I like the English dub okay, some lines kind of make you cringe, like Rush's “Come on, let’s kick some A!!” still stuck in my mind. Problem is the lip movement was made to match English, just like Lost Odyssey, so Japanese is actually the dub. I like David’s unique accent, otherwise I prefer the Jpn cast (especially Rush), except the lip movement not matching.

It's like they wanted six year olds to be able to play it so they took the great combat system from Star Ocean 3 and gave it a total strategectamy. Blindside is pretty much a glorified tech you can't unequip that amounts to a lot of free damage from anywhere on the field at will. Then there's rush break. If they were going to copy one thing from Final Fantasy games, why did it have to be limits? Limits were a bad idea in FF7, and they've been an even worse idea in every game that's copied them. It's like, forget the need to aim, use tactics or plan strategy, just take a huge amount of free damage at set increments. Then having you auto-guard whenever you're not moving? Yeah, ten year old me called. Bestest game he's ever played. Me, I'll pass.

Maybe with a port they can put in some kind of option that makes it a *little* tactical. Like, turning off blindsides and rush breaks completely, and adding back in more interesting techs.

Wii snagged DQX, MH3 and Tales of Graces, so in the big name JRPG arena I'm not sure you can really say it doesn't have what it takes to attract the genre. The problem was that things have been so late in getting started, but that's pretty reflective of Wii's 3rd party situation in general. In terms of actual mechanics and game design, RPGs are one of the few genres Wii can do just as well as the big boys actually.

The majority of the 360 fanbase, in the west, probably didn't buy the 360 to play Star Ocean let alone RPGs in general. From the ~13 people I know who have 360s, none of them play RPGs (Some don't even know what those are). Though even the few other PS3 owners I now, only a handful play RPGs either. Yet overall, many PS2 owners most likely jumped to the PS3 and the Japanese (I believe) would much faster pick up SO4 for the PS3 than for the 360. (FFXIII is not going to be in JPN on the 360).

SO4 on the Wii? Yes, now let's port FFXIII to the Wii too… It'll totally work. The Wii really doesn't have the specs to be first pick for a majority of hot-sellers (at least for 3rd party devs).

That said it was 3's battle system that make it the best for me.