Six Years After Release, Star Ocean First Departure R Goes Physical The original Star Ocean was the most ambitious game for the SNES produced in its lifetime, but only residents of Japan would know. It boasted features like a 48-meg cart, full digitized speech, and battle screens where you fully controlled your characters (unusual for an RPG at the time). Released in 1996 in its home country, the cost of translating and printing Star Ocean was deemed too much for the shrinking SNES Western market — it would have arrived here in 1997, well after the takeover of Playstation and N64. It was not until 2007 that the USA got its first official release of the game, as the remake Star Ocean: First Departure on the PSP. Over a decade later, Square Enix decided to give Star Ocean 1 another go with the souped-up Star Ocean: First Departure R on the Switch and PS4. This time, however, it wasn’t given a physical release. I remember being annoyed by this because I felt without a physical presence it might not get noticed, which would mean we wouldn’t get the remake of Star Ocean 2 I was craving (we eventually did get that, by the way). Now, out of nowhere, Square has teamed […] The post Six Years After Release, Star Ocean First Departure R Goes Physical appeared first on PopGeeks.com Forum | Indie Games, Movies, TV, Tabletop & Comics.

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Six Years After Release, Star Ocean First Departure R Goes Physical The original Star Ocean was the most ambitious game for the SNES produced in its lifetime, but only residents of Japan would know. It boasted features like a 48-meg cart, full digitized speech, and battle screens where you fully controlled your characters (unusual for an RPG at the time). Released in 1996 in its home country, the cost of translating and printing Star Ocean was deemed too much for the shrinking SNES Western market — it would have arrived here in 1997, well after the takeover of Playstation and N64. It was not until 2007 that the USA got its first official release of the game, as the remake Star Ocean: First Departure on the PSP. Over a decade later, Square Enix decided to give Star Ocean 1 another go with the souped-up Star Ocean: First Departure R on the Switch and PS4. This time, however, it wasn’t given a physical release. I remember being annoyed by this because I felt without a physical presence it might not get noticed, which would mean we wouldn’t get the remake of Star Ocean 2 I was craving (we eventually did get that, by the way). Now, out of nowhere, Square has teamed […] The post Six Years After Release, Star Ocean First Departure R Goes Physical appeared first on PopGeeks.com Forum | Indie Games, Movies, TV, Tabletop & Comics.

Six Years After Release, Star Ocean First Departure R Goes Physical: The original Star Ocean was the most ambitious game for the SNES produced in its lifetime, but only residents of Japan would know. It boasted features like a 48-meg… #StarOcean #FirstDepartureR #RPG #GamingNews #PhysicalRelease