Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness

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  1. Tintler
    Jul 21, 2023
    4
    Uzun zamandır bir oyunda gördüğüm en kötü kamera kontrolüne sahip, kamera ana karakterin görüş açısına paralel gitmeye çalışıyor fakat hareket ettiğiniz alan engebeliyse bir aşağı bir yukarı mide bulantısına yol açıyor. Çok kolay çözülebilecek bir sorun, internette bakarsanız başkalarının da bu konu hakkında rahatsız olduğunu görebilirsiniz. Diğer bir konu ise, biraz deneysel gidipUzun zamandır bir oyunda gördüğüm en kötü kamera kontrolüne sahip, kamera ana karakterin görüş açısına paralel gitmeye çalışıyor fakat hareket ettiğiniz alan engebeliyse bir aşağı bir yukarı mide bulantısına yol açıyor. Çok kolay çözülebilecek bir sorun, internette bakarsanız başkalarının da bu konu hakkında rahatsız olduğunu görebilirsiniz. Diğer bir konu ise, biraz deneysel gidip ara-sahne koymak yerine bu sahneleri oyun devam ederken koymayı tercih etmişler, keşke böyle yapmak yerine ara sahne koysalarmış. Bu iki nedenden dolayı kırıyorum puanın. Bunun dışında hikayesi, seslendirmeleri, grafikleri klasik AA action jrpg bunları ne iyi ne de kötü yapıyor. Beğendiğim nokta ise savaşlarda tüm parti üyelerinin kullanılabilir olması, sadece 3-4 kişi ile kısıtlamıyor ve ekranda 7 kişiyi de görüyorsunuz. Bunun dışında role sistemi de çok güzel olmuş, role sistemi sayesinde oyunun ortalarına doğru resmen oyunu bozan bir build yaptım ve hiç zorlanmadan bitirdim.… Expand
  2. Lufia
    Jul 7, 2023
    10
    As always, an awesome Star Ocean game. The only bad thing in this game is the smal battleground. If you play as a ranged character, you accidently start an escape from battle realy often.
  3. Sharingan1
    Jun 28, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Every New Star ocean Getting Worse ,,
    This One Is Nightmare ..
    - Worse Story
    - Bad Charecters
    - Boring Cutscenes Ever
    - Big Monsters Not Stopping Atk You what ever you attack / Conter Them ,, They will keep atack you and Break you Bouns ,,,
    and now i'm having a Worse Nightmare for trying to get Platinum ,, Thanks to Square Enix For That ...
    If you really want to Realize How Bad this game is ,, Just Start Getting Platinum    … Expand
  4. Melkiades
    Apr 6, 2023
    1
    If you're a fan of JRPGs, it's hard not to be drawn to the genuine aesthetic and gameplay of Star Ocean Integrity and Faithlessness.

    However, it's not the low-budget graphics or the narrative that weighs this game down, but serious programming flaws. To illustrate it with an example, I had to stop my game in the middle because in combat, the game is programmed so that all the enemies    If you're a fan of JRPGs, it's hard not to be drawn to the genuine aesthetic and gameplay of Star Ocean Integrity and Faithlessness.

    However, it's not the low-budget graphics or the narrative that weighs this game down, but serious programming flaws.

    To illustrate it with an example, I had to stop my game in the middle because in combat, the game is programmed so that all the enemies attack the same character, whom the rest must protect. There is no way around this and I am aware that a large number of players have had to leave the game due to this issue.

    The result is a crappy JRPG, which should have been tested much more before launching it for sale. A big disappointment.    … Expand
  5. Juliosouza1988
    Oct 26, 2022
    4
    Decepção é a palavra chave nesse jogo. Cheio de bugs , história ridícula de chata e uma campanha de um pouco mais de 20 horas. Pontos possitivos ? O gráfico.
  6. Unicron35
    Jul 6, 2022
    7
    Reviewed on PS5. The graphics are okay. The music soundtrack is decent. The story is good. The protagonist is bland. The rest of your team fall into cliche character tropes. The antagonist is predictable. Several other villains are outright hilarious and I can't take them seriously.

    The combat is smooth and fluid. The UI is okay. The game froze a couple of times. There are difficulty    Reviewed on PS5. The graphics are okay. The music soundtrack is decent. The story is good. The protagonist is bland. The rest of your team fall into cliche character tropes. The antagonist is predictable. Several other villains are outright hilarious and I can't take them seriously.

    The combat is smooth and fluid. The UI is okay. The game froze a couple of times. There are difficulty spikes which will force you to grind to overcome them. The role system is addicting. I had my most fun with this game unlocking and experimenting with new roles.

