Phantasy Star Universe – Multi-Planet Sci-Fi Boredom at its Finest!

Hey Sonic Team and Sega – the altruistic makers of this flop – did you not know that Americans don’t like games that have Japanese languages with shoddy English overdubs in them? Because that is most of the pile of crap that you will be subjected to with this universal science fiction flop—in what was attempting to be a epic thriller of a role playing game that offered the exploration of different worlds and planets, but just sucks really bad in the end. Namely, the inundation of the many different subtitles, that you must listen to in a foreign language and which cannot be turned off or skipped through, what the heck were they thinking?

The Anime style approach to graphics is poorly done, choppy and glitchy, so much so that I could not handle even beating the first pathetic level of this game where you are stuck in a crappy mall forever and there are only a few ways that you can go, even though this game is supposedly free world. And while there are some cool things that you can do inclusive of ways that you can build your character up in this Japan-animation styled world, it does not take away much from the overall suck factor.

“Bad graphics, poor controls, horrible narrative and subtitles galore, not to mention no plot, no concept in mind and a rushed production, all make for a garbage topper of a game that aimed to be a cult classic and miserably failed!”

My Score: 2 out of 10

See the Phantasy Star Universe trailer below