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Black-Shi's Star Ocean: The Second Story (PS)
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| [January 15, 2008 02:07:14 AM]
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Game Entry #2:
GAMEPLAY:
From this point I full control of what I can do. I was supposed to go to a certain town but if my memory serves me correct I can get a very good item in this town. So before I head over to that town I had to do some lvling. Just like all RPG's it takes a considerable amount of time to get something that is good. Fortunately I know what I need to do to get it early on in the game. I am not about 5 hours into the game and I am almost able to get the game. The lvling has been fun because the monsters are interesting and are not bland in any way.
I know that lvling up early on in the game is not exactly what the programmers intended but there is an item that I can't get unless I do so. So they made lvling somewhat difficult for me. To be able to gain lvls at a quicker rate I needed to fight stronger monsters. I did not really mind that I would have crappy equipment when I fight because that is what I get for lvling early but it was a problem when I would get a status ailment suck as paralyze or stone and none of the shops sell something to cure it. I finally found something to cure the paralyze but it was half way across the world. Overall I am happy about what I am doing because the goal is worth the work.
DESIGN:
A great part of the design of this game is that they took all of the great basic rules or standards for RPG's and brought them up the the next lvl. In most RPG's you have spells and skills and what not to make your party stronger. In this game you can't just lvl up and get all your skills. You have to be taught certain things from shops that will give you traits. Once you have some of those traits you can get better or lvl those skills up. Through combinations of curtain traits you can gain special skills. These combinations are not told to you so you have to figure them out. This leads you to play the game more to figure out what all the skills are and what ones are more helpful then others.
Another thing that the player want to continue playing is that there are so many variations of this game it find it to be almost overwhelming. As previously stated there are 12 different characters and 87 different endings. I find this game to be very fun and the fact that there are so many posibilities makes me want to play this game a lot. I want to be able to try out every character on my team and see what skills that can get. The story is interesting enough that every time I go to play it again I am ganna catch something that I did not do before. One final note about this game that really made me realize about what games do today is that when you start out the game they don't tell you how to play at all. I really respect that in the game because they have a manual for a reason. The manual sets the story up very nicely and tells you a lot of helpful things you can do. It explains all the stats and a lot of the skills. A very handy one is the item creation. You can make food (heal stats), weapons, armor, and even character arts. The people in the game (if they have the proper skills) can paint pictures people in the game, places you can go to, and even items. This is a wonderful way to show what the developers really wanted to world to look like even though the technology at the time what not to great.
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| [January 14, 2008 11:04:07 PM]
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Game Entry #1:
SUMMARY:
Star ocean 2 is an old ps1 RPG. You get the option of starting off with one of two main characters and through playing the game you will get an understanding of their side of the story. In the beginning of the game as Rena(one of the two main character) an orb dropped to her home planet Expel. The orb turns the monsters rampant and makes natural disasters. You meat up with Claude (the other main character) to try and find out more and fix what the orb is doing.
GAMEPLAY:
One a personal note I have played this game before but it was many years ago. Besides the intense sense of joy I got out of playing the game from nistaga I was very interested in the story. For better or worse the first hour and thirty seven minutes of the game I only had one battle. I enjoyed listening to the story and finding out as much as I could. Once I got more control over what I did and I could battle more often the game turned into a great RPG setting. Unlike most RPG's when you go into a town you can do a special event and have your whole team split up. Doing this makes it possible to have the relationships of the characters grow and expand. Through these special events and certain sceenes in the game you can change the outcome over the ending of the game. After I looked on the wiki cite to find out the release date I found out that there are a total of 87 endings!
Another great thing about this game is that it has 12 different people who can be on your team. You can't have them all on your team at once because if you have some join others will not. I really like this game because it does have a lot of classic stuff from most RPG's but it takes a step beyond the normal. You can steal from people, but not only during battle. You must hone your skill to be able to steal from the NPC's in the towns. Beware, if your skills are not high enough the people will catch you and some consequences might ensue. Also if you fail to steal from someone then you can never try it again.
P.S.
Thank you so much for getting this game in the library. I have been searching for this game for a while but you can no longer find it online because the videogame society considers it one of the best classics, like lunar. If there is any way that you could tell me how you got it so that I might be able to do the same I would be very great full.
This entry has been edited 1 time. It was last edited on Jan 15th, 2008 at 01:44:49.
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Black-Shi's Star Ocean: The Second Story (PS)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Sunday 13 January, 2008
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