Photon Arts!

One of the special characteristics in the battle system that you will come across is a feature called Photon Arts (PA).

This is the notion that characters can ‘learn’ techniques and these can then be linked to weapons in order to activate them. To put it simply, they are special attacks you can freely equip your weapons with from one PA to another, and enhance them as well.

Specifically, when the Photon Arts of combat weapons ‘skills’ are raised, the character jumps and leaps, and pulls off flashy special actions that do not seem like they are from an online title.

Since there are so many types, you will be at a loss to choose your favourite ones.
The reason we created Photon Arts was that we wanted to motivate the player to strive to use, and improve, whatever techniques they have! Among them there are many funny ones that we think you won’t be able to stop laughing at!

In Phantasy Star Online (PSO), the actions of the player did not change even though they were equipped with weapons that were at a high level. We basically thought we would like you to have a feeling almost as if, ‘I want to move like that player!’ By making motions change gradually we hoped to improve the feeling that these moves were earned.

Not only are Photon Arts eye-catching but it is essential to decide when and where to use which ones. They have a tactical importance too! The more you use PA, the more powerful and impressive they grow to be. So there is another tough, but fun challenge ahead of you in working out which PA you are going to upgrade next!

Battling through the Features!

There are three main basic policies in the battle in PSU, the first being the battle scenes. Fighting has become truly eye-catching to the extent that you can recognize it at a glance compared with PSO.

You can now also engage a player or AI opponent in combat in various ways:

• By using the many weapons tactically with Action Palette.

• Make attacks at both short and long ranges with a sword in your right hand, and a gun in your left, and make a wide-ranging attack with two-handed weapons.

• Visually stunning and refreshing actions realized by Photon Arts. In addition you can upgrade these to be even more impressive and powerful!

• Shoot at weak points of boss characters in the first-person view.

• Action aspects that lets you aim at and hit the enemy with a direction-fixed move.

• Huge boss enemies have become even more impressive, both visually and in terms of how you defeat them!

• Up to six players can enjoy battling through the game at one time.

Phantasy Star Universe - Coming Soon

Welcome to the PSU official Blog site. We will be taking you through all the best aspects of PSU with the help of the developers of the title themselves, Sonic Team! To begin with and for the first time, we have translated the official Japanese blog that comes directly from the team themselves

In the first of these we'll be taking you through the many aspects of the game. In addition to this we have been given exclusive access to Sonic Team for constant updates. So if there's something you like to know, feel free to add it to the comments page and we'll see what we can do!

All the Best
The PSU Team