    This was the first Star Ocean game that I finished. While it can be rough around the edges, the story plot and role system kept me engaged to end. I did find it disappointing that you are on one planet the entire game. I hope Star Ocean 6 has more planets to visit and that the role system returns. Overall, a decent JRPG.    … Expand
  7. sapphireglaceon
    Mar 27, 2022
    0
    these games are getting less and less of a star ocean feel to them 5&6 mainly first departure felt right this just feels so off from that and tri ace should have stopped after till the end of time and should have remade 3 and brought that to america as well as remastering 2 and TTEOT for switch the only good thing i can say about this is the music everything else is just NO
  8. Tiziown
    May 22, 2021
    8
    It wasn't even close to SO IV budget but in the end it is way better imho, so good work
  9. Vachekiri
    Mar 5, 2021
    4
    Ce jeu est une purge. Tu passes 95% du temps à spammer une touche comme un idiot. La plus part des combats sont bidons puis d'un coup tu tombes sur des mobs surpuissants qui te démontent en 30sec. Et l'IA autant pas en parler c'est pas mieux. Bref les bons rpg deviennent de plus en plus rares... Ah oui aussi, aucune carte du monde. Pour un rpg c'est le top du top
  10. Droplesgantsfgc
    Jan 28, 2021
    4
    For fans of the series, this installment is nothing short of a massive dissapointment. Most of the combat mechanics (and character archetype, right down to the moveset) are reused assets from Till the end of time. So even if the mechanics and moves are reused, Star Ocean shines on its storytelling prowess,I hear you say.

    well, the story has been drasticaly scaled down to a rather    For fans of the series, this installment is nothing short of a massive dissapointment. Most of the combat mechanics (and character archetype, right down to the moveset) are reused assets from Till the end of time. So even if the mechanics and moves are reused, Star Ocean shines on its storytelling prowess,I hear you say.

    well, the story has been drasticaly scaled down to a rather personal story of 6 cardboard cutouts and one little girl (oh wait 2) who constantly gets captured so you have to rescue her. no kidding this story beat is repeated 3 times in a short 30-40 hours rpg. Hell, your princess is in another castle. Villains motivations are non-sensical, heroes are pale shonen anime clichés(you got the bland protag, childhood friend who has a crush on protag to his obliviousness, sexy mage girl, womanizing booze swindling gruff military man, beautyfull stoic science lady, even blander rival and mistycal weapon misterious little girl)and there are no innovations in the core mechanics known to the series. add in unskipable cutscenes and cheap battles (protect Anne anyones?) and you got yourself a recipe for a mediocre,series killing RPG.

    faithlessness wmeans to believe in something with faith or having no faith in something.

