Phantasy Star IV: The End of The Millennium - Gameplay

Gameplay

Phantasy Star IV is an archetypal role-playing video game in the spirit of the series, featuring the staples of exploration, NPC interaction, and turn-based combat. Like the previous games in the Phantasy Star series, individual characters each have their own statistics and equipment that determine the character's performance in combat, improving their statistics by gaining experience levels (achieved through victory in combat). Additionally, non-Android characters have access to "Techniques," abilities similar to magic spells in other games, drawing upon a character's pool of "Technique Points" (TP) to be used, with new techniques being learned as a character gains levels.

Phantasy Star IV has a number of features new to the series, including a more-streamlined battle system, an addition of many manga-style panel illustrations that accompany the narrative, an expanded script, and a much reduced difficulty curve compared to the previous entries in the series.