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(More customer reviews)After the linear-style of Final Fantasy and other similar RPGs (Which I love BTW), I found Star Ocean 2 a wonderfully refreshing experience. There are just so many options - starting from the beginning, you can choose yourmain character, which other characters you want and take it from there,eventually leading to one out of 86 different endings. It's true that theendings stem mainly from the different combinations of characters that gettogether in the end...but 86! What other game can boast so much replayvalue?
The item creation system is very unique - cooking, art, machinery,authoring, customising...it's all within your power. You choose the skillsand specialities the characters learn. They write books for the othercharacters to read, make better weapons, compose music and create delicious(or not so delicious) dishes. They can even combine their skills to makesuper specialities, which allow you to get better at cooking, publishing,etc, and my favourite - where all the characters sincerely call Barney, agiant white rabbit to cart you around the countryside. Hilarious.
Thegraphics IMO are pretty good. The 3D backgrounds are lovingly rendered,even including really cool minor details like your reflection on a pond orin a mirror. Nice. The characters themselves are 2D sprites, which looksbetter than it sounds - no hassles with fuzzy polygons or anything likethat. And Links has done a fine job (as usual) on the FMV - great eyecandy.
The battle system allows you to take a much more active role incombat situations. In active mode, you basically dash around and try tokonk the enemy without them hitting you. Fighting characters have Killermoves, which are special attacks that are assigned to the L1 and R1buttons. They look cool and wreak havoc on the battle field. For magicusers, the spell animation is nice too, and there is the interestingpossibility of combining spells by casting them at the same time, which canlead to greater damage if done properly.
If I do have any complaints,they are generally not the fault of the game, rather the people who weresupposed to be checking for bugs. Firstly it crashes - no game has evercrashed on me like this one. So save a lot. And there are little things,like the character voices getting mixed up - it is so funny to hear Precisyelling 'Parabola Beam! ' while Claude is doing Mirror Slice, and thewrong word appearing for spells. I guess I'm nitpicking.
As for the gameitself, I find some of the character's voices rather irritating. But that'sa personal thing. The music _is_ rather repetitive...they play the sametracks over and over, but even so, they still sound nice.
[I do have onelarge complaint, and this is that I had to import the game to play it,since it hasn't been released in Australia and doesn't look likely in thenear future. There _are_ serious RPG players here and it would be great ifthe distribution companies recognised that.]
Star Ocean 2 is a reallygood game, offering so much - a great battle system, memorable characters,beautiful graphics and a pretty darn good story. A must for any RPG fan.
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