing cards each round. This is immediately kind of a red flag of design, IMHO. I do want to play it at some time just for the experience and the weird attempt at giving a bigger plot to the PSO universe went. (Although the abbreviated plot of PSO classic is largely an incident of development cycle.)

From what I understand, Episode III started as a side project while most of the PSO team had gone on to make Phantasy Star Universe?

C.A.R.D. Revolution is an all-time sequel name also.  

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