This game's Story Is Really Short

[AceMan#1]

Already met Chisato playable character for the first time via yellow ! point although not recruitable yet towards end game, there wasn't many dungeons or story in the beginning, I am surprised I made it this far already, very disappointed to be frank, might not play this game anymore now lol.

[Xengre]

You can playthrough a second time with Rena's perspective. This game also features NG+. It isn't as long as some JRPGs like Final Fantasy or monsters like Xenoblade Chronicles, but it still isn't as short as games like FROM SOFT games and such.

[sorethroat]

Because of all the QoL features the story felt like it progresses really faster than the original.

[ChrisPharmD]

Originally posted by Xengre:

You can playthrough a second time with Rena's perspective. This game also features NG+. It isn't as long as some JRPGs like Final Fantasy or monsters like Xenoblade Chronicles, but it still isn't as short as games like FROM SOFT games and such.

This man is trying to make somebody mad with that comment.

"This game isn't as short as Super Mario Bros." Uh that's awfully specific.

[Xengre]

Originally posted by ChrisPharmD:

Originally posted by Xengre:

You can playthrough a second time with Rena's perspective. This game also features NG+. It isn't as long as some JRPGs like Final Fantasy or monsters like Xenoblade Chronicles, but it still isn't as short as games like FROM SOFT games and such.

This man is trying to make somebody mad with that comment.

"This game isn't as short as Super Mario Bros." Uh that's awfully specific.

lol I picked FROM SOFT games like Dark Souls as an example because they're well received despite being fairly short and part of their value comes from being able to do multiple NG+ runs in them.

[Doom_Cookies]

Yeah, the earlier SO games are super short if you go just by the main story. Most of them are, honestly. Pretty much just SO3 and SO4 were particularly long with just their main stories.

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Star Ocean games have always given the player a lot for not ignoring side content and systems. Experiencing all the games have to offer for any single playthrough more than doubles the time spent, or in SO3's case, accounts for a well over fivefold increase in playtime.

Star Ocean is just not a series you want to ignore anything in. View all the optional scenes, recruit all the optional characters, do all the optional quests, and absolutely explore every bit of the crafting. Try out all the different skills for all the characters, switch which one you control in battle every so often and experiment with different combos. Play all the minigames and do all the optional arena challenges. Grind out all those "missions"/achievements. Do the postgame dungeon(s).

None of this is needed to beat the game, but it's still part of the game nonetheless. If you skip even half of it you're missing out on a large chunk of the game.

I just got to...the big plot twist...and already have 40 hours clocked in my run this time around. I'll probably beat the end boss at around 60 hours, more if I do the solo arena rankings on every character and play minigames at a certain aptly named city.

[Poyzo]

We should be thankful it's not filled with filler content like FarCry series or Assassin's Creed series.

[karonmoser]

Was playing FFXV before this, and it's kind of nice and refreshing for the game to have short optional content bits and not much meat to play through. I'm older now, and I have way less time to get sucked into JRPG worlds, but this game has a ton of replayability and features that make up for it if you want to spam it and play it a lot.