New Phantasy Star Portable trailer shows four-player mayhem
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Japan, Sony PSP, Video.
It seems like there hasn’t been much gameplay footage of Phantasy Star Portable out there, but this new trailer released at Famitsu shows tons of it.
In addition to all the battle, menu and character creation footage, the video shows four Japanese players having the time of their lives playing local multiplayer. While I certainly don’t deny the fun that would be had in having three of your nerdiest friends around a table playing Phantasy Star Portable, I just can’t imagine a scenario where this would happen very often for Americans.
Phantasy Star Portable has a July 31 release date in Japan, and Sega hasn’t announced if it will see a release elsewhere.
Comments on this article
There have been 7 responses to this article.
lol those guys don’t know much about Just Attack xD
landman
Posted June 13th, 2008 at 4:55 pm.
OMG! That looks like so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nam1018
Posted June 13th, 2008 at 7:08 pm.
I hope that Sega can make an updated version of this game in Japan with online features and then port the same version in the US and European version.
Kori-Maru
Posted June 13th, 2008 at 8:01 pm.
or they can get a studio from Europe/USA to add online when they bring it over.
Sumo?! DO ET, they can also add some awesome maps. :P Call it Phantasy Star Portable: not shit version.
George
Posted June 13th, 2008 at 10:56 pm.
I have to disagree strongly with that preview as far as what the writer wrote about it not having The capacity of being that much fun. This has got to be one of the most diverse games with the best personalization on a portable system to date!.the graphics are THE BEST FOR A PORTABLE GAME WITH ALL OF ITS DIVERSITIES . and yes I am a classic phantasy star fan, 2 being my favorite. I honestly think pso,psu and psu are really really overlooked and underrated.PSU story is not that good, but its mechanics and VAST,good looking personalization(with out looking like a bad wrestling character that looks like some one based it of a bad character creator engine)is 2nd to none. I cant wait for this title and hope it will be as big or bigger then monster hunter.
yoyo
Posted June 14th, 2008 at 4:21 am.
Ooh doesn’t look bad. I’ve only ever played traditional Phantasy Star but this looks interesting.
Leaf
Posted June 14th, 2008 at 4:23 am.
looks great, hoping for us release. I think monsterhunter offers the same multi-player restrictions and yet it’s very popular even here in the states. Here’s hoping PSP (err PSUP?) garners the same attention!
60Hz
Posted June 16th, 2008 at 11:40 am.