STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R

If youre not a fan of flashy combat that is all about looks with no real substance avoid. The game looks great and early combat was mediocre but not bad. Once you start fighting hard enemies or have to switch to spell casters... look out. The combat goes straight into the trash. I never played the original so I dont know how true the combat is but I really wish for the days of turn based JRPG combat. Be warned OGs this game does NOT have turn based JRPG combat. Its action combat and its VERY limited.

Foi uma experiência muito gostosa com uma sensação de nostalgia, foi meu primeiro jogo da franquia Star Ocean, o jogo me entreteu muito porém vou separar os pontos. Começando com sua história, a história começa de um jeito bem misterioso e vai desenvolvendo ela segue fielmente o tradicional Jrpg, você faz umas coisinhas bobas quando vai ver ta envolvido com Deuses e Divindades, ela é contada de uma ótima forma e a construção dela surpreende, porém é bastante previsivelm, não espere plot twist ou coisas muito complexas, mas ai que ela brilha as vezes o simples bem feito é muito bom ser desfrutado, foi uma ótima história. Porém a história só foca nos 2 personagens principais, os personagens da Party, não tem desenvolvimento algum, e tem algo que são ações individuais que são histórias totalmente opcional que você vê a história e atividades dos personagens do grupos, mas ainda sim é uma cada bem superficial e vaga, o que fez eu achar eles legais com ótimas personalidades, mas achar que faltava algo em todos. A ost é boa, nada de espetacular , tem algumas muito boas, mas são contadas a dedos, mas são gostosinha não enjoam, mas não é tipo ost que eu procuraria fora do jogo, acho que só teve uma épica. As missão secundarias tem poucas, e são bem simples até prefiro assim, muita missão secundaria sobrecarrega o jogo, o conteúdo extra, end game e opcional são pouco isso me decepciona um pouco, tem poucos conteúdos end game, o maior farm é de finais que tem 99 final e até level 255 e o replay dele é rapido. O combate dele me deu um mix gostei muitas partes, mas detestei muitas coisas também. O combate é um action, muito bonito e no começo do jogo muito bem cadenciado, é bem fácil se você jogar na dificuldade normal, não tem desafio algum se você aprender os sistemas então joguei na mais dificil para ter um desafio, porém ele começa bem e termina um pouco desastroso, conforme você e seus membros da party vão adquirindo skills, tem muitos numeros e animação de todos do seu grupo e dos monstros que você ta enfrentando o que faz várias lutas você não conseguir nem ver onde você está, apenas spammar botão de bater e ver se ta vindo dano. Os sistemas dele achei uma das partes mais divertidas, fora as skills de combates, tem life skills, que os personagens podem fazer como cozinhar, ferreiro, alquimista e etc, são muito divertidas e muito recompensador aprender esse sistema, dominar isso facilita o jogo bastante, sem isso acho que seria impossível algumas partes, então se tiver paciencia de estudar os itens e mexer neles, vai ser muito recompensador. O visual nem preciso falar esse Hd 2,3D ficou excepcional, muito lindo os cenários e cidades, todo lugar dava uma sensação de querer explorar e ver a beleza, os personagens são muito bonitos, e as animações de skills também. Agora esse jogo tem uma duração até bem curta pro valor dele, outros jrpgs na mesma faixa de preço tem muito mais tempo de jogo, não que tempo seja qualidade, mas realmente é bem curtinho, mas como ele é focado em replays para liberar os finais é entendivel, mas não acho que ele vale esse preço dele, ele ta mais caro que a versão dele mais moderna, acho que preço justo seria de 60$ pra baixo, mas ainda assim curti a experiência e mais futuramente espero conhecer mais de Star Ocean

