In terms of questing, there aren’t a ton of available quests, like in PSO2. Urgent Quests and the higher-level content require that you have at least 1184 Battle Power, and earning it can be a slog if you aren’t cognizant that there are some hefty meseta (in-game money) costs to leveling high rarity gear, and you start to feel the leveling curve once your quests run dry. In NGS you’ll be held back by your Battle Power if it isn’t high enough for some content. In PSO2 you could head to the quest counter and run almost anything, even on a lower difficulty if you had to. Battle Power is most closely related to a gear score, but it also takes into consideration how many skill points you have, and your class level. One substantial change to the leveling structure is Battle Power. Once you earn these skill points, they are available for both your main and sub-class, and any additional classes you end up swapping to later. Completing these quests, which have a suggested minimum battle power requirement but otherwise can be done at any time, will reward you with skill points that increase your Battle Power once you pick your skills from the skill trainer. In order to progress your class trees, you'll need to complete Cocoon and Tower quests, which are pretty much mini-dungeons. Level design is straight forward, with one major caveat. In NGS, leaving the safety of Central City organically puts players against all manner of enemies they will have to overcome to progress through this new world. In Phantasy Star Online, players would sidle up to a quest counter and pick from a steep list of biomes to travel to. Probably the most notable stand-out feature is the presence of the open world. Yes, the new shiny visuals go a long way to bring the game into our current generation, but these enhancements only take New Genesis so far. New Genesis is more than just a graphical update of the aging game, Phantasy Star Online 2. It’s a wonderous and beautiful landscape, if it weren’t for that pesky perpetual war with the DOLLS. I selected a Ranger as my main class, and moments later, my descent onto planet Halpha began. It’s important to note that, while the 6 available classes, Hunter, Ranger, Techter, Fighter, Force and Gunner, aren’t new classes, the skills and skill trees have been revamped, which makes the experience while playing them completely new. Phantasy Star Online 2, after nearly a decade has introduced 13 classes to the game, but NGS allows you a selection of 6. Once you’ve outfitted your character, you then move on to selecting your class. Unfortunately, when bringing some characters over from PSO2, NGS can only put so much lipstick on those pig features, and some of the hair models still look pretty jagged and not nearly as fluid as the gorgeous feathery locks made popular by the NGS teaser trailer. Graphically, the game has been enhanced substantially, and some of the hair and face models look leaps and bounds ahead of the blocky textures of the original. Custom skins for weapons and clothing can also be easily transferred from the old version of the game to the new, a feature that I was glad to make use of after collecting plenty of cosmetic options since PSO2 global launched. The changes to sex and race are completely cosmetic, and there are few restrictions on what you can actually do. This was a fantastic change, as I was finally able to keep my human body, while outfitting myself with a fashionable CAST head. For starters, there aren’t exactly male and female labels, only masculine and feminine options, and while there are characteristics of some of the races in PSO2 such as Humans, Deumans, CASTs, and Newmans, you can mix and match features from each of these races to create your own unique hybrid. The character creations screen will be familiar to any gamers that hopped into Phantasy Star Online 2, with some modest changes. If you’ve transferred a character from the original version of the game, you’ll be happy to know that all of your cosmetics will transfer, and even some of your weapons, albeit at a far lower power-level than the original game. By now, you’ve already created your character, or transferred a character from the previous version of Phantasy Star Online 2. In Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis ( PSO2: NGS) you’re graciously welcomed to Halpha when you crash land and get pulled from the wreckage by Aina and Manon, two new friends.
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