Phantasy Star Online Coming To DS

Written by Kevin Alexander

Wednesday, 10 September 2008 07:40

We usually try to refrain from regurgitating the various news bits that float around all those other gaming blogs but this little cupcake just makes me giddy. Sega is bringing Phantasy Star Zero to the DS with full Wi-Fi capabilities! My main experience with PSO was on the GameCube and later on the Xbox and the loot whore in me loved the crap out of it. Having that style of game on a portable will be down right sweet. Below you can see a couple of scans from Famitsu and hit the jump for more details.

Here's the details from the 1Up news story:

Phantasy Star, a series that's found release on nearly every game platform of the past decade, is finally heading for the most popular modern console of them all. In this week's spate of Japanese game mags, Sega officially unveiled Phantasy Star Zero for the Nintendo DS, a brand-new game that takes the series back to its online roots and offers full-on Wi-Fi multiplayer to a degree that's never been attempted before with DS RPGs.
The general premise of PS0 is unchanged: choosing from a variety of character types, you charge through action-RPG missions and fight bosses, either by yourself in the single-player story mode or with friends on multiplayer. The game's in full 3D and looks beautiful, but the multiplayer mode is undoubtedly going to attract the most attention with PS0 -- it allows up to four players to form a party and complete Hunter missions, either via local wireless or full-on Wi-Fi connection. Communication will be handled by word balloons, with you drawing messages on the bottom screen PictoChat-style. You'll be able to save these monochrome word balloons for instant retrieval during battle, suggesting that players will see some serious works of art akin to the loony emoticons seen in the Phantasy Star Online games.
PS0 is due to hit Japan this winter; a US release has yet to be formally announced.

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