Our urge to start writing Phantasy Star Zero mushy love letters on a daily basis is stronger than ever. Famitsu's latest two-page spread on Sonic Team's online RPG is the cause of our infatuation. According to the magazine, PS Zero will be stocked with over 350 weapons spread across sixteen categories, including swords, spears, slicers, daggers, wands, magic rods, sabers, double sabers, claws, handguns, machine guns, rifles, launchers, bazookas, shields, and gunslashes.
Those last two are new to the Phantasy Star universe (a gunslash, incidentally, is a gun/sword combo), though you will have the option of scrapping with your bare hands, if you're mental enough to believe you could take down this with knuckles.
Sega also talked online modes with Famitsu, revealing the three modes of play that will be available. Free Mode will let you join a random party automatically, though the PictoChat-style chat system is not possible here, Friend Mode allows you to grind with friends or friends of friends and have access to the chat, and Single Mode sees you playing online ... on your own. No, we don't understand that either.
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10-23-2008 @ 11:08AM
elsng said...
I feel an addiction coming on.
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10-23-2008 @ 12:45PM
Mr Khan said...
Shields are new as a weapon, not as a class of item. Shields were the defensive items that complemented Frames (the ones with the expansion slots)
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10-23-2008 @ 1:23PM
BlueS said...
This is getting better and better!
I remember the sweet feeling of tap-tapping the mouse for combos... I wonder how will they implement that into this game. I hope not by tapping the screen, cause that could become a little too strainful for the screen and hands too.Maybe a slashing motion, and for heavy attacks pushing a button also. If they don't mess up the controls and other small stuff like that, it won't be anything else than a massive success. At least it looks that way to me.
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10-23-2008 @ 1:38PM
1337stra said...
How is a shield a weapon?
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10-23-2008 @ 3:21PM
BlueS said...
When I think about it, movies like 300 and friends come into mind(maybe books from the Forgotten Realms). You know, they smash faces and cut down heads with it (it may be sharpened or something). I don't know, but it seems like a usable weapon to me. At least it's something we haven't seen before(?).
10-24-2008 @ 2:16AM
Feba said...
Never played Kingdom Hearts, huh?
10-23-2008 @ 8:49PM
gnguye3 said...
CAPTAIN AMERICA!
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10-23-2008 @ 11:31PM
Matt G. said...
God, I love when I have tons of weapons to choose from. This reminds me of FFXII.
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10-24-2008 @ 4:00AM
Olicon said...
Finally.. a DS game that I can really go online on the go, not just wifi. I'm so happy--this will be the first PSO that I get to play with other people, yay!
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