[PSP] Star Ocean (PSP), Star Ocean 2 (PSP), Star Ocean 4 (Multiplatform confirmed. Yay.)

Really have nothing else to name this thread, wanted to keep it informative. So if you haven't heard, the original announcement was "Square-Enix will be announcing a new Star Ocean title soon."

Apparently not just one, but three.

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http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/...70510/sqex.htm
http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/200...71447,0,0.html

As someone who really liked SO1, I'm ecstatic to see it remade. I didn't care for SO2's graphics so I'm kind of disappointed to see that the new SO1 is adopting them in spades. Also the character redesigns are funky. Oh well. Shame that I don't have a PSP either.

As posted by Kouli at GameFAQs:
- New Character Designer for First Departure and Second Evolution
- Production IG handles the animation apsects of the two remakes and of course there will be new ones
- Platform for SO4 is still undecided
- First Departure is a FULL REMAKE. First Departure will combine both 2D and 3D graphics, along with added scenario. The producer emphasized on calling a new game
- Second Evolution will have NEW characters, and fully voiced
- Seiyuu, theme song and artist for the two remakes are planned to be revealed in the party

Let's discuss.

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Originally Posted by Colonel Skills

While I love Star Ocean 2 to death, I'm willing to bet SE will outsource these ports to TOSE again and we'll end up with complete and utter shit ports. A shame they don't care enough about these properties to do any real quality control.

It was apparently made note that Star Ocean: First Departure is a COMPLETE remake. Not a port. Given that it looks incredibly similar to SO2 now, I'm assuming if the engine was remade from scratch it will turn out to be very decent, AND SO2 would most likely use this new engine instead of a shoddy port.

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Originally Posted by Shonos

I dont know, I see this as a bit pointless. If you want to play SO2 on your PSP you can just play the PSX version of it on there. Whether you do it through illegal or legal means, you can play SO2 right now on your PSP.

So why buy a port when I can play it for free or buy it through Sony to play it on my PSP?

As it's been said, it's more than just a port. Check the first post (edited) for some of the announced features. Fully voice acted, new characters, new designs... I bet they'll touch up a lot of the game's problems too (balance?)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I thought his variety of musical styles in SO3 was great and I hope to hear it return in SO4.

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Originally Posted by chato

@ Vkamicht - It was a little more of bad than good. SO3's version of Mission to Deep Space (maybe half decent) and Incarnation of the Devil was horrible. If I remember right, it was more piano-bs. I can understand that he wanted to change it around but there are too many games that sound the same and why I got sick of it. Radiata Stories ,Baiten Kaitos and Tales of Symphonia proves this @.@ (Yes I know it was done by him). I hope he can pull it off for SO1,SO2 and SO4.

We all have different tastes , I guess.

Now I'm confused. SO3 doesn't sound like anything else he's done so far. There's a lot of jazz versions of stuff and "experimenting" going on here.

I also don't see where that Radiata Stories/Baten Kaitos/Tales of Symphonia comparison comes from. Noriyuki Iwadare composed Radiata Stories, and Shinji Tamura's style is dominant in the Tales series. Baten Kaitos I and II sound similar but for all we know tri-Crescendo or Monolith or whoever specifically gave him instructions to keep the same style.

And I liked SO3's rendition of Incarnation of Devil... different tastes indeed.

I was speaking idiomatically.