Star Ocean is a role-playing video game franchise developed by Japanese tri-Ace company and published and owned by Square Enix (formerly Enix).
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Creativity and influence
As a fan of science fiction and space travel, the developers at tri-Ace created the Star Ocean series with sci-fi settings in mind and have called Star Trek as one of the influences their main for visual gameplay as well as its underlying, but real, influence on this series as a whole. While the first Star Ocean game includes more fantasy elements to attract a wide audience, the next installment naturally moves towards a more science-fiction-oriented nuance, with Star Ocean: Until The End of Time Maps Star Ocean
Design
Star Ocean is known for their real-time battle machines, and, to be one of the first of its kind to come to the console. The battle takes place on a separate screen, but all characters (rather than waiting in one place and taking damage) are fully mobile in three dimensions, can avoid and chase enemies, and have to cast spells and spread the attacks despite enemy harassment. In previous games, magicians have spells, while fighters have special physical attacks called "Killer Movement"; both are learned after meeting certain level requirements (or through certain items and sidequest) and HP or MP costs to use. In Star Ocean: Until The End of Time , all characters can use spells and fighting skills (ie killer movements).
The series is also known as some of the earliest action RPGs that allow players to alter the outcome of the story line through player actions and dialogue choices, especially through a social relations system known as "personal acts". The original Star Ocean, published by Enix in 1996, introduces a social system of "personal action", in which the relationship of the protagonist to another character is influenced by the choice of player, which in turn affects the plot, leading to the path branching and different endings. It expanded in its 1999 sequel, Star Ocean: The Second Story, which boasted as many as 86 different ends, with each possible permutation for this suffix numbering in the hundreds, setting the benchmark for the number of possible outcomes for the game videos. Using a relationship system inspired by dating sims, each character has a friendship point and relationship points with each other character, allowing players to pair, or send, each pair (both heterosexual and romantic relationships) of their choice, allowing the form fan fiction is in the game itself. However, the relationship system in Star Ocean not only affects the storyline, but also the gameplay, influences the way characters behave to each other in combat.
Star Ocean games also take a thorough approach to the items. Party members can create new objects or enhance existing ones through crafts such as metalworking, alchemy, writing, painting and cooking. The strongest items and equipment are usually only available through Item Creation, and many others can be sold for profit or other benefits (books can be used to transfer skills and abilities; cooked food can be used to avoid 20-each inventory limitations) , puts great importance on Goods Creation.
The characters of this series are designed to be "action-figure-like". A feature that adjusts the appearance of characters when replacing their equipment is considered for the series but is eventually removed due to its many characters to design. However, in the next installment of Star Ocean: The Last Hope , the character's appearance actually changes to reflect the type of weapon they use.
Finally, the two second and third games are somewhat renowned for changing the names of characters whose names contain religious references, which some fans find unusual in light of recent associations with Square and other RPGs (most famous Xenogears ) does not remove such a reference.
Star Ocean Gameplay is often compared to Namco's Tales series of video games by coincidence: after the release of Tales of Phantasia practically all design departments left and set up a tri-Ace. Consequently, many consider Star Ocean genuine as the 'spiritual sequel' of Tales of Phantasia; comments that can traditionally be found on fan sites depicting the first title in this series.
Games
The first game in this series is just titled Star Ocean. The album was released on July 19, 1996 for Super Famicom and was never released outside Japan; However, it was not officially translated into English through hacking ROM by DeJap Translations, and the resulting game can be played through emulation. It sets the series' staples, including futuristic settings, real-time battle system, item-making, and personal actions. It happened at 346 SD, and followed the adventures of Roddick Farrence as he searched for a cure for the disease on his planet with the help of two Earthlings. The upgraded remake titled Star Ocean: First Departure was released for the PlayStation Portable on December 27, 2007, in Japan, October 21, 2008, in North America, and October 24, 2008, in Europe. The game was remade using the Star Ocean 2 engine, adopting a pre-rendering and 3D battlefield background, as well as new character art and animated scenes provided by Production I.G, and a sound-filled dialogue. There are also new playable characters.
Star Ocean: The Second Story was released for the PlayStation on July 30, 1998, in Japan, May 31, 1999, in North America, and April 12, 2000, in Europe. [i] Star Ocean: The Second Story It retains its predecessor features while introducing pre-rendering backgrounds, full motion videos, and 3D battlefields. Taking place in SD 366, he features new figures, including Claude C. Kenny, Ronyx J. Kenny's son from the original Star Ocean, and Rena Lanford, who both investigated Globe Sorcery, who had landed on Planet Expel and had causing disaster since then. The upgraded port titled Star Ocean: Second Evolution was released for the PlayStation Portable on April 2, 2008, in Japan, January 19, 2009, in North America, February 12, 2009, in Australia and February 13, 2009, in Europe. It's announced along with First Departure , and similar upgrades feature, including full dialogue of sounds, new playable characters, and new character artwork and animated scenes provided by Production I.G.
