Phantasy Star News Roundup: Famitsu Weapon, PSO2, PSPo3?

Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity

Alright, a little behind but lets get back on track.  First, Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity will have yet another collaboration with Famitsu. This includes a brand new weapon called ファミデンドウブレード.

 

Famitsu Dendou Blade (Long Sword)

According to Shougai, at the time of this writing, it is unclear how one will obtain such a weapon. According to legend, "A sleeping power awakes once you defeat a certain amount of monsters with this weapon." It looks as if it will get stronger in some way…

[via shougai]

Phantasy Star Portable 3

Now this is not an announcement for Phantasy Star Portable 3, so don't get your hopes up. During an interview with Dengeki Magazine, Sakai and Terada were talking about how they should make PSPo3. The point being that if they do create Portable 3, the "world" would have to completely change.

(I would almost speculate this "world" might be based on a future game in development. Shougai also believes this world may possibly go along the lines of "Phantasy Star Online 2 Portable". It's the best educated guess one can come up with.)

[via shougai]

Phantasy Star Online 2

Alright, so for those of you who somehow didn't know about the breaking news from the latest Dengeki, Phantasy Star Online 2 will start releasing news about the game sometime in April. Phantasy Star Online 2 was developed parallel to Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity. During the last days of the Fan Thanks Festa, Sakai may announce details of the game. For now all that's known is it will not take place on Ragol, or Gurhal. The logo gives indication of what the game's setting symbolizes. So expect to play a new adventure in new worlds!

In another magazine (Famitsu Connect!On) Sakai had a pretty similar quote as from Dengeki but with a little modification. In Famitsu, Sakai says that around the time when PSPo2i comes out and/or the Thanks Festa 2011 Events, it might be good timing to release some kind of information about PSO2. The development is far advanced than you might think. Afterwards,  the PSPo2i staff will be joining development towards PSO2, which will help speed up the pace. So please attend the Thanks Festa Events!

(So we may have some kind of information earlier than we expect, but in that regard, could it mean at the finals of the Infinity Grand Prix we will have another major announcement?)

[via shougai + shougai]

Now a question for all of you, does anyone care about Eternal Hunters?

 

Infinity Manners

Sakai doesn't like your manners! So he made a list of activities people tend to do in the demo that is a violation of the Terms of Service.

  • Game play using modded game data.
  • Distributing Modded Mission Code and Character Data.
  • Asking for Modded Mission Code and Character Data.
  • Using Items with hacked power.
  • Asking for Items with hacked power.
  • Using speech with the goal of "dating/pickup" and obscene speech.
  • Using obscene/hateful speech and annoying other players in the lobby in succession.

If any users found to be doing the above, one should send a screenshot/camera picture and complete the form for wickeduser. Send the screenshot displaying the character's online ID which is their PSN account name.

Yes, the Japanese server doesn't play around. Modded Mission Codes are any mission codes that features anything outside the range of, "Beach/Snow/Autumn area" and "Giel Zohg/DugaDunga/Zoal Goug" bosses. If the special effect says, "敵レベル+" or Enemy Level +, then that mission code data was modded. Please refrain from using it.

Phantasy Star Online 10th Anniversary is Today!

Today is Phantasy Star Online's 10th Anniversary. Today on December 21st 2000, Phantasy Star Online was launched to the public. The Phantasy Star Online 2 portal was updated to reveal a brief history of all the games we've seen thus far after the release of Phantasy Star Online.

Now that PSPo2i brings back several memories of Phantasy Star Online, we can now head forth into the future with Phantasy Star Online 2.  Unfortunately no new information about Phantasy Star Online 2 was revealed, but the day is still young, I'd expect something to leak out on today of all days.

To commemorate the 10th anniversary, Sega is holding events across PSU called the Ragol Memorial Festa where you play in the PSO areas. Also there's a screenshot event for PSOBB where players can take pictures of their time before it shuts down. PSOBB Japan shuts down next week Monday.

 

Item Design CGs

So we had the PSU Item Design Contest, and the Nico Nico Item Design Contest. These below are the CG models for the PSU contest.

