![]() ![]() It’s true that I might be giving SO4 a bit of a hard time here. The plot and characters work best, I think, if you just play the game and not try to get overly involved with either. While not every moment with SO4‘s heroes is as gut-wrenchingly awful as I’ve implied above, nearly every character has an attribute on constant display that will grate on your nerves. Add to the mix a six-year-old girl (who the game says is 15) who ends every sentence with the word “‘kay”, a cat-girl with Stockholm syndrome, and a cyborg who drones on about his “cold, steel body” and you have quite the annoying mix. If there ever was a video game protagonist in more need of a slap in the face than Edge Maverick, I have yet to see him. Now imagine a character so self-absorbed and whiny that Luke looks calm and restrained in comparison. How are the characters? To get a feel for Edge Maverick, the character you’ll be playing, imagine Luke Skywalker from the original Star Wars. For the first fifteen or so hours, you’ll likely be shaking your head at how preposterous the plot is. Now I’m not all the way through the game yet, but the main problem I see with the story is that it can’t decide whether or not it’s supposed to serious or campy. He then assembles a ragtag crew of humans, aliens, and alien cyborgs ranging in age from 6 to 35 years old to explore the universe. ![]() (Isn’t that the way these things always go?) After killing some overly large man-eating bugs that are impervious to advanced weapons but easy prey to swords, Edge finds himself in command of one of the surviving Earth ships. Due to a subspace anomaly, Earth’s new fleet gets spread all over the place and half-destroyed. You play the role of Edge Maverick, an officer on one of Earth’s first warp-capable exploration vessels. Read my spoiler-free review of the game below the jump. If that last bit sounds somewhat familiar, that’s because the Star Ocean universe is what you would get if you took Star Trek and dressed it up with magic (“symbology” or “heraldry” in Star Ocean) and swords. I should also mention that the Earthlings have made contact with an older spacefaring race who look like humans but wear things on their ears that give the earlobes a pointy appearance. Earthlings are using newly developed “warp” technology to find a new planet to live on. The game is set shortly after the third world war has made Earth practically uninhabitable. ![]() (So, I’ll call it SO4 from now on.) Since the previous game ( Star Ocean: Til the End of Time) ended rather strangely, Tri-Ace decided to make this game a prequel to the previous three games. Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the fourth major Star Ocean game from Tri-Ace. ![]()
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