Why I hate Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Posted: Dec 20, 2004 11:49 pm
Okay, I just copied this from my site and I've heard about some people who play Star Ocean here. Deal with it. I hate the game and can back it up.
First off, Graphics.
Tales of Symphonia's cutscenes can be dull sometimes, but Star Ocean: Miserable Failure's are just not on par.
Why?
Well, let me explain. The character movements are SHARP and the graphics close up are obnoxious and since you see cutscenes mainly close up, BOOM!
Here is an example of the sharpness.
See the flop of Fayt's arm? That's sharp for an arm movement.
Here is yet another one, except this time, with abnoxious graphics and sharp movements...
You'll also notice the postion it is taken in. Female abuse.
Also, the graphics are bland. Sure they may look good, but earnesly, they are bland in action,
Like So,
Then we also have the fact, that Star Ocean abuses A LOT of the female character's bodies. ToS only had Sheena and Pronyma. Sheena was mainly like that though so you could have Zelos and Pronyma made seldom appearances.
See, all the female bodies are just plain abused.
Then finally on graphics, we have the transvestite.
Yggdrasill may be a pretty boy, but this is just overdone...
Okay, now onto sound.
Star Ocean is, let's just say, pathetic. But it is pathetic to a higher degree in this area.
Sound. The character Cliff sounds like he is from the Mafia, the character Peppita is just a, "Uh well... ah..." character who talks like that at the beggining, then gains seriousness, but has that squeak still. Sophia sounds just depressed. "Fayt, Fayt, blah blah blah." Then we have Fayt himself, The only part where they decided voice acting would be decent along with that other lady whose name I can't remember. Only moderate though.
Then, lets go to the combat system.
Technically, you have like, close range and long range attacks. You can't really click attack, then click another button to link a combo to that. No, that doesn't work.
Also, the combat system is repetitive. A bunch of the same monster types are clustered in one area. Everyone you hit of the same type will have the EXACT same combination.
You have to find different avatars to get a different variety, which are lacking. Let's go on though.
The combat system's ai is also pathetic. While you are fighting, you're mage is trying to figure out if they should die or live. Mostly, they choose die and die easily. So yeah, if you don't have a sufficent amount of units and you are underleved by the slightest amount, you are dead.
Also, magazines report it as boring for fighting. Meh, I've played it barely in combat, but it does seem so. I did improve my friend's moves though. I got him this sort of kick move on.
Now, to wrap it up. Can you not see why it is hated? Oh sure I may be ToS biased, but this RPG is still a piece of trash. Me liking Tales of Symphonia doesn't change that,
-Kafei
First off, Graphics.
Tales of Symphonia's cutscenes can be dull sometimes, but Star Ocean: Miserable Failure's are just not on par.
Why?
Well, let me explain. The character movements are SHARP and the graphics close up are obnoxious and since you see cutscenes mainly close up, BOOM!
Here is an example of the sharpness.
See the flop of Fayt's arm? That's sharp for an arm movement.
Here is yet another one, except this time, with abnoxious graphics and sharp movements...
You'll also notice the postion it is taken in. Female abuse.
Also, the graphics are bland. Sure they may look good, but earnesly, they are bland in action,
Like So,
Then we also have the fact, that Star Ocean abuses A LOT of the female character's bodies. ToS only had Sheena and Pronyma. Sheena was mainly like that though so you could have Zelos and Pronyma made seldom appearances.
See, all the female bodies are just plain abused.
Then finally on graphics, we have the transvestite.
Yggdrasill may be a pretty boy, but this is just overdone...
Okay, now onto sound.
Star Ocean is, let's just say, pathetic. But it is pathetic to a higher degree in this area.
Sound. The character Cliff sounds like he is from the Mafia, the character Peppita is just a, "Uh well... ah..." character who talks like that at the beggining, then gains seriousness, but has that squeak still. Sophia sounds just depressed. "Fayt, Fayt, blah blah blah." Then we have Fayt himself, The only part where they decided voice acting would be decent along with that other lady whose name I can't remember. Only moderate though.
Then, lets go to the combat system.
Technically, you have like, close range and long range attacks. You can't really click attack, then click another button to link a combo to that. No, that doesn't work.
Also, the combat system is repetitive. A bunch of the same monster types are clustered in one area. Everyone you hit of the same type will have the EXACT same combination.
You have to find different avatars to get a different variety, which are lacking. Let's go on though.
The combat system's ai is also pathetic. While you are fighting, you're mage is trying to figure out if they should die or live. Mostly, they choose die and die easily. So yeah, if you don't have a sufficent amount of units and you are underleved by the slightest amount, you are dead.
Also, magazines report it as boring for fighting. Meh, I've played it barely in combat, but it does seem so. I did improve my friend's moves though. I got him this sort of kick move on.
Now, to wrap it up. Can you not see why it is hated? Oh sure I may be ToS biased, but this RPG is still a piece of trash. Me liking Tales of Symphonia doesn't change that,
-Kafei