    this might be a cheeky message from the dev team, letting us know they had no integrity while developping this game and had no faith in its quality.    … Expand
  11. Gaudy
    Jan 7, 2021
    2
    Muy aburrido. De lo peor de la Saga Star Ocean, decepcionante para los seguidores. Graficamente obsoleto, parece de PS2. El diseño de los personajes es mediocre y son puros estereotipos. El mundo a investigar, muy aburrido y sin encanto ninguno, vacio. No apetece explorar, se hace pesado. El sistema de combate se hace repetitivo, totalmente roto y mal nivelado. Enemigos randon muyMuy aburrido. De lo peor de la Saga Star Ocean, decepcionante para los seguidores. Graficamente obsoleto, parece de PS2. El diseño de los personajes es mediocre y son puros estereotipos. El mundo a investigar, muy aburrido y sin encanto ninguno, vacio. No apetece explorar, se hace pesado. El sistema de combate se hace repetitivo, totalmente roto y mal nivelado. Enemigos randon muy faciles y jefes de repente imposibles, totalmente descompensado. Traduccion en ingles, sin español. De los peores J-RPJs que he jugado.… Expand
  12. Taryl
    Dec 28, 2020
    10
    Very underrated game! Fun combat, great graphic, characters are fantastic, hope in a new chapter!
  13. stevRaJah
    Jul 12, 2020
    4
    It’s just not nothing going for it. Bland locales, an endless supply of ‘kill this’ or ‘collect this’ side missions, bland characters, a bad story, etc etc. Worst of all however: it’s good enough to introduce seamless battles, but still dumb enough to allow six party members on screen at one time. The endless parade of grind kills are annoying enough, but this game will throw endlessIt’s just not nothing going for it. Bland locales, an endless supply of ‘kill this’ or ‘collect this’ side missions, bland characters, a bad story, etc etc. Worst of all however: it’s good enough to introduce seamless battles, but still dumb enough to allow six party members on screen at one time. The endless parade of grind kills are annoying enough, but this game will throw endless spawning enemy sections, and ‘protect this person’ sections at you whenever justifiable. You’ll have zero clue as to what’s happening for the majority of the scripted battles as all 5 of you’re party members will be spamming special moves and yelling over each other while you either stomp the baddies into dust, or slowly die one at a time from one supremely overpowered enemy.… Expand
  14. Darky1600
    Apr 7, 2020
    0
    Bland and boring no soul what so ever. I paid 49.99 for this on release and will never forget how disappointed i was and still am. Played all the SO games and loved them, unfortunately this one didn't meet up to any sort of 'good' standards at all.
  15. g8mrecon59
    Jan 10, 2020
    0
    The game at first is really nice but then you get to the part where you have to protect Anne. This is the most retarded **** in the game. The programmers are dumb as **** on this part and the reason I get pissed is because I bought the piece of **** So now to pass the desert part protecting her as hordes of soldiers the programmers configured to only attack her because they're totalThe game at first is really nice but then you get to the part where you have to protect Anne. This is the most retarded **** in the game. The programmers are dumb as **** on this part and the reason I get pissed is because I bought the piece of **** So now to pass the desert part protecting her as hordes of soldiers the programmers configured to only attack her because they're total ****ing morons is grind it out. You will not beat this part unless you are seriously ovet leveled. This alone makes this game a total ****ing failure. My team is already super over leveled. I've followed the tips and only one person was honest saying they over leveled. I'm not going to waste any more of my time on this piece of **** with amazing graphics.… Expand
  16. Jedman
    Dec 30, 2019
    8
    This is nice light hearted JRPG, nothing particularly epic but enjoyable nonetheless. Graphics and music are nice and combat is fun, party management is great especially when you get more in depth into the customisation of roles and equipment later on.
    The story isn't anything groundbreaking but is interesting enough to make you want to progress with the game. Where the game is good is    This is nice light hearted JRPG, nothing particularly epic but enjoyable nonetheless. Graphics and music are nice and combat is fun, party management is great especially when you get more in depth into the customisation of roles and equipment later on.
    The story isn't anything groundbreaking but is interesting enough to make you want to progress with the game. Where the game is good is more in the characters and the characters relationships. The voice acting is generally very good and there is fun banter between the characters in cut scenes and in the private action scenes. The game features a cute loli, and the sexiest video game character I have ever come across so it gets strong marks for fan service. Fiore makes the game alone and was enough to make me want to continue with the game.

    I enjoyed my time with this game and while it is evidently old school and flawed in some areas, too much backtracking, difficulty spikes, I feel that the games charms are enough to make up for its shortcomings. Thank you Fiore.    … Expand
  17. Brev_Karlaus
    Mar 23, 2019
    7
    Having played the series since Star ocean 3, I feel like the series has lost some of its personality and imagination over time.
    A lot of the familiar thing like the gameplay are still there. However the main story itself feels like a lot shorted of an adventure than previous titles like Star ocean 3 which proudly spanned 2 DVDs back in its days. 95% of the game takes place in a single    Having played the series since Star ocean 3, I feel like the series has lost some of its personality and imagination over time.
    A lot of the familiar thing like the gameplay are still there. However the main story itself feels like a lot shorted of an adventure than previous titles like Star ocean 3 which proudly spanned 2 DVDs back in its days. 95% of the game takes place in a single continent of a single planet.
    The spaceship parts are still as awesome as always and I wish there were more of them.
    The game almost totally lacks cutscenes and instead almost all the conversations happen with a free camera in real time, I think this really damages the storytelling that worked so well in the previous 2 games, sometimes I could not tell who was speaking when there was a supporting character mixed in the conversation.
    Motoi Sakuraba still breathes in life to the game with his music but even he seems to say "meh" and like 40% of the music is recycled from SO3 and SO4 (though I was glad to head again some pieces).
    Overall the world feels small, only stretched by the huge waking sessions from point A to B. The antagonists ended up being very lame compared to the world threatening adversaries of the previous SO games, it was kind of a let down.
    I believe the creators of Star ocean have more than enough time between the titles to come up with something more than this. If they are out of ideas I hope they would recommend SO1 and SO2 on either this or the next generation of consoles
    That said like a classic SO game it has a lot of playtime specially if you want to do the postgame and the side quests    … Expand
  18. vahn
    Mar 7, 2019
    4
    Another disappointment from SE: I'm not even surprised at this point and if anything I have myself to blame for this. I KNEW this was going to suck and I didn't try to listen. And here I am, with a game that I CANNOT continue due to being so bad, so boring, I can't even get past hour 13 - in a game supposedly 20 hours long.

