STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R

If you told me we actually had AI back in 1998, I'd believe you. I refuse to believe this game was written by a human being, at least not one who has ever interacted with anyone. Every scene feels like it only includes 10% of the dialogue that was supposed to be present. The combat is also incredibly unengaging. It's interesting on paper but quickly loses any and all shine as it spirals out of control. The game likes to claim to have multiple endings, it even has the audacity to say it has 99 different endings once you complete it. In reality, it has 99 scenes that are 10 seconds long, based on whatever bonds your party has formed. These are not in any way interesting or worth pursuing. The only thing this game has going for it are its beautiful visuals.

Star ocean the second story foi o meu primeiro RPG jogado na minha vida até então era somente jogos de plataforma como mario e Sonic,mas em 1999 com meu primeiro play1 em mãos eu ganhei o meu primeiro Star ocean, demorei a entender muitas coisas mas aprendi a falar ingles jogando o primeiro no play 1, anos depois joguei o remake no psp e adorei mas oque eles fizeram nesse jogo STAR OCEAN R é uma coisa linda melhoraram oque pra mim ja era perfeito ... Personagens cativantes, lutas incriveis, se você curte um OTIMO J RPG jogue esse jogo... lembrando que até tem um anime tbm vale muito a pena!!!!!

This game is great! The OG ost is better than the remastered so I recommend that option. Get the right party and youll enjoy the learning curve.

The original was one of my favorite games when it was released and played through it multiple times. Without a doubt this has set the bar for how to make a faithful remake. Keeping nearly everything that made the game great, while addressing the parts that didn't age well or were never good to begin with. There are just so many quality of life improvements. Warping to places on the map, knowing when and where to do private actions, auto defeating weak enemies, the list goes on. Even if you just kind of liked the original, this is a massive improvement that will surely make you love this one.

Me ha encantado, la mezcla de 2d con 3d moderno. La BSO sublime. La historia muy buena, y rememorar este clasico con nuevas "actualizaciones" es un regalo ^^. Esta nueva versión no solo mejora visualmente el título con un estilo artístico HD-2D, sino que también actualiza sus sistemas de combate, exploración y calidad de vida, manteniéndose fiel a la narrativa y esencia originales. 🧬 Historia La historia gira en torno a dos protagonistas: Claude C. Kenny, un joven cadete de la Federación Pangaláctica, y Rena Lanford, una chica con poderes misteriosos. Tras un accidente con un transportador, Claude es enviado al planeta Expel, donde conoce a Rena. Desde ahí, la trama se desarrolla entre conflictos planetarios, antiguos secretos, y dilemas ético-científicos con un fuerte sabor a space opera y fantasía medieval. La gran particularidad es que puedes jugar desde la perspectiva de Claude o Rena, lo que afecta partes de la narrativa, las relaciones entre personajes y algunas misiones. 🖼️ Gráficos y estilo El estilo HD-2D combina sprites 2D en pixel art con entornos tridimensionales modernos, al estilo de juegos como Octopath Traveler y Live A Live (Remake). Este enfoque le da una estética nostálgica pero moderna, con bellos efectos de luz, animaciones fluidas y una ambientación muy cuidada. ⚔️ Jugabilidad Combate en tiempo real: El sistema de acción se ha modernizado, ofreciendo peleas dinámicas con combos, habilidades especiales, y opciones estratégicas como la “cadena de golpes” y el "Break" para aturdir enemigos. IA mejorada y control de grupo: Puedes dar órdenes a tus compañeros o dejarlos actuar según roles preestablecidos. Mundo explorable: Mapa amplio, exploración libre, secretos, cofres, y enemigos visibles. Sistema de habilidades: Uno de los elementos más queridos del original regresa: puedes entrenar habilidades como alquimia, cocina, herrería, y más, para crear objetos únicos. Relaciones y finales múltiples: Hay más de 80 finales dependiendo de tus relaciones y decisiones, incentivando la rejugabilidad. 🎵 Música La banda sonora ha sido reorquestada por Motoi Sakuraba, compositor original, con arreglos modernos y la opción de cambiar a la música clásica si lo prefieres. El resultado es espectacular, dando aún más emoción a los combates y momentos narrativos clave. ✅ Lo mejor Excelente remake visual que respeta el material original. Sistema de combate más ágil y entretenido. Variedad de actividades secundarias y personalización. Profundidad narrativa y sentimental. Doblaje dual (inglés/japonés) y subtítulos en español. ❌ Lo menos bueno Algunos eventos de la historia pueden sentirse anticuados. Aunque se ha modernizado, la interfaz puede ser un poco rígida. El “grindeo” puede ser necesario para algunas actividades opcionales. 🏁 Conclusión Star Ocean: The Second Story R es un remake ejemplar que equilibra nostalgia y modernización con mucho acierto. Es ideal tanto para los fans veteranos del género como para quienes nunca han jugado un Star Ocean. Una joya del JRPG que ha regresado con más brillo que nunca. Nota: 9/10 ⭐

