Friday October 19, 2012 08:47

Phantasy Star Portable 2 Costumes in Phantasy Star Online 2!

Posted by Ricardo

The next update on October 24th adds a slew of Halloween themed items and quests! For a limited time, you can participate in the Trick or Treat Emergency Quest where you can see the Naura Cake Sisters in their Halloween uniforms selling their various treats! They’ll also show up in normal quests as well. For a limited time, Latan Rappies will have a chance to drop the Pumpkin Rod!

The next AC scratch is titled “Halloween Night Party” where you can acquire new Halloween and Dark inspired costumes and parts like the Hollow Wanderer costume pictured above!

These will be distributed through FUN Scratch.

As for the last update, consumption items, medical center services, and grinding prices have gone down. Even though some have requested to put the prices back to normal, please understand that these changes are a limited response towards how frequently these services are used. In the future, he plans to address this month’s changes while examining the effects it has made and its impact on inflation. This will take a while so he asks that you give them some time.

You can expect to see future alterations to the game in the Support Measures list later on. For example, they are currently looking into plans to expand the content available in the Premium Set. Once they’ve made some proposals they’ll inform you about it in the Support Measures list. Also, they are looking into reports sent in recently that the lag may have been caused by individuals mass acquiring items through cheating.

Phantasy Star Portable 2 Costumes

At TGS it was announced that eight default costumes from Phantasy Star Portable 2 would appear in the game. Let’s take a look at them now.

Frontier Wing

Iroha Fubuki

Daiga Bigges

Ontario Frame

Rosentreim

Tsukino Yuzuriha

Rifra Biscana

Rosen Schwart

The way you can obtain these items is in someway related to the Vita version but he can’t tell us the specific details for now. Until next time.

33 Responses to Phantasy Star Portable 2 Costumes in Phantasy Star Online 2!

Anonymous

October 19th, 2012 at 3:51 am

Guardians Formal please, Sega? ;__;

Nibelungenlied

October 19th, 2012 at 4:54 am

Frontier Wing….I must haz you o.O

Fatalis

October 19th, 2012 at 5:06 am

Iroha Fubuki! and some looks familiar, did by any chance that those costume appeared in PSU, or am I just imagining it?

Ricardo

October 19th, 2012 at 5:17 am

They also appeared in PSU.

Arika

October 19th, 2012 at 8:18 am

yes, they probably need to do something to make people continue their premium. currently when they not allow trade of 10* many people feel the price of 1300 AC is not worth at all.

Myau

October 19th, 2012 at 12:28 pm

I was kinda hoping the additon of costumes from portable was a hint into bringing the portables to vita this doesn't make my hopes as high anymore

-Z-

October 19th, 2012 at 2:51 pm

meh, sony hardware exclusives? well… at least none of it is anything I'm interested in. save myself some fuss.

Sereph

October 19th, 2012 at 5:05 pm

Well PSP was a portable game, and had no chance of running on the Nintendo DS. I dont think they were being biased towards sony.

Sereph

October 19th, 2012 at 5:07 pm

And I have to admit, i have no interest in them either. I'd only buy the Human Male one Beast Female one is the only other outfit out of the PSP bunch that isn't fashionably obnoxious.

Ren

October 19th, 2012 at 6:08 pm

Screw all those outfits! How about some old school Phantasy Star outfits?! Rika/Fal, Chaz, Alys, Demi, Wren, Nei, Noah, etc.?

Halvaard

October 19th, 2012 at 6:58 pm

Digga Bigges! Now give me my Beast back and I'll be happy (and a race convert ticket….)

Renvalt

October 19th, 2012 at 7:09 pm

@Ren – Dammit Ren, any time a Nei-worshipping moron appears, one hundred Lilipans die and Fourier gets blown to pieces. And I have to go through all the hell of putting her back together.

Actually, that's Afin's job. But I digress – stop bowing down and worshipping the outdated trash that is Nei!

