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Overall 9.3    Graphics 9    Sound 9    Addictive 8.3    Story 9.7    Depth 9    Difficulty 7.3


Star Ocean Review   Divine Aurora
Star Ocean.. oh  boy I don't even know where to begin, to put it in a few words Star Ocean is easily one of the best games of it's genre for the SNES(Super Nintendo Entertainment System) and set the standard for RPG's to come . Given the limitations of the SNES, Star Ocean managed to exceed and go beyond what I was expecting from a top down  side scrolling rpg. Star Ocean, being a true pioneer in the genre with features and movement styles Iv'e never seen in a RPG before. The Graphics in Star Ocean, while looking like what I would compare to as gameboy advanced sprites( about 32 bit sprites) are good and clean cut . The environment/scenery  in Star Ocean is visual stunning with beautiful various locations, in addition the environment is alive and not just still images for example the water at the beaches has tides(it's moving in and out) the grass flows in the breeze, animals such as birds fly around etc.  My only complaint being is during cut scenes there isn't that traditional style animated cut scenes that I've come to expect from Japanese RPG based games.The Sound and Soundtrack for Star Ocean,well for starters Star Ocean was only released  in Japan (thus explains this English hack) and while the text and written dialog in the game is translated to English(not all of it is translated  but the most essential parts are) that said the Dialog heard in the cut scenes is in Japanese So I give Star Ocean points for voice acting during the cut scenes but it's a shame I don't understand what they are saying. Now the Soundtrack for Star Ocean is decent it could have been better and at times it just felt kinda awkward like the music playing didn't quite match the tone and mood of the scene or action that your doing.The story of Star Ocean,well for starters there's a lot of subplots and side stories in Star Ocean but the main Story is..in the beginning  you start off in the village of Kratus on a planet called Roak. You(whatever you name yourself) along with two childhood village friends(Millie and Dorne) become unlikely hero's and are apart of the village's defense force to stop common thieves and looters. In  next town over by the name of Coule, everyone in the town becomes petrified(turned to stone) by a unknown mysterious terrible disease. While looking for a cure to the disease our trio of unlikely hero's encounter two mysterious beings who belong/answer  to a organization called the Earth Federation,  who explains to our hero's that the disease was sent to their planet by a race of beings called the Lezonians (who by the way they are at war with), in an effort to cure the disease our hero's go with the mysterious beings in their spacecraft to save a friend that has been infected by the disease, they later find out that the only way to manufacture a cure for the disease is to find the original source of it which was sent to Roak 300 years in the past, so using the advanced technology of the mysterious beings they use a time gate to travel back 300 years to find the original source of the disease to make and manufacture a cure.

 The depth of Star Ocean, while the game does have alot of side quests far to many for me to cover them all I'd rather look at the depth of Star Ocean from a different perspective like the mechanics of the game and how the game works and uses it's unique features. For example the battles in Star Ocean are not turned based they play out in real time meaning both the player and the AI player in the game are moving and attacking almost simultaneously. While in battle mode, you don't have direct control over all the movement of your players but you can choose battle strategies before/during  battle and while your planning out your attack your other player will move and attack the closest enemy automatically. Star Ocean also has a feature called private actions that plays a huge role in character growth and development, and reveal backstory on the character and have various effects on the story in the game. In addition when entering any town you can choose to have every person in your party split up (don't worry they will all be in the town that you split up in) and upon finding everyone/regrouping a number of different things could happen , sometimes you might get irrelevant small talk, sometimes you might get asked a few questions by your party member and depending on your response, the party members affinity towards you will either go up or down, be worry of this and keep that in mind because depending on the affinity level of the party member, at the games end while the overall ending is the same for the main story,  you'll see a slightly  different ending for that particular party member.

For difficulty, Star Ocean isn't really that difficult but then again I feel as though most RPG's of it's kind aren't really made for or focused on their  difficulty and tend to focus more on plot and story (which Star Ocean diffidently does), with that said Star Ocean isn't really hard at all as long as you strategise when fighting and level up occasionally thru killing the minor enemies like bunnies and thieves  but don't get me wrong though they can kill you if let them gang up on you.

