Star Ocean: The Last Hope (Xbox 360)

Star Ocean The Last Hope is the latest in the series from RPG giants Square Enix and Tri Ace. The game starts with you as Edge Maverick a crew member on a ship called the Calnus, you and a few other ships are sent on a mission to explore new planets and it all goes wrong, you crash on a planet, lose one of your friends. You then go on your journey to find your friend but on your way you'll find something more sinister lurking in the galaxy. The characters in an RPG need to be good but in this game they range from interesting like Edge, Crowe, Bacchus and Reimi to damn annoying, Lymle, Sarah, Meracle, they are sometimes so incredibly stupid and ...  Read the complete review

I am new to the Star Ocean franchise when I bought into the last hope so I was glad to find out it was a prequel - a very wise move on there part considering they will probably have a lot of new people buy into the game. With no experience with the games before I was pretty forgien to this type of RPG but as I had experience with games from Squareenix before I roughly knew what to expect. Star Ocean 4 lets you play as Edge Maverick who is sent into space (with a team) as a mission to locate a suitable new planet after Earth is comsumed by the nuclear fallout from WW3. Of course, the mission does not go to plan and so the story begins. The plot is good but ...  Read the complete review

I have being waiting years for this game as I am a huge Star Ocean Fan. So here goes my very long review...lol ** The game/story ** The game is a prequal to the very first Star Ocean game however it's not got anything special to make it seem like a sequal, you could actually class it as a separate game. The story is ok but not as good as I thought it was going to be, don't get me wrong I still liked it but when I heard it was a prequal I thought it would have more to do with the first one, it basically just has some people in who might be ancestors to a character in the first game but it never really confirms this however I have only completed the ...  Read the complete review

I haven't actually played this game and to be honest it irritates me to death!!!! My other half however has played it and has asked me to give you 'his' opinion of the game so here goes......... Taken from the game case.... The year is 2087. From the smoking ruins of World War III, the surviving members of the human race have united in a final desperate bid for survival. With no refuge to be found on the devestated Earth, all eyes have turned to the stars, and the heroic pioneers charged with finding a new home amongst them. They represent mankind's last hope - but does the answer truly lie in the infinate expanse of the great Star Ocean? Star Ocean ...  Read the complete review

Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the forth in the series of Star Ocean games, and made by Square Enix of Final Fantasy fame, knowing this I had high hopes for this game, yet while it is a fun and engaging game, with a huge amount of content it is also a game with a critical flaw. The voice acting, now in some games this wouldn't be a big deal, but this is an RPG, it has huge amounts of cut sconces, poor voice acting, can render a game near unplayable, and at times I was tempted to just play through the game with subtitles and turn the audio off. Yet despite this it remains a fun and enjoyable game, the story line while heavily clichéd, and being very much typical to the ...  Read the complete review