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Message: [QUOTE="Ikagura, post: 38693, member: 6930"] Rad, Sega were too good for this world. I would sound annoying but I do love the minimalistic narration Online chose with Rico's logs and the optional sidequests in single player. It gave Online's world an "aura" where you had to actively search for bits of lore and use your imagination (because of the technical limitations of an online multiplayer game made in the year 2000). PSU also has lore (regarding the war of 500 years + 100 years of peace as well as the RELIC sites from the Ancients that were guarded by STATERIAs and the antagonistic SEED) but it also overdid the narration by giving us a Saturday morning/Shonen story about a rookie who becomes a GUARDIAN because his father was also one before he passed away. I don't hate Ethan but I didn't connect with him (and his father issues) compared to my silent protag Hunter who was sent in what was basically a black operative mission about finding the daughter of what is basically the president on board of the ship you were in while officially you were just "investigating" after the enormous explosion. Take a look at this major side mission: Soul of Steel, it has a lot more story and added some lore bits [MEDIA=youtube]9M9q0Qc2MV8[/MEDIA] As well as Seat of the Heart in Episode 2 (shame they didn't add more quests to that) [MEDIA=youtube]tBOOFT0xmYY[/MEDIA] There are even optional parts for these so you could come with a different ending depending of your actions in another side quest, it's quite a lot of attention to detail from the Sonic Team even if you could ignore these. This quest is less important lore-wise yet still has a good story about an older Cast model wanting to find back her master after he threw her out of Ragol [MEDIA=youtube]cmxy4OhbcTQ[/MEDIA] Ambition of the Illuminus is where the story became more interesting but then again, being a 2007 video game, it went towards an edgier route with Ethan [SPOILER]becoming an anti-hero [/SPOILER] which is surprisingly a good character development from being your typical shonen protag. I can agree that Phantasy Star has always been edgier than Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest (as Sega was always pushing boundaries) but sometimes they may go a bit too far. PSO2's first three episodes were fine I guess but then Episode 4 was an isekai with your typical anime tropes (like a bath scene) which made me not believe what I see... This ain't Phantasy Star there, it's just a Multiplayer Online game taking the popular brand instead of being its own thing. And before you're asking at least the original PSO still had some DNA from the original series like PSU with the 3-planets Stellar System. [/QUOTE]

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