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| Publisher: Sega | |||||||||||||||
| Developer: Sonic Team | |||||||||||||||
| Genre: RPG | |||||||||||||||
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Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst (ファンタシースターオンライン ブルー バースト) is an enhanced PC port of the game Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II, developed by Sonic Team and released in Japan on July 7th, 2004 with a US and European digital release on June 6th, 2005. The game was also the first time a Phantasy Star Online game was released in mainland China with the game being released on January 18th, 2005 and operated by ZARVA.
This was the last update to Phantasy Star Online before focus shifted to Phantasy Star Universe.
Contents
Story
Episodes I & II
Being a port of the original game, Blue Burst allows players to play through the Episodes I & II storylines present in previous releases with the content present in previous releases being accessible by making a One-Player Party, however unique to Blue Burst is the Government Quests in Episode I available from the new NPC Momoka and Lab Quests in Episode II from Nol Rinale (previous seen in the Episode 1 quest; Journalistic Pursuit). Government and Lab quests act as a retelling of the stories seen in Episode I and II in a more story-orientated manner; as individual quests to investigate the various areas of Planet Ragol after the disappearance of Pioneer 1.
Episode IV
In addition to the content in Episode I and II, Blue Burst had its own story expansion released called Episode IV accessible by creating an Episode IV party and talking to Momoka. Taking place prior to the Phantasy Star Online Episode III C.A.R.D. Revolution, the story sees the player character returning to Ragol after being sent to investigate a meteor that had crash landed on the deserts Ragol. Meanwhile a Military Organization named WORKS lead by a man named Leo Garhart are interested in the meteor and a substance contained within it. Episode IV also sees the return of various characters like Ash, Sue, Kireek and also Rupika (previous seen in the Episode 1 mission; Gran Squall) who seems to have some connection to the events going on.
Gameplay
Being a port, the game plays similarly to its previous releases with the player traversing a variety of areas on Ragol, fighting enemies to progress and fighting an end boss. However with the release of Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst, Sonic Team has made some changes to either improve on the game or make good use of the new server-side and PC capabilities. New features include:
- Unlike previous releases which had saved the game's data locally and relied on a serial code and access key to play online, Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst had players create an account with their character being saved on the server and associated with this account.
- Players can establish "teams" which works similar to guilds in other MMOs. Teams enable players in the same team have access to a separate global chat for team members to chat together in addition to a teampoint system which enables players to donate rare weapons for Team Points. Team Points are used to rank teams on a leaderboard and also act as a form of currency for Team Leaders to buy new features for its members such as new quests, dressing room to modify already made characters and a unique team flag, an image that hovers next to a player's name to identify what team they belong to.
- Items and Techniques can now be made accessible via the 1-0 keys via a hotbar as is common in other MMORPGs.
- New weapons, items and NPCs have been added to the game.
Downloadable content
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Promotional material
Press release
Physical scans
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External links
- Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PC
References
