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11 years later, ''[=FD=]'' gained a major Platform/HighDefinition {{Remaster}} for the Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/PlayStation4, titled as ''Star Ocean: First Departure R'', and was released on December 5, 2019 with the feature of switching between the original Japanese voice cast of the 1996 [=SFC=] version (newly re-recorded) and the voice cast of the ''[=FD=]'' version.[[note]]At least on the Japanese language featured with the dual language option, there is only one English cast crew.[[/note]]

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11 years later, ''[=FD=]'' gained a major Platform/HighDefinition MediaNotes/HighDefinition {{Remaster}} for the Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/PlayStation4, titled as ''Star Ocean: First Departure R'', and was released on December 5, 2019 with the feature of switching between the original Japanese voice cast of the 1996 [=SFC=] version (newly re-recorded) and the voice cast of the ''[=FD=]'' version.[[note]]At least on the Japanese language featured with the dual language option, there is only one English cast crew.[[/note]]
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11 years later, ''[=FD=]'' gained a major Platform/HighDefinition {{Remaster}} for the Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/PlayStation4, titled as ''Star Ocean: First Departure R'', and was released on December 5, 2019 with the feature of switching between the original Japanese voice cast of the 1996 [=SFC=] version (newly re-recorded) and the voice cast of the ''[=FD=]'' version. [[note]]At least on the Japanese language featured with the dual language option, there is only one English cast crew.[[/note]]

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11 years later, ''[=FD=]'' gained a major Platform/HighDefinition {{Remaster}} for the Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/PlayStation4, titled as ''Star Ocean: First Departure R'', and was released on December 5, 2019 with the feature of switching between the original Japanese voice cast of the 1996 [=SFC=] version (newly re-recorded) and the voice cast of the ''[=FD=]'' version. [[note]]At least on the Japanese language featured with the dual language option, there is only one English cast crew.[[/note]]
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11 years later, ''[=FD=]'' gained a major Platform/HighDefinition {{Remaster}} for the Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/PlayStation4, titled as ''Star Ocean: First Departure R'', and was released on December 5, 2019 with the feature of switching between the original Japanese voice cast of the 1996 [=SFC=] version and the voice cast of the ''[=FD=]'' version. [[note]]At least on the Japanese language featured with the dual language option, there is only one English cast crew.[[/note]]

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11 years later, ''[=FD=]'' gained a major Platform/HighDefinition {{Remaster}} for the Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/PlayStation4, titled as ''Star Ocean: First Departure R'', and was released on December 5, 2019 with the feature of switching between the original Japanese voice cast of the 1996 [=SFC=] version (newly re-recorded) and the voice cast of the ''[=FD=]'' version. [[note]]At least on the Japanese language featured with the dual language option, there is only one English cast crew.[[/note]]
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11 years later, ''[=FD=]'' gained a major UsefulNotes/HighDefinition Main/{{Remaster}} for the Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/PlayStation4, titled as ''Star Ocean: First Departure R'', and was released on December 5, 2019 with the feature of switching between the original Japanese voice cast of the 1996 [=SFC=] version and the voice cast of the ''[=FD=]'' version. [[note]]At least on the Japanese language featured with the dual language option, there is only one English cast crew.[[/note]]

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11 years later, ''[=FD=]'' gained a major UsefulNotes/HighDefinition Main/{{Remaster}} Platform/HighDefinition {{Remaster}} for the Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/PlayStation4, titled as ''Star Ocean: First Departure R'', and was released on December 5, 2019 with the feature of switching between the original Japanese voice cast of the 1996 [=SFC=] version and the voice cast of the ''[=FD=]'' version. [[note]]At least on the Japanese language featured with the dual language option, there is only one English cast crew.[[/note]]
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''Star Ocean'' is the first game in the ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' series. It was originally released for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]; that version was [[NoExportForYou never ported to the West]], though {{Fan Translation}}s exist. Creator/SquareEnix first [[VideoGameRemake remade]] this game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable; this remake, titled ''Star Ocean: First Departure'' (''[=FD=]'' for short), was released in North America and Europe in October 2008.

11 years later, ''[=FD=]'' gained a major UsefulNotes/HighDefinition Main/{{Remaster}} for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, titled as ''Star Ocean: First Departure R'', and was released on December 5, 2019 with the feature of switching between the original Japanese voice cast of the 1996 [=SFC=] version and the voice cast of the ''[=FD=]'' version. [[note]]At least on the Japanese language featured with the dual language option, there is only one English cast crew.[[/note]]

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''Star Ocean'' is the first game in the ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' series. It was originally released for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]; that version was [[NoExportForYou never ported to the West]], though {{Fan Translation}}s exist. Creator/SquareEnix first [[VideoGameRemake remade]] this game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable; Platform/PlayStationPortable; this remake, titled ''Star Ocean: First Departure'' (''[=FD=]'' for short), was released in North America and Europe in October 2008.

