There’s no fancy name or logo for the latest sale that’s popped up on the PlayStation Store, but there’s a definite theme! If you happened to check in on your PSP or PS3 last night, perhaps while you were at home enduring a blizzard, you noticed that section of the store reserved for sale games was packed with Atlus titles. And not just a few Atlus games, the ones that were good but not really big enough to get fans super excited. Major games like Persona 3 Portable were discounted…

Sometime between today and tomorrow, you’re going to need to pick up a PlayStation Store card. Maybe two. One of those 2gb or 4gb memory sticks might be a smart idea too. Atlus has just announced its own Black Friday-sort of sale.Technically and officially, it’s The Atlus Super-Mega-Ultra 50% Off PlayStation Network sale, but let’s just call it the Atlus PSP and PS3 sale for simplicity’s sake.

From November 16 until November 29, 2010, 10 PSP games and 1 PS3 game will be on sale for 50% off of the normal price…

Now that 2009 has ended, it’s time to salute some of the exceptional game released we enjoyed last year. True, there wasn’t an avalanche of PSP games released, but many of the ones that did debut were high quality titles. Some of them may even be considered PSP classics when the system has reached its end and the PSP2 debuts.

Gamertell is ready to pay homage to what we feel are ten of the best PSP games released in 2009. They’re all familiar titles, many were even among the most popular releases for the system last year. So read on, and see 10 2009 PSP games that deserve special honors…

I’ve had the good fortune to be playing Class of Heroes for quite a while now, and I’d like to think I’ve familiarized myself with the game. After all, I’ve never had a party completely wiped out in a labyrinth, and it seems like my players are dying less often than they were when I first began playing.

After a while, I realized that some races were better for beginners than others. Yes, every race has its pros and cons. I couldn’t help feeling that I would have been a bit more comfortable knowing that certain races were sturdier, with better innate skills, than others and that some majors were more useful when just beginning the game…

The nostalgia factor is strong in Class of Heroes. It, like other Atlus games The Dark Spire and Etrian Odyssey, is reminiscent of a time when first-person, dungeon crawlers ruled. For the most part, you imagine your own story, motivations and personalities for characters. While there are missions to accept and complete, there are no grand goals. It’s more about growth and exploration. Discovering every nook of the dungeons, engineering god-like warriors and forging all sorts of useful equipment.

The tragedy is that many people are going to shrug off or condemn Class of Heroes because they don’t understand it and aren’t willing to put the necessary time into playing it. If you’re expecting to jump into the game and conquer the first few classes within the span of one or two hours, you’re doomed to fail. Class of Heroes is a good game, but only for players willing to take their time playing it…

Gamertell recently received the opportunity to take part in early registration at Class of Heroes’ Particus Academy, and eagerly dove back into the school experience. Atlus’ forthcoming PSP dungeon crawler takes place in a school setting, where players go through classes and take assignments exploring a labyrinth as adventurer training.

As I began my new school career, I decided to chronicle my first impressions of life at Particus Academy.

Class of Heroes starts with players being inducted into Particus Academy. You meet your homeroom teacher, Ms. Yuno, and listen to Principal Feinman’s brief welcome announcement. After that, you are sent to the Faculty Office to register your students.

Upon arriving at the Faculty Office, I saw that a nice selection of 10 premade students, four with advanced majors, were available to choose from. As a bonus, each of them were level two characters and came with 100 gold in pocket money.

However, when a game touts having 500 character combinations and lets you have 100 characters waiting in the wings, you don’t want to go with premade. I wanted to make my own! So, I decided to begin with a neutral, human female named Jenni. To keep things from getting confusing, I’ll refer to her as CoH Jenni…

Thank goodness for companies like Square Enix and Atlus – otherwise the PSP wouldn’t be getting any love. Atlus has just announced another PSP game in addition to Hammerin’ Hero, Class of Heroes. So on April 7, 2009, another dungeon crawler is going to emerge on the PSP, adding to the already admirable RPG library.

Class of Heroes is being grouped onto the same division as Etrian Odyssey by Atlus, which means that you’re going to need a lot of time, patience and perseverance to get the most out of the game. In it, you’re going through missions/assignments in order to try and graduate from an adventuring school…