 

Verdecoat the second place cast male outfit!

 

Imperial Cross, 4th place winner!

 

Croce Segmantata 3rd place winner!

 

Nachtlotus the first place winner.

 

King of Vlad (Twin Claw) representing the Dracula style.

 

Bigetsu (Axe)

 

Juggernaut (Knuckles) with the PSIV SE

 

Acknowledge (Saber) combines with Denial (Saber)
  They become a Double Saber and Twin Sabers

 

Revolution Will (Twin Sabers) of Acknowledge and Denial

 

ShijimaAkatsuki (Rod)  or otherwise known as Silent Dawn.

 

Sleipnir (Grenade) wants his master.

 

All the winners' items are completely done and will soon ship to each game in the Phantasy Star Series. The details on when that will happen will be revealed in the future.

[via itemdesign]

*The sidebar Charge Shot II will be updated today to reflect the new changes to the weapons.

Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity Story Trailer

The official site updated early this morning showing off the most important thing, the story trailer. As well as screenshots for the enemies.

 

Story Trailer

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Today is Phantasy Star Portable 2 one year anniversary! As the days go by, we are closer and closer to commemorate Phantasy Star Online's 10 year anniversary. In the future, we'll see the release of Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity and the highly anticipated Phantasy Star Online 2.

The story trailer features:

  • A block of land rising up.
  • The infamous fight scene of Nagisa and Hyuga.
  • Wynarl speaking.
  • Pioneer 2 flying above.

And of course, the most forbidden thing of them all; Nagisa removing her eye patch and unleashing her dark Dewman power. The scene is set up in such a way where Nagisa glows red versus Hyuga and his blue sword. There was a reason Lumia wore blue and and Emilia wore red.

 

 

Monsters

Garanz: A large machine that was reconstructed by using data from Rykros

 

Garanz can shoot destructive missiles from its shoulders.

 

Bora Vrima is a large enemy deriving from the Polavahra species.

 

Bora Vrima has a tough shell with missile-shaped needles attached to it.
It can roll up into a ball and ram into you. It boasts its high fighting strength!


Game System

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Now there's gameplay videos teaching the concepts of the game. This video showcases how to fight and use combos, though it emphasizes the need to chain.

 

Terada's Corner

Can you find Alfort Tylor? He's the darkest one standing of the three.

Terada and Sakai blogged early tonight.

  • Let's just cut to the chase…
  • The Mirage Blast invocation is fast. The light and dark mirage blast effectiveness has increased.

Well at least now we know for sure the light mirage blasts increases the rate the blast gauge fills up. Then the dark mirage blast increases the attack speed of the user.  But I feel Calorie Mate might be a better choice… So are we going to be faster than an acrofighter eh?

 

Satoshi Sakai

For the Playstation Awards, Satoshi Sakai chose three titles which he voted for in the Playstation Questionnaire.

  • Voted Titles
    • 1. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
    • 2. God of War 3
    • 3. Phantasy Star Portable 2

[playstation awards]

Phantasy Star Portable 2 has been awarded the gold award for selling 500,000 copies.

Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst Memorial

Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst is having a memorial event. Players will participate in taking screenshots of various situations during their time on PSOBB. Screenshots are separated by two distinct styles.

The first is a screenshot memorial where players take screenshots of their various adventures. The second is the episode memorial, where players take screenshots relating to the episodic content. You would then write something interesting describing the episode picture, whether it is happy, or sad…

  • Application Period
    • 11/30/2010 ~ 1/21/2011
  • Results
    • 2/7/2011: Screenshot Announcement
    • 2/24/2011: Episode Screenshot Announcement

For episode screenshots, one must write a description up to 200 characters describing the image. The screenshots for both types should be no larger than 1MB.

[via psobb]

Wynarl and Hentai?

The word Hentai can mean different things like perverted, sexual nature, strange or abnormal and wierdo. Rapico has said that Emilia seems to think Wynarl is perverted. You can check it out in the demo in January.

[via rapico]