Star Ocean: The Last Hope International for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

In my opinion this game started out great, The story line was rather good, you were able to bounce around on different planets, then again right at the moment when you had to fight the phantoms that took out Aeo's Exploration Base, Each charac had around 7k each fighting to the phantoms was a nightmare, then fighting the first time on a constant ambush was rather not enjoyable, i figure i would have to go into a grind mode, that would take hours to reach 20k plus to sustain at least. well i couldnt finish my wife wanted her PS3 game so i had to send it back. Over all, good and bad moments in the story line doing alot of grinding don't skip through monsters fight everything. I am giving it a 8.0

This game had be written by either 5-year olds or someone on drugs... Don't get me wong here! The graphics are good the music seems decent... The party and characters are pre-rendered(meaning they are each filling clihe'd roles(such as spikey haired swordsman and the like) that alone would normally be reason enough for me to deem it a non-keeperand send it back when I was bored, but that isn't what has made me so shocked I felt it neccessary to return it so promptly that I wanted to get as much distance between me and this game as possible... Are you ready for the reason? The reason can be summed up like this... Name for me one military conflict that the loser lost only because the weapons he had on hand were too advanced... Go ahead!! NAME ONE!!! You can't can you?! Well, neither can I!! But that is the excuse that Square-Enix developers came up with for this game!!! I could see why people would forgive the voice acting, and the linearity.. You could probably even forgive the annoying chaqracters or the lousy writing! But how anytone would forgive the stupidity of you lost because YOUR WEAPONS are TOO ADVANCED is beyond me! Railguns get their name from the fact that they fire sharp steel rods(known as rails[hence the name} at hyper velocity speeds to impail their targets(much like a highly advanced bow and arrow) Yet a railgun in this game is considered to be usless, but a little tiny shortbow can somehow manage to one-shot the same type of creature that previously shrugged off several direct hits from a whole bunch of railguns and the railguns were called worthless, while the shortbow was considered to be just "primitive" enough to kill it... I KID YOU NOT!!! Try it yourself and see, but don't say I didn't warn you! The stupitity behind the in game reasoning(or lack there of has canceled all progressthe game managed to make in the other areas! It is because of games like this one that I say,"try before you buy!" God Bless you!