Sea Of Stars

Sea Of Stars is a rpg developed by Canadian studio Sabotage. 

It focuses on a group of heroes out to save the world from the evil fleshmancer with the moon and sun power. 

The story is pretty much not really all that original and to be honest, it didn’t really feel like it was something from the 90s and 2000s it felt more so atypical 2020s style fantasy stories than so the more, unorthodox style of storytelling lot of Japanese games had back in the day. 

The game is also set in the same universe as another Sabotage studios game going by The messenger. 

The game’s most notable aspect is its inspiration from older jrpgs from the Mario rpgs and Chrono Trigger. 

the graphics were good but the artstyle however, the Cal-Arts style was pretty offputting and not exactly that pleasing to me and neither were the occasionally animated cutscenes but the 2d animations itself was pretty impressive. 

The smaller details too like reflections and just how dynamic the environments were are really amazing. 

The combat is real time active based considering its Chrono Trigger influence. 

There is combos which basically happens the more you get sucessful hits against enemies. 

On the otherhand the game is outdated in alot of aspects that alot of JRPGS by now has added. 

It can get pretty grindy after a while. 

Having to equip accessories for displaying features that should have been in the interface for starters. 

Thers alot of recipes to learn and ingredients to collect as you progress throughout the game. 

You can find relics to alter the gameplay making it as easy or as hard as you want to be something that nowadays is pretty outdated since you can just set things as is on user interface features. 

The user interface was kind of clunky too otherwise i did like the style it had. 

Also the lack of direction where to go and what to do next unless you pay close attention is another thing as well to note its almost as if the developers were trying to recreate the necessity of gameguides selling which by now is an outdated pratcise given how sites from Gamefaqs to youtube walkthroughs exist. 

Interesting thing speaking of which with youtube, it actually had the youtuber TheCompletinoist in the game as a cameo but got replaced, by a original character considering the amount of hotwater they were in over a charity scam. 

The dialogue can be lengthy from time to time to the point it does occasional drag on something you can easily tell was borrowed from the weakest aspect of Golden Sun for the ds. 

The music by Mitsuda Yasunori was amazing as ever. 

It is kind of sequel baiting though on the otherhand with its story. 

Overall it was an alright game. 

It gets 3 out of 5 stars. 

I personally would rather see a new Golden Sun Chrono Trigger or Paper Mario 64 remake than this game honestly.