Phantasy Star does much better when it does not follow the Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest/Megami Tensei game mechanics trend – which almost every RPG during that age did.

Let's be honest – I'm tired of seeing WoW clones, CoD clones, and (now apparently) Skyrim/Vindictus clones. What PSO2 did wasn't too much different in terms of mechanics, but it veered into a territory that not many have dared to tread (that I know of): Sci-Fi Action RPG with gameplay that would make any DMC fan jealous (and no, I'm not referring to that reboot made by Crapcom – which parallels the Castlevania reboot tainted by the holy church of the west).

Personally, I never knew Nei, and don't care to know her – so long as she has fans that rival that of "Dattebayo" Naruto and "BANKAI" Ichigo.

Seriously…. The West needs its head back in place. It lost it a while ago and something scary is eating it up.

Anonymous

October 19th, 2012 at 7:18 pm

Ontario? What's Canada got to do with this?

~KDLight

October 19th, 2012 at 7:59 pm

@Renvolt —

You may be happy that PSO2 differs from western art styles, but unfortunately you're looking through rose tinted shades….

…because while you're happy PSO2 doesn't resemble FF/DQ/Skyrim/Vindictus, I'm personally disappointed at just how Cliche Mainstream "Anime" Fanservice the series direction has taken.

Phantasy Star has lost most of its uniqueness and creativity for the sake of attracting mainstream attention. The game has a CRAZY bias towards female characters, the anatomy is more "cartoon" than it was in PSU (females), and the game does a REAL bad job at modeling more detailed faces, like older people or different ethnicities. Casts abandoned the functional android designs from PSO/PSU and gone strictly Gundam/Armored Core. All the females have been softened and buffed into a ridiculous J-pop scene sheen. Not even Ramarl, the token "tough girl" was spared.

Everything in PSO2's design just screams "fanservice". Think im lying?

Go to the main website, and look at all the official art renders of the game. There are BARELY ANY male characters represented at all, the females take all the spotlight, and in the event they do have one or two male classes, Jean is almost always excluded. In the "fan website" section, you can't even find a banner to place on your website with a male character on it. This is a farcry from PSO's art direction, which based its attraction on variety, not conformity to current mainstream standards.

So yeah…..you're complaining about the West, but the East isn't only doing the same thing, they're doing it worse. Phantasy Star has been completely absorbed by mainstream, moe/lolita/kawaii fanservice anime. And to say PS is the only series doing it would be a terrible lie.

ShadowDragon

October 19th, 2012 at 10:26 pm

I like the Frontier Wing,Rosentreim and Rozen Schwart. But I do agree with REN. I aslo think PSO2 should add in costumes from the classes 8-bit and 16-Bit Phantasy Star games. Chaz (Rudy)'s outfit, Alys(Lyla)'s ourfit, Rune(Thray)'s outfit, Rolf's(Yusis), Rudo's(Rudger) suit, etc would all look FANTASTIC in PSO2 IMO.

WTF is with the bashing of Nei? Please don't rip on the character until you actually know what your talking about. The back story of that character and her fate is fairly tragic one, I don't get the bashing. So please chill out with that, it's uncalled for.

Your Name

October 20th, 2012 at 1:34 am

@~KDLight – "Everything in PSO2′s design just screams “fanservice”. (…) Phantasy Star has been completely absorbed by mainstream, moe/lolita/kawaii fanservice anime."

Yeah, it only happened with PSO2.

*looks at Phantasy Star 2, 3 and 4*

*sees stereotypical, cute anime girl characters wearing either leotards or miniskirts*

~KDLight

October 20th, 2012 at 1:42 am

@Your Name

You can not possibly be suggesting that Phantasy Star 1-4 / Online was anywhere close to this level of fanservice. The playable cast of PS1 had more variety than the entirety of this game's current storyline.

You cannot be serious.

