| Source: Country Games № 17 2009 |
| OVERALL IMPRESSION With the remake of the first Star Ocean (First Departure) everything is pretty straightforward: from the ground up redesigned graphics based on an improved engine, Star Ocean: The Second Story, key scenes from the animation studio Production IG, voiced dialogue, new characters and enemies. In other words - a full processing of SNES-original. Conclusions? Must take! But with Second Evolution is not so simple. Yet the second part of the Star Ocean has already appeared on the PS one and has been translated into English. That is, familiar to many first-hand. And on the PSP - in fact, the same version with slightly updated graphics, higher quality scoring, a new character (Welch Vineyard from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time) so next scene from the same Production IG On the other hand, the excellent script and exciting gameplay of the original too because no one takes away. So if you are a fan of role-playing games of this kind, but in his time missed The Second Story, passes by no means impossible. And if you do not miss, it remains only to decide whether you want to play the same game again? After all the bonuses remake - only a nice addition, wonders of Second Evolution should not wait. |