Without spoiling you: Well it's still a Star Ocean game if you want one. It brings new elements to the table in the context of the series despite they may not be significant enough to play the game for such stuff (an easier and faster way to explore the game map). When I played on Steam months ago, the technical aspect of the game was getting in the way as it prevented the game from showing its true potential. For instance; stutter, crashes and weird graphics that's technically bad due to bad lightning, shadows and blurry vision as far as I remember. Even 3rd game on PS2 looks better lol. I have no idea if they are fixed or there are mods for that.
Graphics and technical aspects put aside, the quality of the game is worse in the series in my opinion. While the story and events are not much different in the context of the series, storytelling mostly consists of people standing in almost t-pose and talking to each other with weird unnatural animations. Compared to the previous game there is a clear sense of downgrade in a way they developed the game with less budget and development time as much as possible and called it a day which may explain why facial animations look so ancient when I was amazed how detailed even facial animations are in SO4. Yet I would rather play this game instead of playing the 3rd game, it's not that bad and annoying in terms of gameplay.
Long story short: I don't think people who don't care to play a Star Ocean game should play this game, but Star Ocean fans would enjoy playing it despite it's not really one of the good game in the series. Just beware of technical problems on PC.
