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A recent discovery I've made is in one of Rico's logs: "MUUT DITTS POUMN" When translated, they mean Motavia, Dezolias, and Palma, 3 of the 4 planets in the Argo System, where most other Phantasy Star games take place. Those 3 planets make up the seal on The Profound Darkness, the supposed purest incarnation of evil. Every 1000 years, the seal weakens, and TPD can release another Dark Force (Dark Falz) into reality. It does this to try and break the seal. The 3 parts of the seal are based on the planet's climates, one being a tundra, blue, one being a desert, red, one being a grassland, green. This also is made reference to by the item, Three Seals.

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Another interesting thing in PSO is the red weapons belonging to Red Ring Rico. Rico seems to have been a HUmarl (female human Hunter). The red weapons are supposed to be her palette of weapons, and there's other equipment of hers as well.

Red Handgun
Red Saber
Red Sword
Red Dagger
Red Slicer
Red Partisan
Red Mechgun

Each weapon has different letters inscribed on them, and the completed set spells out "Heathcliff." The weapons are also reflective of what a hunter can equip. For some reason the Red Mechgun is ranger-only, which IMO is a mistake by Sega since Rico was obviously a hunter.

There's also the Red Ring (best shield in the game), Rico's Earring, and Rico's Glasses.

The Dark weapons are copies of the actual weapons Olga Flow uses against you in the final battle of Episode 2, created by fusing remains of his DNA with "normal" weapons.

Surprisingly a lot of people don't know this, but if you defeat Olga Flow with the final hit being from a "Red" weapon, then return to the boss area, you can see what appears to be a freed Heathcliff Flowen's soul. Approaching causes him to disappear or move-on. Similarly, defeating Dark Falz with the final hit being from a "Dark" weapon, and returning to the boss area will let you see Rico who will also disappear upon approach. Either of these has to be done on Ultimate difficulty.

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After playing through the game and reading all of this, I do have to say that this is all very impressive and that the story is not too dissimilar to Aliens or the prequel Prometheus, both of which have pretty amazing stories. It's amazing how many stories actually have an apocalyptic atmosphere about them, but in reality we tend to ignore the signs and continue to destroy what resources we have regardless of how many stories are essentially underlining the future for us. Just an interesting parallel.

I think a lot of people miss the story because the story, unfortunately, is subtle to the gameplay. The story is underpinned to the looting and levelling sometimes, I find the same thing in games like Borderlands, Zelda, and Fallout.

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Occured to me recently that not everybody understands the naming behind the various classes.

HU = Hunter, RA = Ranger, and FO = Force

The lowercase subfixes attached indicate their gender and race.

-mar = human, male

-marl = human, female

-newm = newman, male

-newearl = newman, female

-cast = android, male

-caseal = android, female

This would make Red Ring Rico a class that doesn't actually exist in playable form, a HUmarl.

List of classes that don't exist in playable form:

HUmarl

HUnewm

RAnewm

RAnewearl

FOcast

FOcaseal

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Neither HUnewm, HUmarl, RAnewm, RAnewearl, FOcast, nor FOcaseal exist in the PSO database though, do they??…  How could this person have been a HUmarl?

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