Star Ocean: The Second Story

[Hedonist]

The Second Story is the best Star Ocean I played.

Playstation 3 SO sucks really hard with boring grind and story. The battle phase is also too slow.

I haven't finished the game but maybe I can try the game again with Remaster. Will wait for SALE price.

[[VGM] Redbl0odx]

I really hope 'The Second Story' comes to steam, but we all know that the PSP one is likely to come, so the new translation, voice acting, etc.

I know what you meant, just wanted to be specific.

[Crasher TN - gB]

Originally posted by Hedonist:

The Second Story is the best Star Ocean I played.

Playstation 3 SO sucks really hard with boring grind and story. The battle phase is also too slow.

I haven't finished the game but maybe I can try the game again with Remaster. Will wait for SALE price.

Originally posted by Redbl0odx:

I really hope 'The Second Story' comes to steam, but we all know that the PSP one is likely to come, so the new translation, voice acting, etc.

I know what you meant, just wanted to be specific.

I think the remake "The second evolution" for PSP was way more polished than "The Second Story" for PSX. If it comes to Steam, i hope it's the remake.

[Gosen]

I recently finished SO1 and began 2. Almost 5 hours of the game and all I was doing are reading dull and predictable dialogues. Combat is also bad, since all monsters are weak and you one shoot everything. SO1 had better beginning and except unnecessary backtracking was a decent game, but in 2 I yawn and cringe all the time. I hate everything about this game, from irritating characters, unnecessary plot devices to lack of any challenges. Even graphic feels worse (backgrounds). I know that many say SO2 is the best from the series, but to me it's one of the worst jrpg I've ever played and have trouble to give it more chance, because nothing is changing, while I move forward.

I tried SO4 and it felt great. After being stuck on the third boss I thought I first try other games, now when I know the background story and lore better, then go back to grinding in 4. Unfortunately SO2 seems like unnecessary filler (most part of SO1 were like that too, but at least there was a goal and interesting moments, especially the last part of it).

[Andar]

If you started as Claude and you're doing nothing but spam the phaser gun you get, then you are going to one shot everything for the first couple of hours. That weapon eventually breaks and the difficulty ramps up a little due to it.

As for the rest of your post, well lets just say I disagree entirely. I've been playing JRPG's since the early 90's and I still believe that Star Ocean 2 is one of the best out of the countless I've played. I'd also say it's by far the best of the Star Ocean series.

[Terranigma23]

lol no one talking about Star ocean 3 here. I read a book recently about this serie and it was suppose to be a trilogy (the ending SO3), but the ♥♥♥♥ begin when Square fusion with Enix. They force them to made star ocean 4 (money of course), so the guy who had write all Star ocean story (Yoshiharu Gotanda) left the ship. Also did you know Yoshiharu Gotanda is the one who write the story for Tales of Phantasia and after some ♥♥♥♥ with Namco and Telenet, he want a revenge so he create Star Ocean with a bunch a member of the Wolf Team. If you are interested I find all this information in a French book call Level up (4), they made a folder of 50 pages about Star Ocean.