Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

If the phenomenal storyline, eye-popping CG cinemas and soulful orchestration weren't enough, the plethora of gameplay nuances and player diversions are sure to make the most jaded gamer giggle like a school girl.

What proves the game's true claim to greatness is that Star Ocean allows its players to take from it whatever they wish; Be it a quick 40 hours of story-based adventure or a full 80-hours of "find everything you can" exploration.

The game has a strong tendency to drop you in some town or dungeon with no clear idea of where you should go. Coupled with the fact that enemies respawn whenever you exit a room, and navigating becomes quite the chore.

This is a quality game, in terms of both presentation and design. It's traditional, but within its genre it represents a considered and intelligent take on those traditional rules. [PSW]

The battle system, the storyline, and even the aesthetics manage to impress, culminating in a game that’s quite highly thought of by Gamer Archive.

This game is the game that the original Japanese release was supposed to be and anyone who has been waiting in anticipation should be satisfied with the finished result.

Simply steeped too deeply in old role-playing game conventions and standbys. Games like "Star Wars: KOTOR" have changed the landscape, while more similar titles like "Final Fantasy X" and "Xenosaga" have a better battle system and a more epic feel, respectively.

One of the best game on the PS2 in my opinion. Also the best game in the franchise by far. True classic.

Star Ocean 3 has a lot of polish for a PS2 RPG, and the quality of the real time battle mechanics is on par with the industry’s greatest. However, a brutal difficulty spike and the introduction of a complex, frustrating crafting system hold back the game’s fantastic world building. A shallower learning curve and a more well-paced story would make this game a genre defining title, but it’s shortcomings prevented me from finishing this one.

The game has horrible gameplay pacing and everytime you get to a new area the enemies are almost twice your level, requiring a lot of grinding. Leveling takes a long time and requires fighting many, many enemies much stronger just to gain one level. The story is mediocre and has a lot of highs and lows, at certain points I found myself struggling to care, The plot twist at the end is the best part about the story

I wondered whilst playing if Till the End of Time was made by committee to try and make the most irritating, tedious and frustrating game experience possible -- maybe that's hyperbole; the first 3/4 of the game were enjoyable enough - what constitutes disc 1 is great fun. Upon returning to the same, boring, medieval planet we've spent the last 30 hours on, the game's shortcomings come into focus; the ridiculous mechanics, stupid, outdated JRPG conventions ground me into the floor. Whoever thought that losing HP for performing an attack, or reaching zero MP KOs your character deserves a swift kick in the backside, the same goes for cheap, pathetic higher level enemies who repeatedly interrupt your attacks and spam knockdown moves whenever able, unnecessary things like repeating two of the larger dungeons from disc 1 at the end of the game for no good reason but contrivance... the only consolation is the lack of random encounters.

Llevo haciendo todos los jrpg que han salido desde SNEs (1990) y este es el más críptico y confuso, que he visto, pero no confuso para darle emoción sino, simplemente esta mal. el mapa no te orientas bien. He superado todos los juegos de fromsoftware y este SO3 tiene zonas opcionales que puedes creer (undeground Mosel Ruins) que es el camino principal y quedarte atascado pensando que es el camino principal y no hay viaje rápido!. Golden sun, Zelda, FFs, Breathe of fire, Tales of etc y nunca vi esto... No puedes.hacer un juego donde si se te pasa un NPC random que da un objeto clave te quedes atascado de por vida. No pueden darte un objeto vital para el juego de esta forma, no todos tenemos 20 años con una vista de lince para verlo en una zona del mismo **** va el noc. Por suerte cuando me veo atascado retrocedo y consigo cosas pero lo veo muy duro. Es un juego que he visto pedir más ayuda en internet que ningún otro , ni siquiera Los de from o monkey island. Disfrute como en mi vida Star ocean 2 R, diría que es de mis RPG preferidos y esperaba lo mismo de este y me equivoqué por lo mal que guía a los jugadores. Y ojo los juegos de from son mis preferidos junto a este tipo, pero creo que en este se les fue de las manos el no guiar nada.... O más bien hacerlo mal. Hablar con todos los NPC... Zonas opcionales que te quedas encerrado y no hay viaje rápido para salir de la zona... Lugares donde has de darle a un pixel o te atascas... No **** juego está bien pero prefiero de largo el 1 y el 2. Espero que el 4 no sea así pues mi idea era seguir con la saga.