Star Ocean The Second Story R Is A Full-Blown Remake Of A Classic PS1 RPG

Highlight of the Direct for me. This looks awesome!

I'm gonna die so much. But I can't wait!

Don't know anything about this but I thought it looked great. Anyone played the original?

I gave this a hard pass back in the PS1 era but I'm willing to try this again now with the HD2D graphics. It looks really good.

I’m planning also getting this! My backlog will never be finished…

One of my favorite PS1 JRPGs. Hopefully this and First Departure will get a physical release so I can stop eyeing those overpriced PSP releases that I passed on forever ago.

Star Ocean was a blast back in 98, can't wait to relive the adventure.

The only RPG game I had patience to play till the end!

@BenAV There's a chronological order to them though they have different casts and are typically set quite far apart from each other. The order isn't the release order, you should be able to Google up an image showing the correct order.

I thought it looked quite nice. I'll wait for reviews, but I'm interested!

3 non-connecting art styles mashed up together looked atrocious to me.

Looks really good, I love the aesthetic they went with. Another one I'm picking up day 1, just hoping for a physical version because the previous one was only digital which sucked.

That's what I'm talking about baybeeee hype train let's goooooo!!!

Any word of a physical edition?

I was really excited until I saw it. Is it just me or do the sprites colors seem very bland and blend into the scenery. I don’t like the character portraits either. Oh well, still picking this up day one.

I expected to find the trailer here...

@BenAV you can play this one stand-alone from the original. Consider this, that when the original psone version was released, we did get the first game at that point.

I've been wanting to play this ever since I watched the incomplete anime decades ago, but I've never had a PlayStation so I never could. So glad it's the next game to get the 2D-HD treatment!

@AlanaHagues @DogDetective Preorders for physical copies are available on Square-Enix's store. In North America at least. https://na.store.square-enix-games.com/star-ocean-the-second-story-r

Probably my third favorite RPG ever.

Sadly it's just yet another "ideas in the industry are dead" remake so PASS.

@marandahir You just typed that on a device that could be playing it in under 5 minutes. Lmao

Day 1 for me. One of the missing pieces in my RPG collection!

I knew this would be reveal on the direct. I betcha it was Nintendo who told Square Enix to take the leak down cause they want to introduced it here. Fantastic game too, I would definitely buy this game again for the 4th time this time. Hopefully a physical cartridge version of this and the first game will happen soon cause the last three games were mostly just disc or digital version which I don't like as much.

it's launching on Switch on 2nd November.

Correction: on Switch, PS5, PS4 and Windows. Sadly, no Xbox version for now.

I loved the original, so I don't mind the 2D characters, but I would have liked to see them go all the way and do proper 3D models since it is a remake.

Why it looks so horrible? I have a PSP version and it seems, that I don't need a Switch version.

This is the first time I feel like the 2DHD style actually takes away from the original artwork. It looks downright bad here.

@Magician @alanahagues thank you, I immediately preordered a European version thanks to both your comments

This is unbelievable! I just don't even know how to respond right now, this is too much. It looks so amazing and the composer's rearranging this legendary soundtrack. Let's Go!

It's one of if not my favorite JRPGs. I'm over the moon about this.

@Cordyceps This is not HD-2D, this is a mix of 3D and HD-2D. The sprites are HD-2D but the backgrounds are fully 3D. The reason why it looks half terrible is cause they were trying to make it as realistic as possible with the backgrounds not knowing those realistic backgrounds doesn't mesh well with the HD-2D character sprites. Still can't say I am surprise as almost all Star Ocean games are like this, mixing realistic graphic styles with anime characters are in all the games so not sure why people complain now when it's a common trend before.

@Serpenterror Whatever it is it looks like garbage.

I don't like this, I was hoping for 2D-HD engine like octopath/octopath 2, not this new and weird 2D & 3D mishmash style

The game itself is great, I finished it way back on psone, it's the best star ocean games by far compared to its sequels, the story, gameplay, and music is pretty good. Hmm, maybe if squareenix can make the 3D and 2D graphics not too jarring I'll play this version too.

"- Japanese and English voiceover
All event scenes are now fully voiced using the same voice cast from the original game"

Wait wait wait! Original game as in Second Story? Did they get the crusty old english cast from the PS1 release back for this because that'd actually be amazing.

@Expa0 LOL, that would be HILARIOUS...but I think its the PSP version's cast.

This looks gorgeous. Looking forward to it.

@Ooccoo_Jr Yes, and it was a blast! Divergent story lines, hidden characters to recruit, variant story lines based on who you chose as a protagonist, some of the best story twists of its time, a great crafting system, fairly intuitive combat, and excellent voice acting for its day. I still play it, even now

This looks really fun!

This is what I needed. Hated the psp version - no idea why they downgraded character portrait arts. Rena became an 8 year old. This looks better and I'm definitely playing it.

Star ocean 2 was my favourite one so am definitely interested in the remake.

just hoping it plays well on switch, while the combat in general wasnt as reflex heavy as some of the later tales games where you had to chain button inputs it would still be nice to have it run smoothly with the action going off on screen and be able to explore the nice looking environments without stutters.

HOOK IT into MY VEINS

I hope it looks as good as the gameplay they showed us on Switch. So exciting!
Now if only they released Star Ocean 4 and 5 on Switch, it would be perfect enough.

I would've been happy with a port of Second Evolution R from PSP.

That's been out in Japan already for years...

This new thing looks like it was Frankenstein-ed together.

I just preordered a physical copy. I played the original about nineteen or twenty years ago. I really don't have time for more games, but I loved the story in this one. I love the full-size character animations up front. This direct was insane. I fully believed Nintendo were going to coast off of Zelda: TOTK and a few random titles.

I missed the original so I was piqued by the rumours of this coming. Definitely looking forward to this.

My friends back in the day told me so much about this game and how good it was, but I never had a chance to play it, just a glimpse of it in action. I plan to make good on this as I played the first remake. Square Enix has been on a roll recovering old school RPGs. On a side note, Terranigma when?

it's the best Star Ocean in the series, with a great cast of characters, an intriguing story, action-based combat system, and an incredible soundtrack. It's a must for every rpg fan!