CAST - Behind the Circuit | PSO2 / NGS Lore
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- The Lore of PSO2 - CAST - Behind the Circuit
Here, we explore the origins of CASTs in PSO2, as well as explore their predecessors in previous Phantasy Star games!
0:00 Introduction
0:54 What is a CAST?
1:11 Pre-PSO
1:59 PSO/PS0
2:32 PSU
3:28 PSO2
5:06 Real-world parallels and closing
Before someone points it out, yes, I realize Xiera isn't a former fleshie!
And I also realize that my Risa coloring isn't 100% accurate!
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A mild solution, would be to write an autobiography before becoming a Cast, including your thoughts and feelings about becoming a Cast, and having a trusted person either hand it to you after the processing, or find a way to download it into your new mind. You won't necessarily feel any attachment to those memories, but it will make the change a little easier to deal with.
Interesting angle! I like it!
Just wanna say that not all CASTs are doomed to get the memory loss problem, since Maria, Regius, and Lucotte all retained their memories, among others
My CAST avatar would like to speak to you.
@@PeaceEllen Uh oh
Regius and Maria too, they remembered fighting alongside Atossa and Wolf.
If i can live longer, i have no problem being a cast as long I'm cute.
Can't really argue against that.
imagine on your dead bed, the guy making your coffin come up and said "hey would you like to become either a human-size Gundam or a sexy robot maid ?"
if your answer is yes, then you will become a CAST
I'd rather keep of what's remaining of my humanity...
So a sexy maid will do just fine.
Becoming a cool-ass Mecha as my second life is better than being a cutesy-patootsie girl shell with an organ of a man.
Despite the downsides, I'd probably bite the bullet and become a CAST, since the memory loss is a very negligible downside, and the sanity thing, seems to be a pretty rare issue as while I have only recently gotten back into Phantasy Star with the NA release of PSO2, I think Risa is the only example of a "insane" CAST.
Depends, if I could finish up my life first, once I start getting old and tired, and maybe I could keep a record of my past life, or have people I know and trust guide me after conversion.
That being said if it was possible without memory loss or other mental issues I would 200% go for it, cast my flesh aside and embrace the durability and endurance of steel!
The memory loss started to be phased out at the turn of the new century. Thanks to technological advances, photon sickness could be detected and treated earlier, creating a breed of both combat and civilian CASTs, the latter of which would be easily upgraded to combat upon the individual's request. Older casts like Regeus, Maria, Risa and KIREEK were prone to mechanical failures and random reboots if not properly maintained. None of these issues were possible to cure as crucial files on CAST conversion procedures were destroyed, possibly by an internal entity within ARKS.
being a cast doesn't seem so bad the memory loss is acceptable to be almost immortal and defend people losing memory seems like a good deal in most scenario's
I always saw casts as more like dreadnoughts from Warhammer 40k.
I think it would be cool to bring some sort of grim dark parts for the casts.
1:59 Actually the terms "CAST and Android" are interchangeable in PSO and "Android" is what the CASTs were called in PSIV with Forren Wren being an Android in contrast to his cyborg predecessor, Shiren Wren. I think this distinction is pretty important as while CASTs could use techs in PSU, they were still androids and not cyborgs like Shiren Wren and the PSO2 CASTs.
Okay thank you
I swear in one game, I think it was PSO Episode 3, the CASTs actually decided "Android" was a derogatory term, which I found interesting. Heck the rise of the term CAST is interesting because it comes from the weird abbreviations of PSO1 with characters called HUnewearl, FOmar, and RAcast, much of the playerbase just sort of adopted "CAST" as a term because it was shorter than Android. It's also amusing because I'm 90% sure the name comes from Dreamcast since that's the system PSO was on and all that.
Hmm...maybe I should make my own CAST video sometime since Phantasy Star Zero switched me from a Numan main to a CAST main thanks to Ogi and Lindow being too awesome. There's a lot of unique quirks to the race that have appeared throughout the series. I'm particularly fond of how in PSU, the CAST planet DIDN'T become a machine covered polluted wasteland but basically a giant freaking nature park because the CASTs actually CARED about nature and the planet.
@@GELTONZ "I think it was PSO Episode 3, the CASTs actually decided "Android" was a derogatory term, which I found interesting"
Didn't they favor the term "humanoid" over "cast"? Also "cast" in PSO wasn't actually capitalized now that I think about it but PSU started a trend where it was, not sure about Zero though.
