Soriku said:
"I was at one of the later bosses in the game and I was taking too damn long. I fought him for about 3 hours"
loooooool. You didn't think something was up after the first 15-20 mins, if not first hour? Haha.
I don't really agree that the bosses take long. At most they took a couple mins in my experience. Longest ones for me were the final boss and super Kokabiel in the Wandering Dungeon (optional dungeon). At least up to the point I'm at now, haven't fought Ethereal Queen yet.
Story's alright, characters OK. They're kinda funny at times but can't say much more about them. Soundtrack is between decent and good.
I played Tales of Xillia before SO4 and the gameplay in Tales is overall just more refined compared to SO4, but post game battles in SO4 are awesome.
My biggest complaints is the loads of backtracking during the post game, loads of fetch quests, and how gather/mining points don't refresh unless you go back to the Calnus (though that goes into backtracking).
Also there needed to be a better way to fast travel. Late in the game you can warp to various towns by using teleport points scattered around but that isn't good enough. At least give us an option to insta-warp back to the Calnus from everywhere. This is something else Xillia has over SO4...you get fast travel very early and you can warp ANYWHERE. Towns, dungeons, field areas, whatever. And there'll often be a few warp points for each area.
SO3 is definitely better but SO4 isn't a bad game.
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I was 3 full hours. It was late though, so maybe I don't remember correctly but I was a lot of time in that fight.
Anyway boss battles where kinda long, well at least compared to other Action RPG games. 15 minutes for a boss is a lot of time, or maybe I played too much tales of games.
I never tried post game as I didn't finished the game. I was too fed up with the overall experience to give it a go :/. And now that you mention all that backtracking, I think I have less desire to try the post game xD.
I agree with the teleport part, it is essential. In SO4 defense, it was fairly early in the gen when it was released right? So that might explain why it didn't have a good fast travel system.
SO3, SO1 and SO 2 are better and that is what might make me give the game a harsh score. The other ones where so good that I had high expectations for this game. It let me down... And the sad part is that we will probably never get another Star Ocean game 
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