One of my chief complaints about that game from my review last year was how all of the narrative is sequestered away to instanced conversations that you click through that have absolutely no impact on the game as a whole. When PSO2: NGS launches, I really hope the story is a bigger focus than it is in regular PSO2. After that, the language barrier wasn’t too bad. After logging onto a VPN to fool the game into thinking, making a Japanese SEGA ID, and using my phone’s camera with real-time Google Translate, I was able to fumble my way through logging in, patching, and making a character. Now, look: I don’t speak or read Japanese, but that didn’t stop me from playing the Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis Closed Beta Test last month. Previously, Sega has described the games as co-existing in “twin universes”, if that makes any sense. They’ll be interconnected, but still separate games, and the entirety of PSO2 is getting a massive engine update and graphics overhaul to put it closer to having parity with NGS when it launches. Play PSO2: NGS will co-exist alongside PSO2 (including the PC to Xbox cross-play features) and will even let you carry over your character, some of your items and skins, and so on, just not your actual character growth and levels.

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