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The second game in the ''[[Star Ocean]]'' series, ''Star Ocean: The Second Story'', was first released for the PlayStation, and unlike the first game, ''did'' get a Western release. It was remade for the PSP, with the subtitle ''Second Evolution'', and got a Western release in early 2009. Claude C. Kenny, son of Ronyx from the first game, is a new ensign in [[The Federation|the Pangalactic Federation]] struggling to remove himself from his famous father's shadow. His first mission, exploring Milokeenia, is directly under Admiral Ronyx's command. He activates a [[Precursor]] teleporter and ends up stranded on the primitive planet of Expel, where he saves other-main-character Rena Lanford from a rampaging monster, is hailed as a prophezied savior, and sets off on a quest to find out why things have gotten so bad on Expel recently. But there's more at stake here than just one primitive planet....
There was a [[Game Boy Color]] sequel to ''The Second Story'' entitled ''Star Ocean: Blue Sphere'', [[No Export for You|that was not released outside of Japan
There was also an anime
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* [[Action Girl]]: All of the female cast.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Precis, Dias, Bowman... Celine and Ashton.
* [[Always Someone Better]]: Dias, to Claude. Of course, Claude being [[The Hero]]...
* [[Anger Born of Worry]]: Happens halfway through the [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]. Not that Claude was actually in any danger
* [[Anti-Gravity Clothing]]: Celine.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Apparently, Ruprecht/Zadkiel of the Ten Wise Men despite being programmed to destroy the universe. Well, at least he, Jibril/Raphael
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: Four active, four [[Lazy Backup|on the sidelines]]. Twelve recruitable characters
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Many of the higher-level Killer Moves have an overly long startup time, making them easily interrupted or dodged.
* [[Babies Ever After]]: Sort of
* [[Badass]]:
** [[Badass Abnormal]]: Ashton is badass even before he gets two dragons grafted to his back.
** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Leon is a pretty powerful mage, plus his weapon ''is'' a [[Improbable Weapon User|book
** [[Badass Labcoat]]: Bowman wears and IS one of these. Leon, being a scientist, is also this.
** [[Badass Long Hair]]: Dias has very long hair and is a badass so naturally he fits this.
** [[Badass Normal]]: Claude and Dias are pretty ordinary, but prove to be deadly with a sword on skill alone.
** [[Little Miss Badass]]: Precis combines this with [[Gadgeteer Genius]]. Welch in ''Second Evolution'' certainly qualifies as well.▼
** [[Lady of War]]: Both Celine and Opera are pretty refined, but they can kick some ass.
▲** [[Little Miss Badass]]: Precis combines this with [[Gadgeteer Genius]]. Welch in ''Second Evolution'' certainly qualifies as well.
* [[Beauty Is Bad]]: Gabriel and Lucifer are the most beautiful of the Ten Wise Men. They are also the most evil/crazy.
** Well, Zadkiel is... alright too, but he just has stuff in his hair.
* [[Betting Minigame]]: One can be found in Fun City.
* [[BFG]]: Opera's weapon
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]:
* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: You can go via [[Lotus Eater Machine]] back to Expel and tackle a seriously challenging dungeon
* [[Boring but Practical]]: It's probable that by the end of the game, you may be using some KMs that you learned well over 20 gameplay hours ago (
** For that matter, the ''best'' way to defeat the later bosses? Stunlock them and spam these abilities until they die.
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Opera sure loves her wines.
* [[Call Forward]]: Welch in ''Second Evolution''. Among other things, she introduces herself as [[Star Ocean 3|"a creator", then mentions that she's from Elicoor II, and in one Private Action, she tells a fairy tale about two warring kingdoms
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Subverted when Claude uses Helmetbreak in ''Second Evolution'': he just screams while using it. In the first game, he also shouts "Teeaaar into pieces!!" instead of "Ripper Burst
▲** Hey, when did [[Tales of Phantasia|Cless]] join Starfleet?
