Star Ocean 1 & 2 Remake/Port for PSP AND future SO4

[Doombear]

3 Discs. Story can take 40 hours give or take. That is just story of course, no side quests, completing the boards, etc. Hearing to do absolutely everything it can end up being over 100 hours easy.

I am not even off the 2nd planet and taking my time already. Lymle aside... i am really liking this game. THANK GOD you can at least turn off their voices in battle. If i had to hear her 'level up' blurb one more time -.-

[Okan]

Speaking of materials, I'm finding it a little annoying when I go to buy components from a vendor and it doesn't show me (at least I don't see where it does if at all) how many I already have. Granted, money is no issue right now, but would be nice to see how many I have before I buy stuff I don't need

It shows you, but in an odd way. It shows 0/20 whereas 20 is how much more you can buy. 0 is how many you are buying.

From what I'm reading on Gamefaqs, you don't get to choose between anyone, you just get additional endings based on your affection levels with certain characters. So it sounds like while there aren't alternate endings, there's just more cutscenes or something.

About the endings, you can get all of them on one play through as long as you get the affection of the other characters high enough. Well except Faize and Crowe because they both need special interactions. Aside from that, save before the last boss kill him with 2 of the people, get ending/achievement, rinse and repeat with 2 more people.

How to obtain Faize and Crowe's endings.

Spoiler: show

Faize's ending is by far the hardest, requiring these eight specific actions be done or it will be lost:

1. On the third leg of the flight from Lemuris to Cardianon, view Faize's first training event in the storage area north of the meeting room.
2. On the fifth leg of the flight from the Cardianon Mothership to the alternate Earth, trigger the event at the Item Creation terminal that ends with an accidental kiss between Lymle and Faize.
3. On the sixth leg of the flight from the Cardianon Mothership to the alternate Earth, speak with Lymle in the recreation room.
4. On the third leg of the flight from Planet Roak to Planet Aeos, skip the Meracle event and speak to Lymle in the recreation room instead.
5. Make Faize and Lymle roommates, then make sure to speak with them in their room during the fourth leg of the flight from Roak to Aeos, or after triggering the Faize training event while docked on Aeos.
6. On the second leg of the flight from Aeos to En II, have some cookies with Lymle and Faize in the recreation room.
7. On the seventh leg of the flight from Aeos to En II, speak to Sarah and Lymle in the room with the battle simulator.
8. While docked on Nox Obscurus, speak with Lymle in the storage area north of the meeting room. This one requires a lot of affinity between Lymle, Faize and Edge (but by doing the first 7 steps you should be there).


Crowe's ending is the second hardest, requiring these four specific PA's be done AND you must earn the endings for Reimi, Meracle and Sarah or it will be lost:

1. On the fifth leg of the flight to Cardianon, speak to Reimi in the room with the battle simulator.
2. After recruiting Myuria but BEFORE completing the Purgatorium, return to the Calnas to speak with Myuria and Bacchus in the crew quarters.
3. Either during the flight to En II or while docked there, trigger an event with Arumat and Reimi. Make sure to answer that Crowe is either your best friend or your enemy.
4. Place a funeral bouquet near the remains of Crowe's ship in the Halls of Termination on Nox Obscurus.

[Doombear]

Ah, that makes perfect sense Okan, about item qty in shops. I never put that together... and just assumed that each shop had a finite amount of items. Thanks! I feel stupid!

[Julian]

STAR OCEAN GET

but

I'm in the last dungeon of persona 4.

Do I beat persona 4 first, or jump into SO4. decisions ((((

[Julian]

STAR OCEAN GET

but

I'm in the last dungeon of persona 4.

Do I beat persona 4 first, or jump into SO4. decisions ((((

fuck persona it's star ocean tiem!

[Okan]

If you're on the last dungeon, just finish Persona.

[Nuriko]

Hmm I never noticed the item limit as anything significant either, nice catch.

I'm trying to avoid spoilers at this point but would you say I'd be ok if I went around and made sure I got all PA's available when the chances arise? Or are there instances where you have to choose between specific available PA's and choosing the wrong one results in a lost ending?

[Okan]

These are the only instances, to my knowledge, that you have to do at a certain time or else it is lost.

[Kais]

STAR OCEAN GET

but

I'm in the last dungeon of persona 4.

Do I beat persona 4 first, or jump into SO4. decisions ((((

Finish up Persona 4, SO's battle is pretty fun but good god is everything else killing me

[Julian]

I was in the last dungeon, like 2 levels in, and Yukiko learned meriarahan, and I stupidly overwrote mediarama even though I had a feeling that I really really shouldn't, and I felt stupid a few battles after so I shut it off >_>

I'll probably finish it tomorrow, getting my star ocean on for now

[sephir]

SO4 is really good. Im only on the second planet (just finished citadel thingy) and im getting close to lvl 20. The Blindside thing makes this game really easy and I can forsee being overpowered later in the game with constant 140%-150% exp bonuses. The Battle system is fun, but I hate Lymle, I cant wait to get another character so I can replace her in battle.