To me the addictiveness of Star Ocean lies in it's ability to tell a rich imaginative story that was both humorous at some parts  while being able to be taken seriously at others and held the players attention throughout that was easy to follow. In addition I am very likely to replay this game to enjoy the story again and to do more of the side quests.What also made this game addicting is the feeling of urgency the game creates among the various situations and events that happen, it creates that feeling of "I got to finish this now just to see how the events unfold".

Overall Star Ocean is a genre defining RPG that is not only innovative but entertaining at its core, with a story that is humorous and when it needs to be serious, with beautiful scenery/locations. Star Ocean is imaginative with it's story telling and really sets up an illusion of a world for the player to get caught up/lost in. I'd recommend this game for anyone who enjoys adventure/action RPG's with a strong driving plot and a good story where all the events/choices  in the game intertwine with the main story.  
  Graphics 9   Sound 7   Addictive 7   Story 9   Depth 9   Difficulty 6
      Review Rating: 4.3/5     Submitted: 07-26-16     Review Replies: 4


One of the Greats!   UchuCazador
Star Ocean - One of the Greats!Star Ocean is one of those games that starts off awesome and pretty quickly turns into an absolutely epic game. In many ways it's way ahead of it's time being released in 1996. The success of this game, despite it not being released outside of Japan, is apparent as it has spawned a highly successful series of Star Ocean games. This game itself was remade for the PSP and released 11 years later, renamed as Star Ocean: The First Departure. What makes this game so special? Well it was one of the first games to introduce an Affection System, which seriously affected the game play. In certain Cities/Villages and Towns you have the option to undergo 'Private Actions'. During these Private Actions a number of interactions happen with other characters and during some conversations it gives you a number of options to reply with. Depending on what you reply with has an affect on a number of things. Firstly the way those characters act in battle, the higher the affection the better they will battle alongside your character. Secondly, a few of these actions will open up Side Stories that wouldn't be accessible otherwise. Thirdly, some of these actions determine whether or not you will recruit another character, which ultimately changes certain part of the story and dialogue. On top of that there are a number of slightly different endings and dialogues at the end of the game. These are dependent on the relationships between the other characters and you character and obviously dependent on what characters you did recruit. This Affection system was pretty revolutionary at the time and has lead to many other games using it, with the sequel to Star Ocean, Star Ocean: The Second Story having an extremely impressive 86 different Endings!The Battle system is also pretty different, much like many other RPG's the battles are random when exploring the map, however they play out in real time as opposed to turn based. A option is then selected for the character you are controlling, which include attacking, using a skill or item and running. Up to four characters can participate in a battle and you do have the option to change between characters during the battle, with the other characters being controlled the Artificial Intelligence. Like many other RPG's you gain experience from battling which lead to leveling up and getting stronger, as well as there being a lot of different items and character unique items to help boost stats.When the characters level up they also receive Special Points (SP) which can be used to increase the characters skills. There are a lot of different Skills all of which can be very useful. They range from non-combat skills such as Smithing and Cooking to useful combat skills such as Counter Attack and raising HP and MP. The skills can be very useful for creating powerful weapons, Cooking food to heal the characters to identifying different items. It's entirely in your hands and there is so much to improve, you are really spoiled for choice. Improving specific skills to a certain level will unlock more skills and more opportunities! So onto my ratings for this game.GraphicsI ranked Star Ocean a 9/10 for graphics, in today's world the graphics are very outdated but this game was made 18 years ago and out of the SNES games it is definitely one of the better ones. The graphics don't hamper the game play in anyway and you quickly get used to them and in all honesty don't pay much attention to them. Considering when it was made the graphics are pretty decent and I really found myself thinking 'I can't believe this game was made 18 years ago!' SoundThe music for this game is absolutely Fantastic, I have ranked it 10/10 and justifiably so. There is not a single bad track in this game, not one! There is a great variation of tracks throughout the game in different regions and the battle music, which is the most repetitive due to so many battles, but it's catchy and fits the action ridiculously well! If the music isn't enough reason to rank it 10, the use of spoken dialogue should be. Again, by today's standards having characters talk during battle and action scenes is nothing special, but 18 years ago this was pretty new. It really adds to the battles and also gives you an indication on how strong the opponent is depending on what the characters say. In terms of games for the SNES, Star Ocean's sound is right up there among the best and again showing that it was really ahead of it's time.AddictivenessStar Ocean is ridiculously addictive. I've ranked it 10/10 there's so much to do, you can't help but run around everywhere trying to complete everything. With the Private actions, you find yourself trying to repeat them as much as possible to see all the possible outcomes. The only downside to this is you are limited to saves so have to move on. To see every possible outcome you'd have to restart the whole game, which would be quite easy to do. It is ridiculously easily to loose track of time while playing this game, you can waste hours just running around talking to characters on this game, without progressing in the story at all! You don't have to talk to the characters, you just find yourself wanting to know what they say. There are little bits of humour darted all over the place which really added to the game, but equally made you want to talk to everyone. Just to give you an example of this, there is an arena in the game with about 100 spectators in and you can talk to the majority of them. It really is massively addictive.StoryThe story is brilliant. Just thinking about it fuels me with adrenalin and makes me want to tell you everything that happens. 