Demo Reaction Thread

[Ryna]

If you've downloaded the demo, share your thoughts and observations in this thread. Use the Countdown thread if you are having downloading problems.

[Akaimizu]

Nice it works. You do need official firmware, at this time, to run it.
It allows you to import a character from the PSP1 save. I used my japanese PSP1 save for it. However, while it gets your name and selected PM and such, you're likely going to have to go through the whole character creation process just to get your character look back.

[Volcompat321]

I'm still in the character creation, and I have to say, I'm amazed.
I love the creation
I'll post more about how I think of it, later.

[GrimmDaReaper]

Wow, and I thought the human class looks sick. But the newman class male ehem kinda shits on it in a manner of speaking. Newmans look too awesome.

[Volcompat321]

Voice acting seems a little better.

EDIT: PSO BOXES

[Akaimizu]

It's pretty easy. I pretty much already figured out most of it. It is interesting what they switched. The Select button is now used to pull up the Chat macros. We all know that there's extra settings to set up auto-responses your character does when certain conditions happen.

Otherwise, it has most of the same controls as the previous game. You now have 3 lanes of the weapon/item palette, though. However, the 3rd and new rightmost palette lane (the ability to switch armors) must be navigated with the D-pad. Thankfully, control-wise, and menu-wise, it keeps everything familiar, but mainly adds on what was already there.

The guns having the charge shot is nice, but also note that Lockon is universal now. So yes, gunners and techers can now lock on an enemy and moving around will circle strafe facing them like in Phantasy Star Zero.

To dive roll, simply hold the Strafe trigger (L) and while holding the direction you want to roll, tap the pickup button (O for this Japanese release). You can roll in 8 directions, even diagonals are valid. Just be careful, at least to lower-level weapons, the PP cost for dives are much greater. So you don't want to go crazy with them.

[Amherst_Wind]

Holy cow, these new haircuts are epic.

[Volcompat321]

CAST's look awesome!

L and o to dodge!
And I guess from transferring my data from the JP game, I got a weird white circle aura thing.
It's pretty interesting. Does nothing special, from what I can tell so far.

[Akaimizu]

And oh, by the way, there's something else. The select button *Used* to be used to go into first person mode. That is now accomplished by holding the L-trigger (strafe button) and tapping the D-pad. Tapping the D-pad, while that is held down, will toggle first person mode on and off.

[Amherst_Wind]

We should catalogue which type from PSP1 gets which effect unit, apparently its decided by what type you were when you transferred to PSP2.