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Star Ocean 2 Passion; A sincere conversation.
Topic Started: Dec 31 2008, 07:58 PM (813 Views)
Decus
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A very real moment hit me as I looked up the Star Ocean Second Evolution website. You can call me a freak or over-passionate SO2 Rabid Fan, but I don't care. There's something about this that touches where other games cannot. Here is part of a conversation where emotions were going out of control and I reminisce about the game that changed my life.

My passion:


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Larxene Larxene: i was looking up the official site to sose for eng ver and just suddenly overwhelming
Larxene Larxene: musick and all and graphix
Larxene Larxene: http://na.square-enix.com/starocean/secondevolution/ this
Alkasirn Alkasirn: D8
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Holy load music
Larxene Larxene: its just so epic...i dunno hard to explain
Larxene Larxene: lol if my cam would work ud see me crying >_<;;; like a baby
Alkasirn Alkasirn: O_O
Larxene Larxene: its about to come out here too....when i hold it in my hands and play i will probably cry so much
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Nuuuuuuuu
Larxene Larxene: i ddi when i first played so:se
Larxene Larxene: in japanese
Larxene Larxene: it just all comes back to u
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Ohes nues
Larxene Larxene: its the same feeling i get when i listen to sofa theme ^^ its so much at once
Alkasirn Alkasirn: *thinks he'd do the same if he watched the opening to Fire Emblem 9*
Larxene Larxene: just the whole thing...its like...when i first went to the forest for the first time
Larxene Larxene: its just ....god
Larxene Larxene: theres no other way to describe how epic
Alkasirn Alkasirn: D8
Larxene Larxene: its sad other ppl cant feel it like this....
Alkasirn Alkasirn: I feel like that, just not with Star Ocean
Larxene Larxene: because they were too unfortunate to not know about it
Larxene Larxene: no
Larxene Larxene: u cant feel like this about any otehr thing...not like this ^^
Larxene Larxene: its hard to explain
Larxene Larxene: its so sad ppl will never know
Larxene Larxene: or feel this
Larxene Larxene: i wish i could somehow share it with
Larxene Larxene: but i will share it with other ppl when sofa releases...then they will understand these feelings
Larxene Larxene: not on teh same scale
Larxene Larxene: but
Larxene Larxene: it will be
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Ohes kayes D8
Alkasirn Alkasirn: *Points at Fire Emblem* still.....
Larxene Larxene: ....u know it weird....they can take all the 3dness.....they can'upgrade' and 'upgrade' to try to achieve 'epic'.....and yet they fail every time
Larxene Larxene: i want to know what exactly it is the thing
Larxene Larxene: why does this one game turn many ppl
Larxene Larxene: what does it have....what does it have
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Charactars and storays?
Larxene Larxene: ...other games have that too
Larxene Larxene: but just this one
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Good charactars and storays?
Alkasirn Alkasirn: That seem realistic and not fantasized at all?
Larxene Larxene: i dunno...it just feel so much bigger like its so big u cant hold it
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Like Fire Emblem ^-^
Larxene Larxene: nowhere near
Alkasirn Alkasirn: DX
Larxene Larxene: ...this one game...i dunno....
Larxene Larxene: it was strange the day i got it too
Alkasirn Alkasirn: DX
Larxene Larxene: i just knew
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Nao I need to play it DX
Larxene Larxene: i dunno what it was, i wasnt looking for
Larxene Larxene: i wasnt even looking for a game like it. we had picked up something else from used game store
Larxene Larxene: and this was behind it
Larxene Larxene: and i picked it up and said nah
Larxene Larxene: but i just kept picking it back up
Larxene Larxene: the cover has no game graphix the back hardly had any images
Alkasirn Alkasirn: DX
Larxene Larxene: in fact u couldnt tell anything
Larxene Larxene: from the box
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Ohes dears
Larxene Larxene: but it just felt so big even right then
Alkasirn Alkasirn: ...like Fire Emblem
Larxene Larxene: nuh uh
Alkasirn Alkasirn: DX
Larxene Larxene: i remember playing the first of it over and over again...we had no memory card
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Shi-Shi~, after watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShdWMpkZhc&feature=related you can't say the game has at least some potential D8
Larxene Larxene: so id just play the first parts over and over.....and for some reason it never got boring
Larxene Larxene: 80, 90 times i must have played it
Alkasirn Alkasirn: D8
Larxene Larxene: i knew there was something bigger than the beginning ^^ i just couldnt ever get there without turning the game off.....
Alkasirn Alkasirn: DX
Larxene Larxene: i still dont know what it has...it must be a cursed game with magick or something
Larxene Larxene: even in just the beginning parts
Alkasirn Alkasirn: DX
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Gasp a cursed game
Larxene Larxene: even before looking at the game whatsoever
Larxene Larxene: it just is strange...it makes u feela certain way u dont with anything else
