The majority of games being shown off at E3 are slated for the fall or later, but you can have Star Ocean 5 in less than two weeks. I’m grateful there’s at least one non-Final Fantasy property Square isn’t willing to banish to phones just yet. Star Ocean 5 contains…
Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness arrives in America, courtesy of Square, on June 28. We’ve already covered that if you can get a copy from the first-run printing, it’ll include DLC codes for special in-game items, plus alternate battle music taken from the Valkyrie Profile series. But there’s an…
Ah, good — we finally have a solid release date from Square-Enix regarding Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness. Announced last year for Western audiences, the game will be released for Playstation 4 on June 28, 2016. (As a side note, Japan gets the game….tomorrow.) Early purchasers will get some…
Encouraging news for those starved for the JRPGs we used to get in great abundance on the PS1 and PS2. Star Ocean is coming back for another round. It still uses stylized characters, the battle action is intact, the heavily customizable item system should be as well, and you won’t…
One of the many announcements made today at Sony’s Tokyo Game Show press conference was a release date for Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, or Star Ocean 5. Japanese gamers can expect it February 25, 2016. Like most Star Ocean games, this one is a Playstation exclusive. The only two…
This morning during Square-Enix’s E3 press conference, a new English trailer for Star Ocean 5 (now called Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness) made its debut. The game itself has yet to be localized, but Square confirmed it would receive a US release within the first two quarters of 2016. Square’s…
It was quite a relief to see Star Ocean 5 revealed for the first time, tempering all worries that the JRPG was dead and that every game company in the Land of the Rising Sun was now focused on phone games. But there’s even better news: Star Ocean 5 won’t…
Just when we were all prepared to declare the JRPG industry toast and look forward to our bleak future where every Japanese game company just made cell phone games, Square went and surprised us this morning with a new Star Ocean. Star Ocean was one among many JRPG series that…