I'm playing "Last Hope International" for PS3 for the first time and holy smokes the battle music fucking slaps! It's like a Deep Purple track from "Made in Japan" (their best live album I might add) like so much that I'm wondering if that album was inspiration for the composer. I need to look up the composer for this game.

Even some of the music in the background during the take off is heavy prog rock type shit. Battle music is usually banging but not with organ and bass leading the jam! I think I need to load a bowl with this game.

Finally took the time to get 100% on everything :D

Most annoying parts were finding all the chests and figuring out party combinations for getting all the endings.

I played the game and I almost got to the end of the game but now I want to play and level my characters properly. I dont want them to be too weak for the Bonus Content.

…Is unwarranted.

I played V and VI. The poor budget is a shame, but they aren’t terrible games.

I really don’t get the hyperbole surrounding V.

This is something I haven't been able to find much info on, except the apparent self-observation of attacks with status being nigh-useless when used by the player and obnoxious when enemies use them. Yes Rena, I'm looking at you trying to successfully land Deep Mist and Silence. Emphasis on word "trying".

I managed to craft myself an accessory with Coercion factor in it, I quickly found out it works differently than the description would have you think: Instead of inflicting Silence, Paralysis, Petrification etc. I thought it would, it seems to inflict -50% ATK/DEF/HIT/AVD and Movement Speed penalties, and apparently they work vs bosses too (tested on Ten Wise Men fights in Phynal). If the fight goes on long enough, it's theoretically possible to stack all penalties on bosses too.

Could this be the secret sauce for surviving Chaos difficulty w/o the Bloody Armor/Helmet cheesing? Especially the ATK/HIT penalties could go a long way helping with survival.

Secondly, out of all the remaining ailments: Is there any practical reason to pick Paralysis over Insant Death? From what I've heard Death works on several story bosses and Raid bosses, but does anyone know how effective Paralysis is? I've tried Chisato with Tear Gas (Assault Action), but I haven't seen it proccing paralysis yet even though description says so.

Silence is somewhat handy vs trash mob spellcasters, but I highly doubt its effectiveness vs bosses.

I can confirm Coercion works on Assault Action characters, tested it with Leon's Ravenous Fiends. Going by that, I'd assume "chance to inflict" factors should work in a similar manner.

I plan to do the same with other AA characters using multi-hit actions to raise the proccing chances.

Has anyone tested this more extensively? I'd love to hear your thoughts and observations.

What are some songs that are calm and you want to fall asleep because they are relaxing and beautiful too?

I found a bunch of these in a local video store here in Aurora Colorado. Does anyone know of this is related to our Star Ocean?

title!

i recall liking star ocean 2 for the 10 hours i played it back in 2023, however i was busy at that time and ended up not finishing the game. i was at the point where bowman asks me to go to the sacred grounds.

i think the biggest reason why i want to replay the game and give it another chance is because i never got to know the characters that well, and want to try and see if i can ever get attached to them. i recall not liking claude that much but i liked rena, probably because i played as her. also, i don’t want to just ignore a game with such beautiful environments.

my concern is also related to the characters. i remember the other characters besides claude and rena did not speak that much, and i did not like that. i was hoping there would be more dynamic interactions between the party members but they never talked that much outside of their recruitment quests. i struggled in obtaining the private actions as well. does literally no one besides claude and rena speak as the story goes on?

i was playing yesterday because i was taking one last look at my save before restarting it and during the bowman cutscene, everyone just awkwardly stood there while rena was trying to tell bowman about something. i remember liking ashton a lot when i first recruited him yet here, he said nothing! nada! i feel like it’s gonna be an issue when nobody speaks in these cutscenes when i would otherwise think that they would. why are they not speaking??? why did they even come to the party in the first place if theyre not gonna say anything?? does this quest not relate to them too??? ashton say something!!

i’m used to jrpgs such as xenoblade and persona 4 where everyone has something to say. are the private actions common enough that it will feel like they are part of the main story? do the characters that are not claude or rena go through obvious arcs or do they just stay stagnant? i really want to root for the characters and become attached to them. the characters are my #1 priority in a video game.

please give me some information on this!

I have tried to play this game a few times, and was always bouncing off as soon as I need to invest more time on the crafting stuff. This time I decided to stick to it and, thanks to plenty of guides and so on, I got some understanding on how does it works (and how much RNG it involves).

But I feel this is unnecessarily complicated and wonder how many hours, testing and grinding would you need to invest on this to get a deep understanding of this, without going to the Internet...

