A fun, classic style RPG that's light on the difficulty (on the default settings) while still making you think about which moves to use and when.

As somebody who loves my 80+ hour long RPG's I do enjoy every once in awhile playing through something that won't take up my life for the next month and Sea of Stars is exemplar in that aspect, it has a fun battle system that feels like the Mario and Luigi games mixed with Octopath Traveller (timed attacks and a 'lock' mechanic to prevent enemies from making their move) an interesting world design that is fun to travel and explore through and a story that whilst is pretty standard for a good 70% of the game really throws some good twists that surprised me.

Art direction is phenomenal and most of the music is really fun, Eric W. Brown, Vincent Jones, Yasunori Mitsuda and Celtic Metal Dude put together a phenomenal soundtrack.

The game is also super friendly to achievement hunters, unlike most RPG's, the developers specifically designed the achievements to all be possible in a single play-through, with the slight exception of one which may be possible in one play-through but is far easier to do in New Game+.