History VideoGame / StarOceanTheLastHope

* BigDamnHeroes

* {{Bishonen}}
-->'''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]''': "[[{{Unskippable}} That girl has a really deep voice]]".

* GuideDangIt: The game is loaded with sidequests and extras, including many things that are possible to be LostForever, short of starting a NewGamePlus. Missing even one can screw you up when trying to complete a particular quest. A number of others aren't technically missable, but can be near impossible to figure out without a guide. Additionally, the game provides no record of items you've created, or quests that you've completed, only ones that you haven't yet finished. The UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 version, ''The Last Hope International'', is notorious for being one of the most difficult [=PlayStation 3=] titles ever to achieve a Platinum Trophy for, with a rating of 5704 Difficult Points "Extreme" on the site [=PSN=] Trophy Leaders and a completion rate of only 434 out of 20,324 players (2.1%).

* {{Badass}}
** Arumat fits this trope down to the letter. He is a massive and rather intimidating man [[BareYourMidriff while wearing just a vest]], wields a [[SinisterScythe scary energy scythe]], and also has an obligatory scar from being a battle-hardened veteran that was part of an elite military group.
** Crowe should be under this section for the way he beat the crap out of those Phantoms.

The fourth game in the ''Franchise/StarOcean'' series, ''Star Ocean: The Last Hope'', was released for the UsefulNotes/XBox360 in 2009 and got an [[UpdatedRerelease updated re-release]] for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 in 2010. ''The Last Hope'' is a prequel to all three previous games about how Earth [[FirstContact first made contact with other worlds]].

* AllInTheManual: The in-game encyclopaedia explains many important facts that aren't even hinted at in the main story, such as the reason why Lymle looks six when her profile says she's fifteen, and [[spoiler:the reason for Faize's emotional suppression]].

The fourth game in the ''Franchise/StarOcean'' series, ''Star Ocean: The Last Hope'', was released for the {{Xbox 360}} in 2009 and got an [[UpdatedRerelease updated re-release]] for the {{PlayStation 3}} in 2010. ''The Last Hope'' is a prequel to all three previous games about how Earth [[FirstContact first made contact with other worlds]].

* MultiMookMelee: The fight against the Phantom Soldiers on Aeos consists of one normal battle followed by '''seven''' ambushes.

** The default name for your tournament team is [[OceansEleven Ocean's Eight]] and there are teams in there called [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou The World Ends With Two]] and ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}''.

* {{Facepalm}}: Edge can't help but do this after a strange conversation between Sarah and the King of Astral in which she gives him the "gist" of an official letter that she's apparently had for more than three years and had forgotten to give him up until then.

* ShipperOnDeck: If you return to Aeos after clearing out Lemuris, you can talk to Commander Grafton and learn he's rooting for Edge/Reimi.

* FetchQuest: The majority of the game's [[PlotIrrelevantSidequests plot irrelevant sidequests]] are these. Many require to fetch multiple items over various points in the game, or craft them, which requires you to fetch multiple items needed to craft them. Occasionally you can just buy the items, but you can't count on that.

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* ShipperOnDeck: If you plod back to Aeos after clearing out Lemuris, you can talk to Commander Graffon and learn he's rooting for Edge/Reimi.

** Stephen J. Kenny being the first human to travel faster than light [[spoiler: and the first President of the Earth Federation]] neatly explains how Ronyx and Claude never, ever get punished for breaking the laws they mention breaking.

* BigNo: [[spoiler:Edge has this moment when the Apostle of Creation is about to destroy Earth and recreate it.)]]

* HealerSignsOnEarly: Played with. Edge and a couple others can heal, but the dedicated WhiteMage is the ''eighth'' person to join the party.

* {{Alien Non-Interference Clause}}: Averted. There is nothing stopping Edge's crew from aiding an alien race however primitive they are. [[spoiler: The Underdeveloped Planet Protection Pact was formed during the ending sequence at Edge's instistence because he witnessed numerous events where it went wrong.]]

%%* LaserGuidedKarma: Shimada gets this.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Shimada gets this.

* PlotHole: Okay, so the Earth has become uninhabitable due to all of the nuclear fallout and polluted skies. Yet, [[spoiler: at the end of the game, the earth is suddenly cleansed with no mention of what fixed it!]]

* FirstContact: Humans had such with eldarians pre-series but it's still new. Humans are on the contacting side at Lemuris and they take pains to avoid it at Roak.

* MagicKnight: Edge, Faize, Arumat [[CutscenePowerToTheMax and Myuria in certain situations]], all mix magic and armed marital arts.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Many of the bosses battles require this. Each Grigori hides their core in a unique fashion.

** It's mentioned that Eldar is running out of time, as it's sun is dying. [[spoiler: It's is destroyed by the Phantom soldiers accelerating this process.)]]
** [[spoiler: Lymle's hometown is struck by the stone sickness and then a plague of lizard men. The survivors leave.]]