Phantasy Star Bursts into Japan!

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<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - July 8 2004 - 4:09 PM ]</font>

<P align=center><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><EM><IMG alt="Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst" hspace=0 src="http://www.ragol.co.uk/uploads/pso_bb_logo_big.jpg" align=baseline border=1></EM></FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><EM>Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst</EM> has landed in Japanese stores, as the formal service starts today, the 8th of July 2004, one week before the game was planned for release!</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The </FONT><A href="http://psobb.jp"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><EM>Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst</EM> website</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> (</FONT><A href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&amp;url=http://psobb.jp"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">English</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">) has had yet another make-over for the new release after Beta testing finished on July 5th.</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For those able to get a copy, the servers are now up and running (From 15:00 Japanese Time today)&nbsp;so you can start enjoying straight away! Here's some of the features you can look forward to initially:</FONT></P><UL><LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Normal, Hard, and Very Hard modes.</FONT> <LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">15 Govenor-general based Quests (<EM>Episode I</EM>).</FONT> <LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">11 cases of Guild Quests (<EM>Episode I</EM>).</FONT> <LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">26 One-Player Quests (<EM>Episode I</EM>).</FONT> <LI><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">18 Labratory based Quests (<EM>Episode II</EM>).</FONT></LI></UL><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><IMG style="WIDTH: 94px; HEIGHT: 125px" alt="Blue Burst is here for Japanese PC's everywhere!" hspace=5 src="http://www.ragol.co.uk/uploads/pso_bb_packaging.png" align=left vspace=2 border=1>All the features that were available during the BETA testing of Blue Burst are also available (You can find them in the Article <EM><A href="http://www.ragol.co.uk/articles/EpluAlEluZBYNZTaEz.shtml">'PSO: BB - All the BETA'</A></EM>). Also in that article you will find details on Hunters License pricing and future aspects of <EM>Blue Burst </EM>including the new Episode&nbsp;&amp; Monster details which are to arrive online by the end of Autumn 2004! If few are not available, they will be soon! This includes the 'Game Master' aspects and in-game Moderators so you can be sure of having a good time! ^_^</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For those with the game also note that Server Maintenance is conducted by Sonic Team of SEGA Japan between the times of 14:00 &amp; 18:00 (Japanese Time) every Tuesday aswell as other various times that you will be notified of via eith the official </FONT><A href="http://psobb.jp"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><EM>Blue Burst</EM> website</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> (</FONT><A href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&amp;url=http://psobb.jp"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">English</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">)&nbsp;or here at Ragol.co.uk!</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SEGA remain quiet on American &amp; European launches of the game at this time.</FONT></P>