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Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Release: Original Japanese release date was in February of 2003 by Enix.
Re-released in 2004 as a two disc "Director's cut" version with
bonus features such as new characters and dungeons.

Story: Takes place four hundred in-universe years after the first two Star Ocean games.

Plot: Star Ocean: Till the End of Time begins on the planet Hyda IV where a young man, Fayt Leingod, and his childhood friend, Sophia Esteed, are on vacation with Fayt's family. Fayt is son of a famous scientist in the field of symbological genetics. For an unknown reason, the Vendeen Empire — an alien civilization with highly advanced technology that spans only a single planet — attacks Hyda IV unprovoked, thus initiating a war with the Pangalactic Federation. Fayt and Sophia escape on the starship Helre, but are separated from Fayt's parents, Robert and Ryoko Leingod. The Helre is also attacked by the Vendeeni, and the two are separated......

Gameplay: The graphics are wonderful and the different personalities of the characters make for fun dialoge.

Battle Mode: You can have up to three characters at a time in battle. Also, you can choose your party leader and the formation which they appear. Battles can be avoided but if the enemy spots you they will come after you. Characters can go beyond level 99 (I believe)....I have the strategy guide and I think one the images had Fayt at level 245...... eek One more thing...characters can die if they run out of Magic Points (MP) even if they have Health Points (HP) in tact.

Characters:

Main group-
Fayt Leingod
Sophia Esteed
Cliff Fittir
Mirage Koas
Maria Traydor
Adray Lasbard

Optional-
Peppita Rossetti
Roger S. Huxley
Nel Zelpher
Albel Nox heart

All these characters above will come and go through the game. It's not until near the second portion of the game that you get to choose the final two people (-optional list) to join your party for the remainder of the game.

Audio: The music was beautiful and went wonderfully with the scenes.

Extras:
*The game contains an in-game encyclopedia.
*After the game ends you can go back and explore areas that were off limits before.
*You can recieve "Battle Trophies" from battles for meeting certain requirements.
*The ending of the game is determined by the "affection points" that the party members have towards Fayt at the end of the game(10 different endings are possible)!!
*The Director's Cut version added a VS. Mode to battle against a second player or against the computer. Up to two human players could compete, either against each other or against another character controlled by the computer.

Rate: 10/10

^ The quote came from a review about the game....I think it covers how I feel about the game. lol 3nodding

heart Albel Nox heart

I play Star Ocean...I think it's something like "Sea of Time" or something corny like that....

Where did you end up stopping? Before disc 2?

~Albel makes me smile every time he cames someone a maggot.

Aww...not very far then..... crying .....because on disc 2 there was a nice little twist in the story-in my opinion anyway (I think my jaw actually dropped....)

Well, if you really want to know.....>Fayt and the party discover that they (and their entire universe) is nothing more then a computer simulation developed by a man named Luther Lansfeld.<

>They are AI programs that had developed their own...how do I put it.....sense of being. And Fayt's father had done experiments on Fayt, Sophia, and Maria (when they were young) that would give them the abilities to enter into...I guess...."our world" because "we" had threaten to destroy their world. ((ack-I hope this isn't too confusing.....))

((programs creating programs...scary thought))

*Note: Fayt's dad didn't know they were programs-only that there was another "space" that they called 4D space.

When Fayt and the party discovered this they were very shocked and upset. Except for Albel.....he just saw it as a way to test his skills.<