Star Ocean Endings

tupou · Post by **tupou** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:03 pm

Is there any way to know how many kinds of endings there are in Star Ocean from the script dump or anything like that?

Hyos · Post by **Hyos** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:20 pm

Yes there probably are. However, reading a FAQ for the game might be even better.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:40 am

iirc there's at least 80 endings to Star Ocean.

Post by **grinvader** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:53 am

Probably depends on hidden affection/friendship values as usual.

Cidolfas · Post by **Cidolfas** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:16 pm

You're thinking of SO2. SO1 has very few endings.

Post by **grinvader** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:54 pm

Cidolfas wrote:You're thinking of SO2. SO1 has very few endings.

You're replying to AoL, right ?

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:33 pm

Cidolfas: Makes enough sense to me, I can just imagine someone programming 80 different endings to a game on a 6MB silicon chip..

In any case, thanks for the explanation.

tupou · Post by **tupou** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:24 am

I've checked numerous faqs, but none that I saw have any real idea; they just state that different endeings are achieved with different AR point values. That's why I asked here.

Cidolfas · Post by **Cidolfas** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:48 am

None of the SO games make it easy to figure out. Strategy guides or hacking are pretty much it (and hacking AR values is nigh on impossible).

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:09 am

One ending I failed to attain so far is any kind of good Joshua+Marvel ending.
I got the usual "oh noes i can't tell him who i am" ending several times, but I don't lose hope (I often borked PAs and almost never made them fight together, which is probably the only way to significantly rise their affection towards each other).

Unless Tomato (or whoever has access to the script) comes up and tells me that such an ending doesn't exist at all or is completely dialog-less (yeah right).

Cidolfas · Post by **Cidolfas** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:43 pm

I actually have the script on my home computer... unfortunately, you're wasting your time. There's only one ending involving Joshua and Marvel. Like I said, there are very few variations on the endings (maybe three or four, max).

tupou · Post by **tupou** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:58 am

Anyone seen an Ashlay ending?

Jyunichi · Post by **Jyunichi** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:37 pm

The endings don't seem to be based on affection, but rather who you have in your party. I've been playing this and making lots of tests for over an year (together with other tri-Ace games) and as far as I know there are 15 endings.

**SPOILERS**

-Tinek, Perisie and Ashlay get a solo ending each, which is basically them talking to themselves somewhere. Boring.

-Cius and Fear have a solo ending too, but you'll get a paired ending for them if you have both in the party.

-Joshua and Marvel are more complicated...

If you have Marvel but never got Joshua, she gets a solo ending.

If you have both but don't have Perisie and Cius/Ashlay, you get a sad paired ending.

If you have both and Perisie + Cius/Ashlay, there's a not-so-sad paired ending.

If you had both and took Marvel to that room in the Sylvarant Ruins there's Joshua alone.

-Now, if you have Joshua, Marvel, Perisie and Cius/Ashlay you'll get a special scene with the four of them after their individual endings above. There's not much difference in the scene between Cius and Ashlay, but I guess this counts as two endings.

-After that you get a scene with Ratix, Milly, Iria and Ronixis (always). If you got the special scene with the four other characters above this scene will be different.

I have the text of all of those, so just ask if you want it.

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:21 pm

Thanks a lot.

tupou · Post by **tupou** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:31 pm

You should post an in-depth Endings Guide to GameFAQs, Jyunichi.

I'm sure there's more people out there that are curious.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:38 pm

I'll take a copy of the text, if possible.

Jyunichi · Post by **Jyunichi** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:47 pm

grinvader: You're welcome.

tupou: Good idea. Didn't think it would be necessary, though.

DarkBenny: http://tinyurl.com/qxyol