Board 8 > Rate the VG Story Day 125: Star Ocean: The Last Hope

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Todays game is Star Ocean: The Last Hope. How would you rate the story on a scale from 1-10?

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Previous Results:
Planescape: Torment - 9.83 (12 votes)
Higurashi When They Cry - 9.69 (8 votes)
Omori - 9.67 (6 votes)
Outer Wilds - 9.61 (22 votes)
Silent Hill 2 - 9.5 (20 votes)
Nier Automata - 9.25 (31 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations - 9.17 (33 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - 9.16 (18 votes)
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 9.1 (14 votes)
The House in Fata Morgana - 9.1 (10 votes)
Red Dead Redemption 2 - 9 (8 votes)
Steins;Gate - 8.94 (9 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - 8.91 (30 votes)
Grim Fandango - 8.88 (13 votes)
Zero Escape: Virtues Last Reward - 8.88 (20 votes)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 8.85 (10 votes)
Silent Hill 4: The Room - 8.83 (6 votes)
Suikoden II - 8.8 (11 votes)
Umineko When They Cry - 8.79 (12 votes)
Persona 3 - 8.75 (21 votes)
Xenogears - 8.71 (23 votes)
Tales of Berseria - 8.69 (14 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 8.67 (31 votes)
Metal Gear Solid - 8.67 (27 votes)
Final Fantasy Tactics - 8.65 (23 votes)
Dragon Quest V - 8.64 (14 votes)
Bastion - 8.63 (12 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask - 8.56 (27 votes)
Disco Elysium - 8.56 (16 votes)
Undertale - 8.45 (42 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - 8.42 (12 votes)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 8.41 (19 votes)
Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 8.4 (5 votes)
Chrono Trigger - 8.39 (40 votes)
Mass Effect 2 - 8.38 (28 votes)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 8.37 (15 votes)
Final Fantasy X - 8.31 (56 votes)
Final Fantasy VII - 8.28 (37 votes)
Dragon Quest XI - 8.2 (15 votes)
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective 8.21 (19 votes)
Final Fantasy VI - 8.19 (43 votes)
The Walking Dead Season 1 - 8.17 (21 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - 8.15 (41 votes)
The Last of Us - 8.13 (35 votes)
Horizon: Zero Dawn - 8.06 (18 votes)
The Wolf Among Us - 8.04 (14 votes)
Xenoblade Chronicles - 7.94 (27 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - 7.94 (16 votes)
Spec Ops: The Line - 7.9 (17 votes)
Bloodborne - 7.88 (20 votes)
Life is Strange - 7.85 (31 votes)
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future - 7.75 (6 votes)
The Sexy Brutale - 7.7 (5 votes)
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors - 7.69 (31 votes)
Doki Doki Literature Club - 7.66 (26 votes)
Bioshock - 7.64 (23 votes)
Celeste - 7.62 (25 votes)
Skies of Arcadia - 7.54 (14 votes)
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - 7.5 (30 votes)
The Last Story - 7.47 (6 votes)
Mortal Kombat (2011) - 7.46 (13 votes)
Mass Effect - 7.35 (28 votes)
Tales of Symphonia - 7.34 (28 votes)
Earthbound - 7.33 (19 votes)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - 7.26 (29 votes)
Tales of the Abyss - 7.25 (29 votes)
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 - 7.25 (12 votes)
Red Dead Redemption - 7.23 (11 votes)
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - 7.17 (25 votes)
Mass Effect 3 - 7.16 (21 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - 7.11 (23 votes)
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 7.1 (30 votes)
To the Moon - 7.07 (7 votes)
Super Paper Mario - 7.04 (23 votes)
Assassins Creed II - 7.04 (13 votes)
Final Fantasy VIII - 7.01 (30 votes)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - 7 (5 votes)
Hollow Knight - 6.98 (21 votes)
INSIDE - 6.93 (15 votes)
Gone Home - 6.91 (17 votes)
Bioshock Infinite - 6.87 (19 votes)
The World Ends With You - 6.79 (24 votes)
Death Stranding - 6.73 (13 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All - 6.68 (32 votes)
Firewatch - 6.65 (10 votes)
Dark Souls - 6.62 (20 votes)
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - 6.61 (29 votes)
Chrono Cross - 6.56 (17 votes)
Valkyria Chronicles - 6.5 (16 votes)
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 6.5 (13 votes)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - 6.38 (12 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 6.34 (35 votes)
Professor Layton and the Curious Village - 6.16 (14 votes)
DOOM (2016) - 6.15 (13 votes)
Tales of Vesperia - 6.13 (23 votes)
Star Fox 64 - 5.8 (25 votes)
Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception - 5.8 (24 votes)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 5.72 (9 votes)
Final Fantasy IV - 5.78 (30 votes)
Metroid Prime - 5.67 (24 votes)
Kingdom Hearts - 5.51 (31 votes)
The Wonderful 101 - 5.5 (4 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - 5.63 (13 votes)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - 5.43 (14 votes)
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box - 5.33 (9 votes)
Grand Theft Auto IV - 5.27 (13 votes)
Uncharted: Drakes Fortune - 5.26 (28 votes)
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney - 4.93 (23 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright - 4.85 (13 votes)
Final Fantasy XIII - 4.79 (29 votes)
Final Fantasy X-2 - 4.79 (19 votes)
Final Fantasy XV - 4.79 (19 votes)
Fallout 3 - 4.76 (17 votes)
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty - 4.72 (9 votes)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 4.64 (40 votes)
Fallout 4 - 4.43 (15 votes)
Final Fantasy - 4.24 (19 votes)
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops - 3.89 (9 votes)
Resident Evil 6 - 3.74 (17 votes)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - 3.69 (13 votes)
Starcraft II (overall) - 3.4 (5 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest - 3.31 (16 votes)
Dissidia: Final Fantasy - 3.29 (12 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates (overall) - 3.29 (12 votes)
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void - 2.83 (6 votes)
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) - 2.66 (16 votes)
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm - 2.57 (7 votes)
Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation - 2.4 (10 votes)
Tales of Zestiria - 2.38 (8 votes)