This was an absolute blast! I never managed to finish the original, always got bored, but this remake with ALOT of QoL changes, made it so much more enjoyable but still being faithful to the original. It looks fantastic too. I love how the sprites pop out of the 3D background, it almost looks like a pop-up book. Positives: - Beautiful sprite/3D combo - The new character artwork is one of the best I've seen, with the exception of Bowman, he doesn't look laidback anymore. - Easily breakable in the most fun ways. You can cook some great buffs, create some broken iems, or you can work on your pickpocketing and steal the best armor in the game from your own teammate 20% through the game, and many more ways. - A lot of replayability. There are 11 characters but only 6 free spots, some only join if you started with a different hero, some don't join if you already have someone specific, but this also means... Negatives: - The whole main story resolves only around those 2 main characters, the others mostly just say a sentence here and there once they're recruited, but there are a lot of PA events to give spotlights to those characters, and you get different events depending what character-combo you have. - The overworld has a lot of stutter, mostly when enemies pop-out. The overworld doesn't look that great compared to everything else. - The arranged soundtrack doesn't do it for me, it also sounds like it's lower in volume than the original. Luckily you can switch between the Original/Arrangement easily. Overall this is my favourite remake for quite some while and I wish we'd get more remakes of old-school rpgs looking like this.

垃圾，屎中屎 这剧情真是从头吃屎到尾。前期女主一股绿茶小仙女味，动不动就莫名其妙脱队。男主纯舔狗，尤其是比武大会那里，决赛我不能操控男主，眼睁睁看着男主被一刀秒掉，完事后竟然被女主夸差一点就赢了，真的难绷。后期第二个星球的剧情更是槽点无数，流程也恶心，几个迷宫往那里一放，干完十贤者竟然就没了。后来发现自己打的是假结局，又读档把真结局给打了，然后就就几句台词的区别。一周目用的女主，发现男主的好多事情没咋交代，所以二周目选男主看看怎么个事，上来就没绷住，自己不听劝被传送走了，就这还少尉呢，二周目也别打了。 剧情屎中屎，战斗系统更是莫名其妙，既没有回合制的策略性又没有什么操作可言，最终boss就是各种什么神曲大洪水之类的AOE。。。也不知道这个作品为什么被吹得那么高，重制得还那么用心（这点还是要夸一下的，能看出认真做了），难道就因为有点可玩性的IC系统吗。别说什么老游戏就这样，我玩的老JRPG不少，第一次遇到这么烂的，白瞎我149块还有30个小时的时间。

Star Ocean The Second Story R is a remaster of the second Star Ocean game, with more beautiful graphics, rerecorded music and pretty much everything you would expect from a faithful remaster. The game looks great, the soundtrack is good and it mostly plays well. For a JRPG, it's also a bit on the shorter side - I finished it in about 23 hours, give or take. You can choose one of two characters, Claude or Rena, and try to save the universe from certain extinction by investigating a mysterious meteorite. There is not too much difference in the story based on who you choose - as far as I understand, only some cutscenes and flashbacks are different as well as one recruitable character. Of course, as in every JRPG, you will spend most of your time fighting enemies to earn money and EXP, as well as BP and SP. BP can be used to improve your characters' battle passive and active abilities. Passive abilities can trigger randomly or on certain conditions, and active abilities can be, well, actively used. Later several abilities can be linked as well. SP is used to improve specialties, which are essentially passive crafting or other useful abilities, such as Cooking, Familiar (to shop in Dungeons) or Music as well as many more. I like that system actually because it's creative and allows you to alter the gameplay in many different ways, from faster travel to battle buffs. Once the party has enough levels in certain specialties, you can even learn stronger compounding specialties, such as Crafting turning into Blacksmithing. Overall, the battle system plays very similar to the earlier Tales games, think Tales of Symphonia, with all the pros and cons this comes with. I do have some gripes with the battle system, though, because it feels very stiff. Playing as Claude, for example, you walk up into melee range to hit an enemy, and then are stuck in place while you attack. Some abilities have more range, but if an enemy is constantly moving, you will spend most of the battle running after enemies instead of attacking. Your ally AI can be customized a bit but it's also kind of stupid, often not attacking when you'd want them to, or throwing themselves headlong into attacks that could've easily been avoided. Stronger attacks also have their own cutscenes and while you can skip them, it only skips 75 % of them and the actual attack still plays, which gets very annoying for some of the later bosses and completely stops the battle momentum. Luckily, most of the game is actually rather easy (at least on medium difficulty), so most of the battles can be won just by spamming your strongest abilities and attacking enough to break the enemy, which then means they're stunned and take more damage for a bit. The battle system also has a lot of layers, even outside of battle, which helps a bit - equipment can be crafted to have factors (additional abilities for example), you can assign assault actions to have another character aid you in battle shortly by firing off one attack, there are different formations with different bonuses...etc. Still, the stiffness is annoying and it seems most of the postgame battles, such as the raid battles on the world map or the additional postgame dungeons, are really only difficult because enemies constantly move, are impossible to stun or alter your own movespeed so you can't keep up. It turns the battle system from a breeze to a slog, even on easier difficulties. Still, I can't help but like Star Ocean 2 regardless. The remaster is beautifully done, there are a lot of (more or less useful) systems you can engage with, the game has a good length and some interesting mechanics like friendship levels, 99 endings (which refers to just short cutscenes between characters, mostly depending on which characters you recruit and how high the friendship levels are), some mini games and it encourages exploration because of many hidden treasure chests or even recruitable characters you can miss out on, plus an additional challenge lists that grants you items for accomplishments. It's a good romp through the story, but I think some of the systems are needlessly obtuse and the postgame difficulty due to the battle system is a bit much. Overall, though, it's a good time and I definitely recommend Star Ocean The Second Story R for JRPG enthusiasts and lovers of good remasters.