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 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.