Unless you think that playing as one character, then moving past him to play as your own to fight an evil organization (who houses the main bad guy, who actually turns out to be nothing but a pawn) is lame. Sound like Kingdom Hearts, a little bit? Did KH force you to participate in a planetary genocide? Did it cause an entire race of robotic beings to get hacked and run a space fleet into your satellite which crashes onto another planet? Face it -- Phantasy Star Universe is a cool and constantly changing experience. And the PSP is getting a port.
The port is basically that: Ambition of Illuminus on your PSP, with some added missions and story points. While there's no true online mode, you do get 4-player ad hoc play. Commence the groans. The port is being handled by Alpha Systems, who is pretty unknown. Check out the scan from Famitsu if you'd like and hope this hits shores outside of Japan.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
12-05-2007 @ 10:55AM
Alien said...
Wow , this is big ... PS has a huge fanbase ... it wont be a sistem seller , but it deffinatly wont push buyers away :D
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12-05-2007 @ 11:15AM
XenoPhage said...
*DROOL*
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12-05-2007 @ 12:10PM
Extinction said...
This was the game I wanted ever since Sega did Crazy Taxi for PSP.
But not without online mode. Sorry, that's big enough to make me not want it anymore. Do it right or don't do it all.
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12-05-2007 @ 1:17PM
Brello said...
"Do it right or don't do it at all"
So true.
12-05-2007 @ 9:03PM
pixelator said...
I only played with friends in the online mode, so if there's ad hoc, it'll be basically the same experience.
12-05-2007 @ 12:22PM
Noshino said...
I actually bought the game because the girl I was going out wanted me to play it with her...but yah, the gameplay isn't that great, the lock system was really bad....I heard the previous installments were much better....I did like the graphics tho...>_>;
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12-05-2007 @ 1:50PM
fruitsofherwomb said...
Not exactly right, its NOT a port, its a new game based on Universe. The game WILL feature 4 player online co-op. (it's posted on the-magicbox)
Update your article, cause its wrong.
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12-05-2007 @ 7:37PM
Hashbrown_Hunter said...
well it's considered a port because it carries the same name.
12-05-2007 @ 1:58PM
merc25 said...
Because I think this is pertinent, for you got half your wish:
http://www.pspfanboy.com/2007/02/22/dream-games-phantasy-star-universe/
Celebrate! Celebrate planetary genocide... okay maybe not that, but I'm sure you can think of other reasons to celebrate.
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12-05-2007 @ 5:00PM
Jonathan said...
I would have LOVED this. But no online mode? Then this game can rot.
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12-05-2007 @ 5:58PM
cj said...
uhh...PS4 was the greatest RPG ive ever played. this should be just as awesome, but with better graphics!
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12-05-2007 @ 7:16PM
cafecito said...
Oh my, I was wishing for this myself. Makes up for a great portable game :)
Hope it's well "ported" then
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12-05-2007 @ 8:04PM
Joe said...
Well this is cool. I just hope may be there can be some kind of patch that will allow online play in the future.
Also not having any thing to do with thisbut wanted to know it any way. How do you replie to a person instead of a new comment.
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12-05-2007 @ 9:53PM
Dehshizknight said...
Lol, I remember receiving this game as a Christmas gift one year (in fact, it was just last year, I'm pretty sure). I got into the game because it felt like an actual civilization-type RPG but I could never get past the effin Vol Brother!!! It was soo annoying that I just quit playing the game. I would have went back to it but then I received a PS3 so I was hooked on that. Lol.
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12-05-2007 @ 11:47PM
zoen151 said...
Why not the first and second PSO? Oh well, this is still awesome.
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12-06-2007 @ 4:39AM
Ren said...
Wow, some actual PSU love going on? Thats something I'm not used to.
I, for one, think the game is very underrated. It was a decent game with its offline story mode, but things really heated up for me when I went online. I love spamming cut-ins too.
That said, I'm looking forward to this.
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12-06-2007 @ 2:14PM
cafecito said...
I'm looking forward to this as well. But I'm more interested in the offline mode. Hope it's decent :)
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12-06-2007 @ 8:10PM
Bryan said...
loved playing PSO on the Dreamcast, had online and all (56k FTW!), but after playing PSU years later I remembered how derivative and mind numbing the experience is after a while, not to mention PSU was generally less interesting as a whole. And really, no online mode for a PSP version? What a joke!
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