NGS killed the game, like literally

party system is clunky and weird, menus are odd and uncomfortable, interface needs massive cleaning up. installed to play with a friend, took over 2 hours to do so, only to not be able to go into the same areas. fun enough game play, and solo im sure it could be, but for just wanting to play with a friend its a pain in the rear.

I wanted to play a fun action open world game with my friend so I re-downloaded. Though apparently every new area has to be unlocked with it's own particular story mission (which I totally understand).

Unfortunately, I'm forced to play every main new area mission locked in 1 player because the developers didn't want to take away from the story.. they could have just hide your friends avatar in the cut scenes and scaled levels when your part of a party.. but I guess not...

I just wanted to play Phantasy Star again for the fun real time action with my friends, not for a "meh" story line which forces me to play solo more then not when starting out. Move sets are fun to pull off. Unfortunately that with some other small positives does not justify the faults this game has.


Not recommended if your wanting to play from beginning to end with a friend.
This is more of a (complete the main story on your own and do side quests after the main game quests are finished with your friends) type of game. Weird that this open world multiplayer game is better suited to those used to playing solo and matchmaking rather then playing with friends - 6/10

I am quite literally ADDICTED to this game.

An fun RPG type MMO made by Sega A lot of things to do in the games grinding and such But once you get used to it it's really fun and comfortable to play!

tl;dr NGS is fine, not fantastic, it needs like 20x the content it has and some form of endgame loop to be good, but ultimately base PSO2 devolved into bad balance and lobby sim too so until we get an ep4 server with no advanced ("successor" in EN, I guess) classes and some level of augment control it's the best EN is gonna get.

People who say this is a step back from original PSO2 are right to some extent, but those are also people who probably didn't PLAY original PSO2. People will sit around and miss the """good old days""" of ep6, but having played on JP since beta, advanced classes ruined the game worse than NGS ever could've. So badly, in fact, I'd personally argue advanced classes alone are responsible for the rushed port to EN and the existence of NGS. This is why they turned summoner into something less jank, and took another crack at luster (gunslash) with slayer, but don't have advanced classes.

People are just salty that they can't spam megiverse to get out of jail free with their ridiculously overtuned "advanced" (see:braindead) classes and mega-affixed 8 slot gear that has +300 of your given attack per piece for a total of +1200 attack (an entire weapon's worth). Yes, I know you want to hit 999,999 on every attack. No, that is not good for game balance. Reminder that they had to actively limit the damage cap on things because people were hitting it so frequently. Original PSO2 is incredibly busted too and even Sega was able to figure that out.

I for one still remember the ep5 days where multiparty class list read like:
Techer / Ranger / Hero / Hero / Hero / Hero / Hero / Hero / Hero / Hero / Hero / Hero.
This is how we got here.

Do you really think it's COINCIDENCE that they remade summoner/luster, removed advanced classes entirely, and remade the augment/affix system FROM SCRATCH in NGS? Oh yes, Sega, the people who traditionally do more work than they have to (or any at all really) for absolutely no gain or reason. Sega has sat on their hands with content in NGS but magically decided they needed to remove and remake a bunch of stuff?

People also say PAs are dumbed down since every class only has four of them, and that's fair and all, but you people were spamming the same two PAs on original PSO2 just fine (or one if you're a hero main!), the difference is that there are less things you weren't going to use anyway in the list. This isn't really any sort of change. Yes, sure, it's unfortunate that nearly everything is main class only now. I agree that this is a really boring change. But considering literally every class was fury stance hunter sub with 5 in iron skill so you never die, I guess I see why they did it. At least that's what I WOULD say if advanced classes could have subclasses, and they can't, which is even MORE boring.

As someone with a frankly depressing amount of time on JP, NGS isn't perfect or even great, but compared to ep5/6 it's a miracle. They had to do this because of how much they royally screwed up in terms of letting affixes spiral out of control and the fact that they made horrendous choices with massively power crept classes. I get you think phantom took skill or whatever, but fighter existed, and before they decided to add limit break insurance even got punished sometimes. At least on NGS, you have a limited amount of heals and can't just hit the megiverse button and deal 999,999 to get everything back even with healing reduction.

I pray to god they do not add advanced classes here. Just add more things on the existing ones and do not make more ultra busted garbage to try to get players back. I don't want to go through the era of heroes spamming rising trash over and over again forever or TMG left clicking for the entire emergency/urgent quest. I know Sega doesn't learn lessons but I hope some divine stroke prevents them from doing the same thing all over again.



... side note:
if you say phaleg is a skill check and you use an advanced class to clear it
I will find out where you live, tie you to a chair, and electrocute your balls until you explode.
my brother in christ she's got a 50% damage resist on your weapon in phase 2
this is a problem for all classes that are not advanced classes except fighter and hunter I guess but hunter sucks.
just because you can swap to some other braindead garbage on your handholding shortbus class does not mean you passed the skill check
they did not exist when phaleg was released and her design makes that clear
you are already getting handheld by having 15* gear and 100 cap, if you use an advanced class in addition to that then pretend you actually beat it you belong in a mental institution

Definitely recomend at least giving it a shot.

Edit: Just tried base pso2 THERES NO WAY PEOPLE THINK ITS BETTER LAMOOOOO its insane this community is actually butchering there own chances at succes by constantly trashing ngs for being worse than base pso2 then i actuall try them and ngs is so much better its insane.

I know long time fans arent happy with ngs but from what I can tell the game has been improving its systems and grinds. The combat is really good I love using timing counters and big bosses are cool but the combat does kinda break down during mob spam, too many lesser enemies can ragdoll imo resulting in some frustrating expereiences but overall im enjoying it a lot still seems to have a pretty good playerbase. The thing im mayhbe most worried about is the fact that this is a Sega game which sega has really not had the best track record but only time will tell.

In terms of P2W is has a lot of the "systems" but most of it really doesnt matter, you can get SG for free and even if all you get is the bare minimum from doing ur weeklys you will have more than enough to pruchase storage passes and premium season passes. Realisitcally the main money sink is the cosmetics. Even then the premium pass is a half cosmetics and you can manage without storage passes for a good while. Ive used up about half the free storage and because almost everything stacks my storage space has mostly stabalized.

Action RPG focused on parrying and countering with good customization.
Tldr. Not bad but not good.
It's all right to play once in a while; the game keeps updating anyway.
The game does not compel you to play or pay, so you can simply join and relax whenever the update interests you. They want you to do that anyway.

What you should know is that the game is quite big, and right now, the developer team is small. So, expect updates to be slow because Sega thinks this game is doing fine right now for some reason.

On the positive side, the developers seem to understand their game(patch notes, adjustment) and you can obtain everything in the game just by playing. The community is welcoming, and there isn't really any excessive grinding in the game, at least for now.
But It's frustrating that the update is taking so long, leaving you stuck with the same gameplay and classes.

The worst part is that, from what I understand, only Global players are yapping, but Sega only cares about Japan which is doing fine I guess.
They do receive a feedback from Global and implement it, but still..

Great customisation, meh game

Great game, hove the different weapons, and photon arts, if only there were more technique and photon art variety. on the plus side there is lots of content it is a great game to start playing as of 2024.