News: Phantasy Star Universe beta final impressions

October 09, 2006, 01:24 PM

by brandon, via Sega -
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So as mentioned, I was on the PSU PC beta. I posted my final impressions here. Keep in mind I didn't actually play PSO extensively on any platform, so things that seem new to me may be old hat. Still, it gives a decent idea of the shape of the network portion of the game - note that the 'story' mode was not selectable in the advance beta. Naturally I advise that you listen to the theme song as you read. Unfortunately I didn't get more screens, completely forgetting the fact that the end of the beta would render my quest useless. Apologies for that! But here are some tiny pictures from the official site - Parum's fields look like this, Neudaiz's look like this.

Highlights of my impressions: You can hold two small weapons at once (saber/gun), and there's a first person mode for weaponry. Also, though I only mentioned it in the previous post, character creation/customization is quite good. Hooray!