    And this is truly a shame because I believe that with more    Another disappointment from SE: I'm not even surprised at this point and if anything I have myself to blame for this. I KNEW this was going to suck and I didn't try to listen. And here I am, with a game that I CANNOT continue due to being so bad, so boring, I can't even get past hour 13 - in a game supposedly 20 hours long.

    And this is truly a shame because I believe that with more polish this game could've been even better than SO4, which was considered one of the worse installment. Sure SO4 had crappy plots - which SO doesn't have crappy plots? - but it had a charming kind of crappy and the combat was simply wonderful and fun: I definitely enjoyed that game far more than I imagined.

    But before we get to the bad stuff, what's good in it?
    Well, the characters are decently good, even better than SO4: Fidel is not a terrible MC, Miki is annoying but okay, Relia is mysterious but not annoying, and Fiore is surprisingly less **** than she makes it appear, Emerson is more skilled than he makes it look, Anne is okay and Victor is too. I mean it's not Oscar worthy but it's not "Lymle" or "Phaze" levels of bad either. And the story isn't that bad too - at least to the point I was in I got interested - and I could try to go further once I get beyond the suckiness.

    Other good things are the large amounts of good voice acting, interactions with your companions, smooth but barebone graphics that at least remain at a stable 60 fps, combat with 7 people which is a nice difference and the usual mix of sci-fi and fantasy where we can play the fantasy side first - I think only star ocean 1 and 2 made you play from the part of the fantasy dwellers first, and in 2 you could choose which characters to go with first.

    Anyway, that's the good stuff so let's talk about bad because there are plenty!

    Star Ocean has always been fast-paced action combat by using 2 buttons in different ranges and that's it: there wasn't much else to learn and it worked pretty fun. It's still the same now but with a difference: skills take a century and a half to cast or perform and this makes combat less fluid than you might think. Even the first skill you use, Double Slash, is extremely slow at performing and it's a 2hit combo!

    There are 7 people in combat, which is nice, but one will never fight so you actually have 6 people fighting and one buffing all the time. I feel that if they looked at Suikoden they would've learned a lot more in making passive fighters but instead, Relia is a character you'll be pumping with passive roles.

    Oh right, the roles: instead of giving your characters orders now you can only give them roles, which are actual buffs and passives that you level up...I fail to see the point of this: why not just give them actual orders? Why square does have to overcomplicate everything?!

    Speaking of overcomplicated: quests are needed if you want to learn new abilities and skills. Yes, you heard it right: abilities (like compounding, smithing, gathering, emoting, etc) and skills (the ones you use in combat) are learned from books and said books can come from quests or chests. I wouldn't complain if quests weren't a pain to complete...but of course they are sucky and requires a lot of backtracking and they knew nobody would do them. So they ended up locking important stuff behind it. I can't say it's not brilliant manipulation at least!

    Also, at least to the point, I'm in (13 hours) I could NOT teleport or move anywhere freely which means backtracking on foot and let me tell you that you run so slow you NEED to hold the sprint button to make it more bearable. Problem with sprint? It's on the circle button which means you cannot reposition your camera while you sprint - in SO4 the sprint was a dash that you couldn't control, which made sense. Again, more chores to a game full of chores.

    Another issue with combat is that you can switch control to anyone you desire but outside of combat you will always return to Fidel, which is not the problem: the problem is that you enter combat without loading and this means that whenever you start a fight the camera will jerk around from Fidel to X then X to Fidel: this is really stressing on your eyes as you can feel motion sick and even eye strain!
    In addition, since I like using long ranged fighters, I ALWAYS have to move because as soon as I get into combat I'm beyond the edge and an escape meter appears as if I want to escape.
    They didn't even properly test this game.

    I just can't even...seriously just forget this game: it's clear as day they cut the funds and made it barely work just for the sake of it. Square only cares for Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Dragon Quest, and it shows - actually not really because FF15 and KH3 are also rushed but whatever.

    If anything this means SO4 is no longer the worst one so go ahead and pick that one up: I'll take Lymle's M'kay and Phaze bootlicking every day if it means to play a better game.    … Expand
  19. tomvs123
    Feb 27, 2019
    3
    Yeah, it's bad, but it's a different sort of bad than I'm used to, which at least makes it interesting.

    I'll get to the good first: - The character models and overall graphical fidelity is great, compared to other JRPGs. - The story only has small plot holes and a low amount of unbelievability, compared to some recent high-profile JRPGs (Persona) that have huge plot holes and    Yeah, it's bad, but it's a different sort of bad than I'm used to, which at least makes it interesting.

