Star Ocean: First Departure - Sony PSP

While I played a little of Second Story on the original playstation, this game is my first real introduction to the Star Ocean series. This game came out for the snes in Japan, but never made it to our shores, unil this psp remastering, which takes advantage of the contributions and advancements of games furthur along in the series. Unlike most classic rpgs, this game is set in a science fiction universe with heavy Star Trek influence (it's obvious that the game's creators had just watched the first few seasons of TOS), as well as nods to many other works of classic sf; such as Star Wars and Assimov. If you are a fan of old school rpgs or the Original Star Trek seroes, you owe it to yourself to play this game. (and you should take advantage of it while you can, I'm picking up some of the psp titles that slipped through the cracks the first time around, before they're overtaken by the Vita's quickly growing library)

It's hard to beat a game that's $9, especially one that is so enthralling. I've already gotten over 30 hours on it and I think it would be a blast for any classed jrpg fan or people that enjoyed rpgs on the SNES.

It has a great storyline, great depth, and it really pulls the playing into the story. Great price and a really fun game to play.

Star Ocean: FD is a great rpg. The storyline can be very diffrent depending on what you do. Mostly its from character choice. Some characters will not join you if other characters are with you, thus, making the game play diffrently with your character selection. This gives a very good back story for those of you that played Star Ocean for PS1. Some of the main characters children are main characters in the next game, so this will get some back story for those that want to know. Now were the Star Ocean games really shine is the combat. This is no slow paced back and forth turn based combat. Your characters actually move around in a combat area. With melee using hack-n-slash and casters heal or cast damaging spells. You control one character at a time, with the ability to switch between them in combat. When not under your control, your other characters are AI controled. With differnt ending and combat that won't bore you to death this game can last for a while. Over all its a great game. One of the very few good rpg's for the psp. i would highly recommend this game for any rpg gamer.