Having seen better days, Star Ocean has been in something of a downward spiral ever since its sole Playstation 2 title. While it had its fans, Till the End of Time’s odd story choices and pacing rubbed a few fans the wrong way. Things didn’t get much better in the sequel. While The Last Hope was rightfully praised for several big improvements, it took a step back for every one forwards. Now we have Integrity and Faithlessness, which sadly proves to be the weakest of the bunch.
Game Rant - "From Star Ocean to Final Fantasy, there have been a number of JRPG's that have been unfairly undervalued by their Metascores. Here are 10 examples."
While I agree that the combat in Star Ocean 5's combat is pretty fun, saying that its story is more enjoyable than its predecessors is highly debatable. Also, it's not just the technical issues the game suffers from.
Completely disagree the games I played from the list all deserve their scores (Star Ocean, Nier, Tales of Zesteria, Type-0). While there are certainly people that love these games, they have flaws in many categories, that justify those scores.
Star Ocean especially bored the hell out of me. Lame story and face roll battle system (I finished the game anyway). These games are really niche and when rated by a broader public, fall short. In my opinion even in their own genre.
I personally have not played any game below 80 and thought wow this should have been 80-90 game. The only game I thought should have been 90 was Shadow Hearts II: Covenant. I am pretty sure there will be some games but average score usually is pretty good indication.
do you recommend any JRPG which you think were good/amazing but it didn't score well? I just purchased Tokyo xanadu but it seems way too slow like trails game but trail at least has good story. I will give it a shot
I think there were quite a few JRPG games that got hit with lower meta scores last gen when all these reviewers were on their anti-anime tropes kick. Not that they should get up there into the high 80s or 90s, but they weren't 60-70 games either.
That's mostly died off this gen, thankfully
I think Ni No Kuni 2 combat is pretty generic but if you add all DLCs then its combat is pretty awesome. I purchased the complete edition so I can say DLC changes the combat completely
Useless to argument troll, but e.g. Eat Lead is hilarious and extremely funny, yet mediocre on metastupids.... Lords of the Fallen, Strange brigade... I could name hundreds
Star Ocean is one of those series that did, and still does, things that others don’t. Think of it as a JRPG for fans of series like Star Trek. The casts regularly involve people from more advanced civilizations getting involved with those who are still growing, even though there are various measures in place to allegedly stop that sort of interference. As a result, people get energy weapons, cyborgs, magic and people who can turn into cats. It is a lot to take in.
Let's see here. There was another classic JRPG series that started this SCI Fi. It was Phantasy Star by Sega. Before Star Ocean, there was Phantasy Star 1-4 on Sega consoles
a beginners guide to star ocean....after playing the 3rd game
you've been told that the universe (SO lore) is just a ------------------- and close the book
Yeah, that plot twist didn't work for me. I wish SO3 isn't canon, but it is. Anyway, SE can just sweep SO3 under the rug perhaps by soft rebooting the franchise.
The first two were so great, among the top RPGs on 16 and 32-bit era. I wonder why it went downhill after that...
Play the PS1 game and then the PS2 game and then the rest probably aren't worth your time unless you're a superfan of the series. I think that's all you need to know.
Phil writes, "It's never a good feeling to be hyped for the next installment of one of your favorite franchises, and then POW! You're blindsided with an extremely disappointing game that hardly lives up to your anticipation and hype. That's the focus of The Most Disappointing Video Game Sequels, and now we're at the fifth installment. This are six more of those games that were either rushed out, released in a broken or incomplete state, or were simply less than stellar experiences overall.
After you browse through and read up on the latest unfortunate games added to this growing series of articles, which game sequels that haven't already been mentioned in a previous article do you think should be added in a future installment?"
Having a lot of fun with this , I feel tthis instalment is much better than the tedious SO4 gameplay. It's just the story thats nothing special (not that it's bad) but obviously the critics disagree
wow a magazine about candy reviewing an rpg. Seriously though, this entry is the 2nd best in the SO universe.
I rank them like this
SO2 - my favourite RPG of all time
SO5 - wonderful characters, hindered by bad AI (cleric casting armor debuff on opponent as we are about to get struck down in critical condition). The strongest soundtrack in Motoi Sakuraba's career.
SO4 - Awesome combat system marred by some useless characters and redundant 2nd half.
SO1 - Novel SNES game way ahead of its time. AI is useless and probably motoi sakuraba's worst soundtrack in his professional career -- still quite good though.
SO3 - Absolute trash heaped together. Everything in this game seems like a chore to extend the gameplay. Combat system involves waiting and there are characters that play identically. Horrid.
Thats too harsh...
I am having the best time of my life playing this game, the story moves quickly enough, it's not bad at all.
The fighting is so much fun. One of the best Star Ocean I have played and I want a sequel. So enough with the crappy reviews.
40 hours in and I'm not at endgame yet, and loving it...I will never understand the amount of terrible reviews for this (not just bad, but terrible).