Tuesday June 17, 2008 00:23
Phantasy Star Portable New Details
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Phantasy Star Portable is expected to release in America on March 3, 2009. Phantasy Star Portable is set between Episode 1 and Episode 2, filling in the gaps of what was left off. Phantasy Star Portable adds two new characters into the story, Vivienne and Helga Neumann. Lets now take a look at new information that has been posted on the japanese site.
Story Mode and Multi Mode
Phantasy Star Portable comes in two modes: Story Mode and Multi Mode. In Story Mode you will play an original storyline alongside Vivienne. Whichever actions you take throughout the story will result in different endings. Story Mode will also include famous voice actors for each character and beautiful dramatic movie scenes.
In Multi Mode, you can have up to 4 people in a party. Unfortunately, Phantasy Star Portable will only allow ad-hoc mode, which currently isn’t a very effective choice here in the U.S. However, if you do plan to import this game, please check out X-Link for PSP.
Types
Phantasy Star Portable starts you off with 3 basic “types” or otherwise known as classes. You will be able to choose your type at the character creation screen. The first 3 types are Hunter, Ranger, and Force. After some playthrough, you can then achieve advanced types which are:
- FighMaster: Specializes in Meelee
- GunMaster: Specializes in Guns
- MasterForce: Specializes in Technics
- AcroMaster: Specializes in Speed and One Handed Weapons
- Protranser: Specializes in Traps
Certain weapons will tend to drop more based on what the leader’s type is.
Races and Types
Phantasy Star Portable features four races, they are Human, Beast, Cast, and Newman. One cool thing about Phantasy Star Portable unlike other MMORPGs, is that no matter which race you choose, you can pick any class you want. Though choosing a class not specified for your race will make the game harder, you can still survive at higher levels.
- Best Classes for Beast: Hunter, FighMaster
- Best Classes for Cast: Ranger, GunMaster
- Best Classes for Human: Protranser, AcroMaster
- Best Classes for Newman: Force, MasterForce
Missions and Lobbies
The biggest difference compared to the console version is the lobbies. In Phantasy Star Portable, lobbies are now on a map screen. You can just select where to shop and quickly start missions faster than ever before.
Phantasy Star Portable will also provide a special website to download missions. These missions will appear on the mission select screen.
My Room
My Room will not be customizable as it was on the console version. Instead, it will feature a logbook of monsters and items you have collected. It will also include a dictionary and mission history screen.
The dictionary will explain a a brief synopsis of the characters, items, and storylines that exist within the Phantasy Star Universe Saga.
While playing through the game, a “title” can be obtained by acquiring certain conditions. Having a “title” can help boost experience points, rare drop rates, money, and even boost photon art leveling. At the bottom right corner of the screenshot, you will see the percentages of what has been boosted.
Each monster you fight gets added to the monster logbook. It will display how many monsters of each type that you have killed. My Room also includes a weapon logbook of each weapon you have acquired with a picture and description of it.
You can purchase a certain item that will evolve your partner machinery into a different model including this model already featured in Ambition of Illuminus.
New Bosses
Bil Degoras
Phantasy Star Portable introduces the new Boss named “Bil Degoras”. This horned beast is found somewhere in the caves of Moatoob. When it strikes the ground, small creatures will arise from the earth to attack!
Helga
You will fight Helga in her SEED form. But what is her special relationship with the SEED?
Vivienne!?
A shocking twist! Vivienne can also be a boss depending on your actions in story mode. Watch out for her SUV attack!
Weapon System
PSUPedia has compiled a list of new weapons that will appear in the game. These weapons are currently exclusive to the portable version. With all the weapons and items included from both Phantasy Star Universe and its expansion pack, this game will have the most items available.
Rare Drops
Rare items now drop to all players in Multi-Mode. If you are hunting for a certain rare weapon, you will not need to worry if someone else gets your item. All party members will get the same item! Also enemies and boxes will only drop weapons and shields, including photon art disks. To make things even easier, you will no longer need to find materials to synthesize weapons.
Weapon Grinding
The grind system allows you to upgrade the strength of a weapon that you have. In portable, you will no longer ever fail a weapon. Instead, the strength and PP that is added to a weapon is now randomized.
