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Phantasy Star Portable 2 Statistics

Sakai outlines the player population statistics from December of 2009 to December of 2010. We note some stability in the player makeup but some aspects saw a decrease in players.

The above chart shows the amount of players per level for Phantasy Star Portable 2. Sakai notes, eventually the level 60 ~ 100 players eventually quit the game. 

 

 

In the Infinity demo, most players hit the level 100 cap. Players above level 100 didn’t play it that much. Sakai ponders if those players started a new character.

 

 

For PSP2 sexes, the first column represents male to female ratio. Female characters always had more players through out the year, but slowly the male characters were catching up.  The third column represents the battle types for each player. About a year ago we noticed forces were dropping off in numbers, the trend continues in the chart above.

The Force battle types started at 10% and dropped to 8%. Rangers dropped from 17% to 14%. The Bravers (Vanguards) increased from 20% to 26%. Sakai sees it as a problem to have very few forces.

Human then Casts were the most popular race. Beast always remained the least popular. The race makeup changed in Infinity.

 

Dewmans gained considerable popularity in the Demo, second place to Humans. Forces increased to 15% while vanguards decreased to 22%. Sakai thinks the Force increase may be attributed to the way the new technics work. But I really think it’s because of the increase damage output and the huge decrease in PP consumption.  Rangers are still the least popular battle type.

Gemaga and PSP2i is having yet another collaboration. This time an item is called, “Castkochan Grenade” and has the appearance of a Dreamcast.  Based on their twitter page, Gemaga is releasing a password for an item in the 2/26/11 Gemaga magazine. It’s likely to be the password for this weapon.

 

Infinity Curry

Another food based collaboration, this time with Space Create. If you show your PSP2i screen when you enter the store you can get a Calorie Mate Strap. But of particular note is the 3rd campaign which has curry along with the infinity symbol.

We’ve been receiving a lot of reports about players unable to connect or continue past the matching counter screen for the Phantasy Star Portable 2 US/EU server. Currently this problem is affecting the majority of users. We now know the servers are back online! Enjoy your game. Gamefaqs.

This post is specifically for US/EU servers down in January 2011.

 

The official site updated early this morning showing off the most important thing, the story trailer. As well as screenshots for the enemies.

 

Story Trailer

Today is Phantasy Star Portable 2 one year anniversary! As the days go by, we are closer and closer to commemorate Phantasy Star Online’s 10 year anniversary. In the future, we’ll see the release of Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity and the highly anticipated Phantasy Star Online 2.

The story trailer features:

• A block of land rising up.
• The infamous fight scene of Nagisa and Hyuga.
• Wynarl speaking.
• Pioneer 2 flying above.

And of course, the most forbidden thing of them all; Nagisa removing her eye patch and unleashing her dark Dewman power. The scene is set up in such a way where Nagisa glows red versus Hyuga and his blue sword. There was a reason Lumia wore blue and and Emilia wore red.

 

 

Monsters

Garanz: A large machine that was reconstructed by using data from Rykros

 

Garanz can shoot destructive missiles from its shoulders.

 

Bora Vrima is a large enemy deriving from the Polavahra species.

 

Bora Vrima has a tough shell with missile-shaped needles attached to it.
It can roll up into a ball and ram into you. It boasts its high fighting strength!

Game System

Now there’s gameplay videos teaching the concepts of the game. This video showcases how to fight and use combos, though it emphasizes the need to chain.

 

Terada’s Corner

Can you find Alfort Tylor? He’s the darkest one standing of the three.

Terada and Sakai blogged early tonight.

• Let’s just cut to the chase…
• The Mirage Blast invocation is fast. The light and dark mirage blast effectiveness has increased.

Well at least now we know for sure the light mirage blasts increases the rate the blast gauge fills up. Then the dark mirage blast increases the attack speed of the user.  But I feel Calorie Mate might be a better choice… So are we going to be faster than an acrofighter eh?

 

Satoshi Sakai

For the Playstation Awards, Satoshi Sakai chose three titles which he voted for in the Playstation Questionnaire.

• Voted Titles
  • 1. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
  • 2. God of War 3
  • 3. Phantasy Star Portable 2

[playstation awards]

Phantasy Star Portable 2 has been awarded the gold award for selling 500,000 copies.

Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst Memorial

Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst is having a memorial event. Players will participate in taking screenshots of various situations during their time on PSOBB. Screenshots are separated by two distinct styles.

The first is a screenshot memorial where players take screenshots of their various adventures. The second is the episode memorial, where players take screenshots relating to the episodic content. You would then write something interesting describing the episode picture, whether it is happy, or sad…

• Application Period
  • 11/30/2010 ~ 1/21/2011
• Results
  • 2/7/2011: Screenshot Announcement
  • 2/24/2011: Episode Screenshot Announcement

For episode screenshots, one must write a description up to 200 characters describing the image. The screenshots for both types should be no larger than 1MB.

[via psobb]

Wynarl and Hentai?

The word Hentai can mean different things like perverted, sexual nature, strange or abnormal and wierdo. Rapico has said that Emilia seems to think Wynarl is perverted. You can check it out in the demo in January.

[via rapico]