![]() " Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope is a decent RPG that has many ambitious mechanics and puts a lot of focus on story development." I should also point out that load times between areas are particularly short, which ended up being a plus since I found myself lost on the ship a few times. The battle system seems a bit more balanced, and I didn't experience as many frame rate issues as I remembered from the PlayStation 3 version. The main characters, *cough* Reimi, have nice designs and being that the camera likes to get in close it's possible to notice the improvements quickly. Also, if you leave the game for a few days and return to the story, it's entirely possible that you won't remember what to do to progress the story.Īs for the 4K Remastered version of Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope, this game looks gorgeous. Now, this wouldn't be a huge problem, but again, these planets can get big and backtracking or finding yourself in the wrong area could lead to you being lost for a while. Navigation is a big problem with Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope, cutscenes will trigger only if you are in the right area, such as with talking to a particular NPC, there isn't a prompt or map indicator to let you know where to go. Sometimes the only way to progress the story is to speak to a specific NPC, but the game doesn't prompt you as to which NPC that is. The problem with this is that the there is no indicator on the map to let you know if you are going the right way or even doing the right thing. Throughout the game, other characters will join the party, and each one has their own personality and battle style. When it comes to Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope's story, I must say that the more exciting sections come later on in the game, but at that time you might be too confused to even understand how the story got to that point.īeing that the explorable planets are so big, some dungeons have puzzles that require a little bit of thought to progress through to the next area. ![]() To find a new Earth, the SRF was created to explore space and map the solar system. Evidently, Earth has become uninhabitable after World War III and humanity moved to underground cities where they are slowly running out of resources. ![]() This is a story that should have developed organically around the main protagonist instead of inserted all at once throughout multiple cutscenes.Īs for the characters, we meet Edge Maverick and Reimi Saionji, two members of the Space Reconnaissance Force (SRF) who grew up together and have a fairly believable friendship. When there is this much story content inserted at the beginning of the game, it's difficult for the player to even care about the any of characters or what's going on in the world. Right from the start, you have to sit through a lengthy cutscene that attempts to explain the issues planet Earth faces. The first issue of Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope shows up pretty early as it involves the story. ![]()
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