Would you recommend Star Ocean on SNES or Star Ocean Remake ? (First Departure R?)

[NovumVeritas]

Being honest here. I never completed the first Star Ocean game. I completed Star Ocean 2, Star Ocean 4, Star Ocean 6.
Played Star Ocean 3, but only made it to disc 2, but never completed it.
Seen that the differences between Star Ocean SNES and Remake are quite different. What would you recommend and why?

 

[jankusanagi jankusanagi]

I've barely played the OG SNES version, but I enjoyed the PSP remake, Star Ocean: First Departure, very much. So I guess First Departure R should be great

EDIT: Since you mentioned that you completed SO2, maybe the PSX version, I'll add that First Departure is, in general style, made to be like SO2, mostly.

 

[NovumVeritas]

EDIT: Since you mentioned that you completed SO2, maybe the PSX version, I'll add that First Departure is, in general style, made to be like SO2, mostly.

Thanks for mentioning that. I completed Star Ocean 2 PSX and the Remake as well. I only played the beginning of Star Ocean 1 Remake, but never played far.

 

[Bakuma1997]

If you want the true nostalgic feel, try the SNES one, if you crave the original experience with lots of modern mechanics, go for R

 

[Questless Knight]

My personal opinion playing the snes version of star ocean and star ocean 2 is a nice thing if your a fan. But if it´s your first time I would go for the First departure and the second story r that you can get on PS4/PS5 and steam.

Sadly for some dumb reasons Star ocean first departure is not on stem but then again star ocean till the end of time is not there as well.

Kind of dumb you have the second game and the 4th and 5th game on steam but not 1 and 3 ?

But will square enix is kind of stupid allot of times.

 

[Segadude113]

SNES.

 

[Graw]

I've only played the snes original and I enjoyed it. I know it's not the same game but personally I prefer the snes version of Tales of Phantasia over the remakes and as far as I know they were worked on by some of the same devs.

 

[RETRO-VETRO]

Yes, I recommend it.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

First Departure R for a smoother gameplay experience. I think if you want to give the OG SNES a try you might be better off doing a complete nostalgia run starting from release date to the remakes/remasters to get the full effect of evolution of scale in story and gameplay but if you just want to experience the story I say play R. Just depends what available to you and what your time table looks like. Don't get hung up on things like purity of the game just save yourself the hard trouble of extra grind, poorer translation norms and hardware limitations as long as the spirit of the game is preserved you should be able to play a new edition no with problem.

 

[RageBurner]

I haven't played the Switch versions, but I honestly love the PSP ones for being such a step up in quality and still remaining in parity with each other. I dislike 2DHD with a passion, so make of that what you will.