Well, I needed something to occupy my brain a bit. I start orientation tomorrow and, to be honest, have been nervous about college.
So, to get my mind off edge, I was putting together a container of stuff going with me. Stuff like my 360, pc games, DVDs, books, etc.
I found Phantasy Star Universe for PC in my Civilization Chronicles(special edition had Civ 1-4)case. It never would work at all for me. Well, on a whim after four years of having the disc and book(yes, I have had it since 2006, lol), I decided to try again. Of course it did not work but I decided to see what the net said.
After a few minutes, I was up and running.
About the game:
Actually was not that bad. The graphics seem like a direct port from the PS2 version based on some screens. i am running the game and the highest setting and still see alot of ugly pixelated textures.
The control system and menu took maybe half hour to get used to. Not really that bad though for playing Single Player, it should pause the game while you are in the main menu.
Voice acting was...humorous. Yeah, it was bad, but I enjoy bad English voices in anime-influenced games if the only alternative that i see is text.
Music was alright, albeit repetitive. Cutscenes had good music, whereas the missions recycled music 4-5 times.
The story*sigh*
Well, the story was decent. In the end, the final boss was a joke and the end did not justify the 20 hours I dumped into the game. The story should have gone deeper, but then maybe I think that since I have watched alot of anime, read alot of books, played alot of story intensive games, etc and so on. I feel if they would have worked on it a bit more, it would have had more potential to be a AA story instead of B quality.
The only things that really pissed me off the entire time was boss fights that are annoyingly long but yet the game says you should beat them in like 2 minutes. Stupid...
That and network mode is offline for PC/PS2. I wouldn't mind messing with the online a bit as I never played PSO (or any other PStar game for that matter). I checked and they took 'em down in March. So, if I wanted to badly enough, I could go buy the 360 version but
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All in all, wasn't a bad game. i think i paid maybe $30 for it 4 years ago.
I am thinking of D/L PStar Portable and Portable 2 since they deal with the PSU timeline. They got good reviews. Just hope they are available for D/L as I only have a PSPgo now.
Anyway, anyone else get a chance to play/beat PSU?
