Garamond on 03 May 2009
You can grind a lot if you want main game if you find the battle system particularly appealing, but post-game can have a fair amount of grinding just to try to max out stats, beat bonus bosses, clear bonus dungeons, trying for 100% battle trophy completion and other junk like that. I'm pretty sure Star Ocean III is the longest game in the series as far as the main game goes and probably post-game too.
A lot of people experience a difficulty spike maybe half-way or somewhat past that in the game, but exploiting the bonus gauge more or less gets you 3x experience ever battle.
SOBS = Star Ocean Blue Sphere, some GBA game in Japan. Direct sequel to SO2.