    I'll get to the good first:

    - The character models and overall graphical fidelity is great, compared to other JRPGs.
    - The story only has small plot holes and a low amount of unbelievability, compared to some recent high-profile JRPGs (Persona) that have huge plot holes and completely unbelievable character motivations.
    - You only have to put up with the generic story and bad combat for ~20 hours before it's over.

    I play JRPGs for their stories and this is one of the lowest effort stories I've experienced. Most SNES JRPGs have more interesting and involved stories than this one. Character backgrounds are nearly nonexistent. Worldbuilding (through gameplay and cut scenes) is thread-bare and seems to assume that you know how generic JRPG worlds are supposed to work.

    Your main goal in the game is to rescue a magical girl, that you just happened to stumble upon, and who subsequently got kidnapped. The magical girl is of course being used by the big bad guy who wants to rule the universe and you eventually have to kill him. That's really it and you're fast-tracked along this path and given great authority within the universe, even though you're a country bumpkin from a planet that doesn't even know that other planets exist.

    Your dealings with the people and governments on your planet and on other planets is limited, so you never get a full sense of the scale of your world or the universe. The aliens you meet are essentially humans with the same societal structure and moral guidelines as you, which is strange. You also spend 90% of the game exploring your own planet. The other 10% is spent on a spaceship and an asteroid. There's no other planets to explore.

    The story isn't bad. It's just incredibly basic, and might only be interesting if you've never played a JRPG before.

    The combat, on normal difficulty, is a mess. At 5 hours in, I realized that the combat is geared towards leveling your character. If you don't do each and every one of the optional side quests, you'll be under-leveled and will be constantly one-shot by regular enemies. The side quests consist only of killing certain monsters or getting monster drops and turning them in to a bulletin board. If that doesn't sound interesting to you, then choose Easy mode - You can't change difficulty levels after the game starts.

    Additionally, if you don't buy upgraded weapons and armor at every opportunity, you'll have a bad time. At one point, I didn't realize that a shop had new weapons (a shop that I had just bought new weapons from 30 minutes prior), so I had a very difficult time with the next hour of gameplay, where I was locked into completing the section and couldn't go back.

    Your party's battle AI is horrid. While playing, I had flashbacks from when I used to play MMORPGs, where I would be the healer and would be in a group full of damage dealers who couldn't maintain monster aggro. They'd all constantly die and I'd spend my time resurrecting and healing, while kiting monsters around. That's exactly how I played this game, and was actually the best strategy I found for boss fights. In short, your AI party members will bunch up, all die from the same attack, and will almost never guard. Healers also like to stand around occasionally instead of heal. Unless you're over-leveled, you'll need to manually take control of your main damage dealers and healers to make sure they're not doing something stupid.

    That's all I've got. There's not much else to the game. It definitely feels like a start-up indie developer effort, but with high graphical production values.    … Expand
  20. SexyTractorDsco
    Nov 20, 2018
    9
    Way better than people make it out to be. I'd argue it surpasses a lot of recent 'Tales Of' games in terms of quality too. very much worth checking out. Especially now considering you can pick it up for cheap almost anywhere.
  21. VendonJura
    Sep 27, 2018
    10
    I love Star Ocean from 1-5. I do not like some things about SO5.

    Per: 1: The graphics, the sound, the story just about all this is just awesome. You can really lean back and look at the beautiful world of Star Ocean. 2: There are many side missions. Fortunately, in SO5 you have no way to screw up these missions if you miss something on a quest then you'll just be able to do it    I love Star Ocean from 1-5. I do not like some things about SO5.

    Per:

    1: The graphics, the sound, the story just about all this is just awesome. You can really lean back and look at the beautiful world of Star Ocean.

    2: There are many side missions. Fortunately, in SO5 you have no way to screw up these missions if you miss something on a quest then you'll just be able to do it later but I could be wrong so I did them as soon as I could. I finished 100% of the quests and have to say, great all of them do work but I would like to have more information about the locations of the monsters you need to look for or the items. They are not listed on many quests.

    3: You have a relaxed 50 hours of gameplay, trophy system, abundant achievements and natural levels of difficulty that you can unlock.

    4: For all RPG fans, Star Ocean 5 is just a must have in their collection.

    Cons:

    1: The combat fields, the battle area is most of the time too small even for 3 people. But you have 7 characters in the group, which is often the problem when a fight starts and you are too close the lines, depending on which character you are playing with, you are automatically escaping from the battle because you are touching the outer line. To avoid this is often not possible.

    2: There was an arena in almost every part of Star Ocean. A coliseum. Unfortunately, this part does not exist

    3. At the end, if you have finished the game then you'll unlock the special dungeon, unfortunately, you have no mini-map at all so you will find yourself lost very often. Since my sense of orientation is so bad, this flaw is unfortunately very unpleasant. So I had to use the book to this game. Even with the book it was hard to figure out where to go.

