Square-Enix Star Ocean remake hits PSP and a surprise announcement

At a recent press conference, Square-Enix had announced some few new interesting games, as well as information on older already known games.

One of these games turned out to be for the Star Ocean series!

Starting off, they first announced "Star Ocean First Departure" will be released onto the PSP, the battle system and system of the game itself has been completely revamped! Also there have been some other changes, such as an additional playable character, and also even some new scenes! Besides these extras added, it's a complete remake!




Moving on to their next Star Ocean related announcement, Star Ocean First Departure isn't the only one that will be hitting the PSP, another Star Ocean game known as "Star Ocean Second Evolution" will also be hitting it. This one is also a complete remake of Star Ocean 2, and will be featuring a new voice actor, as well as revamped character designs. They believe these two games will resurrect the Star Ocean series.




And the final announcement was not about a remake however, no it was about a whole new addition to the Star Ocean series, Star Ocean 4! This is the tentative title however, so it's unknown as to what it may change to during it's development. Square-Enix and Tri-Ace are also unsure of what system to put it on as well! Seems like we won't be seeing this game for a few years...



Source: Gemaga

 

I SO Can't wait until Star Ocean 4~
It should be GOOD!

 

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The influx of PSP games as of late as been tempting me to invest in one now.

 

Cool. I need some more games for PSP.

 

Sweet! I take it that SO:FD is SO1 remade? It'd be awesome for a US release! What I'd like to see is SO:Blue Sphere remade....this is like, my DREAM COME TRUE!!!

 

Awesome!! I've only played SO: Till the End of Time (SO3), but my friend got me into it. He says the second one is awesome. He's also got a psp and is REALLY looking for new games, so he'll love this. Star Ocean4!! YES!!!! I was wondering when it was coming. The Star Ocean series is too good to let go.

 

It turns out they'll have new voices!! And other stuff as well:
Star Ocean: First Departure
Ratix Farrence - Mamoru Miyano
Milly Kiliet - Hitomi Nabatame
Marvel Frozen - Houko Kuwashima
Fear Mell - Megumi Toyoguchi

Star Ocean: Second Evolution
Claude C. Kenni - Daisuke Namikawa
Rena Lanford - Nana Mizuki
Dias Flac - Tomokazu Sugita
Precis F. Neumann - Rie Kugimiya

Other Extra's:
- Expanded storyline
- New characters
- Game will be full of voiced dialogues

Ooh new characters too? I hope they're playable! And here are some more predictions for the VA cast from my point of view:

SO:First Departure -
Iria Silvestoli - Kana Ueda
Perisie - Yukari Tamura
Joshua Jerand - Megumi Ogata

SO: Second Evolution -
Celine Jules - Rie Tanaka
Chisato Madison - Yoko Ishida
Ernest Raviede - Hikaru Midorikawa

My two cents on who should be casted next. xD