Is this game as bad as everyone says?

Is this game as bad as everyone says?

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yes

No

No, Western reviewers are massively biased against Japanese games

Maybe

Worse. It's got the most brainless battle system in the series. Any depth is removed, and you don't even have a base combo anymore. You have one light and one heavy attack, and that's it for the entire duration of the game. It's shit.

They couldn't even afford the budget to change weapon skins when you equip something new.

Its somehow worse than 4. Cant believe Square Enix has not been able to replicate 3 winning formula.

I liked Emmerson, Fiore was hot. Anne is CUTE.

Why don't you play the game yourself to form an opinion instead of depending on Sup Forums to think for you?

expensive.

It's not like unplayable but it's so mediocre and souless. It seems like no bit of effort was put in to make the game stand out in any way

Combat sucks. Whenever you have your full party and they unleash their attacks, combat enters can't see shit captain mode and the rock paper scissors aspect of the combat system is fucked up by the enemy's rock being shotgun in disguise.

Yes and I say that as a huge shiteating weeb.

The panties are heavily censored.

It's literally $25 on amazon right now.

The only thing redeemable from that pile of shit is the green slut.

It's Star Ocean, why people thought it was going to be good in the first place baffles me.

Nappy time

Sup Forums says it's bad. In reality it's mind numbingly mediocre. It isn't bad though. It's worth it if you need another JRPG and can get it for $20.

Actually i would argue that it's worse. Most reviewers i've seen have it at 7/10. This shit is brainless, you spam a couple skills for a majority of the game. The story is also standard at best.

You posted a picture of the wrong SO game.
SO4 is the one that's actually as bad as people claim it to be.

This one is just middling

I'm about to play 4 International. I'll hunt you down if it's actually good.

I finished 1, was okay. Eh. Played 3 way before, and currently playing 2 as well.

It's better then 4 but that's damned praise at best.

I finished it last sunday:
* Combat is shit
* Story is typical jrpg nonsense
* The witch is your typical slut-dressed fanservice model
* For all different character endings, you're going to need to grind a shitton and you're going to have to rely on RNG to get a material needed to craft potions to get the character to "like/dislike" you so you can get a specific character's ending

It's... not horrible, but it's not good.
It's just your mediocre jrpg thing

Can't be worse than Last Hope.

>* The witch is your typical slut-dressed fanservice model
That's a good thing.

Hey, I didn't say it was a bad thing.
Her boobs are the most jiggly of the 3 female characters as well. Excluding the little kids from females

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It's a lot worse

>preordered it because i was really jrpg starved and i loved star ocean 3
>gets bad reviews everywhere, gets me super disheartened
>my copy arrives
>i still haven't even opened and played it
i'm fucking pathetic Sup Forums

I got it for 20 from game fly

Post more my dude

I don't have anymore webms. Sorry.

I enjoyed it.
But I also enjoyed tales of Zestiria and Sup Forums fucking hates that.

I just want JRPGS where i can go through caves/fields getting chests and fighting monsters and have the age of most of the main characters be over 15.

I actually liked SO2 and 3. They were really cheesy and really flawed games, but I still enjoyed them nonetheless.

then comes SO4 and it's actually one of the worst JRPGs I've ever played. the combat is somehow worse than 3s and the writing is actually so bad it's difficult not to feel secondhand embarrassment from playing the game. honestly I just had to stop playing because between that little girl's voice acting and Edge's angst I couldn't keep it up. it's actually below the weeb titles like Gust or Neptunia games; at least those games are somewhat self aware

Quite alright. Keep the pics coming though. That one was fantastic

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Probably because you'd be able to see everything otherwise.

Damn. Shes fucking gorgeous.

why is checkers witch so lewd

Better start playing! It doesn't even start to suck until 65% of the way through. When it starts, you'll know it, because it's a re-occurring distraction.

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Fuck I refuse to believe a game can be bad with a character this hot. By default it has to be at least decent watching fiore walk around.
Beautiful. Keep going.

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You better start believing it.

Keep going I need so much more
I dunno man. My dick is pretty lenient if there's a hot girl involved. Hell I enjoyed X Blades

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Just watch some porn in-between gaming sessions, you raging 12 year old.

>Odin Sphere, Atelier Sophie, and Star Ocean come out all around the same time
>Only end up playing Odin Sphere and only for a couple hours before never touching any of them again

What's my problem

Hey I can't help if my libido is like this. I enjoy it man.
This outfit man is just too good.

>Adoptive sister wants MC's D.
>Witch slut fanservice

The true best girl was Anne

Last one.

Thanks man. Im figuring out which one would be best for a phone wallpaper. Got a personal recommendation?

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are you me?

The game was mediocre but holy fuck, why was it so short? 32 hours and that's with a shit ton of questing. Even Tales games give you around 40+ hours if you do some side questing. SE just needs to remaster Star Ocean 3 because its the last good SO that we're ever going to get at this rate.

SO3 was the peak of the series. SO2 was good too.

Funny how much people shit on them when they first came out.

well odin sphere is the only good title out of those three anyway

It is good but there are game breaking bugs

>32 hours
what did you even do?
I 100% sidequests and story in < 24 hours
I didn't feel like doing synthesis RNG junk for ulti weapons / potions for endings. Hate that shit

>what did you even do?
ulti weapons and potions.
I tried to get everything I could out of the game, trying to some how justify my purchase. For $20, the game is a worth while purchase but paying $60 for it like me leaves you with almost nothing. I haven't had levels of this disappointment for a few years. I honest to god wanted the game to be something much more but in the end its just slightly better than SO4.