▲* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Rena's pendant.}}
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Ashton. So unlucky he is forced to share bodies with a twin-headed dragon, and in a rare instance of averting [[Story and Gameplay Segregation]], he has the worst LUK stat in the game.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Subverted. Rena mistakes Claude to be the destined Hero of Light, but he makes it clear that he's not. {{spoiler|Played painfully straight in the anime, complete with [[Evolving Weapon]]
** The game goes back and forth between this trope and [[The Unchosen One]] since {{spoiler|while Claude makes it clear that he's not the destined hero of light, he and his party are chosen by Energy Nede to defeat the Ten Wise Men
* [[Colony Drop]]: {{spoiler|The collision of Expel and Energy Nede
* [[Combat Medic]]: Rena and Bowman both qualify for this trope to varying degrees. Bowman's a melee fighter with some healing skills, but Rena's a white mage [[Bare-Fisted Monk|who traded in her staff for a pair of duster knuckles
* [[Cooking Duel]]: [[In the Style Of]] ''[[Iron Chef]]''.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: [[Continuity Cameo|Welch Vineyard]] in ''Second Evolution''. Notable in that she ''falls from the sky'' and on top of Claude/Rena...
* [[Crutch Character]]: Dias in Rena's scenario. Mega powerful when he's just with Rena, but Claude will surpass him once he joins for good.
** Depending on your party makeup, Lv.30 Welch can be recruited in ''Second Evolution'' while your main team is only half that level. Sure, they catch up to her, but...
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Ashton has a pair of dragons grafted to his back. You can undertake a sidequest to remove them... but in the end, he [[Status Quo Is God|doesn't go through with it]] because the exorcism would kill the dragons.
** That, and Dragon Breath is actually pretty good.
* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: In ''Second Evolution'', Precis's new 'excited' artwork has these.
* [[Cutting Off the Branches]]: Never stated outright, but Claude's mother is strongly hinted to be Illia Silvestri, the first game's [[Relationship Values]] be damned.
* [[Dead Character Walking]]: Easily doable, just use a Mandrake on each member of your active party, which kills anyone it's used on. The game also has another, far more annoying inversion of this: often later in the game when facing powerful enemies that can easily kill, paralyze or petrify you, you'll end up getting a [[Game Over]] right after you use a healing item or spell to cure one of said statuses due to the game not bothering to check if someone's currently in process of being cured from them before declaring the battle lost due to all
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Dias has a literal one.
* [[Deuteragonist]]: [[Playing with a Trope|An interesting twist]] here
* [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]: The [[Floating Continent|flying fortress]] where you fight one of [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|the Wise Men]], but {{spoiler|an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]] happens and this is really only the first major climax}}.
* [[Disc One Nuke]]: The [[Infinity+1 Sword|Eternal Sphere]] can be obtained soon after the [[Inevitable Tournament]].
** Plus, one can get the Marvel Sword with 1100 attack so early in the game that most weapons are in the 100-200 range.
** There's an item that can be stolen from a character in Mars early in the first disk that spawns three random items. These items can be anything from blueberries and herbs to weapons and armor from late in the second disk, and the contents of the box are selected at random when the box is ''used'', not when it's ''acquired''. A player who's patient enough to get the items necessary for pickpocketing at this point in the game and who's patient enough to reload their save game a lot can potentially get ''three'' [[Disc One Nuke|Disc One Nukes]] out of this one item.
*** This is only the tip of the iceberg for [[Video Game Stealing|the pickpocketing skill]]
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: In one private event, Rena accidentally wipes a computer database in the library in Nede, after saying "Reformat hard drive", and is frustrated when she can't get anything else. The game says, "Gamers -do not try what Claude and Rena just did."
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Ashton with both swords and [[Crazy Awesome|dragons]].
* [[Everyone Can See It]]:
* [[Evolving Attack]]: The killer moves.
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Noel.
* [[Flavor Text]]
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Precis.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]:
* [[Genki Girl]]: Precis again.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Claude does this to Leon, but it's slightly subverted in that Leon doesn't snap out of it right away.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Oh, you accidentally talked to a crazy lady twice? Hope you wanted to fight Gabriel Limiter-off for a final boss then! Sorry, no take backs! Guess you better get to grinding! To be fair, it's actually quite easy to miss talking to her either time. It's actually more of a [[Guide Dang It]] to discover Gabriel Limiter-off, since you have to catch the girl once in an easily missable scene that's [[Lost Forever]] if you don't, and the second time by backtracking out of the final dungeon from the last save point and tracking her down in a town.
** Party-member recruitment is like this too. You can turn anyone down, recruiting one person may make you [[Mutually Exclusive Party Members|unable to recruit someone else]] (
** Did you forget to pick up that one sword after the [[Inevitable Tournament]]? Or did it suck so much compared with what you have that you sold it? Oh well, I guess you don't get the [[Disc One Nuke]] listed above...
