Finished Star Ocean Second Evolution
after about 26 hours. Got an ending where Claude and Jeanne went treasure-hunting while Rena and everyone else ended up forever alone. Like I care. With game characters, as with human beings, when you don’t like someone, nothing they do can ever please you. The supporting cast was decent but the mains just annoyed me non-stop. And the game was so sluggish. The talking parts were a pain because a character would say a line, then walk slowly for 30 seconds, say another line, then “. . . . . .” slowly for another 5 seconds, etc etc. The battles were fast-paced and frequent even with Scouting on max, but level ups were plentiful and I liked distributing SP so that wasn’t a problem. I mained Claude throughout until the final battle, then switched to Rena and spammed healing items and magic till the last boss died.
Normally when I play a game I don’t like very much I claim I won’t say much about it, then I end up writing several paragraphs regardless. Not this time though. I’m just sorry I didn’t quit Star Ocean 2 earlier and move on to something else. Sure the battles were fun, but there are bound to be other games with equally good battles and less annoying characters. Anyway, it’s over. I’m moving on immediately. …But I don’t feel like playing another RPG so soon, so I’m going to skip Valkyrie Profile Lenneth and play Princess Maker 3 then come back. Or maybe I should do Tokimeki Memorial 2 instead. Hmm. No, I haven’t played a Princess Maker in a while. PM3 it is.
