History VideoGame / PhantasyStarNova

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Nova, the supermassive Gigantes encasing the surface of the true planet Machia.]]

** [[ResonanceOfFate Leanne/Reanbell]] is among the few special crew members you can acquire for the the Delta Valiant[[note]]Using the password "EoEreanbell" in the Cold Sleep Counter[[/note]]. She sports her outfit from her game and unique voice clips, and her voice actor is properly named in the credits.

* BossRush: "Last Date", an optional Quest unlocked by [[spoiler:reaching maximum friendship with Fildia.]] [[BonusLevelOfHell You have 40 minutes to slay every Gigantes in the game, boss and mini-boss alike, sequentially.]] [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard They're also all Level 102, higher than the standard level cap.]]

* NoExportForYou: Much like PSO2, it is not released outside of Japan and Asia. If you have a hacked PSP and a downloaded copy, there is an English patch available.

** Several of the last missions you unlock are actually arenas in which the objective is to survive for a certain length of time. Clear enough of the waves, and you'll come across a bunch of [[MetalSlime rappies]].

* ForcedLevelGrinding: Averted for most of the main game, as you aren't required to go out of your way too much. Played ''painfully'' straight post-update, as the starting recommended level for Super Hard content starts at Level 110, and there's a '''massive''' EXP gap between Level 100 (the original LevelCap) and Level 110, made even more painstaking by the lack of reliable methods of post-Level 100 level grinding. (It takes approximately 4 million XP to get to level 100. Level '''101'''? One million XP. It get worse.)

** Several of the last missions you unlock are actually arenas in which the objective is to survive for a certain length of time.

* ForcedLevelGrinding: Averted for most of the main game, as you aren't required to go out of your way too much. Played ''painfully'' straight post-update, as the starting recommended level for Super Hard content starts at Level 110, and there's a '''massive''' EXP gap between Level 100 (the original LevelCap) and Level 110, made even more painstaking by the lack of reliable methods of post-Level 100 level grinding.

* NintendoHard: Not for the main scenario, which can be completed without having to go out of your way too much. [[EndgamePlus After that,]] ''then'' the game starts taking itself seriously.

''Phantasy Star Nova'' is the second ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar'' installment for TheEighthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames after the popular {{MMORPG}} ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', and a GaidenGame to said title. It was developed by Creator/TriAce for the UsefulNotes/PSVita and published by Sega, and released in Japan on November 27th, 2014, and elsewhere in Asia on March 26, 2015.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything:
** One Quest involves leading a Galation though a network of walls so you can bait it to break down the walls for you. If you happen to defeat the Galation before completing the task, any walls that haven't been broken will fall apart automatically when you approach them.
** [[spoiler:After you receive the Morning Red as a reward for clearing Fildia's friendship Quest, it subsequently disappears from her grave, because it's in your inventory.]]

* LostForever: Defied with any of the special Partner weapons you can get from Lutina, Sail, Izuna, [[spoiler:and Fildia]]. If you ever wind up discarding any of them, you can do a Promise Order to acquire another copy, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation plot be damned.]] These Orders will remain even if you're holding onto one of the weapons, so you can potentially acquire multiple copies to customize.

'''''Phantasy Star Nova''''' is the second ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar'' installment for TheEighthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames after the popular {{MMORPG}} ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', and a GaidenGame to said title. It was developed by Creator/TriAce for the UsefulNotes/PSVita and published by Sega, and released in Japan on November 27th, 2014, and elsewhere in Asia on March 26, 2015.

* InvincibleMinorMinion: Sumara Kuritoro from "Hard: Exterminate the Source of Gran". Well, supposedly. Upon first encounter in Very Hard, they're a whopping ''Level 115'', about twenty levels higher than the recommended level for the quest. They have absurd amounts of health for a while... Unless you level grind a little, upon which you discover that not only can they be killed, they actually have ''less'' HP than an ''actual'' Level 115 Sumara Kuritoro. The game [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything accounts for this]] by then spawning another Sumara Kuritoro, this time with at least an additional thirty levels. However, this one is also entirely possible to kill, and still has less HP than the same enemy of the same level. This repeats until you've killed six, at which point they stop spawning. However, this is played straight in the Super Hard version of the quest, where the final level of the Sumara Kuritoro ends up being ''215'', and they only take ScratchDamage from anything, making them truly NighInvulnerable.

** The [[TitleDrop Nova]] series of weapons, which have the highest ATK in the game.

** The fastest way to increase RelationshipValues with [=NPCs=] is to just accept and complete cheap, low-grade Promise Orders repeatedly, then take a Quest to refresh the list and do it again.

* BossRush: [[spoiler:Fildia's]] friendship Quest, the final Quest in the game pre-update. [[BonusLevelOfHell You have 40 minutes to slay every Gigantes in the game, boss and mini-boss alike, sequentially.]] [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard They're also all Level 102, higher than the standard level cap.]]