#so2r

[larthrum]

dragon cuddles

[crpplvamp]

my favorite video game is the somewhat niche action rpg where the female lead is a girl (who is voiced by eden riegel in the english dub) with mysterious healing abilities who has a sibling-like relationship with a long-haired swordsman who is a lone wolf who has a homoerotic rivalry with a blonde guy. the game's later narrative focuses on an ancient technologically advanced civilization of a pointy-eared humanoid species whose creations became so advanced to the point where they actually became a danger to the world and are the subject of a conflict spanning the entire world. of which the advanced civilization decides to disconnect from the rest of the world afterwards and shield itself with a barrier that is nearly impossible to enter into, also deciding to rid of their inventions while they're at it. also the soundtrack was composed by motoi sakuraba and the battle themes are astoundingly good. wait what do you mean there's two

[tatibana-tsuki]

2024描き初め　今年もよろしくお願いします

[anonfeather]

Do you like Star Ocean?

Hiya!

Since the SO2 remake, I've been rediscovering my love for the franchise. So I made a little discord server for likeminded fans to hangout.

You do fanart? Write fanfic or have a ton of plot bunnies you wanna share? Have Headcanons? Shipping favourite?

You're welcome to join and chat :D

Check out the Star Ocean hangout community on Discord - hang out with 11 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

If the invite link doesn't work, poke me, I'll find a different way to invite you. Or you can find me on discord, I have the same handle as tumblr

[niuramiyama]

クロードさんもフードついて衣装も進化してていいね☺️

[selanpike]

star ocean 2 has always been one of my favorite games... i just finished my first playthrough of the remake, and i recommend it very much.

[nanndana]

[so2collection]

Why is no one talking about the Star Ocean Second Story R demo from Gamescom?

I haven't seen any US Youtube channels or twitter channels talk about this, so I wanted to make a quick summary of some features we've learned through recent announcements and the demo preview!

Here are the new features we found out about so far:

3 hit basic attack combos (from the PSP version) stayed. We knew this from previous trailers, but I'm noting it again.

Assist Characters get EXP (From what we can tell this doesn't apply to Reserve members, which can prevent overleveling / SP waste, which I'm happy about) You can see this below the party's EXP increases. This is also a good look at the Battle Results menu

Bonus gauge returns from 3/4, although we don't know a lot about it. This includes Chain Battles! (I hope we get EXP or Fol bonus returning but not the horrible, easy-to-break system 3 had.)

Our first look at the Field Menu! Includes full portraits, a reorganized menu, and some party banter

Party banter is present on the menu AND in the field

We also see a mini-map in the field, which has been previously shown but is a new addition

Battles are no longer random / visible enemies

The player can now gain battle initiative / back strikes, resulting in enemies being stunned at the start of battle (this isn't present in the original versions of SO2)

First look at the loading screen! (Come on, Bunny!)

That's all the new changes I've found so far. If there's any I missed, let me know!

View the original video where this information was obtained here.