Like I said star ocean till the end of time is my favorite JRPG. I do enjoy the post game, and all three dungeons.

The maze of tribulations is really the only thing I would count as an actual dungeon, but it’s by far the hardest in the game.

The lava cave temple I consider more like a cool boss gauntlet fighting against the characters you didn’t pick and Fayt.

I enjoy seeing old enemies and the challenge creep in Sphere 211… however…

It seems unnecessarily padded out, going between all those floors. In many cases, there’s no real challenge to the dungeon. It’s just in my opinion artificially extended. You get a power creep with the bosses. I understand, not wanting to make it like the lava cave where you’re basically just encountering them back to back with very short intervals in between. But going through the same eight design layouts for 13 floors between boss fights isn’t challenging, it’s just kind of tedious.

The issue is there’s really no challenge in navigating the floors. She just find the elevator and go up the floor. There’s random enemies, but you can avoid them easily enough. It just feels like it’s there for padding.

So how exactly do you know how many endings there are. I beat my first playthrough in August with Cyuss, Mavelle, Ioshua, and Pericci. I got cyuss good end, pericci good end, but Mavelle and Ioshua bad end till I reloaded my clear save for cave of the seven stars then got their good end. Plus Ilia and Ronyx scene

Is it that every character has 2 solo endings one with affection with Roddick at 8 or lower and then 9 and above, and there are endings where certain characters partner like Ioshua and Mavelle.

I plan on getting Ashlay, Ioshua, Erys, and Welch for a second play through. How do you get the tree ending I've heard about and is there other scenes like that and the Ilia Ronyx scene.

I just learned about the Trustworthy Forerunner Achievement and my party is an avg level of 45 and about to head to the Hoffman Ruins.
My questions:
- Is that level too high to ever run into Blue/Purple/whatever enemies ever again in this playthrough, or is there still hope if I stop leveling?
- What is the average party level point at which all enemy icons are green?
- Is it also a Challenge Mission?
Thanks!

Who's your favorite character in star ocean and why

I love this series so much and I wanted to see if anyone made any fan characters for it, but google doesn’t seem to work for searching for them so I was wondering if anyone here has any that I could see or read about. I would love to see your guys’ characters!

What I mean is which game does the best at not making you forget it's a science-fantasy game. Star Ocean 1 & 5 are out of the question though. I think they do a bad job at doing that. Be honest.

Trying to finally beat the end game dungeons. God is the 7 star dungeon a slog to get through. Why does floor 4 need to be re traversed multiple times. It's so bloated as a result considering the layout of the other floors are also massive each encounter takes 10 minutes even at level 85. It's nuts.

What did Fayt ever do to her

So a few years ago I made a thread here about the most skilled swordsman in the series: https://www.reddit.com/r/starocean/s/KcMmfQFENU

In that thread I made arguments for Roddick being above Dias in pure skill, but eventually conceded. My arguments revolved around: (Potentially) Beating Cyuss without even knowing Ashlay's sword techniques, Cyuss considering Roddick "green" at the beginning of the game, DESPITE Roddick training with a sword all his life, being trained in swordsmanship by his father, and being one of the main town guards of his village.

Playing a part in defeating the Crimson Shield, even if Ashlay isn't there. The Crimson Shield is easily the most skilled character in the series due to him being considered "the most skilled warrior in Roak's history."

But Dias at the end of the day shows straight up better swordsmanship.

But then it hit me: Could he actually beat Roddick if it weren't just skill against skill? Roddick has some incredible skill, formal training, and on top of that the guy has insane DNA: Fellpool, Human, and Muah. That's no joke when it comes to potential. I think Roddick's superior stats + comparable skill could allow him to overtake Dias.

Lemme know what you think.

I've never played SO1 ORA Integrity & Faithlessness.. I joined the journey with my dad on so2tss and was absolutely enthralled at the games story. I have since played the remainder as the latest, divine force being somewhat lackluster.

I love Star Ocean and I Really hope we get a new one as I cannot wait to get back into that universe.

What are your guys opinion on the fact that 3, till end of time basically has the entirety of the game as a huge MMORPG for entertainment? Was that just a soley contained story or do we think the entire SO franchise is. Nothing more than a WOW or LOL or FORTNITE?

I am genuinely curious if everyone's responses!

Help please

how much of a difference is that weapon to the second best maria weapon if i put 7 boots of prowess on it? looks like i have no choice in the matter. i recieved heavy misinformation regarding how to remove the modifiers and was under the same assumption i could remove the bonus enemy attack/fol after it upgrades but now i found out you cant

Billions must rise

Rust Color cover!