SEGA Reveals Phantasy Star Nova w/ Single Player Offline (New TGS Pics Added)

[Railkune]

I'd laugh so hard.

[Sp-24]

Won't you feel like a badass swinging this baby around:

Spoiler!

[Railkune]

Heck no, that thing is ugly.

Honestly though, I'm getting pretty excited over Nova now. Not so much the game itself, but how they handle the battle mechanics and the story.

[Link1275]

Explanation for photon blades still working, they just condensed them into something physical enough to not need a continual supply of photons or a photon power source. ie, the blade is still there and sharp enough to kill stuff.

[Kilich]

I think it'll be much easier. Photon weapons, personal forcefields, potions and other prepackaged goods are independently powered, like turrets and gunship weapons.

But PAs and Techs are powered by ARKS member themselves. So if their ability to use and regenerate photon power without external devices was reduced, they'd be unable to use those.

Also, according to the guidebook, photon weapons were developed way before ARKS were created. Even earlier than Oracle was built.

[ShinMaruku]

You guys are thinking too hard on how photons will work on one planet.

[supersonix9]

You guys are thinking too hard on how photons will work on one planet.

eh, nothing much else we can totally speculate on right now I guess

[blace]

It's not photons, but alternative photons.

I'm out of ideas.

[NoiseHERO]

Was dragon ball z the only anime that didn't need to think up some invisible force that has to exist to give people powers if they trained?

Oh wait dragon ball z used chi.

[Kondibon]

"The player and crew make an emergency crash landing on planet where photons hold no power. Though at first the planet was thought to be uncivilized, the crew encounters a gigantic boss heavily adorned in artillery. Without the aid of the main fleet, the crew must now rely on materials procured on the planet to fight against the beast known as Gigantes."

I'm pretty sure the idea is that, it's justification for the crafting system and gameplay differences between PSNova and PSO2. And photons not working doesn't mean there can't be some other glowing magical stuff for them to use to make their weapons. The names of the weapons themselves are irrelevant. I don't know why anyone even brought that up.