Phantasy Star Fan Blog

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.

[via pspo2wiki]

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 Amusement Coupon!

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 Amusement Coupon just 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.

• Exchange Rate for a Reward Item
  • 1 お 楽しみ引換券 fun ticket  = 1 Reward item
• Exchange Rate for one お楽しみ引換券 Amusement Coupon
  • 10 Special Badges スペシャルバッヂ 
  • 10 Guardians Badges ガーディアンズバッヂ
  • 10 Little Wing Badges リトルウィングバッヂ
  • 10 Phantasy Star Badges ファンタシースターバッヂ

[via pspo2 blog]

Reward Item Data

チョウ・ヒー Chou Hi
LVL 80 | 11 Star | Spear
ATK: 583 ACC: 276

コテツ Kotetsu
LVL 70 | 10 Star | Saber
ATK: 432 | ACC: 255

イコテンヨク Ikotenyoku
LVL 70 | 10 Star | Twin Saber
ATK: 389 | ACC 286

グラン・オルカ Gran Orca
LVL 90 | 12 Star | Sword
ATK: 717 | ACC: 238

Download Items

Ouka fuubi outfit up close and personal!

The Bujin Nishiki outfit weilding a Zantetsu!

• The next batch of Download Items will feature Phantasy Star Zero items.
• New set of challenge missions will be released.
• Sega will hold another Item design contest commemorating PSU’s 4th anniversary.

Phantasy Star Soundtracks on iTunes

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!

[via inside games]

Tropical Rain Forest

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.

Famitsu Scan

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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”

[via pspo2 blog]