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by Saint of Killers » Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:50 pm

Star Ocean 5 is in development for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3, the latest issue of Famitsu reveals.

A release date is still unannounced, but the game is developed by tri-Ace and published by Square Enix.


The game’s full title is Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness. It is set on the uncivilized planet of Feycreed, which is 6,000 light years away from Earth.

Currently revealed characters include:

Fedel Camus (voiced by Kaito Ishikawa) – The protagonist. He specializes at fencing, and protects the order of his village.
Miki Sorvesta (voiced by Nao Toyama) – The heroine. She is the protagonist’s childhood friend, and loves him like an older brother.
Lilia (voice actor unknown) – A girl who lost both her memories and emotions.

The magazine also has screenshots of a blonde swordsman and blue-haired witch participating in battle.

Battles are seamless and in real-time. Depending on the distance between you and the enemy, the way you attack changes, and pushing buttons consecutively will trigger combos.

In addition to traditional event scenes, there will also be “seamless events” such as those where enemies attack you. If the enemy apprehends your allies during these events, there will be branching outcomes.

Here’s the game’s staff:

Developer: tri-Ace

Character Designer: Akira “Akiman” Yasuda

Producer: Shuichi Kobayashi

Director: Hiroshi Ogawa

Lead Programmer: Yoshiharu Gotanda


First scans and more details have come out of Famitsu. The magazine features an interview with producer Kobayashi, director Ogawa, and programmer Gotanda.

“[Having previously been in marketing] I decided to change positions and become a producer out of the belief that Star Ocean is worth staking my life and legacy on,” Kobayashi said. “For Star Ocean 5, I wanted the game to overtly take cues from Star Ocean 3 and draw its essence from that game.”

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Some interview excerpts:

Subtitle

Gotanda: “There are multiple meanings behind the subtitle for this game. It’ll make sense by the end once you play the game, I think.”

Kobayashi: “Star Ocean 5 is about bringing a sense of reassurance back to longtime fans, which is why the game’s logo is reminiscent of Star Ocean 3‘s.”

Battles

Ogawa: “Basic battles are the same as previous entries, where the player controlled character takes on the enemy in one-on-one battles. On the other hand, boss battles see the whole party squaring off against bosses, which lends those fights a different feel that players can enjoy.”

The Future of the Series

Kobayashi: “I’d like to be able to keep putting these games out. By the end, when it’s all finished, we hope we have a game that draws in series fans and new players alike.”


Here’s the game’s prologue, via Kotaku:

Do the depths of space forbid peace for mankind—

Centuries after leaving Earth, after a multitude of trials, with the creation and spread of the ‘Galactic Federation,’ humanity was on the verge of unified order and peace.

But the embers of conflict have begun to burn again.

Over 6,000 light years from Earth, on the unsettled planet, ‘Feycreed.’

Just as so many times before, the waves of history begin from a remote planet.


Star Ocean 5 is being developed with the PlayStation 3 version as its base, and ported to PlayStation 4. Square Enix are also considering things to do with PlayStation 4’s Share functionality.

According to the producer, they’re not thinking about story downloadable content or a “full version” to be released later. “I sincerely don’t want to do anything with this game that’ll upset people even a little bit,” Kobayashi said.

The game is currently 30 percent complete.


The game is set in the year 537 on the space calendar, so it’s between Star Ocean 2 and 3. The “Gravity Warp” has been developed on Earth.

A few more character details:

Fidel – He inherited his sword skills from his father, who is the Leslia Kingdom’s most prominent swordsman. He is calm and mindful of his companions.
Miki – She has a healing ability. She is a cute, lovely, and gluttonous character. She is the one characters the development team did test design work on, while all of the other characters were left up to Akiman.

A few more battle details:

Events directly proceed to battles.
Players can switch between characters.
Attack patterns and skills have seen a large-scale increase.
Skills have different effects depending on the distance at which you use them, and can also be incorporated into combos.


More scans here: http://kotaku.com/first-look-at-star-ocean-5-1697679023

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by NickSCFC » Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:14 pm

Cross-gen :fp:

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Dig Dug » Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:51 pm

Damn, I could have sworn Star Ocean 4 had killed the series dead.

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Seven » Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:05 pm

Star Ocean IV was enjoyable for the combat but forget about 100%ing it, it's crazy even for RPG standards.

Also it has godawful story with shitty "WITH MAH FRIENDS I CAN DO ANYTHINGZ" clique being used over and over again.

That being said, if V improves on that along with fun combat it might be worth looking into :)

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Lagamorph » Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:56 pm

The difficulty spikes in 4 when it came to the bosses was strawberry floating ridiculous. You would be walking through the random encounters with them barely giving a noticeable amount of XP....then suddenly a boss just wipes you out.
Not to mention the plot and animation....ugh.

