Phantasy Star Portable (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Phantasy Star Portable

Sega's long-running RPG goes handheld for the first time in North America with Phantasy Star Portable, a story set between the events of Phantasy Star Universe and Ambition of the Illuminus. Players return to…

67 3 April 2009

What Phantasy Star Portable is

Phantasy Star Portable is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Sonic Team and released in 2009. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sega's long-running RPG goes handheld for the first time in North America with Phantasy Star Portable, a story set between the events of Phantasy Star Universe and Ambition of the Illuminus. Players return to the Gurhal system where they join the new character Vivienne in an attempt to investigate and clear out an area contaminated after the perceived eradication of the alien SEED menace. Gamers can choose from a wide variety of options when creating a custom avatar, and then set about meeting new characters and collecting more than 150 items. Multiplayer fans can also join up to three friends for wireless co-operative exploration and combat.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are action and science fiction.

Where it sits in the Phantasy Star series

Phantasy Star Portable is the 29th of 51 entries we hold in the Phantasy Star series. The next entry was Phantasy Star Portable 2 in 2009. Its critic score of 67 is 4 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Phantasy Star Online at 90.

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How it was received

Phantasy Star Portable holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 26% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Phantasy Star Portable launched on 3 April 2009, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Guitar Hero: Metallica, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Guitar Hero: Metallica, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Muramasa: The Demon Blade.

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