"It's also amusing because I'm 90% sure the name comes from Dreamcast since that's the system PSO was on and all that"
Seems like a bit of s stretch to me. Wouldn't "cast" as in a mold, like the "cast" in "die-cast" make more sense? At least in PSO and PSU anyway, in PSO2 it's more like a "full body cast"
"I'm particularly fond of how in PSU, the CAST planet DIDN'T become a machine covered polluted wasteland but basically a giant freaking nature park because the CASTs actually CARED about nature and the planet"
I mean there was the whole Chernobyl area on Parum but that wasn't specifically tied to the CASTs.
Yup. Was like their version of the N word
Being a CAST would be kinda fun... I didn't know the memory loss was a thing though. Thanks you for making this video! I love CASTS and have been begging for lore!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and I hope you have a blessed day! :)
The story I came up for my CAST in NGS reflects this. Her photon affinity was too powerful that ARKS would rather weaponize it, but in order not to risk dying, she had to get a CAST body to limit herself. She wrote her memories down and though her change was a success, it was at the hand of unlicensed black-market surgeons, which caused her have dulled emotions and act somewhat more robotically. She tries to make the situation lighter by often speaking like a robot with lines such as "You are being terminated, please do not resist." And such when a trial starts, but sometimes gets carried away, and makes those around her worried that she might be turning actually robotic and losing her upbeat, passionate self forever. Regardless, she remains a very powerful ARKS defender, now with proper control of her photons, and is no longer a danger to herself, and others around her.
Ah yes Risa best girl! Also i find it interesting that CASTs can still reproduce and birth humans/Newmans ect.
Best girl for sure!
wait-wait a moment... They can reproduce? How?! I thought they have their own minds, but mechanical parts. Is it even real?...
@@himitsugawa4226 if I remember correctly, the organic parts of the cast not used in the change are stored away. Can't remember where I read it though...
Thanks for another great video! Bonus points for Risa!
Had to give it up for the queen!
A small group of PSO2 fans that figured out how to make transforming casts
This June we can finally made risa and her outfit
PSO - CASTs didn't have access to traps until PSO v2. PSU - It wasn't just that they took over the government, they established a Cast supremacy.
I knew that but honestly didn't feel like it was worth mentioning.
Just watched this video and the end was very heartfelt. I hope you are doing fine at the moment.
I am, thank you! Thankfully the fires that were happening at the time didn't come anywhere near where I live.
I might go that route most likely haha.
But that's really cool..glad I got a refresher on this.
Risa one of my favorite Casts hands down. Kireek is the original Cast noteworthy for me. My Cast E-102 Gamma is more or less a Red version of him.
Now would I become a Cast myself? If the ones who were going to do it could make a digital version of my current knowledge as of now and with luck a digital copy of my memories in general that would be perfect.
If not, a journal of some kind to technically rebuild that would be fine as well, but either way, I'd do it.
I love Risa no mater who she is
1. Risa is awesome!
2. Early generation CASTs remind me a lot of Nikke with respect to the possbile mental instability from their conversion. Albeit, this seems to be a thing that can affect all Nikke regardless of whether or not they were mass produced from the start or converted from their now dead human bodies.
Cast me up baby and to hell with my memories.
Clank clank!
For my cast, it was VERY ROUGH. Dealing with the Falzspawns killing his first love, K-X's memories still haunted him even though he managed the transformation very well. Thankfully, he did ended up with a normal life afterwards, but got divorced since his last wife couldn't bear with his issues. However, he did have a daughter and she's living well during the classic series. So yes, Cyborg-based Casts CAN breed. Don't look too much into it.
Long life span who doesn't want to be Cast
Hell Yeah Cast
Certainly not without its perks
Why yes, I do play CAST.
Based and castpilled
Thought you would talk about Hi-casts too, although I can only remember Xiera talking about being one
I don't remember there being too much to them besides being purely mechanical and built for very specific purposes.
@@Zeomantic they are built with administrative prowress over photon capability and intended to reduce the number of people required for a certain task. Xierra was designed to take over administrative control, while Xiao was "off duty", as well as tending to the needs of the Guardians (being you and Matoi). The other is Ludmilla, who was tasked to help develop weapon technologies, specifically the AIS. This was due to the sheer amount of information that required to be processed and thus she would spend all her days doing research (notably asking ARKS about their experience with VEGA, and how to improve them further. and example is the introduction of "older tech" to use visual recognition as well as photon radar to track Luminmechs).
To summarise, the CASTs as we know were designed with Falspawn combat in mind. In PSO2, Casts have been made capable enough to support Techniques. High CASTs are designed with reduced or no photon capability but are living data processors. I wonder if New Genesis will make reference to this.