最近のちゃんと力を入れて作られたリメイク作品。 スクエニは当たり外れが酷いがこれは当たり。

I just beat the game and. . .Wow. How the HELL is this overwhelmingly positive? Is it just from the people with nostalgia of the original? Well, I have no such nostalgia, so this is all face value. first, the gameplay. Nothing new here. . .Which, is to be expected, fair. You travel around from town to town getting gear and stuff to get stronger. Open treasure chests, get items you'll probably never use, rinse and repeat. I don't even know where to begin with talents. You level up, get experience, and then these points to invest in skills and stuff. Unfortunately if you want to unlock a certain talent, you have to invest points into some pair of OTHER things that raise stats. . .it's all just so needlessly convoluted. Why the hell am I going to cook? Why the hell am I going to duplicate items? Why the hell is "orchestra" a thing? And it's all just dumped on you. It wasn't until later that I even found out buying equipment from towns is just useless because you have to use a single character at a max talent level to just bonk ores and pray RNG gives you a good weapon. The combat. . .Is awful. It's just awful. When the enemies are too tough, chances are, it's because your gear sucks. Nope, you aren't going to read any telegraphed attacks, or bullcrap your way through, you're just going to have to either spam items, or pray your stupid teammates do SOMETHING differently than last time. And when the enemies AREN'T tough? Just mash the right mouse button....That's literally all I did. Played as Claude the entire game though. Sure, all the pretty lights were satisfying. But come ON. When you get excited when the enemies on the map turn green, and your "bodyguard" effect triggers so you can just farm insane amounts of experience without having to fight any longer, because the fighting is just SO TEDIOUS, there's a problem. Breezed through the entire game on normal difficulty. Will NOT be suffering through the story again for new game+ or hard mode. I'm not freakin' playing it on hard, because it's insufferable when the enemies are too tough, and a snoozefest when they're easy. There's literally no middle ground. Enemy variety is awful, they reuse sprites all the time. [major spoilers ahead] And the story, OH THE STORY. [spoiler] "...Rena?" "...Claude?" "Rena..." 'Claude...I" SHUT THE ACTUAL HELL UP ALREADY, JUST S T O P. They say the name of the opposite character WAY TOO MANY TIMES, it's such a small gripe, but OH HOW I HATE IT. Whatever, the story starts out innocently enough. You get sent to a planet in some accident, find a girl, are mistaken for a hero wielding a sword of light, blah blah blah. Everything is pretty decent up until the ten wise men show up. (Except for the fact that we're on a planet that doesn't appear very civilized, and yet for some reason there's an announcer with a microphone during the tournament you're scripted to lose, because I love being OHKO'd against enemies who take 0 damage for the giggles) So okay, you meet the ten wise men, and find out the sorcery globe is actually not the plot at all and actually the entire planet is going to be destroyed. And for some stupid reason, the ten wise men do not kill you immediately after discovery, no, we get teleported with them and OH NO THE PLANET IS DESTROYED NOOOOOO and now we're on a new "fake" planet, full of new people, I do not care about. Which is good, because the entire planet ends up getting destroyed anyway because the idiot in charge decided that "eh we're max level already might as well start a new game, all those families with children won't mind lol" so you get to this stupid fake planet, find 4 mcguffins that serve no other purpose than to info dump and be mcguffins, and then OH NO YOUR DAD DIES because his ship takes two hits from a laser and his first reaction is to FIRE BACK DESPITE NOT BEING ABLE TO TAKE ANOTHER HIT, his crew member LITERALLY TELLS HIM THEY CAN'T TAKE ANOTHER HIT and he's like "screw you" and ATTACKS SOMETHING HE DOESN'T EVEN SEE, INSTEAD OF, I DON'T KNOW, USING FLIPPIN' HYPERSPACE?!?!?! So ok he deserved to die because he's stupid and then after getting the 4 mcguffins, and then losing another scripted fight against the wise men, and then another character I met like once sacrifices herself like i'm supposed to care, and I have to get another mcguffin. . .only to get a weapon called the "Godslayer" which is worse than the weapon I have equipped in every way. But oh its fine now because now I have a stupid orb that lets me "get gud" against the infinity shields then ten wise men have. aaaand about an hour of gameplay later all the wise men are dead. They have their cocky talk, then a single line of "OwO u beat us?!?!?" later. ((also screw PA mode, why tf is that it's own mode, are you TRYING to make building relationships a chore?)) ok anyway you beat the main bad guy who uses something to destroy the whole universe, and then you uno reverse card it and it destroys this fake planet instead, because logic doesn't logic here. like seriously, the entire point of the plot ever since we got to this STUPID FAKE PLANET is to get the ten wise men's city or something back, (which is a tower, not a city) so they can have enough power to reverse time and bring the ORIGINAL planet back BUT THAT GOES OUT THE WINDOW BECAUSE NOW YOUR ENTIRE PLANET IS GOING TO GET DESTROYED aaaand then "it just works" and it's a swap. Fake planet gone, billions dead, new planet back. okay, sweet, can I actually play on the old planet aga- aaaand roll credits. 99 different endings?! No, you just mean 99 different 10 second cutscenes depending on what characters you've collected and WHO YOU'VE ROMANCED. I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS. WHERE DID DIAS GO? IT WASN'T EXPLAINED, SHE SAID WE WOULDN'T SEE HIM AGAIN AND SHE WAS RIGHT Like it is so POINTLESS the entire planet is saved, and NOTHING HAPPENS. Nobody cares about the sorcery globe any longer, nothing is shown. [/spoiler] I so badly want to refund this game, I am so ANGRY right now. What a waste of a story. I was expecting maybe a post-game or something, but nope. . .there's nothing more. I am NOT enduring this pain again to get any other endings, or finding any other characters, if THAT'S how the STUPID thing ends. It's horrible, because I feel with just a little more time, a little more thought, it COULD have been a good, worthwhile story. But MY GOODNESS it fumbled the bag HARD after those stupid ten wise men appeared.

