Star Ocean: The Last Hope

Today Square Enix has announced their line-up on a Microsoft RPG event in Japan. The most striking news is that Star Ocean: The Last Hope (previously known as Star Ocean 4) will be released on the Xbox 360 in 2009. When asked if this game will the game will be released on the PlayStation 3 Yoshinori Yamagishi, producer of Square Enix, said, "We cannot announce anything on that. We can say that it will be released first [on the Xbox 360]. Whether we'll release it on the PS3 is undecided. We may release it, we may not."

Square Enix also released some high quality screenshots and the logo of the game.

» Screenshots: 1 2 3 4 5
» Logo

Update: The released trailer is now available for watching. Click here.

Square Enix has released the first trailer of the upcoming game Star Ocean 4! In the trailer, which looks really nice, you see some scenes that were revealed three months ago in a couple of magazine scans.
The game will be a PlayStation 3 exclusive like announced before.

» Star Ocean 4 trailer

In an interview with the Japanese magazine Famitsu assistant producer Hajime Kojima from tri-Ace released the first details about the new Star Ocean game.

- The hero's name is Edge Maverick and the heroine's name is Reimi (you can see a screenshot of them in the 2nd magazine scan).
- You can take 5 characters into battle and there are a lot of new elements that doesn't make the battle system look like the one in the previous release.
- The battles are already playable, but are full of placeholder elements.
- You will be able to pilot a ship and travel to different planets. And there will be more planets than in the previous game.
- The story is complete, but he couldn't talk about the setting.
- Info about the game's release date will be released when people are done playing the remakes of the first two Star Ocean games.

More will hopefully be announced at the Tokyo Game Show.

Magazine Scans: 1, 2