Phantasy Star Portable "PSP the BEST": PSU Chronicle Movie

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PSU Chronicle Movie

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Phantasy Star Portable: PSP The Best

Phantasy Star Portable PSP the Best will feature 3 episodic movies chronicling the whole Phantasy Star Universe series. It first starts with the SEED INVASION, so that you may know more of the Gurhal Solar System and character history.  It's great for those new players of Phantasy Star Portable 2. Sakai says it was very hard to edit over 30 chapters of video and images together to make one coherent story.

Ethan, Laia, and Lumia will be narrating each episode. The narration voice work is entirely new providing you a sense of feeling and emotion by their respective characters. Also, voice acting is now provided to the script of Episode 3.

However, since Episode 3 has multiple endings (based on S ranking mind you..) certain parts will not shown in the ending of the PSU Chronicle movie.

As for the opening theme of Phantasy Star Portable 2, the "official theme" and the "PSU Chronicle PSP2 opening theme" will be slightly different. Sakai wants you to compare the two openings. 

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Oh and LOU GOT A NEW HAT… plus added minor info to character data.

[via pspo2: blog]

This video is a great example on how NOT to play the game.

[thanks mysterious g]

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Lou and Maya Shidow

(via anonymous of 2ch)

Phantasy Star Portable 2: Famitsu Scan Reveals Two New Characters and Monsters: Sinow Beat, Sand Rappy, Ill Gill

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 Loran

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

 

 

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PSPo2: Notes from Tokyo Game Show: Collaboration, Battle, Save Transfer, Snowball

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Shougai PSO got a chance to listen to Dragon's Sakai's presentation at Tokyo Game Show. We learn some information that will please Phantasy Star Online fans.

Two Promo videos were shown, one of them was completely new. Next they announced collaboration with Sony Computer Entertainment mascots, Toro and Kuro and had them appear on stage in a huge costume. Toro and Kuro Partner Machinery will appear in the game if you meet some specific requirements which they did not mention. They next played within PSO's forest. Along the way, the enemies: Savage Wolf, Barbarous Wolf appeared. Producer Sakai then officially announced a playable demo.

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You can see the Partner Machinery here!

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Battle

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We have some minor new information about battle. Pso-w member Mike recently received the newest Dengeki Playstation and wrote about some of the new stuff he found. Shougai PSO also added notes from the magazine. Here are a few other Battle Modes other than Catapult Jump.

  • Battle Royal
  • Blitzkrieg Death Match
  • No Wall
  • The Great Menace
  • Advance like an Arrow of Light
  • Who will hit the switch?
  • 13's Room

Battle mode is really extending the replay value of this game. It kind of makes you wonder why they didn't plan PSU with this in the first place. I'm sure PvP hardcore gamers will love Battle Royal and the Death Match. There also seems to be a race to hit a switch first!

 

Save Transfer

So we all know when you transfer save data from PSP1 you will get an exclusive item named Exam (Igzam) with 4 Effect Unit. For quite sometime we were unsure what "Effect Unit" meant, but atleast we have some more information about it.

Based on your character's class, you will  receive one of 4 unit effects.

  • Cosmic Particle
  • Brightness Circle
  • Whitill Wing
  • Flower Art

In addition the follow options of importing are available:

  • Character Import
  • Demo Save Data Import
  • Download Item Import

Snowball

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An unannounced snow field.

[via mike and shougai pso and dengeki and gamewatch]