Star Ocean First Departure R Retrospective | A big ol' sci-fantasy sandwich

I bet if I was making videos in 2019 this would have been a fun, timely review, but I wasn't so we're doing it today for some reason. Does this port of a 16 year old PSP game hold up? Does tri-Ace nail the landing? Only one way to find out!

I know this is a long one. I tried to break this into chapters since I imagine this won't be a single sitting sort of affair.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
1:52 - My history With The Series
3:55 - Setting The Stakes [Spoilers Start]
10:13 - Space, Time, Galactic Councils
15:35 - Making Diagrams With Straws
21:22 - A Very Long Hike
32:31 - Finally finding our friends
42:37 - Backtrackery I
47:31 - Crafting!
53:14 - Backtrackery II
1:03:54 - The Demon Realm
1:05:45 - Wait, Not yet
1:07:03 - The Demon Realm, for real this time
1:13:44 - Wait... there's more?
1:17:29 - Beating The Game
1:27:02 - Final Thoughts
1:28:49 - Conclusion

This is a re-upload. A million apologies for the old, stupid audio glitch.