While being created by the original team of Tales of Phantasia, Star Ocean first departure is, for a lack of a better term...extremely disappointing. There are some interesting ideas presented in this game, however they are never used in a good way nor are they fun. The story is very barebones, even by the standards of an SNES game, the combat is horrible and the encounter rate is terrible. it sucks because I was hoping for a enjoyable experience with this game due to the developers, Tri-Ace having made the first Tales Of game, but what I got was a very underwhelming experience