    4: Unfortunately there are no mini-games in SO5 either

    5: What I also miss is that the look of the skills change the more you use them like in SO2.

    Conclusion: All in all, I give the game of course max points because the series of Star Ocean is one of my favorites.

    PS: Sry for my bad english knowledge.    … Expand
  22. Juras
    Aug 15, 2018
    5
    Quite disappointment, game look like unfinished, or very limited budget, only one planet to explore, much less content even if content is mostly copy pasted from previous games (music, monsters, equipment design, items), post game is practically one random dungeon and some rare mats farming/crafting (no mini games, races, arena, nothing), weapons models do not change visuals (it does evenQuite disappointment, game look like unfinished, or very limited budget, only one planet to explore, much less content even if content is mostly copy pasted from previous games (music, monsters, equipment design, items), post game is practically one random dungeon and some rare mats farming/crafting (no mini games, races, arena, nothing), weapons models do not change visuals (it does even in SO3 on PS2), no additional outfits, no directed cutscenes (only little few)-most of them are boring dialogues with free camera and limited movement. It's not what i expected.… Expand
  23. Friendzie
    Jul 6, 2018
    7
    I'm going to try and keep this short and focus on what I liked rather than dwell on the negatives. Star Ocean was a dead IP, and the devs did what they could with almost no budget. The graphics suffer, but they did some cool things with the game seeing as it's not very taxing on the PS4 hardware. In particular, you can bring all 7 main characters into battle at once. You don't worry aboutI'm going to try and keep this short and focus on what I liked rather than dwell on the negatives. Star Ocean was a dead IP, and the devs did what they could with almost no budget. The graphics suffer, but they did some cool things with the game seeing as it's not very taxing on the PS4 hardware. In particular, you can bring all 7 main characters into battle at once. You don't worry about whether you should buy equipment or power up characters you don't want to use. You just use all of them. The game has a highly customizable tactics system to help each AI understand what you want them to do. There are hundreds of character development skits. The battles take place right on the map and there's no loading screen before you fight. All your companions actually walk with you on the field! Optional quests are not that exciting, but give you reason to go back out into the world, where you'll discover that encounters are constantly changing. When you backtrack later on you will find a new set of monsters along the way. Character development skits happen as you travel to break up the tedium. Skits and quests give meaningful rewards sometimes. The combat system is pretty much like any other Star Ocean or Tales game. Later on you may be able to exploit some mechanics to become very difficult to kill, but so what? Same thing in previous entries in the series that garnered praise.

    The game has very few bugs, never crashed on me, has no loot boxes or microtransactions, and is plenty long enough. Give it a chance and you might like it. I'd rate it a 7.5, but I'm rounding up to 8 for purposes of this site.    … Expand
  24. ObsidianLion
    May 29, 2018
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The good about this game. Music. Characters Emmerson and Anne. The end.

    The bad.

    The plot.

    You find a girl in a crashed spaceship and save her, effectively stealing her from a mysterious enemy. Enemy steals her from you. You steal her from them. They steal her from you. You steal her from them. They take the girls twin sister and you keep yours. You embark to get the twin. 18 hours later, the game ends. This is one of the worst RPG stories I have played in my 25 years of gaming.

    You wanna know how bad the writing is? At one point the girl is being shot at by an enemy using magic. The protagonist's father blocks the shot by getting shot in the back. He and the girl are kidnapped. RIGHT AFTER THAT you go to rescue them. You find the girl and dad, enemy appears, tells his lackeys to shoot your team, the girl is AGAIN PROTECTED BY THE SAME GUY IN THE SAME WAY AND GETS SHOT IN THE BACK AGAIN!

    Dropped plot points all over the place.
    1. There is a war your country is facing? Who cares, go find out why the mysterious girl has powers. Mid game at a crucial point of the war, you never hear about the war again.
    2. You are introduced to the continent with 3 countries. You never see the leader of any of them. Your country is lead by your father who dies later on. The man who is his pupil and most qualified replacement joins your team. Who leads the country in this crisis where the country doesn't have a capable military leader anymore? No one. Why would you care.
    3. The game introduces you to the main character and his best friend Ted. The best friend never does anything. He keeps saying the same sentence after you leave the first town. He is voiced but his character leads nowhere but giving you 3 quests not related to him.
    4. The country allied with yours is super advanced to the point that it is immersion breaking. Imagine, your kingdom is middle aged castles, allied country has a crashed space ship with automatic opening doors, biometric scanners, magical runes, floating statues. Where did this come from? Who cares. Play the game.

    Bad game design.

