Looks like Phantasy Star Portable 2 will be heading to E3 Entertainment Expo this summer along with Sonic Colors, and Sonic the Hedgehog 4, and Valkyria Chronicles 2. Will they announce the collaboration items between both PSpo2 and VC2? Who knows! But today we get a sneak peak two Phantasy Star Zero items that’s not as creepy as Ogi’s Head….
DLC Items for 6/11/10
ヨノハテ・封 (Yonohate Seal)
50% Dark Sword
200 Yen
プリティヒガサ (Pretty Parasol)
50% Light Rod
200 Yen
These items are slated for the Japanese Playstation Store! You must have a Japanese Playstation Network Account to access the store! In addition the Samurai-ish DLC Cast Parts 「ブジンニシキ」「オウカフウビ」 will be available 6/11/10 as well.
Challenge 2
Some hints were posted on sakura wiki where most players get stuck at and waste time. The most notorious example is the blockade is located in Block 2.
In the first block when you reach up to a barrage of fire traps, instead of shooting at the fire traps, one most jump on every catapult jump consecutively.
There a a blue switch you stand on which allows others to gain optional extra healing items. This area can be a waste of time if you are trying to time attack this mission. Immediately after this area, The first Key 3 is located within a cherry tree that must be destroyed. If you skip this tree you will not be able to open gate 3. Afterwards there is a switch located on the upper wall where Gate 3 is located. After you clear all the enemies you have to shoot at this switch to reveal the second Key 3. The switch for gate 3 will disappear if you open Gate 2.
This three wall switch based on which one you shoot first will either give you an error sound, allow one person to catapult jump, or allow everyone to catapult jump. Sakura Wiki suggests shooting the leftmost switch. The rightmost switch will open a catapult jump, but it disappears after one use.
Woah 80%! Yes you heard right 80% element weapons!
MAX Event Reward
These four reward items can be exchange for one お 楽しみ引換券 fun ticket!
Now that Maximum Attack X has come to a close, Multimode players can participate in the event offline, without the rare drop rate boosts as the online portion. In addition to Maximum Attack X I-IV, two exchange missions were released.
MAXイベント報酬交換所: MAX Event Reward Exchange can be accessed through Story Mode > 交換ミッションで Exchange Mission. Emilia will present you with 4 fun tickets for those who cleared Maximum Attack X mission once. In addition, 3 extend codes will be given out. Extend Codes allow you to strengthen weapons to S rank level when you grind them to “FULL” status. Extend Codes show up in your last tab of the items menu. Multimode players who didn’t have access to Internet Multimode can additionally obtain a お楽しみ引換券 fun ticketjust by playing one MAX mission.
It is possible to obtain every 80% elemental attribute of the four reward items by exchanging each of the following.
Has Sakai gone mad? It’s like he’s changing so many things within SEGA. Eight Phantasy Star Soundtracks has been officially announced on iTunes Store on November 25th, 2009. With over 299 tracks, you can relive the sounds and wonders of Phantasy Star’s “Universe” on your iPod.
Sakai recalls the day in Warsaw Poland where the recorded the orchestral piece for Phantasy Star universe. It was recorded in Febuary in extremely cold temperatures. It was a large orchestra of about 120 people.
Also we’d like to announce a soundtrack for Phantasy Star Portable 2! It is titled “Phantasy Star Portable 2 Original Soundtrack: Wings of Universe“. Hideaki Kobayashi takes an active role in this soundtrack again composing the theme song “Living Universe” and other event music. The soundtrack’s cover will feature art by Mizuno.
Speaking of music, there is a function called “Jukebox” ジュークボックス in the retail version of the game. If you click on your partner Machine and select it, you can listen to various pieces of music in your room like the Theme of Burning Rangers! You can add music to your room by locating various music discs!
Sakai writes, “although this might look like a Neudaiz area, it is in fact a Moatoob field!” (Though Mr. Sakai, we would not have thought that if you didn’t re-skin Habirao Forbidden District…) Anyways, this area takes place in Chapter 2 of Story Mode. This is near the village of the Kashu family where Yuto lives. Most of the monsters in this area are ground attribute including the Sand Rappy.
The boss, “Bug Degga” (Bag Degga) roams this land. This boss has very strong armor and a painful electrical shock that emanates from the whole body.
Emergency mission
A new mission concept similar to the rare missions in Phantasy Star Universe! Here a mission will show up randomly. Playing this mission gives you a high amount of type points, meseta, and it also includes a 300% drop boost rate. The mission included in the scan shows “Scorched Valley” of Operation Firebreak.
Battle Mission
Two new battle missions were revealed in the scan. The first one is a “meseta collecting” mission! The second mission is called “Electric Shock Death Match” where players fight each other in a small ring!
Famitsu Collab Item
Famitsu Magazine will feature a collaboration item. It is a shield that says “Famitsu” in Japanese characters when the shield is out.
