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User Rating: 8.5 | Phantasy Star Portable PSP
By hazboticus | Review Date:
Many, if not all 'critics' have given this amazingly underapreciated psp game a low rating. Understandble as this may be from its aparently shallow combat mechanics and almost nonsensical jibbirish instructions not to mention an equiptment system that is so underexplained that much of its usefullness is lost.

Some aspects of this title are highly developed while some suffer significantly, for instance the level design and party member ai could have used a couple more weeks development but the gear and equiptment aswell as the customization throughout the game have been developed to the point where a player can spend the majority of the game collecting and trying out different types of photon arts and equiptment setups or hairstyles, even facial features and charecter stature.

The game itself plays alot like the well known crisis core, refining the classic dungeon crawl, loot repeat system down to a fine art but in this case, modified with the phantasy star series' patented photon jargon and weapons/technic(spells) configurations to mix it up.

Overall this game would be best apreciated by those who enjoyed titles such as the .hack/ series, crisis core, and those who liked aspects of Too Human despite its shortcomings.


The good:
items, customization, animations, combat

the bad:
stupid AI, poor spell detain, confusing inventory and equipping systems.

Hope this was helpful.

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