Nothing too incredible... Unless you can read Japanese... The "World of PSU" page was updated to add race info... About all I got out of the update was... sillouhettes of 3 new characters! But... that's not really exciting I suppose...
Anyone want to translate the new pages? There might not even be any real news there...
Well, we can learn something from the silhouettes. The Beast next to Leo is very probably female, which means we can put one fear to rest.
Funny how the human page has two males instead of a male and a female like all the other pages. XD
It's even more funny because in some videos which show pieces of online gameplay have female humans present; they could have put a female silhouette instead of another male, but go figure.
But anyway, I like the Cast section for one reason, it shows the male silhouette as being something more "mechanical" and "square" (a bit RAcastish if we wanna call it something) than the offline game Cast we're used to see in pictures, which is too "human" for my taste.
That sure puts one of my fears to rest, that male Casts are not just human looking, but they can also look like the good old RAcast style (or something similar to it at least) with thin/"athletic" proportions (I hate RAcasts with broad-tank-like shoulders, just not my thing).
Right now, my only "leftover" fear in relation to Casts is if they can have complete helmets which cover the human-like face (like PSO's RAcast and HUcast heads), since the silhouette doesn't really show that, just the shape (kinda reminds me of Virtual ON's Apharmd's silhouette).
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Yeah, it's good to see the more PSO-style silhouettes for the Casts. I want to recreate my RAcast in PSU, so this has made me a lot more hopeful. He does look quite Virtual-On-ish, which could work very well.
The male Newman silhouette looks quite ceremonial as well, so those wanting old-style Forces should also be happy.
Would be good if someone could translate the background sections for the 4 races, as it looks like quite a lot of information. I'm hoping it would shed some light on the 'sub-weapon' ability that the Casts have. It must be quite significant if it's the equivalent of the Beast race's transform ability.
That cast looks too much like a RAcast ... not that I have anything aginst RAcasts, but I hope we'll get to choose to make them NOT look like them.
-drools over keyboard- I'm looking forward to see how the male newman turns out O_O The costume seems extravagant that's for sure lol
From PSO Ep 1-4 to PSU, PS0, PSP 1-2, and now PSO2... it's been a long journey.
The cast reminds me a lot of Megaman
I wouldn't worry too much about appearances... I get the feeling we'll be able to do quite a bit of what we want in the end... I personally don't think anyone will be let down with the character creation system...
Very interesting hints at chars to come!
I bet what they are doing is introducing the new NPCs that stay with you throughout the plot this way. So this is like our new "Bernie" "Sue" and "Kireek". Since they did a male & female of each type in the last games, and had each one be an active NPC (except RAcast, who got dumped on) they're probably doing the same thing here.
Anyone who says not to worry is likely right, because by all means all HUcs did not look like Kireek by any means, and same with RAmars failing to look like Bernie, despite their limited clothing/hair switching ability.
Their boxy cast is probably there to offset the very humanish Renvolt Magashi and way the heck too humanish Lou. Gilliam was very wide, and Kireek was very not. The people look like they're trying to display as much range as they can to keep the NPCs interesting.
But what are those trailing things on beastgirls' head?
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