[via JP Phantasy Star Portable Site Translation w/banken and Espio Kaos Translations of Shougai PSO]
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- (81) Comments
unless its not avalible in the demo vers.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:49 am
did you list all the new bosses? i never played ambition of illuminus but i saw screens and videos of the ragol forest. they say the whole addon was added to the portable game so there must be some more bosses!
July 16th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Ambition of Illuminus adds NEW bosses, but these are now considered OLD since they are included within Phantasy Star Portable. All the bosses listed here are completely new to the Phantasy Star Universe storyline. Of course there may be more bosses that have not been revealed yet.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:35 am
thats good to hear
so is it true that the whole extension was added to the game including the ragol sides?
July 17th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I haven’t seen any Ragol areas in screenshots of PSP yet. So I’m not sure.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
i quess it is because of the few demo screens ^^
Skyly HUmar
July 25th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I want this game so bad now, I just gotta work out my issue of not knowing japanese.
July 26th, 2008 at 10:22 am
i guess there will be many of translation lists on the internet and either tools to translate ingame. a good working knowledge of the japanese interface also can be if you played the us version of phantasy star universe. itll be a great help i think
September 14th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
hey you know what to do in the fourth planet…or aka…china town…cause i don’t know what to do anymore…i’m kinda stuck
September 17th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I don’t have Phantasy Star Portable currently and I’m awaiting the official US release to be announced soon.
November 14th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
are you able to make your own person with out going online
November 14th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
the relsese date is sometime in march of 2009.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
yea you should be able to make you’re own character without going online i mean when you start to play you make you’re own character and you play online with that character it might not even come out in america…lets just see and wait..cause people can’t wait..and there’s 3 endings too so lets see which one you get
November 16th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Ya I already posted the release date a while ago and it will be coming to America.
http://bumped.org/psublog/phantasy-star-portable-us-release-in-march/
Anyway, no you don’t have to be online to create a character. You won’t be playing on the internet like PSU, you’ll be playing via ad-hoc, so there is no online fee. Technically you can play ad-hoc over the internet, and that link above will explain what Sony is preparing to release.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Are all finally forms of partner machine female
November 20th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Are all finally forms of partner machine female.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
yea all of the forms of the partners are females…unless like me you get the last one which was like a funny looking one with a bird on its back…and thats about the only one thats not a girl…and heck i have the same suit..and it is AWESOME!!!!
December 17th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Partner Machines or PMs for short are robots created by and for the GUARDIANs for items storage, information reference, and aid in combat. In the Phantasy Star Portable version, PMs are no longer created via feeding but rather selected at the beginning of character creation. They can also be bought, though the player is only allowed one PM at a time. Inputting a new PM will replace the old one (while retaining the name). They also no longer synthesize items since the feature was removed. The primary function of a PM outside of item storage is combat assistance.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:09 am
do pm replace mag in phantasy star portable
January 8th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
The tech mag and range mags are still in PSP. PSP plays the exact same way as PSU except for item drops and online play. So you can take your PM with you on your mission.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:03 am
how many caracters can you have per memorycard
January 15th, 2009 at 9:45 am
what level do you start at
January 15th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
You start at level 1. If you play the Japanese version you can transfer your character up to Level 20.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
do the beast and cast still have their special attacks
January 20th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Yes Beast still have Nanoblast, and Cast still have SUV.
January 21st, 2009 at 1:56 pm
are thier still secter IDs like redia,yellowboze,bluefull,oran,whitill
January 21st, 2009 at 6:16 pm
No.
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:46 am
so what do they have instend of secter id
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
They use the titles system explained in the article above. When you choose titles, you can have drop rate boosts and experience points.
January 30th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Will you be able to recreate a female character? I don’t want to play as a partial clone of the lead from PSU.
February 1st, 2009 at 12:00 am
You can make males and females.
February 17th, 2009 at 10:36 am
are you able to have multipul pm at once
February 18th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
One PM per character.
February 24th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I have also noticed that certain multi-missions have an “upgrade”, and these SOMETIMES have a different map setup or enemys. Also, how does one invite their pm into multi-missions?
February 24th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Also, these images show someone with an outfit not available in the english version, trial at least.
February 25th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
how is pp used
February 25th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
PP is used when you use a special attack (the triangle button in english demo).
And i figured out how to get the PM on the milti-mode missions, if anyone is interested.
