The materials are used in an item creation mode where you can make pretty much any item in the game. The world also has a number of resource spots, and you need a character capable of the action needed, be it gathering or mining, to extract whatever materials are inside. You’ll spend a lot of time grinding due to a stingy leveling system and a bonus system that gives you better and better buffs based on consecutive fights engaged and won. The world exploration is slow and methodical, and the maps you traverse are vast and get larger as the game progresses. It is a good thing too, because The Last Hope isn’t ever going to win awards for being action packed. He isn’t much for charisma either, but his presence is bolstered by characters and story that are well written and there is a depth to their interactions and the overall tale.
The lead character, Edge Maverick, has the worst name in the entire history of gaming. When will you get to leave this place? Who are these beings, and how are they so infrastructurally advanced? When you return to your ship, you find the aliens have built a sprawling home base out of supposed prefabricated plug-and-stack materials. As you search for something that could possibly help, you come across an alien who aids you in battle. The Last Hope begins with catastrophe as the ship you and the rest of the crew are flying on plummets to an alien planet and is left useless. The game has a sense of both classic and modern gameplay elements, and despite a rather bland battle system there is a lot to enjoy and explore across a vast sky of stars. Unlike other HD remasters, Star Ocean: The Last Hope is fully upscaled, and shows itself as a modern interpretation of the past, rather than a mask placed on a relic. That’s a shame, because the game is a shining gem that has now been polished, cut, and restored to pristine quality with this HD and 4K remastering. Gone were any easily identifiable cues from the prior release, and Xbox exclusivity meant obscurity was all but sealed. I looked at the cover and the logo, blocky and modern, and realized why I had so easily missed the game the first time around. I remember the first time I heard about Star Ocean: The Last Hope.
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