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I am not going to lie about this that I have a weird case then to repetitive games. I am aware that they are but I still enjoy them also for their other aspects. For example I can see why Persona 3 can be like that since you go to a tower that has alot of floor, the backgrounds change barely and not to mention the daily routine of the social links. However I really enjoy it for the concept, story is really neat, the social links draws you more into the game, and the battles are fun to play with countless Personas to collect. Another one is the .hack series, it’s definitely repetitive and it doesn’t help that the areas are about the same upset for the environments but I found it have an engaging story, nice illusion of playing a MMO, and I find the gameplay to be addicting. Why am I mentioning this? Well this game tested me on repetitive in games and this is the first game I regret playing.

The plot has our character( which you create into anything you like) join the GUARDIANS and your first task is to discover the mystery of some machines that went loose. A CAST named Vivienne joins you in this mission. During the mission you found this woman called Helga which your party thinks she made the machines loose. There has been attacks over sites around the galaxy that may be related to this. You and Vivienne go to the other systems searching for Helga, while having allies that help you in your path and finding why these recent events are happening.

If you have data of this from the demo, you are able to send the save data to the game. At character creation, you can pick on what race you want to be if you want to be a human, newman, cast, or a beast and customize your own character. At one of the sites you are on, you are able to shop at the many stores for your items, weapons, armor, add ons to your equipment, more clothing for you character, and a update shop to power up. A feature at the GUARDIANS Colony is the room where your robot/parent is there. At your room, you are able to take or put items into storage, game achievements when you a title playing through this and you earn items as well. It also serves as a dressing room to change your appearance or your robot’s parts. Also at GUARDIANS, you head to their headquarters often for details on the next missions and assigning your teammates.There are two types of missions, the story missions that are self explanatory, and the free missions that each one can be repeated and there are other levels you can do for that mission for more items.

At the field, you are able to switch your weapons and items by using the action palette for quick access. Every weapon has a different effect to any enemies depending of the element of your weapon, it may do some big damage or not much damage. Each place usual go about 2-4 tiers which you defeat a certain enemy or a boss. At each place before a boss, you are giving the choice of healing yourself at a device or using a PP device to restore your weapon’s PP. Each type of weapon have a photon art which can be linked to your weapon for a powerful attack which can be leveled up the more time you use the art.

At this point, I wasn’t able to go online to try out the online features, when I do. I will add it on here.

For the good and the bad of this. In the good, it does have a nice selection to customize your character. You are able to switch weapons for different uses which is nice and the ability to switch classes is also a good addition. The voice acting in the story is decent on the most part while their was one I swear sounded bored during this. The game is fun to play for a few hours. Now for the bad, the story isn’t anything special and it can be boring at parts. A minor complaint is there is noticeable lag during the single player mode as it’s start to slow down due to the enemies on the screen. Now for my big complaint that kills this game for me is how it gets way too boring. It has a repetitive feel that is very noticeable in the gameplay. The difficulty is easy on the most part as you could spam the crap out of you photon art and also the only parts that are hard is some bosses and the final boss. The music is their but it is forgettable on the most part aside from the catchy theme song when you put the game in the PSP. It doesn’t help at all that the missions are the same objective, just kill this one enemy. Seriously, why can’t there be other missions you don’t have that objective. At least the quests in PSO doesn’t involved to just killing things. Some you have to find things, and some you have to help this random person out at a certain area for something. This makes the gameplay feel very old and just tedious to play that their were a good amount of times I wanted to turn the game off. Now let’s get into the AI of your teammates, it is horrible. There were times I was attacking and they just stood there or moved but did nothing and they die easily. Sometimes they even get stucked at a pathway for no reason. For lockon wise, why can’t spells count for targeting? You have to fire at it randomly on the area hoping that it hits.

Overall if you like Phantasy Star Online or Universe, you may like this. For those are doubtful they is a demo to check out if you are interested. Honestly, this can be a fun game to play but the overall feel of repetitiveness kills this for me with other issues making this a mediocre game and this is coming from a guy that like games like the ones I mention on the first paragraph. It may be best to do a rental on this.

5/10
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Added by LordDarkrai
11 years ago on 15 September 2012 21:54

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