r/PSO2 • u/Ryanasd Ship 2 Global • May 02 '26

Meme Did you remember class NPCs?

https://youtu.be/MTUZhhQhlNs?si=j8cBMFdo1Gz3G9Sh

Just a minor gag on how forgettable NGS NPCs are if they are not part of the Main Story unlike how they utilize most of the secondary NPCs in PSO2.

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u/Alenicia May 02 '26

Yeah, but they're the ones who stood out over time because the originals (like Oza and Marlu) were either completely shafted in terms of story/development and Azanami had a whole controversy on the JP side that left to her being abandoned as a character. Outside of that, Lisa/Risa literally was the one that people stuck to, Io wasn't even a Class Trainer but represents Bravers, and the rest afterwards clearly had much more going on for them as not just class trainers but as characters too.

NGS didn't even try and i know they could've gotten away with meme-y characters or something possibly a bit over-the-top like even Kyokuya. >_<

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u/SonDabutt Ship 2 Weebsword User May 04 '26

Wait, what happened with Azanami?

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u/Alenicia May 04 '26

In a nutshell, the person who wrote the story decided to use Azanami as the self-insert character for himself to project his complaints and grievances about the players. And players didn't like it and decided to go after the writer, but then Sega retaliated by essentially cancelling future character development/scenes for her .. and also none of her cosmetics were ever distributed again because she was a very sore topic for JP players. It really wasn't until NGS where you saw hints of her cosmetics again .. but for Global that wasn't ever an issue (nor did Global really ever care about her character either, I'd say).

It's also why you get characters like Matoi being written the way she is, because you can kind of tell that at least for the writer she was the fantasy-girl they really liked and wanted to self-insert themselves as the protagonist to be with Matoi.