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7 unusual facts about Star Ocean


Action point

In Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, a battle mechanic employs a stamina bar known as Fury.

Back Blocks

The third track, "Tobikata wo Wasureta Chiisana Tori" served as theme song for the PlayStation 2 game "Star Ocean: Till the End of Time".

Jugemu

Jugemu (#40) is a colossal underground monster appearing to be only a tiny twig with a single leaf on the surface in the video game Star Ocean: Blue Sphere.

Non-player character

Other role-playing games with branching dialogues include Cosmic Soldier, Megami Tensei, Fire Emblem, Metal Max, Langrisser, SaGa, Ogre Battle, Chrono, Star Ocean, Sakura Wars, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Radiant Historia, and several Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy games.

SO3

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, the third main game in the Star Ocean series

SO4

Star Ocean: The Last Hope, an action role-playing video game developed by Tri-Ace and Square Enix

Star Ocean

There was an incomplete manga series by Mayumi Azuma based on Star Ocean: The Second Story, which became a similarly incomplete anime series Star Ocean EX.


HDD Utility Disc

While many Japanese PlayStation 2 games support the HDD as a location to save and load game saves, support for that function of the HDD, and many others, were removed from nearly every North American release of those games during the time before the North American HDD release (ex. Xenosaga Episode 1, Dark Cloud 2, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy X), and even a few games afterwards (ex. Star Ocean: Till the End of Time Director's Cut).


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Alicyn Packard

She has voiced the warrior woman Shahdee in the Prince of Persia series, as well as Pericci in Star Ocean: The First Departure.

Radiata Stories

The Sacramento Bee said the music was "peppy and cheerful, if unmemorable" but that the sound effects were "largely recycled from the developer's previous games, all the way back to 1999's "Star Ocean: The Second Story.