Before jumping into my full reaction to the game, I have to be honest up front and say that I did not complete it.  When I wrote the Spectacle Rock review policy, the conditions clearly stated that I would not review a game until I completed it, or until I quit it out of frustration.  In this particular case, Rule #2 has come into play.  Despite my best efforts, Star Ocean has forced me to throw down my controller, throw up my hands, and shout plaintive cries to the game design gods as to how they could ever let such a game come into being.  With that made clear, we can take a deeper look into what could cause such hate to fester in my gaming soul…

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