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shikamaru317 on 21 June 2023
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Ryuu96 said:
shikamaru317 said:

To be fair to Square Enix on this one, they gave us a chance to buy Star Ocean on Xbox and we let them down. Star Ocean: The Divine Force released on Xbox 8 months ago, and yet on TrueAchievements just 2,700 TA users have played The Divine Force. Compare that to other recent non-Gamepass Japanese games on Xbox such as Tales of Arise (24k TA users in less than 2 years), Like A Dragon Ishin (6k TA users in 4 months), Nier Replicant remake (15k TA users in 2 years and 2 months), or Demon Slayer (20k TA users in less than 2 years).

As much as I dislike Square's treatment of Xbox alot of the time, I'd say they're being pretty fair pulling Star Ocean from Xbox since Xbox users just don't buy the last entry in the series. 

Counterpoint Alongside Gtotheunit's Counterpoint.

Tales of Arise, Like A Dragon Ishin, Nier Replicant are actually good games, Lol.

Although Demon Slayer is only 1 point off from Star Ocean The Divine Force, on Steam is another picture, with Demon Slayer at 88% with 13,000 reviews compared to Star Ocean at 68% with 1,200 reviews (so Xbox isn't the only place it bombed).

Inconsistent releases alongside the titles we're receiving being the bad ones is a deadly combo.

To be fair, Star Ocean reviews haven't been particularly strong for a very long time. The Divine Force actually reviewed quite well for the series:

  • Star Ocean 1 Remake- 74
  • Star Ocean 3 Remaster- 72
  • Star Ocean 4 original release- 72
  • Star Ocean 4 Remaster- 72
  • Star Ocean 5- 58
  • Star Ocean 6 (The Divine Force)- 71

Star Ocean 4 sold extremely well on Xbox, a whopping 790k copies worldwide on 360 (which is more than Tales of Vesperia sold on 360, 740k), while The Divine Force flopped hard in spite of reviewing only one point lower than Star Ocean 4. I think the issue is that people were expecting 6 to be bad because 5 was bad, and then didn't give 6 a chance even though it was actually good by the standards for the series.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 21 June 2023