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Star Ocean: The Divine Force Review - Prime Directive | Gaming Trend

Gaming Trend - "Star Ocean: The Divine Force is a bold and exciting new direction for the series with incredibly fun combat, great characters, and a gripping story. It stumbles more often than it should, but this grand return was more than worth the wait."

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jznrpg555d ago (Edited 555d ago )

Story check ! Good characters check ! Fun Combat check! That’s all I need. I hope this does well sales wise ( I did buy it day 1 ) so I hope we get a next installment with a little more . Not a lot more just a little more . I’m going to play the first 2 games again after I beat this . Second game is the best .

gold_drake555d ago

Star Occean is pretty niche. so i dont expect super high numbers tbh.

lonewolf10555d ago

Tri-Ace are just about to go insolvent sadly, although they do not own the IP.

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shinoff2183555d ago

If they going bankrupt I hope sony swoops in and gives them a helping hand, tri ace makes fun games.

shinoff2183555d ago

Part in the review the person says they wouldve preferred they went with a more cell shaded look. Im glad they didnt we dont get alot of good jrpgs that look like this these days and I prefer this look over cell shaded games.

lucian229555d ago

I like 3d but the character models do need updating, especially the main character.

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for September: NieR Replicant, 13 Sentinels, Civilization VI

Also included are Star Ocean The Divine Force, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2, Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, Unpacking.

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Snookies12238d ago

Hot damn those are some high quality games right there. I've been meaning to give 13 Sentinels a go, just haven't had the time to get around to it.

RpgSama238d ago

I had it on my wishlist waiting for a Discount, when I knew I would be close to playing it, so much in my backlog already, might as well try it now.

Also looks at ALL those Star Ocean titles!!!

Einhander1972238d ago

The story is so great especially if you don't know what's going on, When i played it I kept thinking I bet this is "it" no I bet that's "it" no it's got to be this, but "it" wasn't those things in the end.

It's Japanese story telling style at it's finest, lead you along and let you wonder what is actually going on really keeping you engaged to figure out the mystery.

The RTS gameplay I really enjoyed too, my only regret was that there wasn't even more of it!

RpgSama237d ago

LOL,

Who is salty enough to give you 4 dislikes for praising this game?

fr0sty237d ago

Probably why they hiked the price, so there could be better quality games and less shovelware.

notachance237d ago

It's one of the best story ever made in recent years, there's a reason it was nominated the best narrative in 2020's TGA.

Tapani237d ago

I heard 13 Sentinels has a superb story, gotto try it at one point.

I can vouch for Nier Replicant, it has one of the coolest endings I have experience in a game. Took me a while to complete the game fully, but man, it was more than worth it in the end.

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SegaSaturn669238d ago

nier and star ocean. 14 sentinels, jrpg dream. Even I can't hate on that.

CrimsonWing69238d ago

13 Sentinels is a must play if you haven't. Like, I can't praise enough what an awesome story and set of characters that game has.

monkey602238d ago

Why did they rename Backbone? Strange.

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Tri-Ace still uses their old game engine from 2008

The gaming community lately makes jokes about companies making games that look like "PS3" or "PS2" games. While this is such a nasty dig, there may be some truth to this in the case of tri-Ace.

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GoodGuy09343d ago

Sad really. I used to love these guys but man...they just aren't what they used to be.

phallusitator342d ago

According to the this they are exactly what they used to be…

Noskypeno343d ago

The Cod games have been using an engine built in the mid 90s. Nothing wrong with using an old engine if they update it. Bioshock used UE2 and looked better than most UE3 games. Arkham knight used UE3 and looked better than most UE4 games.

Chriswynnetbh343d ago

I would give my left nut for an infinite undiscovery pc port

shinoff2183343d ago

Sh it does suck but I enjoyed star ocean 6 the most out of any game last year. I thought it was solid af start to finish. My favorite game that year.

I'd love for Sony to get ahold of them.

shinoff2183343d ago

To late to edit but I just wanted to add not every game that comes out needs to push a consoles boundaries. Star ocean 6 looked fairly good to me.

shammgod342d ago

Yeah. They definitely squeezed every drop out of that engine for SO6. It was a fun game

nitus10342d ago (Edited 342d ago )

I assume you are talking about "Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness" which I do have and am still playing. IMHO it is a good game but for some reason I still prefer "Star Ocean: The Last Hope" that I played on my PS3.

As a side note I have "Star Ocean: Till the End of Time" (PS2 version) which I played on my first gen PS3 but unfortunatly the Australian version of the PS3 did not have full backwards capability like the US version did. I got so far in the game and hit a bug (advancement to a new area between two mountains) that prevented further play.

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Star Ocean: The Divine Force No Longer Has Denuvo DRM On Steam

Star Ocean: The Divine Force no longer appears to have the anti-tampering Denuvo DRM technology in the Steam version.

gurp381d ago

I already beat the game, but thank you

Tzuno381d ago (Edited 381d ago )

It doesn't need denuvo
Looks mediocre at best
Maybe it's a phenomenon in Asia