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

I can't believe I missed this. Star Ocean 1 being remade is awesome but I'm going to cry if it doesn't wind up coming out of Japan. A lot of the good looking PSP games (some of them ports, sure...) keep getting left in Japan and it's pissing me off.

Heck, if this game comes stateside I will finally have all the push I need to pick up a PSP. FFT, Dracula X Chronicles, Wild Arms Crossfire, and now Star Ocean? Fuck yes. Not to mention a few games I saw before that I'd probably pick up too (Valkyrie Profile of course and the MMX remake to say the least).

On a sidenote, I've fooled around with my friend's PSP and never really noticed terrible loadtimes on the majority of the games she owns, and "one" worthwhile game is definitely a bit of a stretch, but before this year I didn't see many that caught my interest, either.

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The games connect directly but the plot of Star Ocean 2 litterally has nothing to do with the first game.

Basically, this is every connection right here-; The intro talks about the dark entity the heroes defeated in the first game then it opens up with one of Ratix's (hero of star ocean 1) companions Ronixis, who is the father of Claude (the main character of SO2). Iria (also from the first game) is Claude's mother and you never see her but you see Ronixis one more time after the opening events much further in the game.

... That's all the connection right there.

And yeah, Dracula X Chronicles is'a comin in October to America.

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It's a remake of Rondo of Blood compiled together with the original Rondo and SoTN. They are also redoing the voice acting and dialogue in SOTN if they have space/time, though I personally loved the way it was for it's camp factor.

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

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They both feature full fledged voice acting, so that's a change for SO2 right there, since outside of a few cutscenes and battles there was no voice acting at all.

I was speaking idiomatically.

These look okay but you can tell they are inspired from the lackluster anime. I'm a little worried about how Dias will turn out since I did not like his EX design much at all. :'(

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Haha, Star Ocean 1 had some pretty ugly art. This is definitely an improvement over it. I think most of Star Ocean 2's art was better though originally, I won't argue that. Milly had buttons for eyes it looked like, solid pink color; it was awkward. The ingame portraits were alright, but the official art for Star Ocean blew ass chunks.

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Yeah, well, I really don't think the new art is honestly worse than THIS.



At least Dorn wears fucking pants now. Opinions, I know, but the original artwork looks pretty creepy to me. Ratix looks alright, the rest look pretty crappy. Oh, and it DEFINITELY looks better than THIS.



I rest my case.

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The fact that they are adding voice acting in the dialog sort of implies they won't. Why would they go to the effort to re-hire some of the worst VAs of all time to match the dialog with the battle voices? I'm pretty sure more than half of them were murdered from then until now anyway. Sorry guys.

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The plot twist was bad but it didn't really ruin SO3 for me-- it was just when you look at it from the sense that this means the twist applies to SO1 and 2 too, that it really starts to be lame.

Also agree'in they didn't even react slightly realistically to it at all which made it all the more worse.

It isn't like SO1 (Star Trek ripoff to the max) or SO2 had stellar plots either but SO3 surely took it to the next level of gay. Hopefully they back down to SO1 and 2 gayity levels and we can all be happy.

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