Star Ocean PSP gets release date

By Robert Purchese Published 6 October, 2008

SNES remake coming later this month.

Square Enix plans to launch Star Ocean: First Departure on 24th October.

This PSP remake will mark the first time the original SNES Star Ocean story has been told outside of Japan.

And better technology means a revised game engine and better battle system, as well as fully voiced and animated cut-scenes. Voice acting - we should try that. No I will not stop mentioning it.

Star Ocean is an RPG made by Japanese outfit tri-Ace, which is hard at work on a fourth game in the series for Xbox 360 next year.

The developer is also remaking Star Ocean 2 (Second Evolution) for PSP, although no date has been mentioned outside of Japan.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • locus2k1 #1 3 years ago

    so many games out in a 14 day period (20th-24th and 27th-31st).... gonna be very poor if i cant prioritise which ones to buy lol
    Edited by 1 at 06/10/08 @ 13:06

  • NegativeZero #2 3 years ago

    Yet another squenix game that I'll have to buy and then download a pirated version that swaps out the horrible english dub for the original one.

    Also, the second game is out January 6 in the US and the 'EU' release is slated for Spring 2009 (and of course the US release is unregioned and cheaper) so there has been mention of dates outside Japan.

  • andywilkie35 #3 3 years ago

    "so many games out in a 14 day period (20th-24th and 27th-31st).... gonna be very poor if i cant prioritise which ones to buy lol"

    true, too many coming out at once! might have to cancel my preorder of this just because I'll never find the time to play it...