Star Ocean 5 - Devs asking for our questions

You guys realize the number of problems that this game has on top of the censorship right?

Like the game being limited to one continent on one planet, or the combat being Star Ocean 3's skill spamfest?

The fact that they won't listen to a comment like yours and blame any loss of sales on controversy should be even more proof to you that they weren't trying to fix anything and only wanted to generate a PR circus out of this, scapegoating their way out of blaming themselves

well fuck can i have some sauce on that?

Honorable attempt, none which will amount to anything. Square will do what Square does, so will Kobayashi-san.

I doubt they will lie. Deceive, yes, lie no.


But they've wasted too much resources, time, and effort censoring and altering the Western versions. They have little to lose not answering anything at all. Recall, this "opportunity" is not whether censorship is bad or not, but if Shuichi Kobayashi did a good job or good job.

You see, you aren't being presented an opportunity, you are being presented a slight of hand. The only to turn this around, is with a slight of hand.

This was already explained: Any publicity is publicity, even if manufactured.
I sold well, because economic "scarcity" was manufactured. This person gets it:

Because it isn't a battle, it's a show, a circus act. You can't win something that's been already scripted, if you are not the show. Crashing a circus performance and attracting the crowd is what needs to be done:

E.G. Show them how awesome other companies are, their competitors, or thine own.

Both not true for all devs and publishers: Platnium, Marvelous, Falcom, Irem, Bandi-Namco*, SNK*, etc.
*at times.

Here's someone that actually gets it:


Yes, we do:

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more errata:
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I can play SO2 for hours and I enjoy the campy voice acting because in a way it was self aware. SO3 had these cut scenes that actively deterred me from enjoying the story.

The voice acting is just shit. You can do self aware camp without being cringy and SO3 didn't pull this off. The game would have been better served if the cut scenes were not voice acted.

Gameplay wise it was one of the early fully 3D active battle systems so there wasn't exactly a template for how not to fuck up. It was a noble effort but ultimately one I found mediocre. It was too complex where it didn't need complexity and too simple in other regards. It was a recipe for not having fun.

Stylistically it just wasn't as striking as SO2. Overall everything looked muddy texture wise and the characters models seemed fucked up in the facial department.

This game effectively killed the SO series for me. After the fact I found out that they rect-conned the entire series and basically explained that everything was a simulation. What a shit show.

I loved the fuck out of SO3 and still think that they could continue off after it since the Universe became it's own in the end(who in the fuck wanted adray lasbard as a new extra character instead of clair?). But it was my first star ocean and I can't say I have delved deep into the mechanics of SO2 or SO3.

judging by what you said about the story and gameplay you probably found start ocean 4 to be completely irredeemable. That was my point where not even the gameplay could make up the generic anime tier story that was attached to it. Even though I did like the pure edge character, probably because he said little and was part of the story for so little.

Ask the Devs whether diversity is the "KEY COMPONENT" of this game.

it's more important to me that the craft system not be shit like in SO3 but great like in SO2