heartisblazing
2007
2009
An overall improvement from Star Ocean: Till The End of Time. The story is better, for sure. I'd say the characters and their development is mostly better. The environments look pretty nice and the number of different planets you get to visit is a very welcome change. However, the English voice acting is arguably worse than ever before. Also, the 3D character models in cutscenes can look really off-putting, especially Lymle's.
2012
It's pretty all-right. Nothing really bad. It's just really...meh. If you've played either of the previous entries, it's just yet more of the same but with an isekai storyline and some new cute characters. The missions are still pretty short in actual length, the story isn't that interesting, etc etc. Grenades are absolutely abysmal to use though.
2017
It's awful. The gameplay is janky and clunky as all fuck, there's weird running/superspeed sections, and oh my fucking god some of the English voice acting is absolutely unbearable (Izuna namely)
Just read the wiki for the story if you want the lore, it's not even worth listening to, let alone playing.
This is not worth suffering. Save yourself.
Just read the wiki for the story if you want the lore, it's not even worth listening to, let alone playing.
This is not worth suffering. Save yourself.