    1. The game has a item creation option. It's grayed out at the beginning of the game, in the menu. I finished the game never found out how to unlock item creation. So much for that. Never felt I needed it.
    2. You can unlock mining. Never found out how to unlock it, never needed it. There are around 40 specialties (skills in the game). I unlocked maybe 10 and finished the game. You get these from side quests only. No one ever mentions that. You can literally finish the game not unlocking anything due to this.
    3. The game has a super move gauge that you can fill up and use up to deal huge damage. I needed it only twice. I have not even seen the ultimate moves of all of my characters. As the gauge fills, you increase exp gained at the end of the game. 450% exp boost for every won battle is so good that it is not worth wasting it to damage some enemies in one battle and refill it again (which can take a long time late game when you destroy enemies).
    4. The game has the option to switch between your 6 controllable characters in battle. I only used this in the last hour and a half of the game. Not needed before that.
    5. The game has battle skills. I finished 80% of the game using my first basic skill which knocks the enemy in the air.
    6. There are items to remove status effects. I never saw more than 3 status effects, poison, fog and silence.
    7. The game has single use magic cards that you can use to do a magic spell in game. Never needed them.
    8. The characters look the same no matter what you equip, BUT, every armor and weapon in the menu has a unique look.
    9. The game has a social aspect where the group would scatter in a town with some dialogue options. This lead nowhere.
    10. There game has an encyclopedia, a glossary, a quest list, a synopsis, yet you can not look up enemies. I can look up weapons and armor, items and crafting items, but not enemies.
    11. The game has around 25 different looking enemy types (bosses included). They cycle colors as they get more difficult. Effort.
    12. There are a total of 12 locations though the story. A dessert, a grassy field, a beach, a coastal path, a icy mountain path, a normal mountain path and 3 cities and 3 underground labs that look the same. This is in a game called Star Ocean, which offered other planets to visit in previous games.
    13. Game has a rock-paper-scissors battle mechanic. Guard, light attack and strong attack. The game has so many effects you will not be able to see what the enemy is doing, you end up pressing light attack and using special moves.
    14. Literally all 3 major villains are crazy.
    15. Party emotional progression. From being friends when game starts to asking for marriage with zero cutscenes in between. No buildup. It looked forced. Nuff said    … Expand
  25. Dubeau
    Apr 6, 2018
    4
    SOIF is a cheap rpg game. I say cheap because it is truffle with bad decisions and lower production value everywhere. The overall UI is good. The crafting is average and almost useless. The fighting is rather decent when it is done in sufficient spaces. There is a flagrant problem with the vertical shaky camera when exploring. The save point are just so badly place. The story does theSOIF is a cheap rpg game. I say cheap because it is truffle with bad decisions and lower production value everywhere. The overall UI is good. The crafting is average and almost useless. The fighting is rather decent when it is done in sufficient spaces. There is a flagrant problem with the vertical shaky camera when exploring. The save point are just so badly place. The story does the space scenes with tactical jargon and conversations. they are long and horrible to watch. So forget any planets exploration, space scenes. All the villains are ridiculous in appearance and dubbed with atrocious voice overs. The missions where you have to protect Anne or anyone, don't work well. Most of the time you have to fight the camera position in fights. It swings widely and you loose the view on your character. The story itself is devoid of emotions because of the robotic facial animations. There is very little positive to go on about this RPG. The main characters have good voice, the mechanics behind the game is present and working. But is it worth the frustrations ? I give it a 45%...and I feel generous because I am in denial of having payed 40$ for this cr...… Expand
  26. Sai1
    Mar 12, 2018
    6
    This game was extremely disappointing as it wasn't really that 'rpg.' Just because something has a story, doesn't mean it's rpg, regardless of the sea of fraudulent companies (looking at you FF 13). Exploration, bond with characters (think star ocean til the end of time or ff10), soul instead of genericism all matter. I don't think star ocean I&F is the worst 'rpg' but it's definitely notThis game was extremely disappointing as it wasn't really that 'rpg.' Just because something has a story, doesn't mean it's rpg, regardless of the sea of fraudulent companies (looking at you FF 13). Exploration, bond with characters (think star ocean til the end of time or ff10), soul instead of genericism all matter. I don't think star ocean I&F is the worst 'rpg' but it's definitely not true to the original series or it's fans or any rpg fans tbh. A larger scaled platformer (by that I mean more explore room than mario, but not enough to be REALLY considered explorative. Quests gotten from billboards makes me not care about quests. Not enough individual character story or scenes to make me care about characters. I know you are trying to appeal to autistic, lazy, instant gratification, illiterate casual gamers, but ppl that buy rpgs are the opposite of them, they don't want generic, easy win, souless crap k? Learn who your target market is please!… Expand
  27. Super_Cloud
    Feb 14, 2018
    5
    What a huge disappointment Star Ocean 5 is, no space exploration is what kill it for me. They also got lazy recycling music, this is not a bad thing since they are good but i wish i could have discovered brand new music. This was also the shortest Star Ocean i played. The difficulty was unbalanced sometime from very easy to hard to very easy again. The battle system was enjoyable for mostWhat a huge disappointment Star Ocean 5 is, no space exploration is what kill it for me. They also got lazy recycling music, this is not a bad thing since they are good but i wish i could have discovered brand new music. This was also the shortest Star Ocean i played. The difficulty was unbalanced sometime from very easy to hard to very easy again. The battle system was enjoyable for most part except i wish the skill were better, the basic double slash was more over power than the one you get later. I would lie if i said i did not enjoy this game but it was still disappointing.… Expand
  28. MrAftershock
    Aug 28, 2017
    10
    Absolutely worth your money. Great Characters and music. The story is really good and the action flows at a good pace not to much waiting around. I like jrpg's a lot. It certainly beats out SKYRIM (I did play Skyrim and got 99% of trophies a bronze one is glitches for me) but its a very dark and boring game.
  29. pypes
    Jul 30, 2017
    2
    This isn't my first star ocean game but it may well be my last.