Your Name

October 20th, 2012 at 2:52 am

@~KDLight – Of course it doesn't even come close to PSO2's level of fanservice (because there was far less fanservice in general, back in the day). Just pointing it out.

Also, lol, PS1 cast was nothing but a set of four generic characters with minor, completely insignificant backstories glued on. Saying that it had more variety than PSO2's story is really taking it too far.

Fatalis

October 20th, 2012 at 3:58 am

any concept art for Frontier Wing and Iroha Fubuki? I wanna cosplay them xD

and I just noticed, that dagger like thingy on the Iroha Fubuki is just connected on the Costume itself, right? I was thinking they would make a weapon like that xD

Sky

October 20th, 2012 at 8:16 am

@~KDLight

I think its time you went back to your bald space marine games. Instead of wasting time on a site and game you seem to not enjoy.

~KDLight

October 20th, 2012 at 8:18 am

@Your Name

Wow man…it doesn't matter how many times you call the older titles "generic". It is impossible to downplay the amount of visual change Phantasy Star has done from PSO > PSO2 in terms of artstyle and content. It has abandoned almost all of its own unique clothing / character design in place a of more popular, mainstream style. Casts and the entire female spectrum are visible proof of this. PSO2 doesn't even make an attempt to adhere to its canon storyline like PSO did (mercenary) or PSU did (Lineshields, at least before the Portable Titles came along).

After PSP came along they began outsourcing all their outfits to completely random, popular Manga artists. Phantasy Star Portable 2 didn't even make an ATTEMPT to make sense. All default outfits were completely random, popular trope roles which didn't fall in line with ANYTHING seen on the original 3 planets. PSO2's outfits are no different, with the basic outfits being somewhat questionable to begin with (excluding the Newman ones since they're always crazy) with casts all being gundam ripoffs.

And FYI, Phantasy Star 1 was a mastersystem/GG title made in 1987. PSO2 was released in 2012 as a sequel to Phantasy Star Online, and following the example of Phantasy Star Universe, which despite aiming for a much less "gritty" style than PSO, still managed to retain its original style until they changed it so the Portable titles could gain more popularity. The type of outfits available in PSU from the first half of its life are nothing like the ones released towards the end.

Of course the older titles had fanservice, nothing is without fanservice. The point is the older titles didn't sacrifice everything about their game in order to achieve fanservice. Ash, Kireek, Sue, Bernie, Alicia, Montague ect were all PSO NPCs that fit perfectly fine in the world of mercenaries. So did Ethan, Karen, Hyuga, Leo ect….Afin alone looks like a sick joke, Echo looks like his little sister, Jean is visibly useless in every cutscene and almost every other NPC in this game is a 5 foot tall little girl. And they're supposed to be military mercenaries?

No, they look like that because that's what sells in japan as of 2012; moe, lolita and overall "cute" stuff. Japan's mainstream has taken over their media worse than it ever could have over here in the West. It's seeped into everything.

~KDLight

October 20th, 2012 at 8:22 am

And just to be fair, there's nothing immediately wrong with fanservice. But it's just being taken so far. I dont think anyone can disagree that PSP2 wouldn't have sold NEARLY as well as it did if it still looked like Phantasy Star Universe. It got popular by pulling in the otaku club. Which was a smart move for sega…obviously still works

Your Name

October 20th, 2012 at 8:24 am

I don't mean to be rude, but

tl;dr

Nibelungenlied

October 20th, 2012 at 9:27 am

@~KDLight "It is impossible to downplay the amount of visual change Phantasy Star has done from PSO > PSO2 in terms of artstyle and content."

You're right. Phantasy Star is the only series in ten years to change their art style and content. How dare they go with the times instead of remaining outdated fossils and effectively driving away anyone who hasn't played the series?? -_-

Also, you're coming off as a bit of a chauvinist by saying that just because they're smaller framed females they shouldn't be fighting. Look at them. I've yet to see any of your "5 foot tall little girls" running up and trying to bash a monster in the face with a sword (at least not NPCs). Why?? Because they can still fight, just that it would not make sense for them to be on the front lines, which is why they're not.

