Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time

1. Lufia

   Jul 7, 2023

   10

   As always, an awesome Star Ocean game. The only bad thing in this game is the MP mechanic that causes your character to die when you reach 0As always, an awesome Star Ocean game. The only bad thing in this game is the MP mechanic that causes your character to die when you reach 0 MP in a battle.… Expand

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2. Djarfr55

   Jul 25, 2020

   10

   This was my favorite game as a kid until I was older and RDR2 came out. Combat is fast paced and has some depth to it but certain tricks mustThis was my favorite game as a kid until I was older and RDR2 came out. Combat is fast paced and has some depth to it but certain tricks must be discovered. The game doesnt explain the deeper combat exploits. Also with crafting it is very in depth but once again the game does not explain how to craft certain items. The story is very creative and shows some of the dilemmas of civilizations with space travel interacting with underdeveloped worlds. This game was definately ahead of its time in 2004. 10/10 for me.… Expand

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4. VendonJura

   Sep 27, 2018

   10

   Star Ocean 3 was in my opinion one of the best rpg games ever made. You had allot of hidden stuff you could explore. Many characters and anStar Ocean 3 was in my opinion one of the best rpg games ever made. You had allot of hidden stuff you could explore. Many characters and an arena. I can't tell how many thousands of hour I've been playing this game but it was allot. The only 3 things I did not like in this game was
   
   1. When your MP reached 0 you died. Totally annoying
   
   2. Some very long dungeons did not have any Savecores where you could save your progress. Very huge dungeons had a very high chance that the game freezes or something else so you've done all the hour of work for nothing. This happened to me billion times.
   
   3. Sadly Square Enix messed up the Remaster version so you are not able to set the volume, sounds like you would wish to. So playing this game on PS4 while having a party conversation is a pain. The dialogs volume is like 60% and music and the rest is at 100% that's make it hard to understand what the character are actually talking about.
   
   But after all that Square failed with the Remastered Version just because of the volume sadness the game itself is just godlike. Star Ocean games for ever… Expand

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5. kingshark

   Mar 17, 2021

   9

   I played this game as a teen and loved it. Had no idea what I was doing and it kccked my ass. I came back as an adult and was able to not getI played this game as a teen and loved it. Had no idea what I was doing and it kccked my ass. I came back as an adult and was able to not get my ass so kicked! Don't know if it's nostalgia but old games had this way of kicking your ass but keeping you coming back for more. My favorite games are ff7 and dark souls and I feel this is a good mix. Not a souls like at al but the same addictive "I am going to beat this boss no matter what" kind of feeling and the battle gauge adds a real fun risk factor. Don't get me wrong it's got a lot of dated mechanics and pet hates. My biggest one is having a place with 16 areas and only one is worth investigating but then also having some areas with 17 places to check and a rediculos item hidden one. Overall if you like jrpgs with active combat I recommend it. If you can get past cheesy graphics the game play is addictive and the story is different, not amazing but different.… Expand

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6. Adriella01

   Feb 22, 2020

   8

   "Till the end of time" is the best Star Ocean titel within the series. As it is now almost 17 years old, it does not perform high compared to"Till the end of time" is the best Star Ocean titel within the series. As it is now almost 17 years old, it does not perform high compared to other 2017 game standards. But for an old RPG classic it is still gold and offers plenty of gameplay time and a nice sci-fi story with a breaking twist.… Expand

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7. artificeprime

   Jul 15, 2017

   6

   This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Star Ocean 3 is a pretty mediocre JRPG. While it isn't a bad game and offers a long decent quest with some good ideas, almost nothing about it stands out to me as exceptional. The combat is enjoyable enough but inferior to similar styles of action RPGs like the Tales games. The story starts out promising but is ultimately a major disappointment. The game has, in my opinion, one of the worst twists in an RPG because it makes almost everything that you have done up to that point seem meaningless. On the plus side it is foreshadowed but it is still disappointing. Another problem I had with the game is that several sections needlessly drag. There is a lot of content but a fair amount of it I didn't care about so I was often demotivated from playing.
   
   The gameplay is decent fun but I have played so many RPGs with better combat. I quickly found that it got repetitive and while there were some cool abilities there weren't nearly enough for such a long game. The menus and such are functional but once again they just seemed standard to me. There were a few good boss battles but the final boss is disappointing. The game taking place across multiple worlds offers a good variety of enemy types though. The crafting is decent but I found it needlessly complicated compared to other RPGs.
   
   The story started off quite intriguing, the idea of someone from an advanced civilization crashing on a medieval world creates some really interesting possibilities. Some of the early interactions were pretty enjoyable but as the game goes on the story gets progressively more bizarre and less inspired. The main problem that your characters are facing, which initially intrigued me, is eventually revealed to be something entirely different and not in a good way. The plot twist made almost all the details of the story seem irrelevant.
   
   There are a good variety of characters but few of them seemed to be very well developed. Fayt is a pretty standard protagonist without much about his identity that felt inspired. The characters overall seemed inferior when compared to the Tales games, Final Fantasy games, or the Xenosaga games.
   
   Visual Design is pretty good in some areas but I found that many of the characters had an unappealing look. They were clearly going for an anime style but for some reason many of the characters have big foreheads and small lower faces, the proportions just don't look appealing. Other than that most of the environments and monsters look pretty good. There are some really interesting environments.
   
   The sound design is pretty mediocre. The voice acting is below average. The music is pretty good but sometimes I found that it didn't match with the scenes as well as it could have. Still it gets some points for at least having a lot of spoken dialog and the sound track does have some good songs.
   
   Overall, I liked this game fine, I spent over 50 hours playing it and I enjoyed it well enough, I just think that there are many far better RPGs.
   
   I give it 61%
   
   Gameplay - 5
   Story - 6
   World - 6
   Characters - 6
   Visual Style - 7
   Sound Design - 6
   Uniqueness/Ideas - 7
   Length/Amount of Content - 8
   Immersion - 5
   X-Factor 5… Expand

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8. TheDestroyer

   Feb 2, 2018

   5

   The legendary game that I would have given a full 10 out of 10 too on the PS2 version back then, but can't do that here on PS4. No 10 out ofThe legendary game that I would have given a full 10 out of 10 too on the PS2 version back then, but can't do that here on PS4. No 10 out of 10 to be found here. Why? You ask? Because it crashed on me 4 times in less than an hour! Other players are having it just as bad. This burden alone overshadows anything excellent it would have had. Forget the story! Forget the graphics! Forget the gameplay! Infact, forget everything. Don't buy it until Tri-Ace decides to patch the bloody thing.… Expand

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