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Star Rating: 3.5 Stars
It was OK. I like Sci-Fantasy and this hit that mark for me. Very funny to just break the game over your knee once you can get all your crafting skills cooking.
I think I like Star Ocean Til the End of Time more still, but overall, this was a decent RPG to pass the time.
I do want to talk about the soundtrack. I played mostly on the Original score, but swapped to the Arrangement towards the end. The Arrangement isn't bad, it's just not as forward as the original music is. It plays at a slightly softer volume, even if everything else is the same. It has some cool work with weaving through multiple instruments, but it definitely faded to the background more than the original.
Addendum: Some more thoughts. This game didn't stick with me all that much. The story was fine. It was fine. Combat was Good, but some boss fights were annoying, but not insurmountable. Something about it just didn't land and I can't quite put my finger on it. The English VA had it's moments of being rough, and I'm a dub apologist a lot of times. I think when the two leads are rough it leaves a bad taste in your mouth because you hear them SO MUCH. Spike Spencer, who voices Claude, the male lead, has done some good VA in the past, so something here just fell flat. Shame