I might do it to see Claude's story.

Yeah, NG+ needed a Multiverse difficulty mode. They could maybe still do it with a patch.

I'm ecstatic they added NG+ just for the slough to get rare items or the building the best weapons and armor. I generally replay for the story and experience.

Replay for the story? I follow the dialogue the first time, always. And I use KZfaq for missed cutscenes. Gimme difficulty!

The great thing about star ocean is u control ur difficulty sliders through IC and the equipment u use. The game can be as easy or as hard as u want it to be. I just added handicaps on my second play through.

@@Getdown8319 i used cheat engine to reset levels and stats and it feels great. Sad to have to use that to enjoy fully :)

@@Getdown8319 lame! you can do that in every game. you're praising a game for holding back.

@@zeosummers3984 I don’t think it held back at all I think they did an amazing job, also this game is 20 dollars cheaper than most games coming out now. It added a bucket load of new things too. I loved the game personally and had a great time playing it.

You can choose the other one

yes so basically you can recruit the characters you didnt recruit on your first run

They should since that's how it worked in Chrono Cross and that game you actually had to be on a 3rd playthrough in order get get MOST of the 45 party members to ALL be playable at once. But I'm not sure if Opera 3 Machinery based moves Healing Star being once of them would carry over.

@@veghesther3204 I hope they do but they aren’t difficult to create in this version as long as you have level 10 machinist.

@@veghesther3204 45 party members is crazy.

Sadly no. Characters don't carry over and you can't get opera if you get ashton and vice versa. It's leon or dias, ashton or opera and precis or bowman. Oh and dias is rena story exclusive and leon claude story exclusive. And you can only get ernest if you have opera. Lol you should check a guide so you don't waste your time.

@@Augusleeberty that’s not exactly what I meant. I meant will my character skills carry over after multiple new game pluses. Where if I chose a character the first time such as Celine and then do a new game plus without her, if I do a new game plus off of my second playthrough will her stats and skills remain intact? I’m wondering if the data will remain after multiple playthroughs.

No it is physically impossible to have all the characters in a single playthrough at once.

I’m going to be doing another playthrough, will get a full roster for that. Might live stream it too.

Ah makes sense. Might want to go with Rena to pick up Dias then, but then you miss out on Leon for Claude's!

This would have been cool, but can you imagine having opera and Ashton together?

great couple for an good ending. plus the game would be even more broken with them together 🤣@@redstorm8373

Their in the optional end game dungeon

Maze of Tribulations, optional bonus dungeon.

Love her Bloody armor her equip the 5th Floor Cave of Trials weapon it has a HP drain effect so that she won't DIE when you get a 2nd phantom slayer still keep the Bloody armor and equip the 2nd one to Bowman.

To play more Star Ocean 2.

To play through the game again with all the stuff you got from your last playthrough. Like every other game with a NG+.

to play with a new character and go for a different path

Each character you start out with have different characters you can recruit throughout their play through. Also, their perspectives slightly change on certain events. It's pretty cool because it means you can breeze through the game and enjoy the story, without having to grinding all those levels/bp/sp/skills and other side content.