Needs more votes:
Torment: Tides of Numenera

You can still rate previous days games if you missed them, just write <game name><rating>. If you want to change your rating you can just specify that you are changing your rating. Nominations for future days are also welcome, nominate as many games as you like and I will get to all of them.

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1

the single point is contained entirely in the bathroom scene otherwise it would have been a 0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBSNdlF6ZsI

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Nominate Super Mario Sunshine

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Nominate Star Ocean Till the End of Time

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2, It does feature one of the best names of all time. Edge Maverick.

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1.5

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Sorozone posted...

2, It does feature one of the best names of all time. Edge Maverick.

Haha no way

Let's get this dude in the next character battle

7.5

Narratively better than people will give it credit for being.

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3

Could not stomach/10

From what I've played it is a 1 but I couldn't keep going after about 10 hours of this so it shouldn't count.

Up.

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1/10

Wow those rankings
I am curious

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Sorozone posted...

2, It does feature one of the best names of all time. Edge Maverick.

Fayt Leingod, Linegod.

I take it that this post means it ironically.

Nanis23 posted...

Wow those rankings
I am curious

Curious enough to play it? I would advise against it. Til the End of Time still had everything up UNTIL the Plot Twist of Franchise Doom working somewhat.

Last Hope was a bore from the word go. I got like an hour in and gave up. I shudder to think what horror would have awaited me.

Someone told me once that Matt Mercer hated his role of Edge Maverick. I watched a couple later scenes of this game and thought, "yeah ...he might have."

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now imagine playing it 600+ hours for the platinum

that experience changes a man

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6/10 it isn't great but also isn't among the worst either

definitely no star ocean 2

nominate legend of heroes trails of cold steel

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2/10

The plot is bad, 'kay. Maybe not quite as bad as everyone says, 'kay, but the characters and dialogue are so atrocious that I would not want to subject anyone to this script. 'Kay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNauq6_9iP0


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I shouldn't have watched that video....Kay? That was my own fault.

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andylt posted...

2/10

The plot is bad, 'kay. Maybe not quite as bad as everyone says, 'kay, but the characters and dialogue are so atrocious that I would not want to subject anyone to this script. 'Kay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNauq6_9iP0

Is this supposed to be cute or is she supposed to be in some kind of trance? Genuinely can't tell.

She probably has a vocal tic at the end of her sentences in Japanese, which is fine for that, but when they try to do it english it always sounds weird.

and it doesn't help her voice actress is bad too

either way that's just the normal way she speaks

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I looked up IMDB to see who it was that did Lymle. I couldn't recognize the actress from anything meaningful and say, "it was the script's fault." Because it can always be a little bit of both. Direction, scripting, and overall skill. But I mean, I didn't even like Laura Bailey being Welch, so that game was just a bomb waiting to happen. If you miscast or misus Laura Bailey somehow, you know you fucked up pretty badly.

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Strife2 posted...

Laura Bailey being Welch

fuck off
i refuse to believe that
she was the worst

She was. She was also Reimi. I knew that before looking up Lymle's actress.

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9/10

I love the story in the game.

Lymle is one of my favorite characters. Ask my husband. every time I ask for something I go "kay" like Lymle.

Best star ocean game.

Yes I know this is unpopular but I am sticking too it.

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easiest 1/10

it's trash

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1/10

Even if you're mildly enjoying the story in the beginning it proceeds not only to ruin its own story but also fuck with the series as a whole. I'll never play another Star Ocean because of this game.
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6/10?

Hadn't really realized this game was so disliked for this. It's nothing incredible but I liked a bunch of the characters well enough, including most of the important ones.

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Lymle gets all the hate (rightfully), but this is a bad cast all round. Sarah is every bit as annoying as Lym.

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Nominate Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age

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Legitimately fascinating results today

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KamikazePotato posted...

Legitimately fascinating results today

Agreed. Looks like it will evade being the lowest ranked or in the lowest five games due to some people liking it which you cant say for Tales of Zestiria as an example.

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2

Straight ass; Star Ocean as a whole hasn't been good since 2 and even that's aged poorly.

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7. Entertainingly bad

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