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Personally I think it would be extremely boring if we did the timeloop plot again.

PSO2 did a different take on the concept than PSO but the Phantasy Star series has more to offer than just "Madoka Magika but less girly".

My gripes with NGS story is that because most players didn't bother with story mode in PSO2 (because it was optional), the devs overcorrected in NGS and stripped down the story to the bare minimum. But I partly blame that for the story delivery being needlessly convoluted during the first 3 episodes thanks to Matter Boards, to the point where people decided not to bother (Them going with a Quantity over Quality approach also didnt help. The current story mode removed like 70% of EP1-3 because it wasn't important, just needless padding).

What is there (in NGS) is good but we get so little of it that it's difficult to appreciate what is there if you're actively playing the game (new players play all in 1 go so the story feels much better paced). I really wish we'd have more frequent story updates, 2024 esp. felt extremely dry on this front.

I think a lot of PSO2's appeal for me came in part from having skipped everything since PSO, so PSO2 felt like an enhanced remake but also sequel. The main story beat of PSO is basically that you cannot save this innocent woman no matter what, and the repeated gameplay ties into the story -- constant confrontations with Dark Falz and Olga Flow are making them stronger. It's a bit of a proto-timeloop storyline. PSO2 is then sort of a reaction to the tragedy of Rico and Flowen; this time we ARE going to save the doomed sacrifices, and the gameplay is stated to be a literal timeloop, with the main character having time travel powers and one of the main enemies being the MC from a doomed timeline. And then ultimately we do save everyone and ride into the sunset with our undoomed girlfriend because we are so awesome ^___^ it hits really well because at this point we've been mulling over Rico's death (and maybe also Nei's) in our childhoods for like 10 years but now we've made the fix-it fic!

and I think that that's part of what NGS unappealling. We just did this and now it seems we're retreading the same stuff again?? honeshtly in general NGS feels like they're just throwing out make-numbers-go-higher content to keep the paying playerbase around. Phantasy Star is all about Dark Falz and tragic possessed girlies so idk what a PSO2 sequel could be about but it really would be more impactful if they made it about anything besides Dark Falz.........

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Love how this outfit complements my Hair Accessory~

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Who drew your icon? It's soooo cute!

@PatataTan on Twitter I love commissioning them, their art style is great! A bit pricy but great quality~

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What if Shiva managed to recruit the Guardian?~

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Rant

I feel like the internet has normalized being a hater too much. There are so many shows and movies in the past decade where people will make longwinded rants on YouTube saying "X is garbage and here is why" or "The absolute state of <Franchise>" or "Y is the the worst <franchise> movie" and then I go watch the thing and it looks either fine or the flaws in it are so milk toast that I honestly don't get where the hate comes from.

My page is PSO2 themed so you'd think i'm strictly referring to that but I'm not even doing that right now. I'm mostly speaking about stuff like Avatar, Star Wars, Pokemon and Marvel right now. I've seen so many videos on YT claiming The Legend of Korra is terrible and absolutely ruins The Last Airbender. The show is alright? Like yeah, the first two seasons have more bad than good but anyone saying Season 3 and 4 aren't Kino are lying to themselves imo.

With Star Wars people hated on the Prequel Trilogy for a whole decade. To the point where when Disney bought the franchise you could actively tell they were trying to distance themselves from that trilogy. But the people who grew up on prequels started sharing appreciation for it online and now we're arguably getting more prequel fanservice than Original Trilogy. And even the stuff that takes place after the Original Trilogy is slowly building the groundworks for the Sequel Trilogy to make more sense. And I don't doubt for a second in a few years that trilogy will have the same effect of late appreciation.

I was convinced people hated the recent pokemon games with a passion but I actually got Pokemon Scarlet for Christmas last year so I decided to finally play it last month and... The game is fun? Probably most fun I've had since Black 2 White 2? Yeah the graphics are shit but I never cared too much about that anyway. I still play games like Gothic 1 and 2 which were made almost 25 years ago and look like the polygons were made with playdoh because I enjoy the gameplay so much that I can look past the aging visuals. And yeah, I don't get the hate for PSO2 either. I play it daily for multiple hours. The game offers insane sandboxes for self expression so it baffles me seeing videos like "PSO2 is a disaster" when its the most fun I've had with a MMO since the initial "MMO magic" ran out.

With Marvel I get its hard to stay invested right now because the only decent plot thread we've had needed to be retconned but a lot of these "terrible" movies and shows are either inoffensively bad or just plain mediocre. How is that enough to make people go on a multi-video tirade on YouTube or a 5 hour long rant?

I genuinely don't get it. Why do people enjoy being miserable like that on the internet? I legitimately can't trust anyone's negative opinion online anymore.

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Didn't expect the skirt to be an ornament. This honestly sold the outfit for me~

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マトイちゃん by スタジオぽこたん [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

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LETS GO ARKS! KYU KYU!

This Cheerleader outfit is pretty cool ngl~ I decided to make it rappy colored since I thought in-universe people would absolutely cheerlead with Rappies as mascots! Also it's a fun call back to one of my outfits i used to have in Classic PSO2. On global there was a official contest in which you could win AC and I actually won with my SS where I was dressed as a rappy~

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Pyra Cosplay Sliders

My Pyra Cosplay isn't the most accurate thing in the world and I'm not the best when it comes to "Slidermaxxing" but I figured maybe someone would like to copy the work I did. Maybe someone can even use my sliders as a springboard to make their own (better) cosplay!

Some of these accessories are unfortunately very expensive. Mitra cloak for example is a SG item you'll have to scratch for in PSO2 Classic. Luckily it only takes 25 scratches but that's still 2000 SG down the drain. I don't remember where I got the First Approach Weapon Camo, it might've been from a seasonal event. I'm sure there are better, more fitting, weapon camo for a Pyra cos~

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My Pyra cosplay

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It's not exactly AI, it's just a really good text to speech program that I pay 5€ for monthly. I still write my video scripts myself and have to manually input inflections/voice effects and pauses to make the Speech sound less robotic (also the TTS fails to properly pronounce most PSO2 terminology anyway). It's arguably more work than if I used a Mic but I really don't like my voice so much to the point that If I had to stop using the TTS program I'd just do mute videos like the ones from Zulie The Witch. I also have a rather thick European accent which doesn't help the matter much. I understand it would feel more genuine though and I fully agree that it would. I'm glad you enjoy the videos though~ ❤️ I'm honestly surprised there aren't more people with the ability to give non-overtly negative criticism since I know Classic PSO2 wasn't a homerun during its first years either and I've seen YT comment sections years prior to Global PSO2's launch berating PSO2 with the same kind of rhetoric you see used against NGS, except it was from PSU players. Which is funny because from what i heard the weapon grinding system in that game was extremely punishing. I wonder if being a hater on the internet has just became too normalized these days... I'd rather share good vibes than bad ones. Sorry for rambling though 😅

Haven't used this account in a while... Wonder if I should dust it off...

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Haven't used this account in a while... Wonder if I should dust it off...

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why do you use an AI voice in your youtube videos? it's grating

Lets just say using my real voice would make them harder to enjoy~

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Commissioned art of Moofey from Meyneth

Commissioned art of Moofey by Meyneth from JP Ship 2. Check her out on X (Formerly Twitter) as well as her commission info.