History Fridge / StarOcean

* The ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' series suffers from an absolutely ''awful'' case of HumanAliens - to the extent that many species of alien are still called "human," and the rest are almost uniformly RubberForeheadAliens and {{BeastM|an}}en - but the third game's ShockingSwerve could [[JustifiedTrope justify]] this: [[spoiler: making all the races quite humanoid - or 4D-being-oid - makes them more identifiable for the [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame Eternal Sphere's]] players, or possibly just saves work for the people who make character models.]]

* The ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' series suffers from an absolutely ''awful'' case of HumanAliens - to the extent that many species of alien are still called "human," and the rest are almost uniformly RubberForeheadAliens and {{BeastM|an}}en - but the third game's ShockingSwerve could [[JustifiedTrope justify]] this: [[spoiler: making all the races quite humanoid - or 4D-being-oid - makes them more identifiable for the [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame Eternal Sphere's]] players, or possibly just saves work for the people who make character models. Bonus points because this might also work as a meta explanation.]]

* The ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' series suffers from an absolutely ''awful'' case of HumanAliens - to the extent that many species of alien are still called "human," and the rest are almost uniformly RubberForeheadAliens and PettingZooPeople - but the third game's ShockingSwerve could [[JustifiedTrope justify]] this: [[spoiler: making all the races quite humanoid - or 4D-being-oid - makes them more identifiable for the [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame Eternal Sphere's]] players, or possibly just saves work for the people who make character models. Bonus points because this might also work as a meta explanation.]]

* The StarOcean series suffers from an absolutely ''awful'' case of HumanAliens - to the extent that many species of alien are still called "human," and the rest are almost uniformly RubberForeheadAliens and PettingZooPeople - but the third game's ShockingSwerve could [[JustifiedTrope justify]] this: [[spoiler: making all the races quite humanoid - or 4D-being-oid - makes them more identifiable for the [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame Eternal Sphere's]] players, or possibly just saves work for the people who make character models. Bonus points because this might also work as a meta explanation.]]

** ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' also had that little subplot about Claude being the legendary hero with a "Sword of Light" right at the beginning. It only happened right at the start of the game and then it was pretty much forgotten completely, and I got the sense that Claude was just TheUnchosenOne. Then I picked up [[InfinityPlusOneSword the Eternal Sphere]]. Which is ''a magical LaserBlade''. [[CallBack And you will most likely be killing the Big Bad with it and saving Expel (assuming you get it).]]

** StarOcean2 also had that little subplot about Claude being the legendary hero with a "Sword of Light" right at the beginning. It only happened right at the start of the game and then it was pretty much forgotten completely, and I got the sense that Claude was just TheUnchosenOne. Then I picked up [[InfinityPlusOneSword the Eternal Sphere]]. Which is ''a magical LaserBlade''. [[CallBack And you will most likely be killing the Big Bad with it and saving Expel (assuming you get it).]]

** StarOcean2 also had that little subplot about Claude being the legendary hero with a "Sword of Light" right at the beginning. It only happened right at the start of the game and then it was pretty much forgotten completely, and I got the sense that Claude was just TheUnchosenOne. Then I picked up [[InfinityPlusOneSword the Eternal Sphere]]. Which is ''a magical LaserBlade''. [[CallBack And you will most likely be killing the Big Bad with it and saving Expel (assuming you get it).]]
* I used to loathe the ShockingSwerve in [[StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime the third one]], but I noticed a few clever works around it. The Ten Wise Men could've been early executioners (some of their attacks are copied over, particularly Gabriel's Divine Wave) and as for Welch retconning her way into the remakes... well, the Oracle command has the characters being informed outright that you're playing a remake. Many theories suggest she's a 4D being, so maybe she's playing the remake of the Milky Way galaxy after the executioners eliminated it? Probably belongs in WildMassGuessing really, but I don't want to create an entire page of it just for one entry. Either way, I don't seem to mind the old "[[AllJustADream It was all a dream]] [[UpToEleven turned up to 11]]" twist so much any more when I consider those points.