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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Phantasy Star III cover.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:43, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Someone posted this into the article:

(I think there is confusion here. in PSII Parma was destroyed, and Parma is the 1st planet of Algol/Algo system. This was 1,000yrs prior to PSIV, and if the Generations of PSIII is correct, it could very well have taken place at roughly those intervals. PSIII has no definition in the AW time chronology. However I must note if the canon is to be correct with PSIV when Wren and Chaz discuss the other escaped "Worldships" from Parma, they could easily end up on Earth in good time. Especially the warp-hole suggestion. I forgot the exact quote from Chaz but it's along the lines of "So they could still be out there, floating in space.." and therefore does indeed make a partial reference to PSIII as it relates to PSII and the original, as we all know the first two are almost directly connected. I'll leave this as it is until others deliberate and whoever wrote the original article takes my thought into consideration, but I do believe the time was a jump ahead or back only partially, as the journey between planets is indescribable without knowing their light-speed travel. Unless it is a loophole and the ending of PSIII coincides with the ending from PSII but the planetary numbers seem all wrong to me. Maybe canon maybe a fudge.)

 Doktor  Wilhelm  18:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I think there's no confusion at all. It was clear that they traveled through time and space, million of years to the past. 84.90.24.156 (talk) 21:35, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The character pictures

So what's the justification for removing the character images on the page? They were up there for a while and I think most people found them helpful. --The Winslow (talk) 07:36, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Twenty-three images is a lot of copyrighted material to claim fair use on; one of the major criteria listed there is "significance", which I don't think character portraits, especially of minor characters, have. Nifboy (talk) 00:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
True, but to remove them all? Even the main 1st-gen characteR? That's very heavy-handed.Jinnai (talk) 17:05, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
You mean the one on the front cover of the box art? Nifboy (talk) 06:59, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Endings

Adan and Aron's ending (coincidentally, both half-layan, half-orakian descendants of Rhys) are the only two which bear any similarity.

This is not totally accurate. In both Crys' and Adan's ending they discovers the same planet. In both cases, the last sentence of the game is exactly the same: "Hello, this is Aerone. Thanks for your help. We're once again back on our original course. Without you, Dark Force would have prevailed. We're going toward the brightest star up ahead. We're heading for one of its planets--the third one out from the star. It seems perfect for us. At last, our journey is almost over!"


Crys's ending sees the Alisa III approaching a possible new home...the third planet from the nearest star - a blue world with two moons.

Actually is a more green than blue (but its acceptable blue-greenish world). However that planet doesn’t possess two moons. Those two worlds are probably the first and the second planets of that star system... definitely not moons.


PSIII: Moon near Earth: http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/4276/26423940rz3.jpg
PSIII: The 3 planets: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/434/11179685tj9.jpg
PSO: By the way; that planet from PSIII resembles Ragol: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7743/52986296ka1.jpg
PSO: And Ragol also shows two planets: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2447/27375976ma5.jpg

Newsblade (talk) 11:35, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


One of those could be a moon... however it's more distant than Earth's moon on the other ending. The other seams an independent planet. 88.157.62.85 (talk) 13:55, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Supposedly, this game takes place concurrently with Phantasy Star IV, as both games are claimed to occur 1,000 years after the events of Phantasy Star II, though this is never firmly established. In fact, in the Japanese version of the game, the events take place 1,000 years after the events in Phantasy Star IV. This has important consequences in the continuity. First of all, it means that the Devastation War between Laya and Orakio in the US version took place only a little while after leaving Palma. In the Japanese version, it means that Dark Force is still present, despite the sealing away of the Profound Darkness in Phantasy Star IV.

I don't agree with the consequences in continuity regarding Dark Force and PDarkness. In English version PSIII starts 1000 years after PSII, that's correct. But even in the english version DF still continues to exist after PD has been defeated in Motavia (1000 years after PSII (PSIV)), since PSIII ends 33, 34 and 35 years after Rhys had married. Even if Rhys story happens before the millenium the question is "how many years before? 33, 34 or 35 before AW2284?

As we can see the same problem occurs in overseas version. 84.90.24.156 (talk) 21:04, 12 May 2008 (UTC)