Star Ocean: The Last Hope (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Star Ocean: The Last Hope

Star Ocean: The Last Hope, known as Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope is an action role-playing video game developed by tri-Ace and Square Enix who also published the game, initially only for the Xbox 360, and the…

77 19 February 2009

What Star Ocean: The Last Hope is

Star Ocean: The Last Hope is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Square Enix Product Development Division 10 and released in 2009. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Star Ocean: The Last Hope is a 2009 action role-playing video game developed by tri-Ace and published by Square Enix for the Xbox 360, and the fourth installment in the Star Ocean series. The game's battle system features four party members, and is more team-oriented. It also features more of a sci-fi emphasis than past titles with the ability to control the player's ship. The ship is able to land on at least 5 planets or other space-based destinations. Players are able to travel through the "star ocean", jumping across planets. The game takes place a few centuries before the original Star Ocean, and revolves around Edge and his crew combating a mysterious threat called the "Grigori".

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How it plays

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

How it was received

Star Ocean: The Last Hope holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Star Ocean: The Last Hope launched on 19 February 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.

Cheats and codes

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