Over 100 and they will be easier to discover compared to past Star Ocean games. Private actions are unlocked by making Edge talk with party members on the Calnus, his ship, while everyone is doing their day to day tasks. Some of these scenes can only be found at night when the characters are rooming [...]

Square Enix sent over a bunch of pretty Star Ocean: The Last Hope screenshots to stare at to prepare for the revised February 24 release date. Some of these show Lymle and the cerberus she summoned. Some of them show other characters. Can you name all of them?   Let’s see there’s Bacchus, Myuria, Faize, [...]

Like any year we’re bound to see lots of games get delayed, but not Star Ocean 4!   Square Enix covertly changed its release date from March 3 to February 24. We get Star Ocean: The Last Hope a full week earlier than expected and that launch date is only five days after it comes [...]

While aesthetically less impressive than Sega’s Yakuza 3 PS3, the Star Ocean 4 Xbox 360 package makes up for it by including lots of goodies. This package contains an Xbox 360 Arcade console, disc with five Xbox Live Arcade games, wireless controller, Star Ocean 4, a selection of songs on the Star Ocean Best Collection [...]

Remember the days of comparing the “length” of RPGs by how many CDs they came on? Since DVDs became the standard media format we missed doing that in the PS2 / Xbox / Gamecube era. The Xbox 360 doesn’t have a fancy Blu-ray drive so Microsoft and Square Enix are going back to basics by [...]

Since the Last Remnant is out Square Enix is starting to push Star Ocean: The Last Hope with gameplay videos. You may have seen this trailer before since it’s recycled footage from TGS, but this clip is slightly different. This video wasn’t recorded from a giant screen and it has English voice acting. No word [...]

Star Ocean: Second Evolution will ship out on January 20 instead of coming out on January 6. This minor release date shuffle should give RPG fans extra time to cruise through this holiday season’s RPG surplus. In early 2009 the RPG flood will continue with Ar Tonelico II, Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly [...]

It seems like you will spend quite a bit of time in the Calnus, your spaceship in Star Ocean 4. For the first time in a Star Ocean game you can joyride in outer space instead of magically teleporting via save points. The Calnus is more than a mode of transportation too. Inside the ship [...]

Star Ocean: First Departure offers a unique opportunity for Star Ocean series fans – it is the first time that the title has been released outside of Japan. This alone would make it stand out and a must buy for…

Like The Last Remnant—the other XBox 360 title Square Enix was showcasing at this year’s Tokyo Game Show—the debut of Star Ocean 4 in North America is not far off. The localized version will be arriving in March, less than a month after the Japan release. Taking place just years after weapons of mass destruction [...]

Tri-Ace plans to deliver Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope to Japan on February 19, 2009. While Star Ocean 4 is getting a worldwide release Square Enix isn’t going to be pulling a nearly simultaneous release like they’re doing with the Last Remnant. Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope won’t come out in North America [...]

Square Enix said Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope and the Last Remnant would be at Tokyo Game Show, but in what form? The ambiguous presence might be accredited to where both games are going to be found. Inside the press release announcing  Infinite Undiscovery’s release in Japan, Microsoft said playable builds of Star Ocean [...]

Back in April this was a rumor, but you knew Square Enix would pull through. Star Ocean: First Departure and Star Ocean: Second Evolution will eventually come out in North America since both games will be at their E3 booth. These games are respective remakes/ports of Star Ocean 1 (Super Famicom) and Star Ocean 2 [...]

While the announcements at Xbox 360 RPG Premiere 2008 transpired in Shibuya, they were meant for the world. Like Japan, North America will get Tales of Vesperia in August. Namco Bandai has yet to announce a specific date, but it should be less than a month from the August, 7 debut. Unfortunately, Europe will have [...]

It's a bit odd to say; but when playing Star Ocean: Second Evolution, it really felt no different than playing Star Ocean: The Second Story. Perhaps it's because despite a nice graphical polish and new animated cinematics from Production I.G. and a few minor add-ons to the game itself (13 new endings, which totals out [...]

With a possible subtitle for Dragon Quest VI, I think we’re done with Dragon Quest DS rumors for the time being. Star Ocean rumors? Let’s move on to those.   We’ve been waiting to hear something official about Star Ocean: First Departure and Star Ocean: Second Evolution in North America. Square Enix registered trademarks for [...]