Are you kidding?

Wow, he's definitely bad influence. :(

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I hope that you're being as sarcastic as he is 

bad score. hey but at least they praised whats more important...... the gameplay¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡. yayyyyyy

The game has released like 2 weeks ago, already got plenty of reviews, yet some PS3 fanboys continue to search for low score reviews of it to come here and bash the game.

SO4 sits on 79% average review score on Metacritic. Above 75% is a good score IMO.

It's at 79 and will stay in 75-82 range. On par or better than all previous Star Ocean games.

Just for the planet-to-planet exploration, it deserves it! =P

so Star Ocean Till The End of Time remains to be the best in the series? I hope this game gets ported because no matter what the score it seems that the battle system is one of the best we've seen in an RPG to date.

This game seems to be getting hammered in the reviews, I see its still has a decent meta score though. Gameplay praises are a good thing cause that helps, but the bad music and voice acting can ruin a story, which is essential to a RPG.

I finished the game and I didn't hear one bad music. I don't know what kind of music they like in their JRPGs, but this is the Star Ocean style, and if they don't like it, well screw them! o_O

Also, you get used to the voice acting. All JRPGs with voice acting are annoying anyways, unless they include japanese voices and subtitles. What's more annoying though are the mouths not matching, but that was expected. Remember when Square Enix said they wanted to release their games in Japan and the US approximately at the same time? Well, that's the result. It's still a very good one to be honest!

Also, you won't get lost in the story unless you know nothing about space, spaceships, warp speed, black holes (to some extent), the universe and other stuff like that.

Oh, and unnecessarily enormous areas is a Star Ocean staple, and it's quite a tri-Ace staple as well (see Infinite Undiscovery). Note that SO: The Last Hope is nothing like IU though!

One last thing, if they complain about long cutscenes... I wouldn't want them to play Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. I'm sure they would be crying! xD