Yeah, I only picked it up recently, limited edition for €20.
Ironically, the normal edition was more expensive, so that's why I went for the limited one

No, it's just as said - it has Star Ocean in the title and that entire series has one good game. If you're a fan you're already playing and liking it.

The game looks and plays great. 1080p and 60FPS really made a difference.
Too bad it falls apart in everything else.

You literally played based on reviews.

Atelier Sophie starts out like a generic Atelier game, but gives you the power to collect recipes and make useful attack items early on.

The final boss can be defeated using a high powered level down item (reduces their stats temporarily) and just spamming attack items.

3 was the game that fucked the series what are you talking about?

It's got a fuck ton of back tracking, game world is actually tiny as fuck but you're constantly forced to run back and forwards through it.
That and a battle system that is fucking brainless made the game difficult to continue playing.

>The final boss can be defeated using a high powered level down item (reduces their stats temporarily) and just spamming attack items.

I just filled up my rush bar before it, put Fidel on commando suicide roles (literally no defense and all offense), enhanced his weapon to have complete offense stats
Then when I could, I just used a rush attack.
Dropped like a fly

Are they? I can sill see up Miki's skirt in my version. What did they change?

You know what's bad ?

I bought this game ignoring the bad press because I liked every valkyrie profile game so far and holy shit do I regret every fucking dime spent

There is not an ounce of fun in this trainwreck

>grind a shitton and you're going to have to rely on RNG
Ah, so it has what I hate about video games the most. Thanks for the info senpai. I'll probably pick this up in the bargain bin.

Granny panties instead of... regular panties

>Exist Archive

Why's it bad? It literally looks like re-skinned VP.

What an arbitrary change. Is that really all it takes to lower the rating?

Not really, they are just sort of weird change, made because of poor information.
They are literally only thing changed, and it happened in both JP and Western versions. And the character whose panties were changed to cover slightly more is over 18, so it was totally unnecessary, even to get lower age rating.

It looks like it, but it's really anything but.

There are a tons of great ideas and the game actually has a lot of potential in it's system, notably with the amount of classes and different attacks it has, but the actual comboing is piss poor. Ennemies could as well be made of metal for how fast they fall and how low they're launched up by launcher attacks, and there's no way to make them rise higher so you're basically obligated to let them drop. When they're on the ground, launchers actually stop working untill they get up, and for that you have to actually let them, and interrupt your chain.

The game relies on a relationship level system to teach characters skills from each other's class depending on their level of affection, and what it means in practice is that you have to grind relationship (which raises slow as FUCK) for every character between every other character because at lvl 100 they barely have enough skill points to raise one class, so you need to rely on that system to have complete and versatile characters

The characters are okay but the story is nearly nonexistent and their character conflicts are pathetically weak.

Overall it just feels bad to play, and the story doesnt save it.

It's mediocre.

Not bad but by any means not good either

Hardcore weebs and fan series might enjoy it, people who thought it would be a good way to get into the series may be disappointed.

oh and I forgot to mention the FANTASTIC idea of ennemies that passively hit you and completely interrupt the combo if you try to hit them with melee attacks, making melee characters bad against them

>fan series
god fucking damn it I meant "series fans"
I should stop posting when tired

see, I can't trust people like you because you think 3 is good

when someone is telling me about quality and then compare it to a game that's so fucking bad that I stopped being a fan of the series the instant I started it up, you know that person is talking out their ass because their opinions are SHIT

It wasn't to lower the rating, it was to not offend anyone

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Which one should I play? 2 or 3?

2 is the only Star Ocean anyone likes

its targeted combat has aged relatively poorly compared to true freeform systems tho

>It's got a fuck ton of back tracking

Fucking this. The game is so small, there are just few areas and you constantly run thru the same shit. This was the biggest problem with game

SO3 was the last good SO game, and I don't mean the story, but combat and the amount of side stuff to do.

The soundtrack was glorious too

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Emerson and Annie OTP confirmed

>for iOS / Android

Why

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The PSP remake of the first game is good too. Because its gameplay is identical to SO2.

Is it worth it just for checkers witch? Is she a prominent character? Can you romance her?

Is it following typical mobage structure, do I need to reroll for SSR Ashton so that I can have barrels of fun?

>First infos about the gam comes out
>Game looks like a copy pasta of infinite undiscovery but worse
>Tell people it's going to be ass since I played that game
>B-but muh Star ocean
>Game release and it's even worse than I expected
It's always fun to see how much shit fanboys are willing to eat

For me, it went like this.
>game is announced
>"Cool, Star Ocean isn't dead after all."
>more info about game comes out
>"Oh, Star Ocean is dead."

from what i've seen, it's the same structure. Like, getting "pack" and you get random characters which are npc fodders (3 stars) up to the main characters (5 stars). Well at least, the battle looks solid, probably need high end mobile devices to run.

so5 is not that bad, its just average. Its your typical jrpg with typical jrpg clishes and plot twist. Nothing really stands out. The gameplay is solid and I liked crafting. Its your 5/10 jrpg

Sure, but is it *Star Ocean*? Because, from what I've heard, there's not even any space sci-fi elements to it.

Eh, there is. Not as much as there maybe should be, but it's there.

Been trying Star Ocean 1 on PSP. Dorne is temporary party member, right? Does his stats carry over to other characters?

There are sci-fi elements, but it's pretty minimal. But Star Ocean has always been a bait and switch series in this regard ever since the first game.