STAR OCEAN™ - THE LAST HOPE -™ 4K & Full HD Remaster

This game uses Denuvo, which will lock you out of the game entirely after a while if you don't sign in online. In other words, without continuous use of the internet, this game is a ticking clock before shutting you out of what you bought and paid for. It's too bad. Star Ocean 4 is one of the better games in the series. But in this case it's not worth getting, even for free.

I dont understand why this game as mixed reviews cause it was an amazing experience. Loved it was not 90% medeival fantasy like previous Star Ocean games. This is the most Star Ocean game, space exploartion, planet hoping to multiple planets and alot of sci-fi. The game is a bit rough around the edges but if you get through the intense amount of grinding, goofy anime dialogue and scenes its a very fun game. The english VAs is a bit questionable but you get used to it. It kind of adds to the charm of the game.

I really wanted to like this game as I have played other Star Ocean games and have loved them. The world is just way to large and also empty at the same time besides the hundreds of enemies on the map. The combat is outdated, which I expected being an older game, but it feels way to tedious and with being an older JRPG you have to fight almost every enemy you see or else you will be under leveled severely. The game never really tells you were to go other than the name of the location. I'm not asking for yellow paint to guide me or a marker, but at least a general direction would of done wonders. Multiple times I had to stop and look up where I was suppose to go cause the game told me nothing. I tried to push through but the story wasn’t interesting, the characters were only slightly interesting. I would say if you are a diehard perfectionist Star Ocean fan then it’s worth playing, but causal fans I would say avoid and just play Second Story R.

I'm a big fan of Star Ocean and have been following The Last Hope since the Xbox 360. This is by far the game with the biggest budget in the franchise, full of areas and places to go, with secrets and locations you can revisit after you have the necessary items to open certain chests and collect rewards. The different biomes offer a lot of diversity in terms of enemies, and the combat system is very robust, being one of the best in the series. There are also many characters in your party and you will certainly identify with some of them. The game offers many difficulty level options and there is a lot to do, especially if the player is a completionist and interested in obtaining all the Battle Trophies in the game, which were already very interesting in Star Ocean 3 and here they scale in an incredible and creative way. The game is very cheap and easily offers 500 hours or more of gameplay. It's a real treat. Enjoy. Rating: 11/10.

I really wanted to like this game, but the monotone voice acting, annoying characters, terrible combat and a story that sounded good but it's not. Just makes me want to play something else.

Fantastic RPG elements, very grindable. Multiple difficulty options, meaning grind less if you just want an incredible storyline. Multiple endings and a fantastic item creation system. Four-member party battle system with a maximum interchangable roster of 8 characters by the end of the game. The item creation system allows you to far exceed power levels of regular equipment, however takes some devotion to really kick into gear and thus can totally be ignored on a typical playthrough if you truly didn't want to put the time into it. I played the 2009 original on my Xbox 360 years ago, and must say this is one of the most impressive remastered editions of a game I have seen in quite some time. Changes from the original include the option to switch between two in-game user interface art styles, as well as the option to switch voiced audios to the original Japanese voice acting paired with English Subtitles. Visually, the enemy models are stunning compared to that of the original, which surely I played on a crappier box tv, but seriously. The models of the first enemies you see are a tell-tale improvement. Very crisp. I'm buckled down for another couple playthroughs now that the game looks this fantastic.

Story is okay, gameplay is fine. However some areas had super bad performance, some short cutscenes which involved some camera shake did make frames drop to single digits. Sometimes in battle some UI elements does not load (HP Bars and the target thingy when enemies attack) which could make some fights harder due to bugs. Also if you are using a playstation controller it doesn't support playstation button layout which is another annoyance.

As a player of this game when it was originally out on the XBox 360 (and then later PS3, with the International version), Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope was actually my true introduction to the series. I knew some about the lore, but playing 2 or 3 wasn't hooking me. At the time, SO4 was my "last chance"...and yes, it's hokey and quirky and so very anime. However, over the years, no matter the platform, SO4 is a game that I pick back up for fun gameplay, witty character battle dialogue, and nostalgia.

This is probably the most Star Ocean game out of all of them, multiple planets that you revisit, space battles and hark backs to the series roots with both locations from the original game along with soundtracks from previous games at different points too. I can see why this is mixed though, it has a big, empty world with lots of running around and the English voice acting is......eh Overall nostalgia aside this game is still worth playing

Do not fully understand why this is got such a mixed rating. its clearly an old style anime based action style rpg with scifi/ space opera tropes. Do not know why you would buy it if any of those things are not your cup of tea. Enjoying it so far. combat is honestly a refreshing change from the cookie cutter styles of today. just getting into the story so wont comment there as of yet. Performance is perfect other than a random texture not loading during combat one time and having a black box float across the screen. i do recommend runing in vsr or the nvidia equivilant for the faux super sampling for additional aa. will update later.