Star Ocean: The Last Hope Full HD Remaster

Played this game in high school and liked it. It's anime-cringey but def a guilty pleasure. The crafting can be a big pain as well as gathering a mats.
All in all a worth its current price and worth the 90+ hours I've spent playing it lol. Worth a play if you like JRPGs.

I first played this game on the PS3 when i was 16, i loved it. The story is good, it is directed to a young adult. and the battle system is awesome. Played it again on pc. The port has some performance bugs, but is mostly fine.

SO4 is a fine game with mechanics that you can expect if you've played any of the previous entries in the franchise.
Forewarning though, if you cannot learn how to blindside consistently, perform rush combos, perform critical hits, and synthesize items then you will have a bad time with this game. It also does not help when the game tries to skill check you 2 times in the beginning of the game with Barachiel and Sahariel, 2 bosses in the beginning that will most likely wreck you.
Compared to other RPG's like the Tales series, it does however lack the nice little extras like: Party Banter, Unlockable Skins, More room for ship upgrades, New Game+, Setting the party leader should change the in-game model
The worst aspects I would say is that item quantity is capped to 20, meaning that you will have to waste time traveling to previous locations to buy materials or farm them again to reach the required efficiency for mass item creation.
Unlike other similar games, you cannot issue commands to your party members without actually switching to them and then going back into the menu to issue the command.
Tactics are lackluster as there isn't really much explanation on the subtle difference between each one, the best system would be something like from Tales or Dragon Age where you can fine tune the AI behavior.
It's a good game underneath with features lacking from other games you can find on Steam, however if you can get past Barachiel and Sahariel then everything else is cakewalk, even Satanail.

One of my favorite oldie. Love beautiful Reimi. Love Reimi's range attacks using widespread arrows. Challenging post-game dungeon. Has replayability.

Big fan of the STAR OCEAN series, my first game was STAR OCEAN till the end of time, i loved the story. Everything works fine no performance issues. This game does not dissapoint. 7/10.

So, I'm reading a lot of scathing reviews about this game recently. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and hate for this game isn't anything new. I remember when it came out, it was pretty hit or miss with the fans of the series. For the life of me though, I cannot fathom how anyone would like part 3 and hate this game.
Don't get me wrong, I like part 3. I even enjoyed the "twist" of part 3 and always thought that made complete sense with everything we know about the Star Ocean universe, but part 3 has all of the issues people have with this game. Voice acting is bad, character models look bland, story is kind of out there... but I hear people who hurl those criticisms at this game, like part 3, and I don't get it. I think the voice acting of this game is a cut above part 3 (with a few exceptions), the character models, while bland, look much better and proportionate than part 3. Every single SO game has a zany story, but that's what I've always loved about it. The over-the-top nature is always fun. What's more, where part 3 felt limited in scope and very repetitive with the use of dungeons and areas you visit, part 4 allows for actual space travel between systems. Something no other SO game has done until then and since.
Honestly, I don't see what they got wrong about this game that people hate. It's not part 2, but no game in the series was part 2 (even 6, that tried to be). To me, this is one of the better games in the series, and if you can get past its flaws (because they exist), you may like it too.
The only game in the series I can understand the hatred for is part 5, but I'm going to get back to playing it soon, and that's an entirely different story...

I don't really feel like putting a thumb down to SO: TLH, this game is very mistreated, but it's not THAT bad.
To me, the most noticeable flaws are the characters: they're all extremely stereotyped.
If you watched plenty of anime (and I assume you did, or why the heck would you be here), you will probably feel indifferent to all, and I mean ALL, the characters of this game.
We have the brave protagonist, the girl who is secretly in love with him, the cat girl, the clumsy angel girl, the robot, an Elf-like boy, and probably somebody else I forgot.
All flavored with some fanservice here and there.
The fights are...ok, they are barely ok.
I read many reviews that bashed them, but I personally found them manageable, and while they weren't anything original, you still need to fight if you want to level up.
The cutscenes take forever, each cutscene could be watched while you have lunch/dinner/breakfast, they are literally neverending, and sometimes uninteresting even.
There are subquests, but you're not encouraged in the least to complete them, and actually you don't need to do any of them.
Impressively, despite finding all these flaws, I can't for the life of me put a thumb down to Star Ocean: The Last Hope.
Game is not great, but it has its moments and overall it works.
If you dislike the english voices, just put the japanese ones, they never fail to deliver positive vibes, and they frankly add value to this game.
I'd say "mixed" is exactly the kind of ranking this game deserves, 50/50.