Star Ocean's mixing of traditional fantasy with sci-fi elements was ahead of the curve back in the 1990s and it's still a fun and intriguing setup. After a chance meeting with Ilia and Ronyx, futuristic space adventurers who have travelled from a much more technologically advanced version of Earth, the gang joins forces and travels through time, harnessing advanced technology in order to get to the bottom of Roak's problems, learn the truth about their planet's war-torn past and find a vaccine to help save the population, including Dorne who is struck down and turned to stone early in the game's storyline. Star Ocean: First Departure R tells the story of Roddick, Millie and Dorne, self-appointed local village defence force and residents of the rather backwards planet of Roak which has found itself in the grip of a mysterious illness that's been turning its inhabitants to stone.
However, it's also very much a product of its time, nowhere near as complex or gripping as the second game in the series, and it tends to waste a lot of time with endless backtracking and random enemy encounters that make the whole thing a little bit of a chore to grind your way through. It runs about twenty hours so doesn't outstay its welcome and many of its systems - real time battles on 3D battlefields and extremely deep crafting - are still quite impressive to this day.
This is still a pretty fun little RPG to play.
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