나이 먹으니깐 스토리 집중이 안됨,, 갑자기 어 너랑 나랑 주인공인데 뭐 연애 안해? 이런느낌 개 뜬금 정말 스토리상 아무 뭐시깽이 없었는데 연애묶기 심지어 그업나 이쁜 마법사 누님 이름 생각안나는데 암튼 고년 내비두고 수수한 시골촌애랑 갑자기 러브라인 아무튼 다 떠나서 그냥 그런가보다 하는데 또 무슨 야 너 나랑 모험할래? 응! 이런느낌 반복 생각해보니 옛날 어릴땐 일본어로 뭐라 씨부리는지 몰라서 오히려 재밌게 했었나 싶기도 한 부분 사실 전투도 좀 노잼임 ^^... 게임은 아기자기한데 도저히 집중 안되서 웰친가 웰치스년 나오고 도저히 다시 못키겠어서 도중 하차함 스퀘어에닉스, 팔콤... 진짜 어릴때 추억으로 계속 게임들 사서 해보는데 어릴때 그 느낌이 안남... 나~~~아중에 다시 진짜 할거없을때 하던지.. 또 라이브러리에 쳐 박혀 있던지..

It's the greatest JRPG ever made, now with even more accessibility and fun changes.

3Dの背景やエフェクトと2Dドットグラフィックが融合した古き良き時代のRPGという感じでした。 通常RPGのようにLVでステータスを上げるほか、各キャラ自由に生産系のスキルを憶えることができ、店売りの鉱石から有用なアクセサリを作ったり、今持っている武器をより強い武器にグレードアップしたりなどとにかくやれることが幅広いです。 そうした生産系スキルを使うと最序盤から無限に資金を増殖させたり、終盤レベルの強力な武器を作ったりすることができるなど、その気になればかなり無茶苦茶なことが可能になります。 資金増殖の方法などは隠されているわけではなく、むしろ気づけと言わんばかりのサブミッションが用意されていたりするので、おそらくはバランス調整ミスではなく制作側から提示された選択肢のひとつだと思います。 ゲームを進めるうえで選択肢が増えることは純粋にいいことだと感じました。 普通にプレイするうえでもレベルアップ（スキルポイント獲得）→新しいスキルを憶える→それによって強い武器やアクセサリを手に入れる→さらに強い敵と戦ってレベルアップするなど、いい感じにサイクルが回ってくれるのでキャラ強化は非常にやりやすかったです。 一方でストーリーは王道ながら、少々もの足りない印象でした。 というのも、本作では主人公とヒロイン以外のメンバーを仲間に入れるのはマストではないため、ほとんどのキャラクターが「プレイヤーの選択次第ではそこにいないかもしれない」という状況になります。 不自然にならないよう喋ったりはしてくれますが、どうしてもメインストーリーへのかかわりが薄く、主人公とヒロインWithその他大勢という印象がぬぐえませんでした。 話自体もややボリュームが不足していて、広げた風呂敷のわりに畳み方が地味になってしまっています。 （大物と思しき相手が10人も出てきたのに、終盤まるで使い捨てるかの如く次々にやられていくところなど特に） ただ、作中ではキャラ一人一人とちょっとしたやりとりができるイベントがいくつも用意されているので、各キャラの魅力はしっかりと伝わってきました。 全体としてはやれることが多く、ボリューム不足とはいえシナリオもシンプルで分かりやすいので十分楽しめる作品でした。