~KDLight

October 20th, 2012 at 12:50 pm

@Your Name

no offense taken

@Nibelungelied

You’re right. Phantasy Star is the only series in ten years to change their art style and content. How dare they go with the times instead of remaining outdated fossils and effectively driving away anyone who hasn’t played the series?? -_-"

Thats a mighty big strawman you threw up there. I think even you can agree that reverting to mainstream is not the same thing as "updating". I shouldn't have to explain the difference between mainstream and not mainstream, especially regarding PSO > PSU > PSO2.

And "chauvinist"? Wow, don't twist my words. If the game were full of unfit chubby NPCs would you tell me I was being chauvinist? In PSU the Guardians, a much less organized group than the ARKZ (and sent to colonized planets mind you, not fully hostile warzones) were far more functionally staffed. This is because PSU took its storyline more seriously.

But we can all just plead "fantasy game" and call it a draw. That's perfectly fair too. But you shouldn't try to suggest that it's somehow a "bold", "unique", or "updated" decision. It's primarily a cashout, we know this and Sega knows this. Unfortunately for me i was just more biased towards the more unique and detailed art direction, thats all.

Nibelungenlied

October 21st, 2012 at 5:30 am

@~KDLight "PSU took its storyline more seriously"

After reading this, I refuse to take anything you say serious o.O

~KDLight

October 21st, 2012 at 9:06 am

@Nibelungenlied

Whatever makes you feel better bro.

-Z-

October 21st, 2012 at 9:53 am

complaints about PSPo2/i's outfits for players should be directed to the part about how Little Wing (whom the player works for) is a mercenary group owned by a clothing manufacturer. one gets the impression that the clothes are weird because the company is using their mercs as fashion models to sell their stuff. and fashion models are ALWAYS wearing weird crap on the runway.

people overlook this sort of thing…

I don't know what to say about complaints about the staff ingame. they seem to all be dressed suitably. the players get ecclectic looks because otherwise people would complain about the boring outfits. only military otaku would be thrilled by having the player characters all wearing uniforms, I think.

at least we CAN change clothes. we can at least TRY to not feel like a clone army. (CAST moreso than others, which annoys me a little)

also, I wish people would stop using the outmoded PSO1/PSZ archetype names when arguing about this stuff. the whole thing of being able to change classes at will and not having restrictions on who can be what means those terms are obsolete. sure, they were used on the concept art. but given how nothing makes you adhere to any of those combinations. n' with the fairly flexible character appearance customization you can aim to make whoever you feel like into the "tough" person, etc. so complaining about the archetypes is a tad silly. are you really too lazy to make a character your own? do you honestly long for things like PSO1 or RO or whatever where the character is less able to be distinctly "yours"? c'mon manqs. ;P

furthermore, when I look back at PSO1 and see the maid-bot, er, I mean, RAcaseal, I'm not so sure about the suggestion of it trying really hard to be distinct.

~KDLight

October 21st, 2012 at 10:02 am

@-Z-

"also, I wish people would stop using the outmoded PSO1/PSZ archetype names when arguing about this stuff. the whole thing of being able to change classes at will and not having restrictions on who can be what means those terms are obsolete. "

Obsolete, yeah. Outmodeled, no. The PSP2/PSO2 style of choosing your own class allows for flexibility but fails to give any sort of uniqueness to your character OUTSIDE the visual changes you're allowed to make, which seems to be the entire reason the system was dropped. For this reason there is no real reason to have a second character in this game — unique animations and abilities have all been removed and replaced with barely noticable stats so the "FREEDOMMMMMM" advocates wont complain.

Thats the main reason i complain about PSO2's visual changes. Not because i dont like them (and i dont), but because they've affected gameplay more than anything. Despite your skilltree abilities (which only make number differences in the end), there are no unique characters in PSO2.

Rey