Wow, people actually care about my posts? o_O

That's cool, I'll accept the request when I get home. Cell phone doesn't like VG Chartz much.

Teamxbox is a pretty cool sight. It's not safe here to be an over expressive xbox fan, so be careful. ~_n

It's not as bad as N4G though. Which is PS3 fanboy zone.

i cant see the vids, :

There isn't any vids. Just pics.

The difference is that the Japanese menus and profile pics use anime character art as opposed to the US version, which uses CG art.

BAWWWWWWWWWW >.<

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.

I bet if this was on the glorious PS3 they would not have changed it.

...

moan moan moan. It looks fine.

I didn't mind the switch of the portraits becuase the CG matches up better with the FMV and the in-game models but if they've removed the character portriats from the dialog completely, I'm not going to be happy.

*moan* *moan* *moan*

"Xbot Defense Force Activated"

o_O

What I know is that the decision for the menu and CG/anime portraits change was decided by Tri-Ace not SE USA. Also all Anime portraits were replaced by CG portraits, so there´s nothing missing in the NA version. Check the SO4 thread at VGC´s ultimate enemy.