A few days ago, Square Enix launched a new mystery site to promote a new game, causing a lot of reactions on the web.
If a party already saw the announcement of a new Star Ocean, others more resigned still imagined a game on mobile. Today, the word STAR turns into START on the Square Enix site with tomorrow's date and increased brightness on the planet.
We didn't have to wait long before the news broke: Famitsu reveals that tri-Ace is currently developing Star Ocean 5 : Integrity and Faithlessness. Akira Yasuda (Street Fighter II and III, Code Geass) is in charge of chara design, Yoshiharu Gotanda (at the origin of the studio) is lead programmer, Shuichi Kobayashi and Hiroshi Ogawa are respectively producer and director of the project.
If Shuichi Kobayashi decided to be the producer rather than deal with marketing as usual, it is because he believes that the game is worth the candle. He wants Star Ocean 5 to draw its essence from the third installment of the saga and that fans find this license that they love so much.
Hiroshi Ogawa justifies him the title of Star Ocean 5 by saying that the subtitle has different meanings and that we will understand them when we have finished the game. It is not for tomorrow.
The story begins on Feycreed, a wild planet located 6000 light years from Earth. We are in the year 537 of the space calendar, ie the period between Star Ocean 2 and 3. Some characters have been revealed:
- Fedel Camus, the main character. A fencing specialist, he protects and keeps order in his village. It is Kaito Ishikawa who lends his voice to the hero.
- Miki Sorvesta, the heroine. He is the hero's childhood friend and she loves him like a big brother. She is voiced by Nao Toyama.
- Lilia, a girl about whom little is known except that she has lost her memory and her emotions.
- Fidel: he inherited the talents of swordsman from his father, renowned throughout the kingdom of Leslia. He is calm and cares about his companions.
- Miki: adorable and greedy, she masters the art of skincare. He is one of the characters that was used as a test for the design by the development team while the others were entrusted to Akira Yasuda.
The fights will be in real time, turn-based. Your attacks will change depending on the distance between you and the enemy. There will also be combos to activate by performing a series of commands.
Ogawa specifies that we will find the system that was present in the previous Star Ocean.
There are also questions of "integrated events", times when events, the enemy who attacks you or your allies who are captured, will have consequences on the sequence of events.
Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness is coming to PS3 and ported to PS4. No release date has been revealed, the game being at 30% development currently. The producer assures that there will be no DLC to finish the downloadable story or other such nonsense.
Sources
- Dualschokers 1 and 2
- Gematsu
