First Departure features an entire overhaul of the original game's engine, instead using a slightly altered version of the engine used for Star Ocean: The Second Story with similar features, including prerendered backgrounds and 3D battle fields. Production I.G provided new artwork and animated cutscenes for the game. New playable characters have been added as well. There are new voice actors and extensive amounts of new, fully voiced dialogue.[5] The remake also features a theme song, "Heart" by the Japanese group Asunaro.





BTW this is out today. Remake of a game we never saw in the U.S. The first Star Ocean game. The backgrounds look so awesome that the character sprites look out of place in front of them. The combat system is the same as the second game, which is good because it was amazingly fun. A game no RPG fan should miss. They say it was the best of the Star Ocean games, which says a lot to me since I really loved the second and third games. Time to dust off the PSP>>>