10/10, hands down the easiest rating to give. Star Ocean is a combination of Fantasy and Sci-Fi with the majority of the game being more fantasy based with certain Sci-Fi elements thrown in at random times, but completely relevant to the story. Your initial task is simply to save one of the characters, however there is not a cure available on the planet at that time. The story then expands with so much happening in quite a short period of time and it turns into much more of a save the world type plot. It is literally a case of you start playing and think this game is brilliant and then before you know, it becomes epic. One of the things that made this game so great was the fact it took no time at all to get going and each part of the story is exciting in the sense you really want to find out what happens next. It just keeps adding to itself to make it even more exciting and even more interesting. On top of that, each of the individual characters play their part in the story, while each having their own stories explained through the game. Some of the characters stories can only be explained under certain circumstances, but it really is brilliant. DepthBased on everything I've said so far, it shouldn't come as a surprise that this is ranked 10/10. There is so much to do, plenty of side quests that aren't needed to complete the game, plenty of discovering and little gems that just add to awesomeness of this game. There are plenty of times during this game when you are left with the opportunity to continue the story, or venture of a side quest. Every time you sit there contemplating, on one hand you have this brilliant story which you can't wait to continue and find out what happens next. On the other hand you have a lot of likable characters that you want to find out more about and want to discover about their past or extra elements in their story. I would say this game has too much to do, but that's not a bad thing!DifficultyThe most difficult thing about this game is mastering the combat system, which can be a little hard to understand at first. Once you have a good grasp of that the game itself isn't too difficult. There are plenty of opportunities to train up and make all of your characters strong enough to proceed in the game, so you shouldn't really have that much of an issue. There are quite a few times during the game that a new area really steps up the difficulty, so if you try to speed through the game you will find it very difficult. There are also a few areas that you can access before you are meant to, which will result in coming across enemies far stronger than your characters. If you prepare correctly though it shouldn't be too hard. I've ranked it 7/10 because It could be very difficult at times, especially with some specific bosses, but with plenty of chances to save the game, lots of available healing items and plenty of chances to train up it shouldn't be too difficult.Negative PointsI have pretty much given this game nothing but praise so far, which in all honesty it completely deserves. It's not perfect though and does have a few negative points. The first of these is, it can be very easy to get lost. I found myself trying to complete side quests and explore as much as possible. However by doing this it was very easy to loose track of what you had to do to continue the story. Without proper guidance you could find yourself running around talking to everyone trying to find out your mission. There were also quite a few times you had to back track which was very time consuming and by that time you were so much stronger than the enemies in those areas you could one shot them and get barely any experience, which could be a little irritating. The only other negative I can really think of is being petrified, there are a number of enemies in the game that have the ability to petrify you. When you're petrified you can't use items or do anything and if all characters in the battle are petrified you get a game over, even if they all had maximum health. At certain points in the game it was difficult to find out how to cure being petrified as well, which was very irritating. It was my pet hate with this game!ConclusionSo in conclusion, I have ranked Star Ocean 9.8/10. I personally absolutely loved this game and it is in my all time top 10 favourite games! The story was brilliant, from the start it had me hooked and it was really exciting to find out what was going to happen next and gave me a real buzz. The characters themselves were all really likable and mysterious in different ways. You wanted to find out more about them and follow their side stories, while also see how they reacted during the Private Action phases. The Private Action phases themselves were always tense as you wanted to say the right thing, and even though it was pretty basic the options weren't clear cut as positive and negative. There were quite a few times when you had to choose an option to favour one character that would upset another character. It was really easy to get into the game and imagine yourself being there, when the end of the game came I was left with a sense of sadness at it finally being the end, I really wanted it to continue and couldn't wait to play the next game in the series! The Graphics, albeit outdated now, were among the best at the time of release and still respectable today, while the scenery varied quite a lot and was detailed and fitting.The battle format was different, considering the usual RPG battle formats are generally pretty similar it was an exciting addition which really added to the quality of the game. The soundtrack is full of quality music that ticks all the boxes. The repetitive music is catchy, while the more serious music fits the scenes really well. The introduction of dialogue again really added to the game and also gave a bit more likability to the characters. I have said it many times during this review, that Star Ocean is ahead of it's time and it really is. Considering it was made 18 years ago, for it to leave this much of a lasting impact on me, for it to be enjoyed this much and spawn some fantastic sequels it really is one of the greats!
  Graphics 9   Sound 10   Addictive 10   Story 10   Depth 10   Difficulty 7
      Review Rating: 4.3/5     Submitted: 12-04-14     Updated: 12-05-14     Review Replies: 3


