Shodern Smofare... Phantasy Star Zero comes out tomorrow!

nitzmoff

It's a throwback to PSO, when the series was actually good! It's like an mmo in your pocket! The red boxes! The red boxes! oooooooh!

http://www.sega.com/ps0/

Who's getting it?

rolfness

christ the number of want to play games at the moment is already retardedly long and its just getting worse... arrgghhhh

danshewan

That looks awesome. The standard of games for the DS just keeps getting more and more impressive. Isn't Infinite Line coming out next year? Seems like I've been waiting for that game for about two years now.

One for the Christmas list....

ebagg

I'd like to check it out more but that's the main site for it? Kinda flimsy and unfinished...

Krypteia

I didn't even know this was coming out

frostymoose

I knew nothing about this... more PSO is always cool though I don't have a DS so I won't be playing it (not to mention that I have to avoid falling back into that addiction... it was a dark time in my life )

Do the rares really still drop in red boxes?

nitzmoff

Yes, the red boxes are still there. Got the game yesterday and really liking it. It sadly has the ol' DS target demo in mind and everyone in the game seems to be 5 years too young to be doing what they're doing, but I can deal with that.

It also just 'feels' smaller, which is a result of it being on a handheld, having a low rez and thus shorter draw distance, and it trying to do things the original PSO did and not entirely pulling it off. The environments feel like little, modular theater sets, not the mysterious worlds I loved so much from the first.

But at the end of the day there's lots of loot, Mags, and people to play online with so I can't complain. Not paying a monthly fee or anything.

Rick Stirling

Argh! February 2010 over here. Import job perhaps.

danshewan

Rick Stirling wrote: »

Argh! February 2010 over here. Import job perhaps.

For anyone else that's thinking of picking this up early on import:

http://www.videogamesplus.ca/product_info.php?cPath=381_392&products_id=16235

Pretty decent price (works out around £23 right now), and their service comes highly recommended.

nitzmoff

Import away! All versions can play with each other anyway. Plus, there are no language barriers when it comes to drawing stupid pictures with the pictochat.