Details are slowly starting to emerge on the third title in Square Enix's trio of Xbox 360 RPGs. Star Ocean 4 was given a huge blowout in this week's Famitsu just ahead of its playable debut at next week's Tokyo Game Show.
The magazine got first word on a couple of new characters. Joining the previously announced Edge Maverick and Reimi Saionji are Faize Sheifa Beleth and Lynle Remli Phi.
Faize is an 18-year-old member of a survey group on the planet Eldar. He's extremely smart and makes use of powerful spells that require great study in order to learn.
Lynle is a fifteen-year-old girl who lost her parents in her youth and now resides in the village of Triom on the planet Remrick. She also has powerful spell-casting abilities and is friends with a Cerberus that she summoned.
Also offered in the magazine are some first battle system details. Part 4 keeps the series' trademark real time battle system in place but features a number of improvements. Notably, your party can now reach up to four members as in the earlier Star Ocean games.
The battle system seems, more than ever, like something you might find in an action game. When using normal attacks, you can string together combos of up to three hits depending on the type of weapon. Each weapon also performs differently depending on proximity to enemies, with the screen notifying you if you'll get a "Long" or "Short" attack.
You have access to a jump move. The implementation appears to be a bit counter-intuitive at first. To Jump, you first press and hold down the jump button. Your character assumes a jump position and locks himself into place. You can then push the left analogue stick in the direction that you'd like your character to perform the jump.
New to the game is a system called "sight in/sight out." As part of this system, you can use jumps and side steps to get into and out of the enemy's field of vision. The transition between in and out states is accompanied by some special visual effects, including slow motion.
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The magazine got first word on a couple of new characters. Joining the previously announced Edge Maverick and Reimi Saionji are Faize Sheifa Beleth and Lynle Remli Phi.
Faize is an 18-year-old member of a survey group on the planet Eldar. He's extremely smart and makes use of powerful spells that require great study in order to learn.
Lynle is a fifteen-year-old girl who lost her parents in her youth and now resides in the village of Triom on the planet Remrick. She also has powerful spell-casting abilities and is friends with a Cerberus that she summoned.
Also offered in the magazine are some first battle system details. Part 4 keeps the series' trademark real time battle system in place but features a number of improvements. Notably, your party can now reach up to four members as in the earlier Star Ocean games.
The battle system seems, more than ever, like something you might find in an action game. When using normal attacks, you can string together combos of up to three hits depending on the type of weapon. Each weapon also performs differently depending on proximity to enemies, with the screen notifying you if you'll get a "Long" or "Short" attack.
You have access to a jump move. The implementation appears to be a bit counter-intuitive at first. To Jump, you first press and hold down the jump button. Your character assumes a jump position and locks himself into place. You can then push the left analogue stick in the direction that you'd like your character to perform the jump.
New to the game is a system called "sight in/sight out." As part of this system, you can use jumps and side steps to get into and out of the enemy's field of vision. The transition between in and out states is accompanied by some special visual effects, including slow motion.
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