Earlier today SEGA announced that Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to both North America and Europe sometime in 2013. Normally I’d tell you about the game but if you never played the original Phantasy Star Online then you are a very bad person. I’m not even an RPG guy and I can still remember all the hours I put into the GameCube version over 10 years ago.
Phantasy Star Online 2 is a bit weird, for starters it already came out on the PC in Japan last year. Android and iOS versions are on the way as is a Vita port so I’m wondering what happened to the more popular systems on the market?
“Phantasy Star Online was a revolutionary game when it was released, and we want to make sure that its successor in the series is every bit as ambitious,” said Chris Olson, Vice President of Digital Business at SEGA of America. “We look forward to introducing Phantasy Star Online 2’s unique, easy-to-access multiplayer action to the rest of the world next year!”
Over ten years have passed since the release of the boundary-breaking Dreamcast hit, Phantasy Star Online, and SEGA is poised to continue the Phantasy Star series’ multiplayer legacy on PCs worldwide with Phantasy Star Online 2. In the Year 238, the New Era of Light, players will join a new band of Arcs in the fight against mysterious D-Arkers, embarking on another epic adventure of infinite possibilities!
This doesn’t really sound like the massive comeback I was hoping for, maybe if SEGA decide to bring this to more platforms then I’ll start to get excited. I’d like to see a Wii U version, the gamepad screen would be great for handling all the menu based statistics amongst other things.
