Prince Rhys 83 wrote:A few weeks ago, I jumped on the Phantasy Star Universe train (all late I know, pretty much no online servers left for the series), and I'm playing the second game in the series on the PSP, Phantasy Star Portable.
You picked a good place to start. I did the same thing and started with Phantasy Star Portable. I played Phantasy Star Universe after I played Phantasy Star Portable, and I would recommend skipping it entirely.
PSP (Phantasy Star Portable) is a much better and more streamlined game. PSU has the structure of an MMO, with lots of exp required for leveling, forced crafting, and lots of meaningless running around.
PSP fixes these problems by making the leveling up process much faster, it drops crafting all together and you can get all of your weapons from enemy drops, and the whole game is based off of a menu driven interface that allows for quickly traveling between planets, zones, and missions.
I didn't last very long playing PSU. I got spoiled by PSP. Both games pretty much cover the same story and content too, so you won't be missing much. The graphics aren't as good in PSP, but that's pretty much the only downside that I see with the game.