Star Ocean: The Last Hope: Difference between revisions

Set [[After the End|after a nuclear World War III]], mankind is looking for a new home and take to the stars. Edge Maverick is an idealistic but impulsive young man who volunteers for the mission- alongside childhood friend Reimi Saionji- and quickly ends up as the captain of his own ship following a terrible disaster. From there, Edge and Reimi explore different worlds to search for not only a new homeworld, but for the direction that mankind will take as it embarks on a new age of universal exploration.

 

 

* [[Accidental Pervert]] - Edge, on at least four separate occasions. Naturally, Reimi never reacts well. There is a PA where [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|he calls her out on it though]].

* [[A Nuclear Error]]: We see in the opening sequence that World War 3 started when an unmanned stealth drone was caught in the discharge of an [[EMP]] fired to inconvenience communications. Its nuclear payload inconvenienced a densely populated city (the ultimate in accidental friendly fire). This caused a worldwide thermonuclear war that left the surface of the Earth almost uninhabitable, making all eyes turn to space for a lasting solution.

* [[The Archer]]: Reimi plays this perfectly [[A Worldwide Punomenon|straight]].

* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: Many of the bosses battles require this.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Symbology. Nice effects, big explosions, many colors and decent damage. However, without Fast Cast casting takes forever and the high-end spells can't be chain-combo'd which means you don't get bonus damage via the chain-combo damage multiplier.

* [[Black Mage]]: Lymle and Myuria function as this, although they both have basic healing abilities.

** Myuria May count more as a [[Red Mage]] since she has more healing spells than Lymle but still less than Sarah, who is the resident [[White Mage]].

* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: The Cave of the Seven Stars and the Wandering Dungeon.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: It's no surprise that ''everyone'' in the game is an offender, [[World of Ham|given what this game is like]]. You can even unlock additional voice clips via battle trophies, so the characters will start saying different things when they use skills/symbology.

{{quote| ''"You will be bound in eternal silence!"''.}}

** Myuria and Lymle.

* [[Global Currency Exception]]: The colosseum, which requires the player to spend "Fight Tokens".

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Edge has one {{spoiler|when he realizes that his actions caused the destruction of an alternate Earth.}}

** {{spoiler|Pretty major case of BSOD at that, too. Reimi, his Second-In-Command, takes over as captain because Edge has become unfit for duty. Edge says very little in cutscenes and says nothing at all after a victory in battle or leveling up. It isn't until Reimi is afflicted with the [[Taken for Granite|stone sickness]] that he finally starts to snap out of it}}.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Bacchus.

* [[More Dakka]]: When things get ugly and rockets, kill sats, laser cannons, chainsaws and elektro shocks are just not enough to get the job done, Bacchus whips out his two friends [[Gatling Good|Justice and Saviour]] and goes wild.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Myuria is quite the busty lady. She even has [[Jiggle Physics]].

** The camera specifically pans and rotates around her from the ground up, focusing on her butt and breasts before reaching her face during her victory poses.

* [[Multi Mook Melee]]: The fight against the Phantom Soldiers on Aeos consists of one normal battle followed by '''seven''' ambushes.

* [[New Game Plus]]: After you beat the final boss, you can reload with a "clear" save file.

** {{spoiler|He was also indirectly responsible for the deaths of many people, including Lymle's grandfather, on Lemuris. By destroying the source of the disease that had been plaguing the planet, everyone who was infected suddenly mutated and went on a rampage, before turning to stone. To Edge's defense, this would have happened to them eventually...his actions merely sped the process up and made it happen all at once. The only consolation is that, with the source gone, the disease would never afflict anyone again.}}

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: [[Running Gag|Edge just can't get a break]].

** [[Never Live It Down]]: Because the first time, it was what it looked like.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Believe it or not, Edge. Not only does he frequently deadpan the insanity of his other party members (and Welch) but {{spoiler|he's the only one to realize the sheer horror of what he did to the Parallel Universe Earth}}.

* [[Optional Party Member]]: {{spoiler|An odd version, where after one playthrough you can choose to keep Faize in the party when he leaves during the story instead of getting Arumat, even though he turns out to be the final boss. Arumat remains there in the cutscenes, though.}}

* [[Plot Hole]]: Okay, so the Earth has become uninhabitable due to all of the nuclear fallout and polluted skies. Yet, at the end of the game, the earth is suddenly cleansed with absolutely no mention of what fixed it!

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: {{spoiler|Faize}}'s eyes turn red whenever he's trying (and failing) to suppress emotion.

** Bacchus uses an [[Arm Cannon]].

** Arumat uses a [[Sinister Scythe|scythe]].

** {{spoiler|Also, the new universe would be inhabited entirely by mindless drone copies of people.}}

** There was also Millia Bachtein, who truly had the best interests of Earth in mind. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, her plans involved subjecting extraterrestrials (one of which was Meracle) to inhumane experiments in hopes of gaining their technology and enslaving them. And using said technology to crush all their enemies.}}

* [[Wings Do Nothing]]: The winged [[White Mage]] character Sarah has huge wings but is described both by the game and in her own words as being incapable of flight. {{spoiler|In her ending, she learns to fly while being chased by two [[Catgirl|cat girls]]. Oh, and neither of them is Meracle, surprisingly.}}

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The Featherfolk race.

* [[Yes Man|Yes Men]]: Deputy Director Shimada's assistants play this trope completely straight.

* [[You Killed My Father]] - Myuria towards Crowe. {{spoiler|And replace "Father" with "Husband"}}.