PHANTASY STAR 0

[TripMercy]

PS0 comes out tomorrow for the Nintendo DS. I will be getting a copy. Is anyone else here intending on getting a copy? If so we should play sometime!

[Gary_b]

PS0 comes out tomorrow for the Nintendo DS. I will be getting a copy. Is anyone else here intending on getting a copy? If so we should play sometime!

i was, but now im on the fence. i will wait and see if i feel like playing yet another PSO game. atm i have to many characters and not enough time. i originally bought my DS for PS0.

[TripMercy]

The game just shipped yesterday and won't be in stores until the 12th I'm dying to play it!!! I can't wait two more days!!

[game_player_s]

Picked up my copy today (November 11th).

Have played less than 30 minutes thus far. Character creation is very reminiscent of PSO, but, from best I can tell, there is no section ID assignment or anything of that sort. You get to choose the color of your Mag during charater creation. Your character's name may be up to twelve letters/numbers/symbols in total length. Nowhere near as many variable character design and color configurations to choose from as there are in PSO, but being it's a portable title this is forgiveable.

Control button setup is virtually identical to that of PSO. Options to configure the main three buttons how you like are even there!

Communication can be performed by selecting to write on the touch screen, which I just played around with and it seems to work quite well, definitely a usable means of communication.

Game play wise, it feels more like a hybrid of PSO and PSP (Phantasy Star Portable). Think PSO with minor elements from PSP, like the achivements.

"Check Room" (storage) has been replaced with "Personnel Counter". From here you can access and store items and meseta. New to this area is the "Joint Trunk", which is where you can deposit items you wish to give or share with your team mates and vise versa.

Items found in the play field vissibly appear much as they do in PSO. And, the maps are indeed randomized, seems the fellow who wrote the strategy guide could have at least mentioned this, or maybe he did and I somehow missed readin that.

Combat is more like that in PSO, but again, elements of the PSU combat system are present.

Music so far has been in keeping with the likes heard in PSO and PSU. Due to this being a DS title though most of the music is audibly synth. Sound effects seem to be a mix of both old and new.

In short, I'm liking it so far.

[Gary_b]

game_player_s have you played it online yet? i wonder how well it works? one of the things that will be a deal breaker for me is a monthly fee. i probably wouldn't want to play the game all that often. so paying for it would either make me play more than i would like, or not at all.

[mazonemayu]

finally a good excuse for me to get a ds

[TripMercy]

I managed to get a copy of it last night and while it does have PSU elements it feels like PSO more. I'm absolutely loving it so far, 7 areas three different perspectives in story mode, wifi gameplay, new character classes and weapons, the return of mags: THIS GAME RULES!!!


did i mention online play is free?

[game_player_s]

Yeah, I've been playing it online quite a bit actually. Finally got around to hooking up my WAP so I could share my dial-up ISP over Wi-Fi at long last.

[Jaseman]

Just as soon as I can reedem my Swagbucks for enough Amazon codes...

[Favrenation]

Swag bucks is awsome! Yo can get dreamcast games for like two weeks of internet searching. There that cheap!