Phantasy Star Portable
| Phantasy Star Portable | |
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| Developer(s) |
Sonic Team Alfa System |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Director(s) | Tatsuya Nagata |
| Producer(s) | Satoshi Sakai Tetsuya Sasaki |
| Artist(s) | Akikazu Mizuno |
| Writer(s) | Yasushi Otake |
| Composer(s) |
Hideaki Kobayashi Taihei Sato Kenichi Tokoi |
| Series | Phantasy Star |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation Portable |
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| Genre(s) | Action RPG |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Phantasy Star Portable (ファンタシースターポータブル?) is an action role-playing game co-developed by Sonic Team and Alfa System, and published by Sega for the PlayStation Portable. Sega released the game to Japan in July 2008, and to other markets in 2009.
In addition to the game's single-player story mode, Phantasy Star Portable has a cooperative multi-player mode that supports up to four players.
The 2009 sequel, Phantasy Star Portable 2, takes place three years after the events of Phantasy Star Portable.
Phantasy Star Portable begins a few months after the conclusion of Phantasy Star Universe (2006) and its expansion, Ambition of the Illuminus (2007), in which an alliance of humans, newmans, beasts, and CASTs of the Gurhal star system drove off alien invaders known as SEED. The peace is short-lived, however. Vivienne, a newly constructed CAST android, and her partner (the player), discover that some SEED remain, and are causing trouble. Vivienne and her partner work to save the Gurhal system—and, in the process, learn more about humanity.
The player begins by choosing one of four races and three character class. The character design is adjustable through several variables: face model, eye color, eyebrows, eyelashes, ears, head type, body color, proportion, jacket, pants, shoes, voice type, and voice pitch.
Players are assigned missions in which they must kill all opponents in the area; many of the levels conclude with a boss battle. Along the way, players, collect weapons, armour, money, and other helpful items.
In its first week on sale in Japan, the game sold more than 342,000 units.Phantasy Star Portable was the 14th best-selling game of Japan in 2008. Reviewer James Mielke of 1UP.com praised the game's replay value, and gave a score of A-.
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