Why Star Ocean 4 Is A Terrible Game Part 4
We will resume this part with the Roak arc, which is one massive parade of terrible writing, canon defilement, and otherwise stupid writing trying to coast off nostalgia for a much better game, albeit it did introduce a clever predestination paradox and a character who deserved a much better game to be in) First, let's start off with the good stuff. 1. Elayne Farrence and the GOOD predestination paradox Elayne Farrence is the distant ancestor of the SO1 hero Roddick, which I could buy. She even has sequences foreshadowing the events of SO1, which I can also buy. Even the SO4-specific stuff she foreshadows would work in a game with much better writing, and I regret she was wasted on this one. She's a fun character who takes crap off no one, tells Edge to get over himself, had good voice acting, and overall just deserved a better game. Of course, they had to ruin this in one of the secret unlockable endings by pairing her off with someone who by all rights should be dead just so...