I made the mistake of going from Tales of Arise to Star Ocean 4.
SO4 is bad. Compared to Tales of Berseria and Arise it's downright punitive.
@trysdyn Everything we've heard about the star ocean series points to it having exactly one stand-out great entry, and all the rest clustered around the bad side of mediocre.
-R
@Felthry The PSP remakes of 1 and 2 are amazing because they're essentially sci-fi 2D Tales games. I love them.
But yeaaaaaaah.
@trysdyn I know that 1 at least, and i think 2 as well, were made by people formerly of Wolf Team (makers of the first couple Tales games).
-R
I imagine the quality going downhill later is related to changing the makeup of the dev team, either adding new people who weren't as good at things or removing old people who were good at things, or most likely both.
-F
