Phantasy Star Portable 2 Website Officially Open + NEW SCAN

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Phantasy Star Portable 2 Official Site

 

The Game

Shougai PSO added some information to their site. We have updated according to the information stated there.  The game takes place on a brand new "resort" colony named Clad 6. Your character will be a part of a private military group known as "Little Wing". It  takes place 3 years after the PSU Episode 3's story, so you'll be sure to see some familiar faces.

Every character has been redesigned from the ground up. As you will soon see in the scans below, each default character has a unique and stylish look. The game will up the ante by bringing in twice as much story and voice work. The game will increase the challenge for solo players by including new types of traps. Let's hope it doesn't end up as difficult as "catching the beast boy" on Episode 2: Chapter 9 in PSU.

 

Main Characters

yoot

Yoot Yun Yunkaas  ユート・ユン・ユンカース (VA: Miyuki Sawashiro) Yoot is 15 years old and hails from Moatoob. He is described to lack common sense due to his environment.

 

emelia

Amelia Percival. エミリア・パーシバル (VA: Chiwa Saitō). Amelia is 16 years old. She is a human and belongs to the private military group "Little Wing".

 

Races

human default char

Default Human Male

 

default cast male

Default Cast Male

 

female newman

Default Newman Female

 

beast male

Default Beast Male

 

Lobby Action and Chat

Lobby actions

Yuri Lowell and Estelle err I mean..

Players can perform lobby actions and chat online! You can play the game either through Infrastructure mode which uses your internet, or through Ad-hoc mode which uses the PSP as the server, however other players need to be within your vicinity to play with you. Similar to PSU, you can also exchange partner cards. You may also search for other party members to play with while online.

 

lobby chat

Aside from entering text in Japanese, players can now insert symbols in chats. These small emoticons will appear in your text bubble. This is something that I would have loved to see in PSU. The picture above shows that you can insert any elemental symbol, smileys, and even some miscellaneous icons.

 

New Battle Actions!

evasive roll

The Urgent Evasion has your player somersaulting to avoid attacks. This function was first introduced in Phantasy Star Zero. I'm sure fans requested this action since there are Casts in Phantasy Star Universe who would annoyingly somersault to dodge your attacks. Well now we can stick it to them!

 

charge shot and shield

Charge Shots lets you shoot a more powerful bullet by charging your gun. In this case the player will use a new animation while shooting the bullet. You can see this animation at the top of this screenshot.

Your shield can now block enemy attacks. If you use your shield at the right moment, you can damage your enemy through a Just Guard attack. This is reminiscent of the Just Counter in PSU, you would immediately counter attack if you press the attack button as soon as you block. You can use your shield as the left hand equipment or include it as an extra slot when you have both hands full.

 

chain system

The chain system from Phantasy Star Zero will return in PSPo:2.

 

Redesigned HUD

redesigned hud

The HUD is redesigned to fit more appropriately on the PSP. A huge change is how Photon Points are now based on character stats and not weapons. Players will have a sword icon while in a mission. If they are in a lobby the icon changes to something else we are unsure of at this time.

 

Game Details

Game: Phantasy Star Portable 2
Console: Sony Playstation Portable
Cost: 5040 Yen
Release Date: December 3rd, 2009 (Japan)
Developer: Alfa System
Network: Infrastructure Mode and Ad-Hoc Mode

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Phantasy Star Portable 2: New Details

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1up.com and ign.com spilled the details of the upcoming Phantasy Star Portable 2.  The new details include:

  • Takes place 3 years after Phantasy Star Portable
  • Your custom character works for "Little Wing" and not The Guardians
  • More complex missions
  • Twice as much story as the previous game
  • Brand new character redesigns
  • A new "evade dodge" move.
  • Charged weapon ranged shots
  • Shields that can damage enemies if you parry.
  • Shields use the left hand slot.
  • Infrastructure mode via Internet Multi-mode
  • Multiplayer only missions
  • Chat and Lobby Actions [1]
  • Common Storage Box [1]
  • Searchable Partner Cards
  • Import Save Data from the original Phantasy Star Portable [2]

This sounds great and this also reveals what that mysterious new Sega RPG was about. According to the Famitsu scans, you can clearly see that it matches directly with the silhouette on Sega's NewRPG site.

It seems PSP2's producer: Takai, wanted to give players the choice of using stylized default characters, though you will still be able to customize the look and feel of your character including their face, body, and clothing.

Phantasy Star Portable 2

This weapon matches perfectly with the NewRPG silhouette

 

beast psp 2

Beasts get a new more brutish look!

 

newman female design

Newmans can steer towards a magical girl look!

 

youthful anime

More anime-ish styled faces

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[via 1up]

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Mysterious New Sega RPG on August 20th

Sega put up a new page of a mysterious new RPG with two silhouettes of characters soon to be revealed on August 20th. But on August 18th, the new RPG is non other than Phantasy Star Portable 2.

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 Phantasy Star Portable 2 | August 20th, 2009

This seems to follow Sega's new marketing campaign. Every time they are about to announce a new game, they place a teaser site with a character silhouette in the background. The first two were revealed to be a WiiWare title and a Nintendo DS title.

The last teaser campaign ended up into another Puyo Pop sequel. This was displeasing to hopeful fans considering the character silhouette was modeled similarly to Amy from the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise.

[via newrpg]