R you ready?
A logo seemingly pointing to an unannounced remaster ofSquare Enix’s sci-fi action-RPG sequel Star Ocean: The Second Story has been discovered on the publisher’s website.
The unassuming asset in question, found squirrelled away on Square Enix’s support site (and which you canperuse at your leisure over on RPGSite), features a logo for a presumably unannounced title going by the name Star Ocean: The Second Story R.
While Square is yet to utter the name publicly, it’s not hard to conclude it references an unannounced remaster, given it uses the same naming convention asStar Ocean: First Departure R. That game, which released for Switch and PlayStation in 2019, was a remaster of 1998 PlayStation Portable gameStar Ocean: First Departure(itself a remaster of the 1996 Super Famicom original), introducing the likes of difficulty rebalancing and new character art.
But assuming Star Ocean: The Second Story R is a fancied up edition of Square’s 1998 PlayStation game Star Ocean: The Second Story, the next question becomes whichversion?
The game has already been re-released twice - once as a remaster for PSP in 2008 under the nameStar Ocean: Second Evolution, then again for PS3, PS4, and Vita in 2015 - so it’s hard to guess with any certainty which version Second Story R might use as its base.
So, all that’s left to do is wait until Square is ready to give Star Ocean: The Second Story R the formal reveal treatment.
Unless it’s just a logo someone whipped up for fun on a dreary afternoon, in which case it’s unlikely we’ll hear more soon.
Or ever.
