New Phantasy Star Portable 2 News! We’re almost done in the main character department. So now we introduce two new characters, Ursula Rolan (Loran) and Chelsea.

Phantasy Star Portable 2 will feature more than 2000 items and more than 1200 variety of weapons.

Also features monsters from PSO: Ill Gill, Sand Rappy, Sinow Beat, Nano Dragon. We’ll have an in depth write up soon.

New Characters

Ursula
Newman, Age 32, Voiced by Atsuko Tanaka

A female newman who embodies beauty and intelligence. She’s pushed out among various fields. She appears to be an old acquaintance of Crouch during the establishment of Little Wing.

Chelsea
Cast, Secret Age. Voiced by Haruka Tomatsu

Chelsea works at the reception desk and performs management at Little Wing. She looks like she’s a hostess in a bar but she’s very diligent at her job.

New SUV

Four new SUVs for casts. This includes:

• Top Left Corner: Vivian Punisher
  
• Bottom Left Corner: Air Ride Cluster
• Top Right Corner: Bigs Impact
• Bottom Right Corner: Flame Panzer
  

New Nanoblast

At Level 10, you can nanoblast your beast, however at a higher level 3 new nanoblasts will be available. Gold, Silver, and Black nanoblasts will feature a more stylish slender beast. We don’t know if any other nanoblasts will be added at this time.

PSO Enemies

Phantasy Star Online Enemies featured in Phantasy Star Portable 2!

Your favorites are back!

• Astark
• Poisonous Lily
• Nano Dragon
• Sand Rappy
• Sinow Beat
• Ill Gill

New Weapons

Brand new weapons for your characters, you might even recognize a few…

• Axe: Svaltia Tomahawk
• Wand: Magical Piece
• Grenade: Gur Lath Sagittarius
• Shield: Artemis

More New Weapons

Five other weapons including:

• Slicer: Shidenji Hiken 
• Sword: Dilan Slayer
• Double Saber: Absolute Blade
• Twin Claw: Nightmare Dust
• Twin Handgun: Obsidian

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[via re: gigen]

Blog Updates

Phantasy Star Portable 2 Character Hair Color

• Character Creation
  • You can now choose brighter hair colors.
  • side note: In PSU, getting that bright pink was impossible.
• Camera Modification
  • Usually the camera will fixate on a flying boss monster.
  • In this case the camera tilts upwards or downwards based on the location.
  • You can now reset this viewpoint by pushing L.
• Equipment/Weapon Restrictions
  • Equipments are no longer restricted by having a certain stat.
  • Equipments and Weapons are now restricted by LEVEL.
  • For example, you can not use a certain weapon if you are below level whatever..
• Status Effect Change
  • Silence and Shock status effects have been combined
  • In other words, now you will be COMPLETELY paralyzed in that you can’t attack and use techs.
• Sound Effects for Rare Drops
  • At the moment of a rare and super rare drop you will hear a sound effect.
  • The sound effect for a super rare drop will be different.
• Photon Art Colors
  • For Skill Photon Arts, the effect colors will be:
  • Blue for Level 1-10
  • Red for Level 11-20
  • Gold for Level 21-30

[via pspo2: blog]

Loose Ends

• Importing from PSP1 or PSU:AOI
  • Receive 30~50% Ice Saber “Exam”
  • Has a status effect Freeze.
• Lumia Waber
  • Voice Actor : Ayako Kawasumi