February 26th, 2009 at 1:25 am
well since i know more than all of you since i played the japanese version which was a littler harder than you think…you could do multi just like any other ones just wait till there name pops out and chose them…i don’t remember much since i haven’t played for a while….also the clothes you saw there some of those clothes you have to buy…you gotta remember that…and the cool thing aobut this game is that there is a lot of triangle moves…you learn lots of knew ones that you haven’t seen before like some new claw,spears,big sword, etc. theres some other awesome things you could see that aren’t in some of the ps2 one…well mabye similar to Ambition of Illuminist or whatever its called….and the character you choose like human, elf, robot, etc. matters on the classes you get to choose, because i chose the robot and i couldn’t use some of the other weapons and it was no fun..but it was still fun…oh and the monsters you battle…some of them are harder than you think…i’m like almost to lvl 100 but i haven’t been playing much so it ain’t fun…well you should take some time to train and buy some good equipmets..and if you have a buddy that has one you should playing with them for a while and then play the storyline because if you don’t train the monsters get really hard and if you get this DOLL item you should keep it since you get revived if you die…so make sure to train lots……………ALSO YOU COULD HAVE 3 DIFFERENT ENDINGS IN THIS ONE..BECAUSE IT MATTERS ON WHAT YOU SAY TO THE ROBOT LADY..BECAUSE SHE IS REALLY IMPORTANT…SO ALL I HAVE TO TELL YOU IS TO MAKE A CHOICE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR ENDING…I DIDN’T GET THE GOOD ENDING SO THAT SUCKS BUT MY BRO DID…overall this game was good..i mean AWESOME…well one more thing…when you beat the game or close to beating it you get 1 new suit and 1 new helper person..and its and awesome suit!!!!
February 26th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
So far I’ve been nice to Vivienne.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
OMFG MY PSP BROKE!!! T.T (The system, not the game)
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:31 am
I played the USA demo on psp… the monsters do drop photon art disks… but only jellen…its really annoying!! The game just came out today!! and i’m going to buy it… Hopefully its better than the demo….although I did enjoy the demo.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 am
skeith how do we use are pm in multi player
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
@ zach: hit start, select commmunity -> form party -> and your pm’s name (or Vivienne/Laia). This is AFTER you start multi but b4 you enter the mission counter.
@ninja: is it really out today? not in two weeks? Not March 23/24?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
The release date got bumped up to the 3rd.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I AM SO GETTING IT TOMORROW!!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:34 pm
since its out this should be good since..i want to play the U.S version too..cause this time i could understand them..
March 4th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
is their a guide for this game
March 4th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Check gamefaqs, I can’t really do one since I don’t have a PSP and read its a pain to capture based on which model you have.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
yea you should check gamefaqs if your lucky enough you might get somethings but if your not to bad…but ain’t that bad since the game is not that hard to get through i mean i beat the japanese one and i didn’t understand shit…and i still beat it and got some tight ass different moves…
March 4th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
I’ll also be helping out on Gamefaqs for some of the PSU aspects of this game.
breakfastboi
March 6th, 2009 at 6:01 am
english version is currently out.
im playing it already and wondring where to download english missions
March 7th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Sadly, I’m afraid the English version does not have downloadable content… I know.. that sucks; I’ve been looking forward to that… T.T
But! PSUP really has no need for DLC, as it’s an awesome game already (IMHO). ^_^
March 7th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Too bad… That might have been fun
March 11th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Ha..i didn’t even need to buy the damn game so i’m still playing it right now so it don’t matter…and i mastered 2 skills out o like 50 so i have a long way to go…
March 12th, 2009 at 8:43 am
im a lvl 20 cast char on extra mode can anyone tell me how to get S.U.V weapons? im stuck with bad weapons
March 12th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
lol…dude i’m like lvl 30 up….and i’m just trying to master skills right now…and to get good weapons you should do some free missions when you have time…which is always..b/c with that you get like class A weapons…i have a class A long sword already…and its pretty hard to get a short sword so..if i were you just keep training and eventually you will get good weapons…
March 12th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I have a few A class short swords, and an A class twin short sword. Like steven said, free missions (especially the higher ones) mean free weapons. As for the SUV, i have two that i bought at the Parum shop.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:55 am
how do you were formal closes
March 13th, 2009 at 11:58 am
how do i get the rappy suit
March 14th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
well..i don’t really know if there is a rappy suit…but i think your talking about the one after you beat the game..or before…i think its after…because i got it after i beat the japanese version and you could get a machine one too…but yea…thats about it
March 15th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
level 63 got a s rank weapons dual swords,long sword,dual pistols,laser cannon,knuckles,and rifle
March 22nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
@ Zach: I have a rappy mode (if that is what you mean) so it exhists
March 23rd, 2009 at 1:14 am
Zach..i finally got what you mean by the rappy suit..to get the rappy suit…if you don’t have it….you have to play a co-op game…to get it…after that go to rewards and you should get it…because i got that…and man…i beat the game to quick..and got the god damn same ending…(SPOILERS) viviene died in mine…that sucks dude..and my bro got the part where she shot power at that helga lady…..i am pissed…!!!!…but i never got the other ending..hmm..wonder what it is…
March 30th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Which co-op? and where is this rewards? (do you mean the boxes at the end of the level?)