Star Ocean 1 review   deggle
how come no one made a review for this awesome game well i guess i will start!Graphics 9 the graphics were really nice especially the battle sequence was tots great the graphics resembled the area you were currently in this game had the best graphics out of any game on snes.Sound 10 the sounding was great even the voice acting was cool to hear when you used a skill and the music was non-stop coolness playing throughout the game. the battle theme was the best song by far.Addictiveness 8 i would play this so many times if it didn't take like 40hours to complete hopefully you get 24 which i got on my second playthrough. but it was really fun to play and i would so play more of it.Depth 8 this game get's pretty deep in some parts like the final confrontation with the final boos it gets really deep and most of the begining and the part where you talk to the three spirits.Difficulty 9 almost a ten but really this game is really challenging i spent most of my time trying to level up as much as i could in the begining but the game was still so hard to beat.Story 10 the game had a big story and so many characters to play a role in it oh yeah the party limit is 8 characters and there is like 12. okay the story starts with a boy named Ratix Farrence and his two friends Dorn and Milly they were fellpools because they had tails like zidan from ff9 off subject let's go on they went to a mountain and other side in the village there they found milly's dad who was sick with this rock disease well you turn into a rock statue they go back to the other village but over the mountain they call it a night and Ratix wakes up to find that bandits have overrun the town so he and Dorn defeat the bandits and their leader but find out that Milly left to see her dad as there was a note from a pigeon they find Milly ask to come home and find out that there is cure but also to find out that her dad is already starting to turn into stone so she joins the party to find the cure and climbs this mountain and in the middle Dorn says to watch out for fellworms if they stick their eggs on you were are in trouble just then he falls and Ratix asks if Dorn is alright and he says he fine they get on top of the mountain and find the flower that holds the cure at that moment two humans with a flashing light appear out of nowhere saying that their names are Ronixis and Iria and tell them that they are from a planet named Earth and tell them that Dorn's state was that he was turning into stone and he tells them that the pigeon with the note from Milly's dad hade cuaght the disease too and they take the three up to the ship and. thats about the beginning of the game then it really starts
  Graphics 9   Sound 10   Addictive 8   Story 10   Depth 8   Difficulty 9
      Review Rating: 3/5     Submitted: 01-08-14     Review Replies: 0

This is for all intents and purposes a complete translation. Just about every bit of Japanese we could find in the game has been translated to English and gone over with a fine-toothed comb. The only things not translated are the Japanese voices. Additionally, there are a few things missing (Yes/No balloons & elemental icons) and as such it’s not yet a truly “Complete” translation.

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