11 years later, ''[=FD=]'' gained a major UsefulNotes/HighDefinition Main/{{Remaster}} for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Platform/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, Platform/PlayStation4, titled as ''Star Ocean: First Departure R'', and was released on December 5, 2019 with the feature of switching between the original Japanese voice cast of the 1996 [=SFC=] version and the voice cast of the ''[=FD=]'' version. [[note]]At least on the Japanese language featured with the dual language option, there is only one English cast crew.[[/note]]

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* {{Bishonen}}: Some of the male cast, but especially Ioshua, even ingame characters said he is pretty.


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* PrettyBoy: Ioshua, is stated InUniverse to be is pretty.
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The game is followed up by ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'', which takes place several years.

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The game is followed up by ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'', which takes place several years.
twenty years later and stars Ronyx and Ilia's son.

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* AerithAndBob: There are characters like Millie and Ioshua, which is near enough a common earth name, but also T'nique and Ronyx. What makes it funnier is that Ronyx is one of the few characters who is actually from earth.



*** And if you want to get her Bunny Whistle, you have to go to Astral, through a Private Action with her agree to infiltrate the castle's treasury, and then go all the way back to the second town to get the bunny.

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*** And if you want to get her Bunny Whistle, you have to go to Astral, through a Private Action with her agree to infiltrate the castle's treasury, and then go all the way back to the second town to get the bunny. What makes this slightly less bad is that the bunny is one of the few ways in which travel becomes less tedious.


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* MedievalStasis: Roddick and Millie travel back 300 years in time, but there is no indication whatsoever that anything is less developed than where they started. It is also never commented upon.
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* TimeTravel: The team heads to the past in order to retrieve the same blood sample used to engineer the disease, but must leave behind weapons and communicators. It's not shown how the team returns to the present. [[spoiler:At the FinalDungeon, the characters from the past are brought to the future to fight against the big bad.]] Also, some of the companions may leave something in the past for their future friends.

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* AbortedArc: It's found out very soon in the game that Roakians have the ability to see invisible beings and objects due to their copper-based blood, with said blood capable of hiding anything and anyone by turning invisible unless a living Roakian is around to spot them, and thousands of the petrified ones have been quietly removed from the planet. Neither of these facts ever come up for the rest of the game.



** If you're trying to [[spoiler:recruit Erys]] but you also wish to recruit Phia or T'nique, you need at least 6 party members in a group after the Emblem Quest starts. If you recruit both Ashlay and Ioshua, [[spoiler:Millie]] will not join your team in Eckdart but will join you at Silvalant Castle, at which point your team should have the needed characters to [[spoiler:recruit Erys]] and be able to squeeze in Phia or T'nique before you get [[spoiler:Millie]] to rejoin.

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** If you're trying to [[spoiler:recruit Erys]] but you also wish to recruit Phia or T'nique, you need at least 6 party members in a group after the Emblem Quest starts. If you recruit both Ashlay and Ioshua, [[spoiler:Millie]] will not join your team in Eckdart but will join you at Silvalant Castle, at which point your team should have the needed characters to [[spoiler:recruit Erys]] and be able to squeeze in Phia or T'nique before you get [[spoiler:Millie]] to rejoin.rejoin, though the window is rather small.
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** Any reason you have to go back to Van Castle, you need to traverse the really long field either between the port town of the nation, or Silvalant Castle, because there is no port to access the castle unlike the rest of the castles (though Astral Castle lacks a port, the way back to it is alleviated somewhat by Tropp's port being close by).

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** Any reason you have to go back to Van Castle, you need to traverse the really long field either between the port town of the nation, nation or Silvalant Castle, because there is no port to access the castle unlike the rest of the castles (though Astral Castle lacks a port, the way back to it is alleviated somewhat by Tropp's port being close by).



*** And if you want to get her Bunny Whistle, you have to go to Astral, agree to infiltrate the castle's treasury, and then go all the way back to the second town to get the bunny.

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*** And if you want to get her Bunny Whistle, you have to go to Astral, through a Private Action with her agree to infiltrate the castle's treasury, and then go all the way back to the second town to get the bunny.

