Well, I finally got to play it some today. The voice acting is terrible . Especially the narrator. I didn’t think it was possible for characters’ voices to sound more overacted than in Star Ocean 3, but this comes pretty close.
I can see why you like Myriam, Ajora. I had already liked her because she was my nuclear cannon on the SFC game and because her “new look” is cool. But her voice acting is actually pretty good, too, unlike the narrator, Claudia, Neville, Eule/Owl… “Oh, crud…”
I died on Gray’s first boss, too. I overestimated my ability to last through the onslaught before healing, plus the First Aid kit was my only healing option. I also over-calculated the hits I’d need to kill each minion, and a miss and a Taunt slowed me down. It was pretty funny because I was just about to heal when the “big” one does his mega-Stink Bomb move and puts me in the red for all 3 of my guys. Next round, Galahad dies, Myriam dies, Grey heals Myriam, Grey dies. Myriam is standing there facing one little frog and the “big one” and says “Now it’s starting to get interesting.” (cute voice too). Needless to say she died, but not before taking out that last little “toad”. I couldn’t Quick Save because I was playing in a game store, so whee.
The thing is, out of 20-odd fights between Claudia’s and Grey’s beginnings, I never once sparked a tech. Another thing the characters didn’t like doing is gaining stats, in particular their primary damage stat (INT for Myriam, STR for Grey, etc.). I’m used to the old RS and the first SaGa Frontier which have the same stat system, except every battle usually ends with a slur of stat gains.
Oh well. I gotta go back later so I can see more of Myriam and Gray’s intro.