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:22 pm
lol….the co-op..mulitplayer one…that’s the one…and you get it at the rewards section in your room
April 6th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I got the ending where she sealed helga and herself in the other dimension. And I finally figured out how to use the rewards system(after beating the game)
April 7th, 2009 at 1:16 am
lol…same here….my bro got the part where she shot a power to helga and she flew to the seal…and you are pretty not smart to not be able to figure out the reward system after you beat the game..not to be mean
April 7th, 2009 at 10:42 am
I can’t nanoblast and im over lv 50… any ideas???
April 7th, 2009 at 10:45 am
You have to be a beast to be able to use Nanoblasts..
April 7th, 2009 at 11:32 am
I am a beast…
April 7th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Ooh dang.. Too obvious huh…? Well… Uhh, Equip the nanoblast and your gauge will fill gradually… Both when you deal damage and when you take some. But if you’re doing easy rank missions at that level I wouldn’t be surprised if your nanoblast gauge won’t fill… That’s all I can come up with ATM…
April 7th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
In PSU you would go to the makeover counter “hopefully it’s in PSP” and you select one of four nanoblasts. As your fighting in a mission the gauge under your name at the bottom left corner will eventually turn white. Once this happens you press both of your attack buttons at the same time while standing still. (Press the main attack button + photon art button)
April 7th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
O.O If that is true then I had confused nanoblasts with SUV…? My apologies if I was wrong…
April 7th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
They have the same button press, but ya, the Helgel Blaster or Rafal Blaster won’t work for you.
April 7th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Apparently Ricardo was correct. You head to the GColony and enter the makeover shop. Then you can purchase a tatto which gives you a nanoblast..
“To preform a Nanoblast, you MUST be a Beast at level 20 or higher. Then head to the G-Colony. More specifically, Luminass. An option to apply a tattoo will be available at the bottom. Different tattoos provide different effects. Nanoblast results that are:
Red: Increased Strength
Yellow: Increased Accuracy
Blue: Increased Defence/TECH Defence
Purple: Invincibility (lasts only half the time of the previous 3)” ~GameFAQs
April 8th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
lol…yea guys the nanoblast is the beast and the suv is the casts…and to get to nanoblast just like everyone said wait till the bottom gauge turns red and shiny press the TRIANGLE button and the CIRCLE button together to turn or use your suv…it even tells you pretty obvious you know…lol…jk
April 21st, 2009 at 6:45 am
can you give weapons, armor or items in multi mode to your partners.also clothes
April 21st, 2009 at 9:58 am
Sadly, you can’t give weaps or armor to your buddies… But you can freely distribute your potions and clothing though.
January 9th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
hello everyone PSU is a great game i bought is 3 weeks ago and i am doing everything right but i cant actually synthesize the weapon right i can make the weapon but remember when you also add a special move which is affective like you have only to press X for regulars attacks but when you add the special attack on Xbox you have the Y and on PS2 you have the Triangle for special attacks and i want to know what i can use to to make the special attack
January 15th, 2010 at 12:39 am
Hey guys, how do i play this game wit my friends via ad hoc??? do i need a ps3 and all that, or can we just local play??? if so, how??? i cant find any info on it,, and i cant exactly read japanese
January 15th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
To play adhoc, you can bring your friends over to play on their PSP. You can also play online through Playstation 3 with Ad-hoc party. If you are using Custom Firmware you can also try playing through Xlink Kai.
January 16th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
where at in multi mode can you connect local psps?? that part has me stumpedd