Phantasy Star Online 2 Announced

Sega's live stream from its presentation last night at the Tokyo Game Show produced an interesting image. The Phantasy Star community had been speculating about this for awhile, and recent developments had seemed to indicate it was coming, but it's now official.



Phantasy Star Online 2 is on the way. Right now the game is announced only for Japan, and PSU GM Edward stated as much in the new official PSO2 forum, but I think it would be absolutely ridiculous if the game did not eventually make its way to the West.

As of now, the game is scheduled to be released in 2011 for the PC. Some preliminary details of the game were translated and posted over at fansite PSO World. Based on the information provided, it almost seems as if Sega is looking to blend the best elements of PSO and PSU into a single game, which is something the community seems to be clamoring for. Apparently, PSU gameplay elements such as item synthesis and photon arts will also be making their way over to PSO2, although significantly overhauled (according to the translated information). It will be interesting to see how that works.

This announcement seems to have gotten the community very excited, as you might be able to imagine. A discussion of the new game is underway over at the new Sega PSO2 forums. Obviously, there's still a long way to go before anybody gets to play anything, but this is certainly a great start!

Oh, and so long, PSU.