Tuesday, July 19, 2005

GAME REVIEW: Star Ocean
I've FINALLY finished star ocean: till the end of time. Let me tell you I thought I’d be playing till the end of time. My final time was 999hrs 59min and 59 sec.
(the highest you could go). I checked Every Fricken corner fought every damn monster and did everything I could to make it last long. I really didn't need to because it was long itself. The first disc. is basically setting up the plot the characters the setting all that crap. Almost all the bosses in the first disc are a cakewalk. The second disc however has a quite different setup (by the way did I mention there are TWO discs to fit all the game). Unlike the .hack series every single piece of that disc is packed with all sorts of stuff. You have loads of freedom in this game you can invent stuff, fight stuff, buy stuff, and hack at some stuff. There are also a variety of levels. Some times your on a medieval planet other times you'll be in the middle of nowhere space climbing a huge tower thing, anyone who's played star ocean knows how long it is. Anyway, the second disc is where the story really takes shape, I won't go into to much detail because you need to find out for yourself, but basically you have to save the universe from a weird dude named Luther. This game is actually pretty deep, surprisingly. It puts into question the existence of God, but it's still just an RPG. One down side is the graphics. The fighting and normal graphics are great but cut scenes...that's another story. I'm used to the Final Fantasy X, X-2 graphics that in some cut scenes are like human. All the cut scenes in this game are well…pretty bad saying they're the same company that produced the nearly perfect graphics of Final Fantasy X. In some cut scenes the mouths don't look right, they're chins look square not rounded, and there movements are off timing with the sounds. Maybe I’m being too picky but cut scenes are what make a game good.
Overall sound is good and it matches the environment also the fighting is great on how you can switch characters. and when you don't play as one character (while fighting) you can tell the other what to do.

Overall game play: I give this a 9
It’s a great game to play this summer and if you're like me it will last the whole summer too.

~Rod~
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