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A series of [[Role Playing Game|Role Playing Games]] developed by [[~~Tri Ace|~~tri-Ace]] and published by [[Square Enix]] (Enix before the merger). All of them are set in the same universe, a high-tech [[Space Opera]], but all of them spend a significant amount of time focusing on a [[Medieval European Fantasy|low-tech, high-magic world]]. The games are known for their fast-paced, real-time battle system, and for the Private Action system that allows the main character to interact with party members in towns, which can affect the ending through changing [[Relationship Values]].

A series of [[Role-Playing Game|Role Playing Games]] developed by [[tri-Ace]] and published by [[Square Enix]] (Enix before the merger). All of them are set in the same universe, a high-tech [[Space Opera]], but all of them spend a significant amount of time focusing on a [[Medieval European Fantasy|low-tech, high-magic world]]. The games are known for their fast-paced, real-time battle system, and for the Private Action system that allows the main character to interact with party members in towns, which can affect the ending through changing [[Relationship Values]].

The games in the series are:

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* [[Alien Non-Interference Clause]]: The Undeveloped Planet Preservation Pact ([[UP 3]]).

* [[Bishounen]]: In every game. To name just one example from each, there's Ioshua from ''First Departure'', Dias from ''The Second Story''/''Second Evolution'', Albel from ''Till the End of Time'', Faize from ''The Last Hope''...

* [[Black Magician Girl]]

* [[Bonus Boss]]: And how! This series is infamous for the amount of grinding you'll need to engage in if you want to stand a chance against them. The fact that your [[Cap|maximum level]] in the first three games is '''255''' doesn't help things.

* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: Sometimes multiple, almost always ''huge''.

* [[Broken Base]]: ''Maaa-aaaaa-aaaan.'' ''Till The End Of Time'''s plot twist managed to split the base like a lumberjack splitting a log and things are ''still'' split. ''TTEoT'' might just be one of the best examples of a base-breaker ever.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]

* [[Canon Shadow]]: Most common with the first two; which have only four (in the first) and two (in the second) compulsory characters, so the remaining four-to-six you recruit are usually just degraded to making comments about what's happening, although some do have their own subplots that overlap with the reasons for joining. Most of the time, it's a [[Secret Character]] who mostly has characterization in Private-Events.

** Welch in the first two.

* [[Catgirl]]: The Lesser Fellpool race.

* [[Conflict Killer]]: Too many to list. There seems to be a veritable revolving door of villains in this series.

* [[Doing in the Wizard]]: Anybody from [[The Federation]] in all three games will have a [[Techno Babble]] explanation for magic - or "symbology" or "heraldry", as it's usually known. For instance, Claude's "Sword of Light"? Actually just his phase gun.

* [[Doing In the Wizard]]: Anybody from [[The Federation]] in all three games will have a [[Techno Babble]] explanation for magic - or "symbology" or "heraldry", as it's usually known. For instance, Claude's "Sword of Light"? Actually just his phase gun.

* [[Day Old Legend]]

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]

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* [[Item Crafting]]: Each game has an Invention system that varies in mechanics from game to game.

* [[Limited Move Arsenal]]: Type 1.

* [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards]]: Somewhat averted. The first two games (especially the enhanced remake) let you surround tough enemies and just beat them up with melees while the mages try to cast their symbology.

* [[Multiple Endings]]: The franchise is known for this.

** {{spoiler|Which is then averted in the fourth game in favor of an unlockable [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] for each character.}}

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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]

* [[No Export for You]]: The original and ''Blue Sphere'', coincidentally the only ones released on [[Nintendo]] platforms ([[Super Famicom]]/SNES and [[Game Boy Color]], respectively).

* [[One Steve Limit]] (Averted: the Ten Wisemen in ''The Second Story'' all have angel names, including Lucifer and Gabriel, but the boss of the bonus dungeon in the same game is ''also'' named Gabriel. ''Till the End of Time'' also has another Lucifer (Luther in the English version), who is of no relation to the one in ''Second Story''. ''Till the End of Time'', at least the Japanese versions, use various demonic names for the Sphere staff (Azazel, Beelzebub, Belial))

** (The same applies to ''The Last Hope.'' Apparently, the names of the Grigori are based on fallen angels from biblical apocrypha.)

* [[One-Winged Angel]]

* [[Optional Party Member]]: In every game.

* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Fellpools are humanlike in appearance, but have heightened senses and tails like cats.

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* [[Saving the World]]: Or universe. No spoilers needed.

* [[Sequel First]]: ''The Second Story'' was the series debut outside of Japan.

* [[Stuck Items]] - Phia and Ioshua's accessories.

* [[Space Is an Ocean]]: The name of the entire series. [[Title Drop|Directly referred to]] in [[Star Ocean 1|the first game]] and the trailer for ''The Last Hope''.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: There are major similarities between ''Star Ocean'' and the ''[[Tales (series)]]'' in gameplay and design: real-time battles with combat skills that burn MP, item creation, food-based healing items that heal in percentages, Private Actions / Skits, [[Relationship Values]] leading to [[Multiple Endings]], and so on. This is because ''[[Star Ocean]]'' was created by the company tri-Ace, a company whose founding members are best described as "Basically everyone who designed ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' at [[Namco]]."

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* [[Title Drop]]: ''The Last Hope'' is very guilty of this, though ''First Departure'' does it too.

* [[Tsundere]]

* [[Updated Rerelease]]: The first games in the series were posted to the PSP, marking the first release of the first game in the U.S. The fourth game was later released for the [[~~PlayStation~~ 3]] with some new features and characters.

* [[Updated Rerelease]]: The first games in the series were posted to the PSP, marking the first release of the first game in the U.S. The fourth game was later released for the [[Play Station 3]] with some new features and characters.

* [[Useless Useful Non Combat Skills]]: Of the "Optional" variety. You can beat the game without investing a point into any non-combat skills...but if you do invest time into them? You ''reap'' the rewards!

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

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]] (Unsurprising, given the series' anime-ish style; in fact, at least two party members in every game have literal blue hair, including the male leads of the first and third games.)

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