pbroy on 10 February 2009
Some more intresting info:
Pesmerga00 also discovered the character portraits accompanying dialogue vanished in the English version. I couldn’t find a good comparison screen in my batch of media, but going by the other changes I wouldn’t be surprised to see those removed too.
Why would Square Enix do this? Probably to make Star Ocean: The Last Hope look more sci-fi or something.
Source: http://www.siliconera.com/2009/02/06/different-region-different-star-ocean-the-last-hope-interface/
So instead of converting theses over to CG, they might have been removed completely.
