Unfortunately, that isn’t the case for The Last Hope.

The Second Story remains one of my personal favorite games not only due to the highly engaging combat system, but a satisfying plot with a plethora of fascinating characters. While I have my personal gripes with the major plot twist in Till the End of Time, it still managed to tell an incredibly compelling story throughout. Let’s start off with the most disappointing aspects of The Last Hope: the story. After so many years since its debut, has Edge Maverick’s journey aged well or has Star Ocean become stagnate? Till the End of Time was purely a PlayStation 2 Classic with little done to it, but The Last Hope has not only gotten a visual upgrade, but also ported to PC as well. While we’re still waiting for the PlayStation 4 localization of one of the best JRPGs ever (Star Ocean: The Second Story), we have gotten two re-releases this year alone. Their latest entry last year, Integrity and Faithlessness, was met with a less than ideal reception, so Square Enix has gone back to the well to bring back some of their better games in their collection. Regardless, this was a big shift for the Star Ocean franchise while it started off as a Nintendo release, it ended up being well known for its PlayStation releases. Eternal Sonata, Tales of Vesperia, Lost Odyssey, The Last Remnant, Infinite Undiscovery, Blue Dragon and Star Ocean: The Last Hope, all exclusive, at least at the time. Not only were they able to secure a good chunk of the market share, but they were getting Japanese RPGs left and right. The first five years of the Xbox 360’s life cycle were some of the best for Microsoft.

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