Also as far as IC goes, should I build heavily early on with things such as Smithing? or should I just wait and max out other things such as First Aid, and abilities?

[Okan]

Just do SP instead of EXP (Ambushes) and you'll get tons of SP to spend it on. There are two places coming up right next to each other that you can use to get tons of ambushes. Trying to be as spoiler free as possible, in the next dungeon area, there will be a room directly south of a zone point with a Harpyia and a lizard and there is a hallway to the east with two lizards right next to each other. You can get 2 quick ambushes and get a 10-14 SP combo board running pretty easily and just quickly farm SP.

[Insanecyclone]

'Kay Edgie 'Kay 'Kay 'Kay she sounds like a machine.

[BerenTebogo]

'Kay Edgie 'Kay 'Kay 'Kay she sounds like a machine.

Nothing worse than 'It's all thanks to you edgieeeee'

UGJHHHHGHFDGHDFHGS

[Fayttt]

Lymle is so fucking annoying.
I can't believe I'm even using her in my group.
Won't lie, she's pretty amazing in battle but her character itself...ugh.

also in the cave of 7 stars

WHAT THE FUCK WITH THESE GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING BEES
level 80. way stronger then I should be im rather sure as i stayed 10-15 levels over what was needed for the story. and these motherfuckers are giving me one hell of a time

[Zeb]

Great game so far, 16 hours in. The only negatives for me are the VA, the view on some maps makes it hard to tell distance wise how close you are to enemies, and sometimes moving up to an interaction point or a chest is a pain in the ass.

What kind of bonus boards do you guys have setup? I'm rocking a 70% xp bonus board and the going isn't too badly. I just wish I had known how to do the board on the first world. Although I can see myself having to setup a SP bonus board in the future for a little while.

[Okan]

First thing I did was learn how to create all on the bonus board.
Blue EXP is Critical kill
Green SP is Ambush (Linked battles)
Yellow FOL is Multiple Kills
Purple HP/MP is All Ability Kills

I've been putting more in to SP than EXP at the moment just trying to max out all available abilities and store up tons of free SP for new abilities like Auto Heal that I found. Maxed it as soon as I found it.

Loving it though. At around 900 battles at 25'ish hours, level 29, I just got the the character from the 3rd planet.

Few complaints though. I'm now running in to the issue where everything targets Reimi if I am playing her. If I don't control her, they go about rather randomly (normal). Linked ambushes can be annoying when they don't exactly happen. The mobs don't follow very far and some times you bump in to one and then you don't get the ambush. Wish they increased the radius at which they did link. Maybe I'm an oddity, but I don't avoid fights here so even with a max bonus board, I'd still like to get ambushes.

[BerenTebogo]

First thing I did was learn how to create all on the bonus board.
Blue EXP is Critical kill
Green SP is Ambush (Linked battles)
Yellow FOL is Multiple Kills
Purple HP/MP is All Ability Kills

I've been putting more in to SP than EXP at the moment just trying to max out all available abilities and store up tons of free SP for new abilities like Auto Heal that I found. Maxed it as soon as I found it.

Loving it though. At around 900 battles at 25'ish hours, level 29, I just got the the character from the 3rd planet.

Few complaints though. I'm now running in to the issue where everything targets Reimi if I am playing her. If I don't control her, they go about rather randomly (normal). Linked ambushes can be annoying when they don't exactly happen. The mobs don't follow very far and some times you bump in to one and then you don't get the ambush. Wish they increased the radius at which they did link. Maybe I'm an oddity, but I don't avoid fights here so even with a max bonus board, I'd still like to get ambushes.

Yeah there was one fight on Planet 3 after you take up the temp - if you can link 3 red lizards it's close to 1k EXP for easy ass fights. If it wasn't for like 2 foot link distance it'd be way nicer.

I have 11 EXP and 3 SP because I can't for the fucking life of me get that many ambushes - it doesn't help that I have critical hit trait on Reimi maxed + Synthed +CRIT bow. I can't do jack shit with her while building board unless I want all EXP+

And yeah - everything makes a fucking bee-line for reimi which is gay as hell. I've tried to get into the habit of the short knockback -> sonic thorn combo to open with and spread out the enemies a bit.

[Okan]

I have that problem with Edge. I didn't put the crit book on Reimi yet (Only found one) and most of the time I control her, I'm running away or doing jump attacks to avoid damage/bonus board breaking. Thinking about it now though, can't wait to get back to the ship with Bachhaus (sp) and start synthing like a mad man.

Are the recipes level based or purely skill based? I have maxed Smithing, Alchemy, Cooking, and Tailoring with the primary four and no matter how I switched them I couldn't learn anything else.

[Weltall]

I haven't even been able to play this game thanks to Killzone 2 >_> Good thing to see most people liking it.