Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness is an RPG that merely fulfills its obligations. It's not awful thanks to a cast of likeable characters and an interesting premise, but an abundance of clichés, uneven polish, and messy combat and AI make it less than memorable. And as its main story only provides around 20 hours of playtime instead of the 60 or more the series usually delivers, some of those obligations aren’t met in full.
Game Rant - "From Star Ocean to Final Fantasy, there have been a number of JRPG's that have been unfairly undervalued by their Metascores. Here are 10 examples."
While I agree that the combat in Star Ocean 5's combat is pretty fun, saying that its story is more enjoyable than its predecessors is highly debatable. Also, it's not just the technical issues the game suffers from.
Completely disagree the games I played from the list all deserve their scores (Star Ocean, Nier, Tales of Zesteria, Type-0). While there are certainly people that love these games, they have flaws in many categories, that justify those scores.
Star Ocean especially bored the hell out of me. Lame story and face roll battle system (I finished the game anyway). These games are really niche and when rated by a broader public, fall short. In my opinion even in their own genre.
I personally have not played any game below 80 and thought wow this should have been 80-90 game. The only game I thought should have been 90 was Shadow Hearts II: Covenant. I am pretty sure there will be some games but average score usually is pretty good indication.
do you recommend any JRPG which you think were good/amazing but it didn't score well? I just purchased Tokyo xanadu but it seems way too slow like trails game but trail at least has good story. I will give it a shot
I think there were quite a few JRPG games that got hit with lower meta scores last gen when all these reviewers were on their anti-anime tropes kick. Not that they should get up there into the high 80s or 90s, but they weren't 60-70 games either.
That's mostly died off this gen, thankfully
I think Ni No Kuni 2 combat is pretty generic but if you add all DLCs then its combat is pretty awesome. I purchased the complete edition so I can say DLC changes the combat completely
Useless to argument troll, but e.g. Eat Lead is hilarious and extremely funny, yet mediocre on metastupids.... Lords of the Fallen, Strange brigade... I could name hundreds
Star Ocean is one of those series that did, and still does, things that others don’t. Think of it as a JRPG for fans of series like Star Trek. The casts regularly involve people from more advanced civilizations getting involved with those who are still growing, even though there are various measures in place to allegedly stop that sort of interference. As a result, people get energy weapons, cyborgs, magic and people who can turn into cats. It is a lot to take in.
Let's see here. There was another classic JRPG series that started this SCI Fi. It was Phantasy Star by Sega. Before Star Ocean, there was Phantasy Star 1-4 on Sega consoles
a beginners guide to star ocean....after playing the 3rd game
you've been told that the universe (SO lore) is just a ------------------- and close the book
Yeah, that plot twist didn't work for me. I wish SO3 isn't canon, but it is. Anyway, SE can just sweep SO3 under the rug perhaps by soft rebooting the franchise.
The first two were so great, among the top RPGs on 16 and 32-bit era. I wonder why it went downhill after that...
Play the PS1 game and then the PS2 game and then the rest probably aren't worth your time unless you're a superfan of the series. I think that's all you need to know.
Phil writes, "It's never a good feeling to be hyped for the next installment of one of your favorite franchises, and then POW! You're blindsided with an extremely disappointing game that hardly lives up to your anticipation and hype. That's the focus of The Most Disappointing Video Game Sequels, and now we're at the fifth installment. This are six more of those games that were either rushed out, released in a broken or incomplete state, or were simply less than stellar experiences overall.
After you browse through and read up on the latest unfortunate games added to this growing series of articles, which game sequels that haven't already been mentioned in a previous article do you think should be added in a future installment?"
This game isn't getting the best reviews. Very disappointing, I was looking forward to it for a while now.
This is a case of American media not knowing how to play, understanding jRPG games and what makes them good. The sites that are dedicated to the RPG genre like rpgfan.com gave it excellent scores. People need to stop paying attention to review scores from big corporate sites like IGN and Gamespot as they can be influenced by competitors looking to derail another anticipated exclusive for a more popular console. Most of the other sites that are less known and not being influenced by corporate suits are giving this game 7 and 8.
Edit. Well what do you know, this article was submitted by non other than Rookie_Monster, a supposed PS fan. This is the third Star Ocean reviews he submitted that are 6 and below. Too obvious.
This game is nowhere near as terrible that Star Ocean 4 was but that game got a pass for its messy design & laughable characters, average story, the worst main character in the series & the over abundance of backtracking in the game became tedious.
Look playing Star Ocean 5 i can see it is not the best in the series but it is far more enjoyable than 4 ever was. For what Tri-Ace was able to make with a limited budget thanks to the poor sales of SO4 i commend them for making the most of what they had.
The battle system is not messy like IGN has said though it does some getting use too than previous games thanks to the more characters available on screen. The music is arguably the best in the series or up there at least. IGN & some of these sites that have given the game a 'low' score have all the right to do so but some of their arguments are questionable compared to Star Ocean 4 which received fairly high scores.
I'm too busy for Star Ocean right now. FFXV and Persona 5 will feed my RPG hunger
I'm sure this so called reviewers only played the game on easy mode. I would like them to play the game on the hardest difficulty if they want to experience the game fully. It's been like that since the beginning of Star Ocean.