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Phantasy Star II - Shilka's Adventure was one of a series of 8 text adventure videogames that was available to owners of the Sega Meganet, a modem for the Sega Mega Drive in Japan. It was also released as part of a compilation on Sega CD. Since the Meganet modem never achieved worldwide availability, this game never saw a very wide audience. A few years ago, ROMs have been ripped from the Mega CD version of these games. So far, the translation team M.I.J.E.T. has translated three out of eight of them, Shilka's Adventure being one of them.
Like all other games in the series, Shilka's Adventure documents a moment in the past of one of the eight playable characters in Phantasy Star II. Shilka Levinia (or "Shir Gold" as she's commonly known as in English) is the main character of this particular chapter. Like most Text Adventure games, the gameplay mainly consists of moving the character through area's, talking to people, looking at objects, obtaining items, and occasionally fighting someone. Fighting is done by random dice rolls, multiplied by the attack value of the weapon that's being used to attack with.
[edit] The Game
[edit] About Shilka
- Japanese: シルカ・レビニア (Shiruka)
- Japanese name: Shilka Levinia
- English Name: Shir Gold
- Race Palman
- Age 19 (During the events of this game)
- Job Thief
- Birthday April 1st, AW 1263
Shilka lives in Paseo, which is the capital of the planet Motavia. There, as the only child of a wealthy family, she belongs to the well-to-do of Motavia. Even though she grew up lacking nothing whatsoever, she felt her lifestyle monotonous, and sought out thrills to make life more exciting. She found the life of master thievery sufficiently thrilling enough to remedy the monotony of daily life. Shir enjoys the outside air, the cool night breeze, hanging around on rooftops and the like. As such, she has taken up the nickname "Shilka of the Wind".
This game takes place in Autumn of AW 1282, about two years before the events that take place in Phantasy Star II, and gives the player some insight on Shir's history of thievery. Her target is a valuable painting entitled "Opa-Opa", which is on display in a hotel exhibit.
[edit] Other notable characters
- Unnamed rival thieves – Two thief brothers, who are also planning to break into the art exhibit. They unknowingly help Shilka break into the exhibit herself.
