Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $24.99.
- Story and characters: 176 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 58 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 50 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Difficulty: 46 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 4k player reviews · updated 2 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
"Star Ocean Second Story R," is a delight.
- A lot of replayability.
Although staying faithful to the original and building on its strengths in a focused approach has paid off in terms of graphics and sound design, the developers should have geared themselves more towards current standards in the areas of AI for your team members.
The voice acting is great, but I'm missing some of the old terms, "shooting star" for example, but that is just nostalgia speaking, the new voices are far superior to the robotic sounds of the past.
It all looks pretty tasteful and coherent, and runs smoothly on steam deck (save for negligible hitching on the world map).
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Currently $24.99 (−50%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
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