@@magic_cfw I think just about anything is on the table when it comes to NGS. This is a franchise that likes to take the space-time continuum, bend it over, and do very bad things to it.
Whoah! Awesome video, man! Did you try to create Risa in NGS? And what's the skin of rifle your character uses on the video?
Ranger's order. Glad you enjoyed it.
I wouldn't mind being a cast, but a humanoid one, no ball joints for me please.
you wont remember
Being a Cast is preferable to death. At least in my opinion.
Something I also wanted to point out/ask, there haven’t really been any Falspawn CASTs (Unless you want to count your character which then gains the guise of PERSONA.) any reason for this or have I missed something?
Not entirely sure to tell you the truth. Never give it much thought.
I believe most CASTs are full conversion cyborgs, often over 90% machine. however they used to be fully organic. Hi-CASTs like Xiera and Ludmilla are AI androids or gynoids constructed based on a combination of personalities.
Yeah I could totally believe that. Thanks for watching!
Does anyone know how to create Risa
There's a Japanese site with character files for NPCs and Risa was among those. Not sure if it's still around though.
So what I'm understanding is that a reason for CASTs to go insane is because of having memories from before they were CASTs? That explains Zephetto.
I think that was more the early kinks from the conversion process back in the day.
@Zeomantic oh, so by the time of NGS, it could just be that he lived so long and was so dedicated to his goal that he went nuts. Kinda makes him more like Lordgenome that way.
And with those organic components CAST's can reproduce, don't know if that's still canon but I thought it was funny bringing it up. I have a weird sense of humor.
they can use the DNA from any intact organic parts (notably the brain)
@@magic_cfw Okay I know cloning is a thing but I don't think that's what they use it for.
@@Gat720Dua i think it was in one of the original artbooks it was mentioned, but the subtext is that they take the DNA, inject it into a reproductive cell and tada, Baby Juice.
@@magic_cfw Ah okay, I was thinking more a "grown in a tank" kind of thing.
Haha delete this
I myself would only once I'm out of options
WAOW, look at the quality of animation of those cutscenes in Phantasy Star Universe, they really got lazy in PSO2... this is from someone who plays JP and at Ep.6
That was the intro movie where I'm pretty sure they didn't use the in-game engine. Fellow JP player here too!
@@Zeomantic Nice! Also, I didn't consider that just being an intro movie, I guess the those games didn't have much cutscenes that well animated afterwards?
They were okay
So can cast reproduce?
yes.
Yes, CASTs can do the do
My protogen ass playing CASTs in every single installment
Sanity is overrated, we must embrace the blessings of Omnissiah!
I literally made a Gundam banshee norn themed CAST.
It's a Gundaaaaaam! If there's one thing we can give Sega credit for, it's knowing the aesthetic tastes of its audience.
@@Zeomantic
Indeed indeed, it was made for new Genesis and indeed a ranger.
Badass!
@@Zeomantic
Thanks for enjoying it! It was something I thought would be cool!
I also ended up making the storm that is approaching for a braver.
I wish creators of phantasy star would focus more on single player games for consoles. I enjoyed the ones on psp, psvita, and what few came on playstation. We need more sci-fi jrpg for consoles, even with robot/android species.
There's Star Ocean but those games tend to be hit or miss.
@@Zeomantic Yeah i heard about that, rogue galaxy comes to mind. My brother and few friends loved it. But shame we dont see more like these games. Mixing sci-fi with fantasy can be a good blend if done right.
It's possible that Idola will get the Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded treatment.
It's Risa She Took With Red Eyes
Risa best gurl
Can't argue with that!
two words... fuck. yes.
Risa is best girl
Congrats #666!
I’d be willing to be a cast
Ya knowing that I’m a technophile I’ll most likely become a cast with no hesitation
Bleep bloop! Thanks for watching and have a blessed day! :)
@@Zeomantic no problem and thanks for the lore lesson when I got this game I was just like oh hell ya I can play as a robot let’s see the story behind them
Glad I was able to do that for you! :)
Would I wanna be a CAST at the cost of my memory and potentially sanity? Ye. Fuck this meatsuit. I'm more useful as a durable metalman anyway.
I'd be fine being a cast but the newer less memory loss/psycho variant.
Wouldn't sound like such a raw deal then.
cast cant use technic
*become phantom*
gotem
The magic's back
PSO2 CASTs are cyborgs like Shiren Wren, they can use techs no problem.
Bro just extend their RAM issue solved
LMAO!
Why not be like Androids 17 and 18 but in Phantasy Star instead? lolol
There's an idea!