Game Title: Star Ocean: The Second Story R
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Developer: Gemdrops
Publisher: Square Enix
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 85 average - 97% recommended - 30 reviews
Atomix - Alberto Desfassiaux - Spanish - 90 / 100
Star Ocean: The Second Story R is much more than a visual remake of the PlayStation classic. Gemdrops reworked a lot of the gameplay system and also aded tons of quality of life improvements that resulted in a better game than the original. A 2023 surprise, no doubt.
CGMagazine - Chris De Hoog - 8.5 / 10
Star Ocean The Second Story R is a lovingly-crafted remaster of a golden age RPG that offers a replayable and approachably complex adventure. …
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Slay the Princess released last Monday, and people seem to be really enjoying it. For those of you not in the know, it’s a horror-comedy and romance visual novel where a narrator tasks you with slaying a Princess who is allegedly going to end the world. But what you do with that information is entirely up to you!
The game is fully voice-acted by Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) and Nichole Goodnight (The NoSleep Podcast.) Some folks, us included, have described it as somewhere in the realm of The Stanley Parable meets Disco Elysium with a dash of extra cosmic horror. I think in terms of vibes, if you like one of those, you might like our game!
It’s still 10% off until 1pm EST tomorrow, so if this at all interests you, you can pick it up on:
Folks at this AMA:
Me, Tony Howard-Arias (/u/mrogre43): I was the lead writer and game designer for Slay the Princess, and also co-write and design Scarlet Hollow.
Abby Howard (/u/abby722): Slay the …
Some background. I’m 37 years-old, have been playing PC games since I was a toddler. Always a big fan of competitive gaming. Sunk thousands of hours into Counter-Strike among many other things, played in leagues, all that. But as I got older, I don’t know if my tolerance for toxic behavior went (way) down, or if the general attitude of players has gotten worse, but I’ve really fallen out of love with competitive gaming.
Once in a blue moon I’ll pop back into Rocket League or Overwatch and play a match or two in casual modes. But the attitude of other players always drives me back off of it. And turning off communications makes it all feel very lonely. Being jumped on for making the occasional mistake just feels bad.
A while back I saw a friend of mine had joined a social dodgeball league and I thought it sounded like fun, so I joined. And everyone is pretty much infallibly nice to each other. They try to win but don’t rage at each other when they …