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere is a direct sequel to The Second Story , released for Game Boy Color on June 28, 2001, in Japan (North American version planned but canceled). Blue Sphere customize the Star Ocean series to hand-helds that alter some aspects of the process, including interactive item creation, auto-personal actions, 2D side scroll battle, Field Action, and deletion a random battle. This happened in 368 SD, two years after The Second Story, and featured the return of the 12 main characters as they sought to solve the mystery of Planet Edifice and its destructive nature that eradicated the civilization of the planet. every 200 years.
Star Ocean: Until The End of Time was released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan in 2003. Game director pieces with bonus dungeons, playable characters, versus modes, and gameplay tweaks were released on in 2004, and the version was brought to North America and Europe in the same year. Until The End of Time is the first fully 3D game in the series and features full voice dialog. It retains most aspects of the previous games with new features, such as the anger and bonus battle gauges, as well as the ability to patent items created during item creation and recruit inventors to create items for players. The game lasts nearly 400 years after the last Blue Sphere , in 772 SD. Fayt Leingod was the main character, and having found himself separated from his family during an alien attack on the resort planet, was pursued by the same Vendeeni forces throughout the room for reasons beyond his imagination.
Star Ocean: The Last Hope was released for Xbox 360 on February 19, 2009, in Japan, February 23, 2009, in North America, June 4, 2009, in Australia and June 5, 2009 , in Europe. It was also released for the PlayStation 3 worldwide in February 2010. It is a prequel to the entire series, noting post World War III where mankind must find new homes to survive. The protagonist is a young man named Edge Maverick who was accompanied by his childhood friend Reimi Saionji.
Star Ocean: Material Trader is a free item-producing RPG card and an item for the GREE mobile phone network. GREE and Square Enix have suspended this service since February 28, 2014 and the app has been removed.
Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness was released for PlayStation 4 on March 31, 2016, in Japan, June 28, 2016, in North America, and July 1, 2016, in Europe, and at PlayStation 3 on April 28, 2016, in Japan. The story takes place between Star Ocean: The Second Story and Star Ocean: Up To End , in 537 SD, as seen in the first teaser.
Star Ocean: History is a role-playing game featuring three-dimensional characters and environments. Players take part in real-time battles against enemies that support up to four players. It was released in Japan on December 7, 2016 for Android and iOS devices.
Releases in North America
Of the six games in the series, five have been released outside of Japan. Star Ocean: The Second Story is the first game published in the United States, by Sony Computer Entertainment America.
With the PlayStation 2 installment, Star Ocean: Until the End of Time, Square Enix hopes to attract more gamers, especially in the United States, where franchising has not been very popular. Cut 2 Disc Version Director Star Ocean: Until The End of Time has been released in North America, with more playable characters, more games and additional story line. In July 2005, Star Ocean: Until The End of Time is part of Sony's Greatest Hits line, showing that the game has done quite well in North America.
In 2008, Square Enix released an enhanced remake of the original Star Ocean title for PlayStation Portable called Star Ocean: First Departure . This was followed in 2009 by an increase of the Star Ocean port: The Second Story for the PlayStation Portable called Star Ocean: Second Evolution .
Star Ocean: The Last Hope was released in North America within a week of the Japanese release on the Xbox 360. An enhanced version called Star Ocean: The Last Hope International edition was later released as an exclusive worldwide PS3 in the quarter the first of 2010. This port includes Japanese audio, new character portraits, as well as some other new features exclusive to that version. "Star Ocean: The Last Hope" is also available in Steam as 4K & amp; Full HD Remaster.
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere remains the only game in the series that is not released outside of Japan in any form.
Manga and anime
There is an incomplete manga series by Mayumi Azuma based on Star Ocean: The Second Story , which is the same incomplete anime series Star Ocean EX . The anime series was released by Geneon Entertainment in the United States. The anime has 26 episodes that include events that occur on the first disc of the PlayStation game. The event continued on the Drama CD afterwards.
See also
- Square Enix franchise list
- Japanese game role-playing game list
Note
References
External links
- English-language product pages of tri-Ace
- Japanese Eternal Sphere portal site for this series.
- The official website of the North American Star Ocean series
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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