I thought SO:TTEOT was a very good game (well, the first half anyway). The voices are shoddy, I do wish they had included a Japanese track. If the graphics seem dated, that's because it took FOREVER for the game to get here (US) and longer for the the UK. It's really sort of in the 2nd generation of PS2 titles, which makes it fairly old as far as that console goes.
That aside, I don't think it's as good as SO:Second Story, but it's still a very good game in its own right, particularly the first half. The moods the game manages to set with the future meets war-torn past story arc are still good (a story arc originally done in Chrono Trigger and carried on Star Ocean: Second Story).
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