Star Ocean The Last Hope is a good game but if you want amazing writing and characters, you shouldn't be playing any Star Ocean game.

(SPOILER) Vyk, you chose literally the worst counter-example in history In what world is throwing a hissy fit the mature response? Picard smashing trout is not effective storytelling. Most ST fans I know HATE Movie Picard because he's so radically different from his TV self.

Edge is upset because BILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE DEAD. BECAUSE OF HIM. Anybody who just "gets over it" is a smurfing psychopath. Edge comes from an Earth that is red hot after nuclear war and humanity is all but extinct. He thought he could fix things, avert this horrible fate but all he did was make things even worse.

He takes his responsibilities as a leader seriously, unlike most JRPG protagonists. So when he smurfs up and gets a lot of people killed, he understandably starts thinking "maybe I'm not a good leader."


It could have been handled better, certainly. No one is gonna call SO4 a masterpiece of storytelling. But Edge's reaction is perfectly sensible and smashing teacups would not make it better.


In conclusion


If SO5 does not acknowledge that only creepy otaku losers play SO games like this game did, I will be disappointed.