Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness

A science-fiction action role-playing game and the fifth main entry in the Star Ocean series. Combat is real-time, letting the player control and switch between a party of up to seven characters, with…

60 31 March 2016 ESRB T

What Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness is

Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness is an adventure game developed by tri-Ace and released in 2016. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. It runs on ASKA. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness is set on the planet Faykreed, thousands of light years from Earth, on a world that has not yet developed space travel. Fidel Camuze, a young fencer, defends his home village alongside his childhood friend Miki Sauvester. Their lives are thrown into turmoil when Faykreed makes first contact with a more advanced spacefaring civilization. Amid the upheaval, the pair take in Relia, a quiet, amnesiac girl whose past becomes tied to the events unfolding around them.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Star Ocean series

Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness is the seventh of 11 entries we hold in the Star Ocean series. It arrived 7 years after Star Ocean: Blue Sphere. The next entry was Star Ocean: Anamnesis in 2016. Its critic score of 60 is 12 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is Star Ocean: The Second Story R at 83.

See all 11 Star Ocean games in release order →

How it was received

Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness launched on 31 March 2016, within three weeks of Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank and Don't Starve Together. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together.

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