** Did you recruit Ashton, which for all intents and purposes seems like a very reasonable and good idea? [[Mutually Exclusive Party Members|Say goodbye]] [[Lost Forever|to ever being able to recruit one of the most powerful characters in the game, sucker!]]
* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: Most of the time in Private Actions, you see Dias sleeping. And that's his ''hobby''
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Nall, the mayor of Nede's Centropolis, planned for the Symbol of Divinity/Crest of Enhancement to direct the power of the Symbol/Crest Of Annihilation onto Energy Nede, knowing fully well that the planet's Energy Field is the only force strong enough to stop the Symbol/Crest Of Annihilation, although at the cost of Energy Nede itself being destroyed in the process. He believes that it's a way for the Nedians to atone for the sins that they have committed so long ago. Nall even made sure that Claude and co. would never find out until the last moment, and made Noel and/or Chisato (if they are in the party) swear that they keep their mouths shut about the whole plan
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: The most infuriating of these is easily when Claude has to fight Dias in the Tournament of Arms. The game plays Dias up as being an amazing swordsman and forces Claude to lose, but when you actually get him (which you can't if you're playing as Claude), you find out that he has only a few good special moves and a slow-as-hell melee attack, making him one of the least-useful fighters in the game.
** Make that [[Spam Attack|one amazing]] [[Sword Beam|special move]] and below average everything else.
** Even better: the game has multiple hopeless boss fights where you are expected to either die or last a certain time. It won't tell you which is which.
* [[Hope Spot]]: Somewhat literally, with the introduction of the [[Wave Motion Gun|Lacuer Hope]].
* [[Hot Amazon]]: In the anime at least, Ashton's dragons like a woman who can fight (
* [[Hot Dad]]: Bowman in the manga based off ''Blue Sphere''.
* [[Identical Stranger]]: Claude and Chris, {{spoiler|the prince of Krosse
* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: Earth, Galaxy
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: Celine. The costume is standard fare as far as RPG [[Black Magician Girl|Black Magician Girls]] go, but what the heck is up with the floating shower curtains?
** Said outfit is a bit less impractical in the Manga, but still...
* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: Dias.
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Chisato.
* [[Joke Character]]. ERNEST!
** However, some will get him anyway because you can steal a [[Disc One Nuke]] from him at two points.
** [[Lethal Joke Character]]: While Ernest is considered a [[Joke Character]] due to most of his Killer Moves sucking ass, a few of them (most notably Broken Heart) are actually pretty good, turning him from a waste of space into a viable fighter.
** Broken Heart is, well, quite broken if you level it up. It traps the enemy in place enabling the others to use attacks with longer setup times and such. YMMV indeed.
** YMMV much? Noel could be a joke character too, considering he comes with spells that do less damage than those of Celine and Leon by that point, and heal less HP than Rena. Add to that the fact he considers "I don't like fighting, you know!" to be a taunt...
* [[Knife Nut]]: In ''Blue Sphere'', Rena trades in her knuckles for knives.
* [[Lady of Black Magic]]: Celine is the textbook example.
* [[Last of His Kind]]:
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Gabriel's primary power involves Light. He is about as "good" as a cobra.
* [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards]]: Averted as it's mages who become less effective as the party as whole levels up; at least healers are still crucial. Part of that may be because the best spells have a really long cutscene (that can't be turned off) and will at best to [[Cap|9999 damage]], and they only hit once. Fighters can do loads more in the same time span, as most of their endgame attacks will do multiple hits.
* [[Luck Stat]]: Note that Ashton's is extraordinarily low and stuck that way
▲* [[Luck Stat]]: Note that Ashton's is extraordinarily low and stuck that way; [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|it's because he's canonically incredibly unlucky.]]
* [[Master of None]]: Noel. He can heal, but can't even come close to matching Rena. He can use attack magic, but Celine and Leon have him beat there. He equips knuckles as his [[Weapon of Choice]], but all of the fighters beat him in physical combat, as does Rena.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Nede backwards is Eden {{spoiler|which is totally appropriate considering how backwards Energy Nede is anyway
* [[The Medic]]: Rena. Bowman is more of a [[Combat Medic]], heavy on the combat.
** Noel serves as a combination of [[The Medic]] and a [[Black Mage]].
* [[Minigame Zone]]: Fun City in Disc 2.