Larxene Larxene: but as a kid who wanted to be agame designer...i had so many notebooks fullof games and good and bad and pros and cons and mechanics....i wrote every hour of my life playing games, id play them and write
Alkasirn Alkasirn: D8
Larxene Larxene: but with this it was so ....real. i couldnt even write while playing, it just absorbed me and never let me go. i tried so hard....i had all my other games, final fantasy, rhapsody, vagrant story, vandal hearts, silhouette mirage.....all of my collection, imports, everything
Larxene Larxene: games id spend over ahundred dollars on
Alkasirn Alkasirn: D8
Larxene Larxene: but nope....this one had something diff....i tried to analyze it and all it did was keep pulling me in
Alkasirn Alkasirn: DX
Larxene Larxene: it made all of my expensive game collection seem almost worthless, like noen of themmattered anymore
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Gasp
Larxene Larxene: even tho before i got the game i had been so proud of my collection. i was known as the most avid gamer of my whole school, had every console and every rpg known to everyone plus some
Larxene Larxene: and soon it just didnt matter anymore
Alkasirn Alkasirn: o_o
Larxene Larxene: it wasnt a game....it was like it wasnt a game
Larxene Larxene: like it was somethng better than a game
Alkasirn Alkasirn: It was a curse DX
Larxene Larxene: it was a game that no matter how many times u started it, it felt so strong like it was teh first time ever
Alkasirn Alkasirn: 8D
Larxene Larxene: like it was actually always part of ur memory from long ago and u relive it every time
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Gasp
Alkasirn Alkasirn: SO or SO2?
Larxene Larxene: so2
Alkasirn Alkasirn: You started at SO2 DX
Larxene Larxene: so never released here
Larxene Larxene: i had never hear of it
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Ohes
Larxene Larxene: *heard
Larxene Larxene: ever
Larxene Larxene: the time i bought it was around the time it first came out tho
Alkasirn Alkasirn: ohes
Alkasirn Alkasirn: *looks at time* DX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alkasirn Alkasirn: DX!!!!!!!!
Larxene Larxene: i guess its been a long time huh............since that day
Larxene Larxene: ..........sometimes i want to go back there
Alkasirn Alkasirn:
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Shi~! Question!
Larxene Larxene: my life was complete and utter hell back then, more than now......and...yes?
Alkasirn Alkasirn: SO2 = PS1 game?
Larxene Larxene: yes
Alkasirn Alkasirn: 8D Yey time to find a ROM
Larxene Larxene: the announce of the remake was really hard on me
Larxene Larxene: it felt like it was hitting all at once ^^;;;;; and i did what im doing now
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Gasp
Larxene Larxene: now its about to release here and the same thing >_<;;; is happening
Alkasirn Alkasirn: DX
Larxene Larxene: this is the same feeling when i listen to sofa theme....the exact same ^^. i think thats why i like that song, it is big
Larxene Larxene: so big
Larxene Larxene: when u listen to it
Larxene Larxene: ihoep one day i can find the secret
Larxene Larxene: so i can make games like that
Alkasirn Alkasirn: 8D
Larxene Larxene: loli wish my cam would work xD
Larxene Larxene: im like
Larxene Larxene: XDD
Alkasirn Alkasirn: DX
Larxene Larxene: im crying so much >_<;; haha....
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Nu
Larxene Larxene: dont worry its not sad crying...just like overwhelming
Larxene Larxene: its actually the best feeling ever
Alkasirn Alkasirn: O_O
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Yey then
Larxene Larxene: this is the feeling i love
Alkasirn Alkasirn: Cry Shi~! Cry! 8D!
Larxene Larxene: this is what i want to make everyone else do
Larxene Larxene: one day
Edited by Decus, Dec 31 2008, 07:58 PM.
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marsilio
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yeah... well thats truly awesome... i cry when i play threads of fate cuz its so goooood... and sometimes i even cried on, tales of legendia, becuz the character quest of will is just so awesome. I cry on alot of games tho, but threads of fate is one of the main ones. And id def. go crazy if they came out with a sequel or a remake.
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Koji
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Aww ;)

Well, I also have a similar feeling. I opened that page and I felt like - WOO! I'm not crying, but now my head is full of memories. The thing is that I didn't play this game alone. I played most of the game with a very good friend of mine and we both enjoyed playing this game so much. We did so many uneccesary things in the game, just to play it. We had so much fun. I think we've been playing this game for two years (we had some big breaks between, when we had no time). I played the game without going on in the story then. When we finally finished this game, we watched that recap and we both were like "See, this is what we've done" and I had a feeling which is just hard to describe. I just FELT the happy memories. I seriously felt more like a game, I felt our friendship. This is something I'll never forget.

Omg, I read my text and it sounds sooo melodramatic. :huh:
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