deepthaw

I keep hearing a lot of praise about the Sega Ages stuff but never really able to determine what makes them so great. Guess I'll have to fork over a few $$$ to try this and Phantasy Star

The praise is because they're very tastefully enhanced. Thunderforce IV has an option to disable slowdown (or at least slowdown the developers didn't design around), a "kid's mode" that makes it easier, sound tweaks (keep music from dropping out when audio samples play), etc. Phantasy Star has an automap added for dungeons among others. And all the extra features are optional and can be turned off.

The SEGA AGES version is the only way I'll ever put up with this game and complete it (as I have always wanted to).

Good explainer of the differences here:

https://postgamecontent.com/post/179890999413/phantasy-star-switch-sega-ages

@deepthaw "tastefully enhanced" is a nice way to say it.