Star Ocean: The Second Story

I've been playing off and on a rather old game (1999) for the PS1 called Star Ocean; The Second Story. Its a cute little game where you decide which of two people you will be playing, and the person you don't choose will join your party later on in the story. It is an RPG from Enix which merged with Squaresoft last year. I like it, but I don't really like the fact that save points in dungeons and towns are few and far between. The gameplay is interesting. You level up with exp gained from killing monsters and you get skill points at each level up. You get to decide where to spend your points to help your characters learn new specialities and gain in stats. Things like magic spells and finishing moves are learned automatically so you don't have to decide between a stat boost or a powerful magic spell, which is rather neat. The storyline is very good and has some lovely twists. There is a bit of a rarity though, it has voice acting. The voice acting, due to media contraints(PS1 titles are on CD-ROM) is things like magic spells, attack moves and level up cheers only, but it is very cool.

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