STAR OCEAN

There's actually six Star Ocean games. There's two that came out for the PSP.

Yeah, they're just remakes of 1 and 2, so I wouldn't really consider them "New" games.

I'd almost consider them "new", considering 1 wasn't released in the west, and the 2 update seems to have improved on things A LOT. (cough cough, Claude's voice...)

No way man. Part of the charm SO2 had was the hilariously bad VA work. Sure most of the localization needs work but not the VA stuff.

And its not Tear into Pieces it's PEARS TO PEACHES.

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Remember Blue Sphere?

That game had amazing graphics for a gameboy color game.

Part 3 was really good, but when that last part with the final story twist was really degrading... that's when I really got dissapointed, but overall I loved everything else about the game.

I never really bothered to play Star Ocean 1... I checked it out in the emulator, but never really have drawn my attention to actually sit down and play it through the end. I was replaying Star Ocean 2 a couple months, but stopped to play suikoden II, then I beated that, and haven't gone back to play it again even though I'm almost done with the first disc.

Well if you are a fan of the series, I recommend you get the PSP ones, they have fixed some things, and added extra stuff, plus the game looks slightly better in graphical terms, at least part 1 though.

Haha Star Ocean 4 is so weird, man. It's a good game, but really only because of its battle system and the expansion of the space theme. That, and you literally have to put 12 hours into the game before the story picks up and gets pretty good. It's such an unfriendly game, but it's good if you get past that and the female voice acting (excluding Reimi). I think it's better than SO3, and on par with SO2 only because there is much more variety in the environments due to the increase of the whole space theme (and good gameplay).

They did such a horrible job on the dungeon design though. They are enormous and there's nothing interesting going on in them except for annoying puzzles. They don't even give you hints on how to solve the puzzles, and you usually have to find some dumb items in order to get through some areas. Also they messed up on the item creation by making it only available ON YOUR SHIP. That's so dumb, you don't spend ANY time on your ship in the game. And to access it again, you have to backtrack so much (no teleport skill). I'm on Roak, and I really don't want to go back to my ship for this.

I like what they did with Roak, though. They did a good job on tying this game with the older Star Ocean games. The familiar tunes are nice as well.

What is with the plot twist near the end of the first disc? Did they seriously do that? YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONES, really now.

That's the thing I really liked Second Story but Til the End of Time was just so bad I could only force myself about halfway through until I just said "Fuck it" this game is just plain shit.

If you are playing Star Ocean for the writing then you are playing Star Ocean for the wrong reasons. The best Star Ocean would cut out those damn hour+ long scenes and go "You are in space. Have a space ship. Fly around. Do shit." because any plot or story or characters in a Star Ocean game are as interesting and engaging as somebody having fun with an electric pencil sharpener. The gameplay is what I know Tri-Ace for.