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* AntiFrustrationFeatures:
** Teaching a character the Familiar skill lets them call on a carrier bird to go buy items at a shop and return back with the purchased items at any time during a dungeon.
** If you're trying to [[spoiler:recruit Erys]] but you also wish to recruit Phia or T'nique, you need at least 6 party members in a group after the Emblem Quest starts. If you recruit both Ashlay and Ioshua, [[spoiler:Millie]] will not join your team in Eckdart but will join you at Silvalant Castle, at which point your team should have the needed characters to [[spoiler:recruit Erys]] and be able to squeeze in Phia or T'nique before you get [[spoiler:Millie]] to rejoin.



*** Just trying to [[spoiler:recruit Erys]] means you can't recruit Cyuss, Phia, and T'nique.
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* CharacterSelectForcing: [[spoiler:Getting Erys]] means that the party ''will'' absolutely be comprised of at least Roddick, Ilia, Millie, Ronyx, Ashlay, Ioshua, and Mavelle [[spoiler:who gets replaced by Erys's real body]].


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* LostForever:
** Generally, a lot of the optional party members are lost when you turn them down the first chance you get.
** Recruit Cyuss and you're immediately locked out from [[spoiler:getting Erys]].
** Not recruiting Ashlay, Ioshua, and Mavelle will lock you out from [[spoiler:recruiting Erys]].
*** Just trying to [[spoiler:recruit Erys]] means you can't recruit Cyuss, Phia, and T'nique.
** At Portmith, after learning about the Velkend pirates, sleeping at the inn ''20'' times will cause you to lose the chance to recruit Pericci later.
** Recruit Phia early and you'll lose the chance for her to learn her SFT skill, which she can only learn when she's recruited later in the game.
** After the PointOfNoReturn, [[spoiler:you can't ever go back to Roak and will lose all the unique items, Private Actions, and missing party members needed to fill out empty slots.]]
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The game is followed up by ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'', which takes several years.

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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Expect the party members to say variations of this at the start of each battle the further you get in the game, even though they are capable of coming out victorious.
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* EscapedFromTheLab: [[spoiler:Asmodeus was originally a superhuman creation from Fargett who went crazy and fled through a vortex - alongside the Space-Time Laboratory - to the Demon World in Roak, where he started to use the monsters from the realm as his own experiments and unleashed them to the planet so that he'd conquer it.]]


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* {{Foreshadowing}}: As the story progress, the party ends up finding a ''lot'' of [[spoiler:advanced technology]] sprinkled around Roak, even if it's [[spoiler:300 years in the past]]. Even the Celestial Ship makes Ilia comment that [[spoiler:it somehow resembles the ships from Earth.]] It later turns out that [[spoiler:all the advanced technology either came directly from the "Old Race" or Asmodeus, who once hailed from Fargett before fleeing to Roak's Demon World. Both of these sources once originated from the Muan Kingdom that used to be from Earth itself.]]
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* ArtificialStupidity: When a healer is trying to heal a party member who then gets knocked out, they won't stop the spell and waste it on a dead body.


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** Getting Pericci means you have to go all the way back to the first town.
*** And if you want to get her Bunny Whistle, you have to go to Astral, agree to infiltrate the castle's treasury, and then go all the way back to the second town to get the bunny.
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** Any reason you have to go back to Van Castle, you need to traverse the really long field either between the port town of the nation, or Silvalant Castle, because there is no port to access the castle unlike the rest of the castles.

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** Any reason you have to go back to Van Castle, you need to traverse the really long field either between the port town of the nation, or Silvalant Castle, because there is no port to access the castle unlike the rest of the castles.castles (though Astral Castle lacks a port, the way back to it is alleviated somewhat by Tropp's port being close by).

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* {{Backtracking}}: After visiting about half of Past Roak, a meteorite falls next to the FirstTown and you have to go back to check it out.

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** Any reason you have to go back to Van Castle, you need to traverse the really long field either between the port town of the nation, or Silvalant Castle, because there is no port to access the castle unlike the rest of the castles.
* BadassNormal: Notably, Ronyx starts the story as a normal human with no special skills whatsoever. However, once reuniting with him, it turns out Millie taught him about Symbology, and he was able to develop the skill to use it despite not being from Roak at all, which is rather impressive in itself.



** The third game's encycopedia reveals Expel's amount of genes being mixed up results in occasional cases of Cat people.

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** The third game's encycopedia encyclopedia reveals Expel's amount of genes being mixed up results in occasional cases of Cat people.



