Star Ocean: First Departure R
An improved remake/remaster of the 2007 PlayStation Portable game Star Ocean: First Departure, which was a remake of the first game in the series, Star Ocean, released on the Super Famicom in 1996.
Star Ocean: First Departure R is an adventure developed by Tose, released 4 December 2019 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Star Ocean: First Departure R is
Star Ocean: First Departure R is an adventure game developed by Tose and released in 2019. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
An improved remake/remaster of the 2007 PlayStation Portable game Star Ocean: First Departure, which was a remake of the first game in the series, Star Ocean, released on the Super Famicom in 1996.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Star Ocean series
Star Ocean: First Departure R is the tenth of 11 entries we hold in the Star Ocean series. It arrived 2 years after Star Ocean: The Last Hope - 4K & Full HD Remaster. The next entry was Star Ocean: The Second Story R in 2023. Its critic score of 74 is almost exactly the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is Star Ocean: The Second Story R at 83.
How it was received
Star Ocean: First Departure R holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Star Ocean: First Departure R launched on 4 December 2019, within three weeks of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Pokémon Sword, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition and Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Pokémon Sword, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove.
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