| dib8rman said:
1. Music – The music is very nice, at times ambient at times discourse it really sinks in, there are times where they remixed PSU music in and I didn’t like that, I don’t want to be sold PSU, don’t even want to be reminded of it.
2. Graphics – Visual presentation is like Tales of Symphonia 2, where it’s passable for what it is. But definitely not bad, Sega did superbly with this game graphically.
3. Offline Content – All there, I’m not sure if I’ve explored everything actually but there is about 80 hours of offline play as there are three different stories.
4. Online Content- Again it’s all there, this is the best console online experience I’ve had well actually handheld experience, I’m putting this up against even PSN. Maybe because my standards were so low from all the years of Friend Codes suck. The game is meant for Online, without friend codes you can still play in free matches with up to 4 others. You can check off the areas you’re willing to go to and difficulty and the game will find others in queue with identical prerequisites and it doesn’t take very long… for me anyway.
5. Online Content With Friends – This is where the game shines, the chatting works great if you are keen on the idea of drawing emotes with words attached. You don’t have to draw them all the time, I’ve had a few people steal my emotes V_V. Anyway the game allows you to add other players without inserting Friend codes on the fly (just 2 clicks). After that the game pings you when players get online while you’re doing runs. So if you’re just doing free runs cause no one was online the game lets you know they are on and their connections status (lobby, waiting for party, doing run). In the end the online is great. You can trade items and all that good stuff and keep in mind this is a DS game.
6. Game Play – It’s PSO if you don’t know what that is… I can’t describe it and keep this short so I’ll just say picture Diablo 2 minus the devil and the totally gothic climate. The game has around 80 hours of game play in it minus the tower which is a time black hole (it sucked the sink in it).
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1. The music is forgettable.
2. The graphics are nice. It's too bad they couldn't be bothered to give you more character customization options. Painting the models and letting the player pick the color scheme would have been excellent.
3. I hope there are 80 hours in this. My RAcaseal is at the first neutronian furnace and at 6:24. I feel like the story is almost over.
4/5. The online is mediocre. There's no option for campaign co-op so you can't playthrough the story with another person. It has the same problem as AC:FA in that you need to unlock stuff to play it with others but then it's kind of like "Why bother?"
There's plenty of teleportation when playing with others too. Every so often my friend will be randomly attacking on the other side of the map and hitting enemies right next to me. I know swords have long range but they're not that long.
Honestly, the best online multiplayer experience on the DS is still probably Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes in Time.
6. I'll take that a step further. It's Diablo 2 without the epic feel. In Diablo 2, you mow down THOUSANDS of monsters with ease. Enemies charge at you and blow them away. In Phantasy Star Zero, you run at enemies, poke them, and run away. It's an okay aRPG, but Diablo 2 it is not.