New Character Natsume Shuu, the president of the Inherit Company for hyperspace research! You will meet him in Chapter 3.
Meet Miss Capliko!
Well, Senior Director Terada posted this week about his medical condition. It appears he may have gastritis… Anyways, let’s introduce a new character. Mountain Climber “Miss Capliko!“ Everyday Capliko trains vigorously climbing the pink mountains of Neudaiz. Oh by the way, Miss Capliko is a man? “How U doin?”
Terada will give some insight into the truth about Capliko tomorrow.
“Her” name is kind of a play on words, “Capli daughter”
Speculation that it may actually be a “daughter of a man”
If you notice in the screenshot above, this story mode mission has a variable level difficulty between 1 through 20. The higher level you are, the harder the monsters. For this particular mission, the highest level cap is 20. If you are level 21, the monsters will stay at Level 20 difficulty.
This variable level system was implemented because in PSP1, players would achieve higher levels during multimode. As they switched to story missions, the game would turn out much easier than expected.
Free missions on the other hand have a fixed level difficulty. Free Missions levels are based on C/B/A/S rank so feel free to play missions much easier for you.
As you play through Story Mode you are set up with a bunch of choices during gameplay. These choices affect the ending which you’ll get. (Speaking of which, Terada in his many rambling blog posts keeps mentioning a TLUE ending with Magashi? It’s probably likely the L is supposed to be an R.) (Also Sakai mentioned Dark Falz is not the final boss of the game).
Will Vivienne Appear (Part 2)
Oh yes, Vivienne is no longer blurred out in the screenshots and will appear in a Side Story Mission and a Extra mission. These missions will pop up as you clear Story Mode. Famitsu Magazine mentioned how her appearance in the game might actually be fan service.
Even if you did not import your character from PSP1, you are still able to play that mission with her. (This should stop that debate over which ending is cannon…)
Item Trader
After exchanging partner cards with a friend, you can exchange items at the cafe, as long as they are not A/S rank and rare items. To combat drop trading, (you sneaky people) there is a limitation to what items you can drop on the ground. In multimode and internet multimode, only recovery items, buff items, and traps can be placed on the ground.
You can place down any item within a challenge mission. However you can not take any items with you during a challenge mission. Any item you pick up will disappear once the challenge mission is over. (I don’t believe this applies to challenge mission rewards.)
Client Order
You can receive requests from Elias, Roletto (Loretto), and Pit in the Cafe. The content of each request is different based on the person who requested it. When you complete a request, meseta, room items, weapons, etc, can be obtained. You perform requests by following the instructions while playing a free mission.
Elias restricts your time and weapons you can hold to clear the mission
(She may ask you to clear a mission under 7 minutes.)
Roletto wants you to clear several missions.
(May ask you to complete two or more missions)
Pit wants you to defeat a specified target.
(Defeat a number of a specific enemy. For example defeat 50 Naval and Naval Rudda)
You can receive requests of up to 3 people at the same time, however you can only do one of the requests for each person respectively. (In other words you can take on Pit, Elias, and Roletto requests together, but you can not do 2 Elias requests at the same time.)
When you clear the free mission and succeeded with their requests you can receive the reward at the cafe. A new request is generated after completion of a previous request. You can check the current requests by checking the mission information section in the start menu.
Rappy Coffee Cup (Room item) Soda Brekka (Weapon) 2500 Meseta.
Snowy Mountain
Welcome to Elbars (Elbals) Snowy Field in Phantasy Star Portable 2
A new area is introduced called, “Elbars Snowy Mountain” It consists of an ice cave and an outside field covered in snow. This area was shown in promo video 3 with the snowball that ran over Emilia many times. Douga Dounga (Duga Dunga) and Gohma Dilla appear at the end in a boss fight.
Douga Dounga moves slowly and the laser is fired at random as it rotates. The Gohma Dilla make this fight especially hard. I think your Just Guarding skills should be top notch to prevent the missile knock backs.
Extras!
Rappy Child released new clocks for your website and wallpapers for your PSP.
Phantasy Star Zero now has a microsite. So because of this I can now update my Japanese terms to the American terms. During November, older blog posts related to PSZero will be updated to keep in sync with the American version, though I also have to keep up with PSP2 news so please be patient! I’m also very surprised to see this blog listed on the fan pages. Thanks Sega!
Phantasy Star Universe GM’s Ruby Eclipse and Edward will be holding an event in San Francisco on November 4th from 5:00PM to 8:00PM. If you attend we’d like you to not only ask questions about PSZero but about the fate of PSU. Shougai PSO speculates that Sega will announce PSZero Mini, PSU Supplemental update, and maybe even the PSP2 release date. (Remember these are speculations…) The rappy balloon will also be given out to attendees, for now 30 people will be invited to the event.
