Welcome to Our Star Ocean Retrospective and Story Analysis. Star Ocean is the very first entry in the long running Tri-Ace series. One of the few RPG’s to take place in outer space. Star Ocean was first released on the Super Nintendo where it would be stuck until Square Enix released the PSP Remake Star Ocean First Departure. We will be taking a look at Star Ocean First Departure R for this Review. As with all of my other reviews this will also serve a A Star Ocean Story Analysis as well as a review. Join me as we take a look back at this fun and ambitious game to see how it holds up.
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*Time Stamps*
► AN AMBITIOUS RPG 0:00
► PARTING WAYS (DEVELOPMENT HISTORY) 2:00
► A PIGEIEON TURNED ME TO STONE 7:57
► BASICS OF BATTLE 17:55
► LOOKING FOR FRIENDS 20:23
► SKILLS AND CUSTOMIZATION 24:44
► ASMODEUS THE ARCHFIEND 30:02
► THE WASTELAND OF FARGET 35:21
► DEEPER MEANING 44:09
► IS STAR OCEAN STILL WORTH PLAYING 52:10
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Holy fuck star ocean!!!
Hey its been awhile! I hope all is good and glad to see your most recent video is on Star Ocean. I love the franchise and hopefully SE will get serious about supporting Tri-Ace and SO after the release of SO2R (which looks to be very promising both sales and reception wise). I really enjoyed The Divine Force, I just hope we keep getting SO games from Tri-Ace.
I really like how they genre clash Sci-Fi and High Fantasy, it is really unique. Also for an action J-rpg series it really doesn't hand hold, there is a strong relience on abilities (especially passives) and skills (item creation). I think 3-5 have issues with micro-managing party memebers in combat but I had no issues with it in SO6. Overall, I think SO respects its players knowledge of rpg systems and is a more core experience for J-rpg fans compared to say the most recent FF entry.
I still remember the first time True Figure played in SOFD, everything was relatively tame before then but once Sakuraba's synth keys start going off its starts getting crazy, a point of no return. Good times on a real PSP.
The first Star Ocean game I played was the Second Story on PS1. It was the first game I played with a crafting system like that. The story was also epic with a pretty good twist in the middle. I played that game multiple times and loved it. I played First Departure on the PSP when it came out. I beat the game and enjoyed it but didn’t find the characters and story to be as engaging as Second Story. Great retrospective, keep up the great work!