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Star Ocean: The Second Story (1998)

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Playthrough of Star Ocean: The Second Story

This is what the Voice Collection menu looks like after the Playthrough: you can see several squares of the grid filled with pieces of some picture (it's Filia - but spelled 'feria' as a direct transliteration from Japanese - in her angelic form, above the Sorcery Globe), and each of them corresponds with a voice sample from those you've heard in the game. These samples include simple character grunts, spell incantations, Killer Move cries, taunts, victory and KO lines, calls to other characters when they get KOed; there are also the lines from those of them Ten Wise Men who have a voice actor except Indalecio (Decus, Vesper, Cyril).
There's a lot of empty squares still, mostly because we only got 8 characters in our group (although there are some voice clips for Dias, from his tournament fights), but also because of spells/KMs we never learned or used, including alternative voice clips for them - which most spells/KMs have - which are more rare, and several victory lines where we barely make it.
In this video I show a small trick you can use to listen to clips you haven't 'unlocked': press the X button while the cursor is on a filled square, then immediately press Left or Right on the directional pad to shift the cursor to an empty one, and - if done correctly - you'll hear the clip from the empty square! Of course, this doesn't fill the square.
Filling at least 55% of the grid (I have conflicting information about this, though, and have never tested it) will unlock an extra screen in the New Game sequence, where you can change difficulty settings: 'Earth' is the default setting, 'Galaxy' gives all enemies more HP and boosts their combat attributes (in my opinion this doesn't make the game more challenging or interesting, it just makes Battles last longer), and 'Universe' boosts enemy stats even further (this is more of a challenge, especially since most enemies will Parry a lot more often, but still a bit of a slog).
Filling at least 75% of the grid will also unlock a Music entry in the menu, which you can use to play any music track from the game. Note that the Voice Collection samples are gathered from all your Saved plays, so if you want to speed things up you might want to play as Claude and as Rena at the same time.
Lastly, filling 100% of the grid... Is impossible unless you use cheats ^^; that's because some of the clips are from impossible situations, such as characters casting spells they never learn, or Dias calling Leon even though they can never fight together. I'd also like to mention that Indalecio's voice clips aren't present at all, since you can't Save after you've fought him

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