Star Ocean: Blue Sphere
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| Developer(s) | tri-Ace |
| Publisher(s) | Enix |
| Release date(s) | June 28, 2001 |
| Genre(s) | Role-playing game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Color |
| Media | cartridge |
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere is a 2001 Game Boy Color video game that is the direct sequel to Star Ocean: The Second Story. It was never released outside of Japan, though it has been unofficially translated into English through emulation by several independent translation groups. The text is colloquial - in some places, peppered with rural dialect - with an emphasis on "sci-fi" jargon. However, no team has fully completed the translation of this game into English, and it is highly unlikely that any fan translation project will ever be 100% finished; let alone an official NA release.
[edit] Story
Taking place 2 years after Star Ocean: The Second Story and the defeat of the 10 Wise Men, all the characters have since moved on with their lives. Claude has taken Rena, Leon, and Precis to live on Earth with him. Ashton, Celine, Dias, Noel, Chisato, and Bowman still live on Planet Expel. Ernest and Opera are treasure hunting when their ship crash lands on Planet Edifice. Opera manages to send out an S.O.S. to Precis, who then rounds up the entire gang (sans Claude and Rena, who are on a Federation mission) in her self-built ship and heads to the planet. They are also mysteriously pulled down through the planet's atmosphere and crash-land. They decide to explore their surroundings and search for their missing comrades, hoping that Claude and Rena will rescue them, but they too crash-land on Edifice later on in the game.
[edit] Merchandise
Much like the other games in the series, Star Ocean: Blue Sphere also has a manga based on it that was drawn by Aoi Mizuki and serialized in Monthly Shonen Gangan. Oddly enough, Noel Chandler and Chisato Madison, two of the twelve main characters from Star Ocean 2, have been omitted from the storyline, since the Star Ocean: The Second Story manga was cancelled prematurely before either character could appear in the storyline.
Composer Motoi Sakuraba released a two-CD soundtrack for this game. The first disc was an arrangement album of selected tracks, while the second was the complete in-game score.
