Wow this felt like watching a 100 episodes of anime.

+ Long Cutscenes
+ Sometimes funny interactions between certain characters while the main plot is continuing.
+ Some references from the first game (e.g. Roak)
~ Somewhat generic, but enough to keep my interest.

+ Love a certain winged party member. Especially the voice acting (JP) brought her character perfectly to life.
+ Each of the main characters has a story to tell and most were good.
- Somewhat annoying lines of a party member (Edge). Makes it overdramatic.
- Endings locked behind somewhat obscure requirements. Hence needed a guide for this.

Okayish-good accross the board.

+ Fun action-based battle system
~ Feels a bit stiff
~ Sad that it has no multiplayer
- Blocking seems useless
- Annoying to change the target
+ Can decide which skills to level up.
+ Battle style of each character feels different enough.
- Almost ignored item creation/crafting. Investing in it is a chore, so I ignored it.
- Spacing of Save Points in Dungeons too big. It typically takes about an hour until you reach next save point in a dungeon. Walking back to the previous one is a chore.
- No fast travel for the majority of the game makes it a chore to backtrack. To the point where I lost interest to do so potentially missing things.
- Collison triggering the battles seem skewed. Lots of times I were attacked "from behind" even though visually it wasn't true.

+ Liked the arrangements of music pieces from the first Star Ocean game.
~ Nothing memorable (of the new ones)

+ Generally good
+ Feel somewhat the impact of attacks
- Didn't like a few sound effects in the menu

+ No crashes (would have been fatal otherwise)
+ Various graphical settings
+ Okayish port
~ Localistation feels a bit off / not natural
- Fullscreen and Alt+Tab don't work correctly leaving you a displaced windowed screen afterwards. It can be fixed afterwards, but the next Alt+Tab will cause the same problem again. So, I left it like that.

Restricted recommendation. It is an average game. It shows that it is an older game. Fair price.

excellent game lots of options