Star Ocean: The Second Story R
Two worlds, one fateful encounter. In an endless sea of stars, at the edge of the universe, two people who live in different worlds go on a journey to save planet Expel. Choose your path and witness an…
Star Ocean: The Second Story R is an adventure developed by Gemdrops, released 2 November 2023 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Star Ocean: The Second Story R is
Star Ocean: The Second Story R is an adventure game developed by Gemdrops and released in 2023. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Space Date 366 - A Federation officer finds himself transported to a mystical planet. While searching for a way home, an encounter with a young girl draws him into a quest to save her people, just as an ancient prophecy foretold...
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, kids and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 51 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Star Ocean series
Star Ocean: The Second Story R is the 11th of 11 entries we hold in the Star Ocean series. It arrived 4 years after Star Ocean: First Departure R. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 83 is 11 points above the series average of 72. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Star Ocean: The Second Story R holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD A8-7600 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210, 8 GB RAM and AMD Radeon™ RX 460 / Intel® Arc™ A380 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 Ti. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Star Ocean: The Second Story R launched on 2 November 2023, within three weeks of Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and The Talos Principle II. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, The Talos Principle II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Star Ocean: The Second Story R yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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