New Phantasy Star JRPG teased for mobile

[CocoCrispy]

The chronological mirage was such a tease in the beginning, and I got my hopes up that it would be a mobile experience I’d be on board with. There’s nearly nothing here celebrating Phantasy Star’s legacy besides the enemies. The characters look as though they were taken directly from another scrapped anime, and look generic. I don’t understand why Sega’s management has been so incompetent, it’s clear they know how to chase profit margins while ignoring what previously made their brand successful.

Perhaps the reason is because Sega lacks faith that there is an actual audience. They've deprived western fans of so much content in all the online titles. It could be some negligence on the team's side with the content that often lagged behind the JP version or outright didn't even include in PSO and PSU that bringing over PSO2 just didn't seem profitable in the long term. They could look at gaijin ship 2 and see how many people have played despite the hurdles of the language barrier, but besides that hub, the rest are mostly relegated to a single ships and a small population spread out elsewhere.

Sega has been in a rut for awhile. Granted all businesses want to make money, but I think if they satisfy the fans and appriciate their customers, they could potentially profit more. As I said, this is a good time to be a Sonic fan. And I'm sure we all know about the dark age his series went thru. We need more people like Christian Whitehead that get their foot in the door doing simple ports and eventually work their way up to Mania status. He tugged at my feels from an interview he did recently following Plus' release in which he said his team often joked about the potential for toying with a Burning Rangers concept. After seeing what he had managed to accomplish, I could trust him with something like that. Their team needs to open the doors for new blood to bring in fresh ideas. Like, for real.

[zandra117]

reminds me of phantasy star eternal hunters and eternal planets

[Selphea]

They should've either used the Shining IP for this. If they have such a hardon for medieval high fantasy perhaps make a Shining mobage and a Shining MMO instead of leaking it into PSO2 and creating this?

Alternatively make it a sci-fi game about a solar system with 3 planets and have neon haired space elves in black leotards using claw weapons, a blue-haired mage guy and a heroine throwing laser boomerangs. That'd be a Phantasy Star.

I don't get the cheap looking sprites that look like stick puppets either. They have the Virtua Fighter franchise, they have a bunch of games using 3D engines, PSO2 included, which they know inside out and have character bones and animations all sorted. If they wanted a 2D look just recycle the engine, use cel shading but keep the animations so that they don't look cheap.

[SteveCZ]

Star Ocean Anamnesis and Honkai Impact 3 were my expectations in comparison. They both have 2D illustrations and 3D models of the characters and real-time 3D combat. I expected too much.

Well hopefully this game works well and gives a better hope for PSO3.

[landman]

Well hopefully this game works well and gives a better hope for PSO3.

If a cheap gacha game works well, they will produce more cheap gacha games.


Edit: speculation time: Vandoll is ancient Ragol. There I said it!

[ArcaneTechs]

And now they've announced that Quna's class is a special, rare class...

Wait for it...

Bard

I'm looking forward to watching that movie again, RIP guitar guy

It's a sign ! Next class in PSO2 is going to be bard!
#Joke

the problem is in the interviews they said theyre going to get rid of the "Advanced Class" category and just have Hero and future classes bunched in as normal class so despite what it may be, this could be a teaser to a new future class but at the same time it's just wishful thinking. just saiyan man

[Vintasticvin]

If it's not coming to the west I ain't interested. Not gonna risk jacking up my phone to get my "modern" Phantasy Star fix.

[FantasyHeaven]

I don't get the cheap looking sprites that look like stick puppets either. They have the Virtua Fighter franchise, they have a bunch of games using 3D engines, PSO2 included, which they know inside out and have character bones and animations all sorted. If they wanted a 2D look just recycle the engine, use cel shading but keep the animations so that they don't look cheap.

but grand diarrhea became the biggest hit in the kusoge world by throwing together a couple shitty layers and calling the resulting mannequin a "servant". The sheep pay thousands of dollars for a tiny chance at receiving one of these rarities. The only things this doesn't have that the other does are timing and luck.

[Sirius-91]

If it's not coming to the west I ain't interested. Not gonna risk jacking up my phone to get my "modern" Phantasy Star fix.

You're not jacking up your phone unless you blindly install apps from some dodgy chinese website.

[zandra117]

speculation time: Vandoll is ancient Ragol. There I said it!

I thought the same thing when I saw that Vandoll has two moons in its sky.