* [[Mondegreen]]: A surprising number of fans believe that Claude's PS1 battle cry for Ripper Blast is "pear into peaches" rather than "tear into pieces".
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Opera and Celine bring some of this to the table.
* [[Mutually Exclusive Party Members]]: Let's see: Ashton or Opera (and Ernest). Dias or Leon. Precis or Bowman.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: {{spoiler|Dias blames himself for not being strong enough to save his parents and sister from being murdered by bandits}}.
* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Rena Lanford.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|You know Rena's pendant? It's totally the key to destroying the world, and your team brings it straight to where it needs to go. Although to be fair, just having it on the planet already sped things up by centuries
** {{spoiler|Limitless Gabriel
*** Actually subverted. {{spoiler|When encountering Philia the second time, she asks the party to [[Shoot the Dog|kill her]] before Gabriel finds her. Gabriel ''did'' get to her before Claude/Rena could fulfill her request
** On a more hilarious note, this is why Ashton got the two dragons grafted on his back in the first place...
* [[Not So Harmless]]: Funny Thiefs are mostly generic level 1 threat early in the game, but {{spoiler|Dias' flashback shows them killing his family and kicking his little sister to death}}. Also, they return in more stronger forms in Cave of Ordeals as Thief lvl. 99 and [[Metal Thief]].
* [[Now Where Was I Going Again?]]: A random party member tells you where you are supposed to be headed whenever you leave a town after a Private Action.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: {{spoiler|Gabriel/Lantis}}.
* [[Otaku]]: Ashton is an avid follower of... ''barrels''.
* [[Our Elves Are Better]]: [[Deconstructed Trope]] by the Nedians.
* [[Parrot Exposition]]: Claude does this pretty often, sometimes to the point of just repeating a part of the previous sentence.
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Lucifer
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: The ten wise men who also border on [[Physical God|Physical Gods]] since it requires the special material to damage them.
* [[Port Town]]: Harley and Hilton
* [[Power Copying]]: In ''Star Ocean EX'', Claude doesn't so much learn techniques as rip off all of Dias' moves.
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* [[Rocket Punch]]: One of Precis's Killer Moves.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Precis has a completely autonomous robot. And big punchy robot arm things. On a medieval world which doesn't even have electricity anywhere else.
* [[
* [[Show Some Leg]]: Pick Opera in the Fun City Arena for Bullying Battle, and she'd try to show her legs to prove she's a woman, when the announcer says 'Battle between men and men'.
{{quote|'''Opera''': ''"Can't you see these shapely legs!? I'm a woman!"''}}
* [[Spam Attack]]: Claude's "Shooting Stars" special.
* [[Star Power]]: Among its overload of elements, there's "Star" as distinct from both "Light" and "Vacuum" (which itself is distinct from "Void"). Most of the Star-elemental spells get cast by Celine.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: {{spoiler|As shown in one flashback, Claude was this in his Academy days
* [[The Stoic]]: Dias.
* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: The Godslayer and the Knuckles of Hope, {{spoiler|weapons designed to defeat the Ten Wise Men
* [[Teen Genius]]: Leon and Precis, though Leon is actually a ''pre''teen example, being just 12 years old.
* [[Title Drop]]: Three times in ''Second Evolution
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: This is essentially what Claude is... Or at least, what he ''could've'' been
** Or at least trying to. For all of five seconds. [[The Dulcinea Effect|Until he runs into a cute girl and decides to save her by]] ''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|atomizing the monster attacking her]]''. Afterwards, he [[Moral Dissonance|promptly proceeds to only passingly care
*** The whole 'Claude is the Hero of Light' thing is pretty much dropped within two hours of the game. Literally, two towns make a big deal about it, and
* [[True Companions]]: The party.
* [[Tsundere]]: Rena's a Type B. Just see Welch's introduction in ''Second Evolution'', and [[Anger Born of Worry]] mentioned above.
* [[Video Game Remake]]: ''Second Evolution'' for the PSP.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Claude struggles to prove himself to get out of his father's shadow.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Player characters that you encounter in the game just... disappear if you did not recruit them.
** A rather large (if technically optional) aspect of the first part of the game involves you finding an ancient text in Cross Cave and showing it to a linguist named Keith. Keith finally takes it and begins studying it, but before you learn anything about it, {{spoiler|the world explodes
* [[Whip It Good]]: Ernest.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Again, Rena. Also, Celine, Dias and Leon.
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