* CosmicDeadline: The Fargett arc. While the presence of a third party who was behind the firing of a bioweapon on Roak was actually foreshadowed within the first couple of hours, it feels a little like it came out of left field.

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* CosmicDeadline: The Fargett [[spoiler:Fargett]] arc. While the presence of a third party who was behind the firing of a bioweapon on Roak was actually foreshadowed within the first couple of hours, it feels a little like it came out of left field. [[spoiler:On the other hand, a lot of the events in the game are directly connected to Fargett going beyond just the stone sickness.]]



* FirstContact: Inverted. Roddick, Millie and Dorne, three fellpolls from the primitive planet Roak, meet the humans Ronyx and Illia for the first time and learn that they are not alone in the universe.

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* DiscOneFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:The Space-Time Laboratory within the Demon World.]]
* FirstContact: Inverted. Roddick, Millie and Dorne, three fellpolls fellpools from the primitive planet Roak, meet the humans Ronyx and Illia for the first time and learn that they are not alone in the universe.



* GuideDangIt: The average player may waltz right through the game and miss many characters simply because they choose to accept others. The real title goes to [[spoiler:Erys]] however - an addition to the PSP remake, who requires ''three other characters recruited'' while two of them make sense ([[ItMakesSenseInContext if you know what their stories are]]), the third is [[PermanentlyMissableContent easily missable]] and has ''no connection'' to these two.

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* GuideDangIt: GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:Jie Revorse's creation was an attempt by Fargett scientists to create superhumans who could be able to live on the deserted planet and take the right choices for the rest of the normal humans. When the normal humans were convinced that the superhumans had little room for error when having a position of power, they elected them to lead the inhabitants to a better future. What followed after was Jie going MadWithPower and having the rest of the superhumans killed to establish a dictatorship.]]
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The average player may waltz right through the game and miss many characters simply because they choose to accept others. The real title goes to [[spoiler:Erys]] however - an addition to the PSP remake, who requires ''three other characters recruited'' while two of them make sense ([[ItMakesSenseInContext if you know what their stories are]]), the third is [[PermanentlyMissableContent easily missable]] and has ''no connection'' to these two.
*** To boot, to try to get [[spoiler:Erys]], you have to wander to the ends of the Silvalant Kingdom and just find a cave that's not revealed on the overworld map.



* {{Mordor}}: The planet Fargett, which is run by the previously mentioned Jie Revorse.

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* {{Mordor}}: The [[spoiler:The planet Fargett, Fargett]], which is run by the [[spoiler:the previously mentioned Jie Revorse.]]



* PermanentlyMissableContent:
** Want to get [[spoiler:Erys]]? Hope you have the three required characters for it. Otherwise, halfway through the quest, [[spoiler:you lose her self as Mavelle, and Ioshua is resigned to live without her.]]
** Pretty much [[spoiler:all of Roak]] after [[spoiler:getting to Fargett]] becomes barred off from ever being visited, meaning all the missing party slots, unique items, and such can't be accessed anymore.



* PointOfNoReturn: [[spoiler:If you decide to fight Asmodeus, you will no longer be able to explore Past Roak.]]

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* PointOfNoReturn: [[spoiler:If you decide to fight Asmodeus, you will no longer be able to explore Past Roak.]]]] Luckily, the game will notify you when the cutoff will happen to avoid saving over a file before the lock occurs.
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* DebatingNames: There's a short debate on what the cat's name should be, before Pericci is recruited into the party. Of the four, one name choice a dog's name, and one is an insult.
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** And of course, Mavelle and [[spoiler:Erys]]. You cannot have both of them at the same time, since [[spoiler:Mavelle ''is'' Erys.]]

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** And of course, Mavelle and [[spoiler:Erys]]. You cannot have both of them at the same time, since [[spoiler:Mavelle ''is'' Erys.]]]] And since [[spoiler:Erys]] requires Ashlay, that means [[spoiler:Erys]] is also exclusive with Cyuss.
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Well, that's not what Mutually Exclusive Party Members is about, one person joining late doesn't count. Plus, Millie can join early with Ioshua... as long as you have Cyuss.


** Played with for Ioshua and Millie. While Millie is a mandatory character to recruit, she will not be available until the last town in the Van region if the player chose to permanently recruit Ioshua. If the player does not have Ioshua, however, then Millie will be available in the first town of the Van region.
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** A character named [[Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine Marvel Frozen]].

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** A character named [[Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine Marvel Frozen]]. Because of this, when the game is officially translated into English, [[DubNameChange the character name is changed into Mavelle Froesson.]]

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