Star Ocean: The Last Hope Full HD Remaster

It's still a good game, even though it is plagued by an infinite list of annoying things
PRO :
-Arumat, the only character that make sense in the whole game
-Myura (i think you know why)
-Your character end up god like (at the end of the game)
-You can teleport (at the end of the game)
-Synthesis is nice (at the end of the game)
-Fighting is nice (at the end of the game)
-You can drink everytime they say universe (at the end of the game)
-Bacchus (well he's trying at least)
-The music is nice (at the end of the game ?)
-The bunny is cool (at least)
-Meracle (cat girl)
CONS :
-they literally went out of their way to fix some bugs that made the game better, like the overflow trick, but they didn't try to make the game better at all
-Edge (is too edgy)
-you can't change the walking character, you are stuck with Edge forever (i can feel your disappointment from here)
-you can't zoom or move the map, one of the worst idea ever
-The story is generally bad (but hopefully i didn't came for the story)
-Myura (yes she's in both, no it's not a mistake)
-Faize (hello i have a super ship but no let's walk ???, so much more to say but hey no spoiler)
-Sarah (too slow)
-Lymle (why is there a kid in the party ???)
-Reimi (too annoying)
-You take forever to walk everywhere
-You get a bunny to go faster but you actually go slower
-Did i say Edge ?
-I can't hear the word universe anymore

While not as good as the older Star Ocean games, still an absolutely fantastic and fun ARPG, Blindsiding is one of the most satisfying things I've ever done in a game. Absolutely deserves more attention for it's quality. By the numbers compared to it's siblings in the series, but sometimes that isn't a bad thing at all.
For the price, worth it. Don't let the overly rabid community fool you, this game is still considerably better than some of the weaker Tales Of games, and WELL above the bar for a good ARPG, albeit, I tend to like playing games being a more passive affair that I can do while watching youtube or TV shows, with bursts of storytelling, so your taste may vary.
As for performance, on my particular rig (i5 6400 and GTX 1060 6GB ), it plays like a dream, buttery smooth, and looking absolutely fantastic, on 1080p max settings. In fact, this is one of the few games that RUNS at 4K 60FPS on this rig, with some drops to 40 FPS. Incredible considering most games choke and die when I turn on 4K. I've seen absolutely none of the issues mentioned in some of the other reviews, granted if I can't use borderless by default I always use Borderless Gaming or Magic Borderless to make it work.
I am a very big fan of Tri-Ace's style and I would hope that the Tri-Ace games currently on PC encourage them to port more games to PC.

Pros:
- great battle system (good enough to outweigh all cons)
- awesome music (something to expect from genius Motoi Sakuraba)
- simple and self explanatory invention/item creation system (but not Welch!)
Cons:
- cringy writing and voice acting
- large, empty and boring dungeons with unnecessary disintegration ring variations and boring puzzles and repeating textures
In short: if one is able to get over cringiness, one will enjoy the game. I was, and I enjoy the game.

Do not be discouraged by the overwhelming time intensive looking trophies and definitely do not let the battle simulator / tutorial fool you - it's uncharacteristically hard and doesn't represent the actual game's combat at all. Also don't let the second real boss discourage you either, that's also uncharacteristically hard compared to the rest of the game.

An incredibly underrated JRPG!
Crashing your technologically-advanced ship on a medieval planet, this begins just like Star Ocean: The Second Story and Till the End of Time. The familiarity of this sci-fi setting is comforting, after playing all the previous games in the series. I feel SO:TLH holds up with some of the classics even, like Phantasy Star IV, and the first two Star Oceans. This game is so much better than the last game. I didn't get bored and abandon The Last Hope like I did with Till The End of Time.
The battles are fun, and keep you engaged via the Bonus Board and certain tactics for certain enemies. The crafting is unique, you set up parties to brainstorm together, and they come up with what you can create, based on skills you level up like Cooking and Artistry. The skill system is cool, and has to be the only non-western RPG that you can level up Pickpocketing! So in addition to walking around towns talking to NPCs, you can rob them!
Private Actions can be unlocked (basically secret cutscenes/dialogues) that can open up more cutscenes, improve relationships between characters, and affect endings You can even choose who rooms with who (if the character doesn't protest...) If you can just have a "It's Japanese, it's weird" mindset, the characters are enjoyable, although still ridiculous.
Edit: A huge negative for the game is a "joke" enemy they throw in the last dungeon.
Basically: I got all the chests in the 8-9 area dungeon, leveled up all my chars by 10+ levels, and figured out the "frozen" room puzzles. There is no save point at any point in this area. Right before the end, there is a random enemy you can run into. They one-shot all your chars easily, and I couldn't run because they just one-shot each char that tried as they helplessly ran in place. Dark Clowns... I didn't even run into one, they just happened to accompany an ape. I lost everything I had done for the last 4 hours.
Last Edit: I was just being a bltch about the Dark Clowns in the last dungeon. Sh!t like that was commonplace in old-school JRPGs.

Includes an option in the settings to mute Lymle during combat. 11/10

Grind, grind and grind if you want to stand a chance against the bosses.