World of JRPGs

For July, I only played Star Ocean Second Story R.

To summarize the game, it does start off strong but gets worse over time.

The story is fun. You start off with a central mystery to solve and some fun things happen along the way. Then, the second half begins and it's all fetch quests from there with some barely characterized antagonist group.

You have sheer endless options to mess with. Based on how you skill your characters, there are many different crafting methods, passive boosts or new overworld abilities. However, while it is fun to break the game, in the later parts, I had it broken to the point of being boring. A very common thing, as I'v learned.

There's a free flowing character recruitment system, where you can get up to 6 additional characters out of a larger pool in addition to your starting 2. Depending on which of these 2 main characters you chose as the main one, there are different options and dialogues. However, that also means you have to plan out recruitments if you want to get the most out of your playthroughs or even to get late game recruits, since you'll likely be full by then. I kinda messed up and would have to do 2 more playthroughs to get most of the interesting stuff - which I'm not up to.

Overall, I can still recommend the game, just for how strong it did start off.

For the next month(s), I'm playing through the Baten Kaitos Collection.