preview - Star Ocean 4 International

An international version of Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope has been announced by Square Enix for a worldwide PlayStation 3-exclusive release on February 9, 2010. Officially known as Star Ocean: The Last Hope International, the game will contain both Japanese and English voices as well as new content that will be exclusive to the international version of the game.

For PS3. Finally Square Enix (no, it's not Tri-Ace's fault right) decided to bring another former XBOX360-exclusive JRPG into PS3. They should have realize that jrpg fanbase is minimal for 360 and more in playstation. Vesperia has gone to PS3, so the only jrpg on 360 that I think worth its value is Infinite Undiscovery.

Nevertheless, having played the game on 360, I am still looking forward to Star Ocean 4 international. I don't expect much change in gameplay (it's already superb in 360 except a few areas like manual targeting), but I fucking hope that they FIX/CHANGE the English seiyuus, especially for Lym and Sarah. They're shit terrible. On and another thing, please remove the need to change disc when we travel to other planets later in the game, it's such a pain in the ass changing from disc 2 and 3, back and forth when doing the late quests (Gabriel Celeste and Ethereal Queen's Challenge, and normal quests). Well I suppose blu-ray effectively eliminate this problem, eh :3

related articles:
RD's Star Ocean 4 review
RD's SO4 Gameplay Insight - Blindside