[TGS2015] Square Enix – Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness

As seen in the featured games of Square Enix, mentioned that most of those games held a stage event for two days in a row. Fortunately Kojacon report could attend their very first stage event on first public day, Saturday Sept 19th 2015 which is “Star Ocean 5 Integrity and Faithlessness” Special Stage. The Producer, Shuuichi Kobayashi (today also as MC) came on stage together with 5 shujinkou seiyuu to publish this latest game. So, please be waiting until the release date!

Star Ocean is a franchise of action role-playing video games developed by the Japanese company tri-Ace and published and owned by Square Enix. The developers at tri-Ace created the Star Ocean series with a sci-fi setting in mind and have cited Star Trek as one of their main influences for the visuals of the games as well as being an underlying, but noticeable, influence to the series as a whole. Star Ocean games are known for their real-time battle engines, and, for being one of the first of its kind to come to the consoles. Battles take place on a separate screen, but all characters (rather than waiting in one spot and taking damage) are fully mobile in three dimensions, can dodge and chase foes, and must cast their spells and deploy attacks despite enemy harassment. In the earlier games, magicians had spells, whereas fighters had special physical attacks called “Killer Moves”; both are learned after passing certain level requirements (or through specific items and sidequests) and cost HP or MP to use.

Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness is an upcoming action role-playing video game developed by tri-Ace and published by Square Enix, for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. It is the fifth game in the main Star Ocean series after Star Ocean: The Last Hope and the ninth released game in the franchise, after the free-to-play card game Star Ocean: Material Trader. Square Enix detailed the first five of Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness‘ at least seven party members during a Tokyo Game Show stage event on Saturday, September 19th 2015. In Tokyo Game Show 2015, Square Enix held a special stage to review this game. Featured seiyuu in this Star Ocean also appeared on stage to do some discussion about game play and story outline. Just greet the below cast already!

Kaito Ishikawa as Fidel Camuze (Passion)
The protagonist, a 23 year-old man from the Leslia Kingdom who inherited his sword skills from his father, a prominent swordsman in the empire. He is well composed and sincere towards everything, but has a hidden passion within him.

Nao Toyama as Miki Sauvester (Healing)
A girl who grew up with Fidel as his childhood friend. Because of the difference in their ages, and the fact that they were brought up as siblings, Miki loves Fidel like an older brother. In her village of Stahr, she is a Spellmark Mage with a rare healing ability.

Yui Ogura as Lilia (Secrecy)
A young girl who lost her memories that Fidel and friends encounter as the result of a mysterious phenomenon and incident. The group takes her in, and Lilia thinks of Miki as a mother because she takes care of her. Much about this character is currently a secret.

Yuuichi Nakamura as Victor Orkvil (Serious)
A soldier who belongs to the Leslia Kingdom Special Forces. He is faithful to his duties and has earned the devoted trust of his subordinates. He has a serious personality, but even when it comes to war, his conflicted about the killing of others.

Aya Endou as Fiore Burnelli (Sexy)
One of the world’s leading Spellmark Mages who belongs to the superior-in-magic Randock Kingdom’s Spellmark Research Institute. She wears a revealing outfit, but it’s probably because she wants to show off the advanced magic symbol carved into her leg.

First of all, Star Ocean trailer was playing on the wide screen.  What a beautiful graphic from Square Enix! Then all casts were having chara-talk by discussing their character in this game. As usual, new seiyuu appear as shujinkou (main character) and it’s quite difficult even for Fidel in Star Ocean 5. Fortunately another shujinkou will always be there to help LOL.  Then Miki, with her “iyashi” character as a very kawaii character to support Fidel, she also has the ability to protect all battle party as healer. Lilia said that she doesn’t like to talk, because this character still keep a lot of mystery which related to the game. That makes Lilia quite confuse when recording since she didn’t talk as much as the others. Next shujinkou is Victor, actually he just published to audience today, there’s only 3 character in Star Ocean web page previously. That’s why this stage is very special for fans! Keyword for Victor is very serious, he’s like very dedicated person to finish this game properly. Last but not leaset, Fiore, also the secret character for today was closing first talk session.

At the same stage, Square Enix announced a limited “Ultimate Box” edition of the game due out alongside the standard edition in Japan on February 25 2016.  Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessnes is due out for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 in Japan on February 25, and for PlayStation 4 in North America and Europe in 2016. Don’t forget to mark your calendar and get your preorder now in Square Enix online! This box package is include below stuff!
>>A copy of the game
>>Original box and box sleeve
>>Miki Special Figure – A 210mm tall figure of Miki, the hero Fidel’s childhood friend.
>>The Art of Star Ocean art book – 80 pages of artwork, illustrations, and CG.
>>Special Soundtrack – Five-disc soundtrack set in special binding.
>>Special Postcards – Eight postcards featuring Star Ocean 5 illustrations and CG.
>>Pangalactic Federation ID Card – A plastic license with a unique serial number that proves you’re a member of the Pangalactic Federation.
>>Original DLC Download Code – Downloadable content to change the background music to that of other games in the series.

Finally, the give away prize!! Signed uchiwa!! All seiyuu draw the lucky number and the lucky audience will get an uchiwa signed by Star Ocean cast one by one. Five uchiwa for five winners from five seiyuu. Since Lilia took the female winner and Victor took the male winner, then he suggested those audience to change their prize! LOL.. But it’s not the end of this stage! We still have the grandprize! Uchiwa signed by all cast who appeared today. Congratulations to the winners!