
As with SO1, I won’t be doing the PAs (too tedious) and I’ll only do any sidequests that really interest me. Maybe this was true of the originals, but the remakes are basically the same game, only SO2 got the ‘teenaged angst’ story. It’s disappointing, because I was told SO2 was an improvement over SO in every single way. But this game lacks plenty when compared to its predecessor. I wouldn’t be going out of my way to do a long sidequest if I wasn’t. Which is not to say I dislike the game, mind you. By itself 6 hours of nothing wouldn’t be such a bad deal for an RPG, but when I compare Second Evolution to the first game and all the crazy things that happened there in the first hour alone, I can’t help finding this a major letdown. THIS IS FROM A. Part of that is my fault for turning around at Harley and going back to Salva to hunt dragons, but even that didn’t take that much time. Level up until you can survive one battle in Lasguss, north of Cross, and then run around and level up.

Get Sensibility 1 and 2, from Cross and Herlie. Play the game as normal until after Cross, when you have Celine and get the mission to go to the cave. We’re supposed to go examine some big ball or another, but we haven’t even gotten close to the continent where it’s happening, much less the actual location. Reset the game repeatedly until your main characte ither Claude or Ren as Dexterity. After 6 hours virtually nothing has happened. The failure rate for skills like Appraising and Cooking is also as high as ever, but this time I know enough not to waste precious Skill points on them.Īlso the pacing of this game is much, much slower.

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Even the high encounter rate is still present, and Scouting still does zip and nil to fix that. Instead of AWAKEN! DRAGON FROM BEYOND THE CLOUDS! You have stuff like Cross Slash and Twin Thrust and some other stuff I haven’t really listened to because I usually keep the game on mute because the voices annoy me. Visually and gameplay-wise Star Ocean Second Evolution is just First Departure with new battle attacks.

Every time she starts talking about Dias and every time Claude gets all mopey-wopey I just want to punch them in the mouth. I still can’t stand Claude and his goofy face and I don’t like Rena as much as I thought I would when I picked her story. But that’s all optional content I’m pursuing because it amuses me. I’m about 6 hours in and things have gotten a little better since I added Ashton to my party simply because the whole Creepy ‘n’ Weepy saga is pretty funny. It plays 99% like the first Star Ocean, only Square-Enix took all the cool characters out and replaced them with whiny teens.
