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A Master to rule all RPG'S, and a few FF'S

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I only borrowed this RPG for about one month and I was hooked. The reasons are the music is better than any game (even some non-video game music) ever. The options are more varitied in choice than any RPG ever, such as skill, abilities, magic, characters etc... And the battle system is the best there ever will be, with free movement, give commands to AI controlled characters, choose the starting posistion before any battle and up to four characters on your battling party. As opposed to some Final Fantasy games this one's by far better. There's just one con, the story isn't so well thought of, but it's hard to change the story when there's 86 possible endings. Though I never beat it when I borrowed it I must have it.

PS- The strategy guide together makes a game with just the right difficulty. And if want to get the secret characters, it's nearly impossible unless you have the stretegy guide along side.

A Myriad of Thrills and Long Gaming Hours

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Of all of the games ever made, Star Ocean: Second Story has been and remains to be my favorite of them all. Many years ago, I fell in love with this title for it's old school graphics and killer fighting system. In what other game do characters have such a wide variaty of winning catch phrases? The game is packed full of so many extras that I played the game until it cracked in half, taped it back together, and still haven't done it all. What other game in the known universe can that be possible even for someone who is as adept to gaming as I? All in all, the graphics, awsome. The music, cool. The fihting system, killer.
The game? A+

-Pillar-Of-Salt

Almighty

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The first star ocean was the most amazing rpg i have ever played in my life... unfortunately it was in japanese but i still beat it :). So of course i jumped on the opportunity to play the sequel in ENGLISH!!! The most amazing experience,...and it says like unknown or something because there are over 80 endings!!! Thats all i have to say is pick up this game right now its hot!

Speechless....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best games ever invented...i know you hear that all the time but it IS!!! The graphics are alot like oldschool...my perosonal favorite...The sound is great...The story line is a one of a kind. You can choose between 2 charactors. You run around battle instead of turned base. And there are over 80 differet endings..

great stuff

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an incredible game. It is insanely deep, has a great storyline with plot twists and such, and over 80 endings. The item creation takes a lot of getting used to, but soon enough you'll be making incredible weapons, armor, food, instruments.... pretty much anything you want. The only 2 games I'd rank above this are Xenogears and FFVII.

An RPG with something that many lack...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

All gamers have had the experence of playing a game (be it an RPG or anything else) they felt had its fair share of flaws, but has that one, very bright redeeming quality that makes all those flaws take a backseat to that one positive.

Star Ocean: The Second Story is one of those games. Star Ocean's appeal (at least in my case) can be summed up in a single word: combat. Star Ocean's combat system is probably the game's most notable feature. The real-time battle system, which has a very arcade-like feel to it, is a very enjoyable change than your standard-fair RPG battles. It's just so much fun to destory enemies with a volley a special attacks from you and your allies. The skill system is also a plus as well, increasing characters stats and developing other usefull, non combat skills.

Unfortunately, the rest of Star Ocean's elements aren't quite up to par when compared to the hustle and bustle of battle. Graphically, Star Ocean is behind the times no matter where you turn (excluding the FMV's). Actually, the game's graphic engine is very simular to a 1998 Square-Enix title, the often overlooked and bashed-to-no-end SaGa Frontier (one of my favorites - yes, I'm serious). The fact the game uses most of the same graphical tricks empolyed by a game two years earlier underlines this fact.

Storywise, Star Ocean 2 suffers another, slightly smaller blow. While the story is generally good, it seems to drag on until you reach the second disc, where you do more exploring and fighting and the story begins to unfold more. Characters aren't as developed as well in Star Ocean compared to other RPG's such as Final Fantasy or Wild Arms, though the game tries to make a very obvious effort to do this though the use of the private actions system (where you enter a location and your characters split up and you can talk to them on a one-on-one basis to discover more about them - this affects the outcome of the game in various ways). I will give the developers credit for trying though.

Musically, Star Ocean 2 has it's ups and downs. Some of the tunes can be quite annoying, but no game score is without it's duds. However, when you hear the battle themes played near the end of the game for the final bosses, which mainly are of heavy rock/metal variety, all is foregiven. Soundwise, the characters various soundbites during battle are cute at first, but become annoying really quickly (how many times can you remember Claude saying "that's around 50 points" after a battle - too many to admit when I'm sober).

Even with it's flaws, Star Ocean: The Second Story is an above average RPG. While I'm not sure if I would call it a "classic", I would recommend it to anyone who had the time or showed interest in the genre.

the typical generic rpg

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: December 26, 1999
Author: Amazon User

yeah, nice intro, cool begining, you have 80 different endings and 2 characters to play; but there it stops in hype. The story is so typiical, the script or what they say its aweful and the action battle scenes are clumsy to use, and who would play this game 80 times to see the ending i could barley do one before going crazy with the slow and corny dialogue of the sequences, it just didnt stick to you...save your money, buy lunar trust me..

I say....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I'd say this is a challenging, and fun game. The characters slowly develope into better personalities. The voices COULD'VE been a little better, I mean a nineteen year old doesn't look or talk like that! Claude looks a good 16, and needs a slightly higher voice! BUT This is all,in,all a GREAT MUST-buy game I got it in July.

close to ff7

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

one word WOW! this is a great game it has tons of skills and charecters. all I have to say is this is a GREAT game.

learn to spell editor guy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

star ocean 2 is great. end of story. my only beef is that the the editor guy above said "Crawd" when the main character's name is "Claude". Otherwise the game is major fun. The game can get a bit difficult on the second disc, and i would have liked to see more voice overs. other than that its great.

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