    An attempt to "update" what has always been the poor relation in the Squenix RPG stable, which has left behind all of the bugbears of RPGs past and added nothing of worth. The combat attempts to blend seamlessly with general running around, except it is still more than a little jarring, and while it can occasionally be    This isn't my first star ocean game but it may well be my last.

    An attempt to "update" what has always been the poor relation in the Squenix RPG stable, which has left behind all of the bugbears of RPGs past and added nothing of worth.

    The combat attempts to blend seamlessly with general running around, except it is still more than a little jarring, and while it can occasionally be fun for the most part it's mindless and a far cry from what a real action RPG has to offer.

    The overarching story isn't terrible, but with cookie cutter characters, weird pacing, a certain someone being kidnapped every 5 minutes, and a whole daddy issues subplot being foisted in and then resolved in the space of 20 minutes it's far from good.

    My main gripe however is with some fundamentally broken mechanics. All cutscenes are un-skippable, especially the long ones before boss fights. Saves take place at save points, which are frequently blocked and you'll often be expected to complete 2 consecutive boss (or otherwise instant fail) fights between saves. There's a role system that lets you create some extremely broken (in a good way) builds, but it's never properly explained, and certain bosses will resort to spamming massive AoE attacks every 5 seconds if the AI decides this is a good idea.

    I honestly can;t bring myself to finish it at this point. It's the old sunk time / cost trap, a platinum will cost you 3 play-throughs and 100 hours +, very little of it is fun.

    I can honestly say the thing I enjoyed the most was the costume design, the rest is somewhere between passable and infuriating. Don't kids yourself that this is just a "hard" game, or that I'm whinging about JRPG staples, this is honestly a really really bad game.    … Expand
  30. ReneW
    Apr 11, 2017
    10
    Are you serious? If you played "Till the End of Time" you HAVE to love Integrity and Faithlessness! Ok the story and sync isn't that good and a few bugs (walk through people) are annoying but the whole system is awesome! Big plus point is the Battle, Ability, Equipment and Crafting-System. Its all known from the PS2 Game and so freaky improved. This makes Star Ocean so unique. If youAre you serious? If you played "Till the End of Time" you HAVE to love Integrity and Faithlessness! Ok the story and sync isn't that good and a few bugs (walk through people) are annoying but the whole system is awesome! Big plus point is the Battle, Ability, Equipment and Crafting-System. Its all known from the PS2 Game and so freaky improved. This makes Star Ocean so unique. If you really hardcore played the other Star Ocean games you will love this game.… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 67 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 50 out of 67
  3. Negative: 8 out of 67
  1. Easy Allies
    Dec 1, 2016
    50
    Despite having nearly seven years to figure out a way to improve upon The Last Hope, Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness is lacking in just about every department. Not even a solid soundtrack is enough to salvage this wreck. There’s nothing special about this below average RPG, and it completely misses the mark.
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  2. Pelit (Finland)
    Oct 12, 2016
    20
    A washout. Somebody let the vampire in at Tri-Ace and it sucked all the life and personality from the once weird and funny JRPG series. Bring EDGE MAVERICK back. [Sept 2016]
  3. Games Master UK
    Sep 6, 2016
    48
    A lacklustre offering in a long-running series of great games. A huge shame. [Sept 2016, p.80]
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