Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
A cash shop sells real-money currency (AC) for cosmetics, fashion items, and convenience features.
New gacha banners appear roughly weekly alongside limited-time cosmetics and log-in event rewards that create time-pressure to participate.
Randomized gacha scratch tickets dispense cosmetics and items by chance using purchasable currency; no cash payouts.
Fast, stylized sci-fi action combat with swords, energy weapons, and guns against alien monsters and beast-type creatures; flashy effects with no gore or dismemberment.
Characters can wear skimpy, revealing attire such as bikinis and lingerie-style outfits; no explicit nudity.
The story involves a threatened planet, mysterious corruption, and monstrous invaders, handled at a mild, action-oriented level.
Combat includes fighting beast-type enemy creatures as ordinary gameplay; no emphasized cruelty or butchery.
The deep character creator and cash-shop outfits allow revealing and suggestive costumes, and Steam flags some suggestive content.
The game's own dialogue is clean, but open text (and voice) chat with strangers can expose players to mild profanity.
Who can reach your kid
What it is
Set on the open planet Halpha, this title casts each participant as an ARKS Defender who battles extraterrestrial beasts and mechanical foes through quick, showy combat that plays out in real time. It costs nothing to download and belongs to the online action-MMO genre. Everyone begins by building a character with a deep degree of personalization. Drawing players in are the robust avatar-creation tools, decorative outfit collections, and a personal 'Creative Space' plot to construct, plus team-based skirmishes and late-game boss encounters shared with others over the internet. The fighting is presented in a stylized manner and shows little to no blood. A voluntary in-game store is central, using gacha 'scratch ticket' draws that hand out randomized wardrobe items and, at points, augments that raise stats; fresh draws roll out at a near-weekly pace. Because everyone plays together online, the experience carries typed and spoken chat, individual storefronts, systems for adding friends and forming parties, and content built by the community, which means contact with unfamiliar people is possible. Both the personalization options and store-bought attire may look exposing or sexualized.
How it's framed
Participants are cast as valiant guardians shielding a world and its inhabitants from a corrupting menace, and the fighting reads as spirited, team-minded valor instead of harsh realism. The spending side is dressed up as wardrobe, personal style, and elective ease of play, yet the steady stream of gacha draws and augment offers keeps up a continual push to pay luck-based real currency for decorative items and, on occasion, added combat strength.
Details
- Developer
- SEGA
- Publisher
- SEGA
- Released
- Aug 5, 2020
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