I think "Cautious optimism" is what I'm going to stick with until more comes along on this.

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by BAKA » Wed Apr 15, 2015 10:33 am

Didn't expect this news, but I'm happy about it. I was one of seemingly very few who enjoyed the last game.

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Christopher » Wed Apr 15, 2015 11:42 am

Really excited about this news, good time to be a JRPG fan with a PS4 going forward it seems :mrgreen: *

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Should be a good indicator that Japanese publishers are moving back to home consoles, hopefully it means Dragon Quest XI on PS4 too.

*not that I am happy it isn't coming to X1, just that as someone who owns a PS4 I am happy we are getting some JRPGs.

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Fuzzy Dunlop » Wed Apr 15, 2015 2:14 pm

suzzopher wrote:Should be a good indicator that Japanese publishers are moving back to home consoles, hopefully it means Dragon Quest XI on PS4 too.


PS4 has been the best selling hardware in Japan these last few weeks, maybe Japanese developers are realising there is a market there. I'll probably pick this up at some point, always wanted to try the series. What's the combat system like? Is it real time or turn based?

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Christopher » Wed Apr 15, 2015 2:33 pm

Fuzzy Dunlop wrote:
suzzopher wrote:Should be a good indicator that Japanese publishers are moving back to home consoles, hopefully it means Dragon Quest XI on PS4 too.


PS4 has been the best selling hardware in Japan these last few weeks, maybe Japanese developers are realising there is a market there. I'll probably pick this up at some point, always wanted to try the series. What's the combat system like? Is it real time or turn based?


The combat is real time, like in the Tales series.

Good to see Telenet live on in 2015 with both tri-ace and Tales Studio making games.

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Fuzzy Dunlop » Wed Apr 15, 2015 2:34 pm

Would have preferred turn based but suppose Persona 5 will cater for that. Cheers for the quick response Suzz :)

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Christopher » Wed Apr 15, 2015 2:44 pm

Outside of Persona and Indie RPGs, I don't think turn based battles will be very common on PS4 by the look of things, maybe if Dragon Quest XI arrives it'll be turn based as the fans were not happy when it looked like IX was going to be more real time.

If you have a Vita or PSTV, you should check out Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines, an awesome JRPG with a great (quick) turn based battle system......or just download the Suikoden games, still not been beaten for traditional JRPGs :datass:

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Fuzzy Dunlop » Wed Apr 15, 2015 3:19 pm

suzzopher wrote:Outside of Persona and Indie RPGs, I don't think turn based battles will be very common on PS4 by the look of things, maybe if Dragon Quest XI arrives it'll be turn based as the fans were not happy when it looked like IX was going to be more real time.

If you have a Vita or PSTV, you should check out Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines, an awesome JRPG with a great (quick) turn based battle system......or just download the Suikoden games, still not been beaten for traditional JRPGs :datass:


Yeah, turn based RPG's seem to be a dying breed unfortunately.

I do indeed have a Vita, currently playing through Persona 4 (which is of course, excellent) and have quite the backlog when it comes to TB RPG's so I'm all sorted on that front for quite a while.

Cheers for the recommendations btw.

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Super Dragon 64 » Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:03 pm

I just read that there won't be a PS3 version in Europe and America.
http://www.destructoid.com/square-enix- ... 4880.phtml

It's an interesting move and reaffirms the idea that a number of JRPGs are cross-generation because of the large PS3 userbase and slow PS4 uptake in Japan. I wonder if Namco will follow suit will Tales of Zestiria and Berseria.

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by BAKA » Tue Mar 22, 2016 12:37 pm



English voiced story trailer. They confirmed it's due this Summer in the US and Europe too. Plus we're getting the Japanese audio track. :D I'm liking the character design a lot more, now more of the cast has been revealed. It's more in line with Till The End Of Time than The Last Hope. There's bit of a Tales look to the antagonist too. Really looking forward to this.

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by Dinoric » Tue Mar 22, 2016 12:42 pm

It's looking quite good. Never played a Star Ocean game previously so hoping to enjoy playing this one. Hope it's out well in advance of Final Fantasy 15. Don't want the two clashing for my time.

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by jawafour » Tue Mar 22, 2016 1:09 pm

Amazon has this up for pre-orer at £33.99 which seems to be a few quid cheaper than most places.

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PostRe: Star Ocean 5 announced for PS3 and PS4
by BAKA » Sat Jun 25, 2016 12:52 pm

Really looking forward to release on Friday. :D Slightly apprehensive at some of the impressions I've read, but a shorter running time compared with the typical Star Ocean game won't put me off, especially as it's coming out at a budget price.

I'm still disappointed that we haven't heard anything about a release of Second Evolution on Vita/PS4.


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