Phantasy Star Universe Review

Console : Playstation 2
Genre : Action

Prologue

A great sample of an action game by SEGA, on this game we play as Ethan Waber who live in era where human civilization has greatly advancing and live in another galaxy called Gurhal Systems. In these Gurhal Systems there are a sun surrounded by 3 planet, each planet resided by a kind of human race. They are CAST, Newman, and Beastman. After a long wars between this 3 planets finally an era of peace was born. But after arround 100years era of peace a new threat has occurs on gurhal systems and this is where the Ethan Waber stories began.

Gameplay

There are two variety of gameplay in Phantasy Star Universe, story mode and free mode (I forgot what exactly this mode section called). In the story mode we play as Ethan Waber and his adventure on Gurhal systems, in free mode we can make a charracter through 4 different race : human, CAST, newman, and beastman. For additional information : a saved character in free mode can be used as your main charracter on Phantasy Star Universe Ambition of the Illuminus. On gameplay we take a control a character and go through various mission, each mission usually need additional tool/equipment to complete. A good point of Phantasy Star Universe is their weapon customization, party form and character building.

Weapon Variety

Just like a regular weapon there are 3 type weapon: range ,spell and melee (This reminds me of DotA-allstars games ^_^ ). For melee category there are sword, 2 handed sword (big sword or what it's exactly called), double sword, dagger, claws and spear. Each has it's unique character, for example dagger has a weak attack their attack speed and combo are really good and for 2 handed sword they are slow but wide range attack and really powerful. Next for spell casting weapon, we can choose rod or long rod. If we choose normal rod we can still use 1 empty slot for other weapon but we can only use 2 kind of spell. But if we choose long rod we can't add additional side weapon but we can use 4 kind of different spell and usually powerful but take a more time to casting spell. And the last for range attack there are gun, twin gun, rifle, laser cannon, machine gun (actually it's like sub machine gun), and shotgun. But on gameplay I prefrer rifle than the other weapons, because of their long-ranged attack and good accuracy and damaged.