Where's my story line??

User Rating: 6.5 | Star Ocean: First Departure PSP
This game is good and therefor I shall only tell u the dissapointing parts.

Graphics -->
They made these beautiful backgrounds and than they put in these awful ugly sprites... and when in some scenes it zooms in they turn out be to be even more low-graphic.
Really, really dissapointing.
Secondly the worldmap tries to be 3D but FAILS in it.
BUT these things can be forgiven cause its a SNES game

Story --> an RPG is driven by its story and this game lacks a red line.
The quests are way to long and let you travel from here to eternity. The beginning is good, the ending is ok, but whats between lacks a good story.
You start travelling from one town to another and nothing happens till you are on the other side of the continent. So the opportunity of having some good sidequests in these cities is wasted.

*SPOILERS*
You start with searching for your friends, which you find faraway on the other continent. But the characters dont even wonder if they would be in the town you just arrived. They just KNOW they are not there and you just feel it from the beginning and your motivation to explore the city in search for your friends is gone..
*SPOLIERS END*

Gameplay -->
1. enemies are overused (give a creation another color, a bit higher stats, a bit more hp and throw in the game and you have a new enemy!)
2. Too much buttonsmashing (just hitting your attack-button is mostly enough, even at bosses)
3. a little bit too easy

OVERALL RATING: 6.5/10