#starocean2 — Public Fediverse posts
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Star Ocean The Second Story R gets surprise Switch 2 version
No upgrade path available though.
https://www.vooks.net/star-ocean-the-second-story-r-gets-surprise-switch-2-version/
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I was trying to fully drain my phone battery so I randomly found this tier-list review of Star Ocean First Departure characters. When the guy said "We'll start with the sh*t tier: Ronyx" I burst out laughing. Ilia and Claude (in the SO2R tier list) are both top of the top tier, obviously. "Mom, Dad's dragging us down!!"
(The added irony is that Ronyx/Ronixis is the most lauded one in the in-game universe. Whatever, Dad)
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Me: I have lots of creative projects to get to today!
Me: *writes a whole thesis about why family is the most important relationship in Star Ocean 2 with 3 more mini-essays interspersed*(In fairness, it was sitting at 80% completion in my pillowfort drafts for a while now and I was tired of seeing it floating around there)
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CW: If you're wondering where Rena's Chinese zodiac sign calculation is, [spoilers for SO2/SO2R]
I can't calculate her Chinese zodiac sign because it takes more math than I have the brain/processing power for to calculate for 699,997,563 B.C.
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Based on this:
Ernest (SD 331 / 2417 CE) is an ox
Bowman (SD 339 / 2425) a rooster
Dias (SD 341 / 2427) is a pig
Noel (SD 342 / 2428) is a rat
Celine and Opera (SD 343 / 2429) are ox
Chisato (SD 344 / 2430) is a tiger
Ashton (SD 346 / 2432) is a dragon
Claude (SD 347 / 2433) is a snake, but he's born so close to the end of January that he could actually be the tail of a dragon
Precis (SD 350 / 2436) is a monkey
Leon (SD 354 / 2440) is a rat -
Me: *seeing all the Chinese zodiac horoscope articles floating around with Lunar New Year coming up*
My brain: Hey, let's calculate the SO2 characters' Chinese zodiac signs! We can do it since they have actual years in their birth dates that can be converted into our years!
This is based on the Star Ocean timeline shown here: https://starocean.fandom.com/wiki/Series_timeline#2087_A.D._/_S.D._1
Where Space Date 1 = our year of 2087
(Disclaimer: I am bad at math, do not expect accuracy)
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To this day, when I hear the audio of PS1 Claude going "uh oh!" this is what immediately forms in my mind's eye.
(Thank you htps://www.spriters-resource.com/ for your service all these years)
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Stumbled on this video where a genius took the scene from the Star Ocean EX anime of Dias fighting Claude in the forest (note: this doesn't happen in the game, the anime went rogue in a lot of places, often baffling but sometimes inspired), dubbing over it with the original PS1 English battle lines. I laughed so now I share it with you.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the audio quality, by the way. That's exactly how they sounded on PS1.
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Happy birthday to my dear Pangalactic Federation ensign Claude C. Kenni from Star Ocean 2~! Today I posted the end-scene for If/Then, a fic I first started writing in 2005. I cannot believe I got here after 21 years, hahaha.
Claude is 19, so It's officially older than Claude 😂 (Technically Claude is something like minus 388 since he's not born yet according to the series space date, but details. Also, don't trust my math.)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55955350/chapters/142097458
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A tiny tour of the Project LHIA (Little House In Arlia) log cabin so far! Everything is so wee and cute. I'm very happy with the progress - I never thought I'd be able to make miniatures at this scale, much less Dias and Claude's favourite dishes and even their boots. More silly doodles and lots of photos in the post!
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Aw man, I had such a cool dream! I was Claude C. Kenni from Star Ocean 2 in my ceremonial outfit with everyone addressing me as Commander Kenni. I was set to give an important speech to the Pangalactic Federation. I made my entrance with epic sweeping music and everything. I looked up to see the assembly rising before me like the gorgeous blue planetrise that opens up the game. Everyone was hushed as I began the opening of my speech ...and then my alarm went off 😂
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My recent quarter scale achievements: a wee broom, a painting on an easel, swords and a sword rack, and food!! Bonus: accidental boudoir 😂 and a nerdy trip to the Little Dollhouse Company with my sis!
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The roof has been raised!! :yay_cheer:
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I'm so proud of my teeny tiny stove based on the SO2R Arlian stoves! :squee: Also, random rpg treasure chest jokes.
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Oh yes, progress on 4cm Dias and 3.65cm Claude's Arlian log cabin continues. Their house is filling up with some unidentifiable stuff. lol (they do have a nice carpet/rug now though!)
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I would never have imagined making teeny tiny curtains would bring me such joy ☺️
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Ehehehe... aahhhhahahhaha... :bolbXD:
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Wow happy 2 year anniversary of Star Ocean The Second Story R!! Interview with producer Kei Komaki and two new illustrations by Yukihiro Kajimoto:
https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_US/news/star-ocean-the-second-story-r-anniversary
The part about the biggest lessons they learned 🥹 IMO they accomplished all of them!
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This is why I was looking for my clip.
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/6825676
I am now writing fanfiction/fancomics while making miniatures.
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The Hero of Light is an Alien - silly little AU comic, you can read the whole thing here! https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/6430232
My hair is also feeling the humidity.
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"I don't understand why the Queen of Cross has summoned me. I don't understand what I'm being asked to do. But after these three nights, the answer will become clear."
Cover art WIPs, commentary, link to full fic: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/6395239
Finally finished this sequel to The Queen's Twa Generals!
Content warning: War, major character deaths.
#MastoArt #CreativeToots #StarOcean2 #StarOceanTheSecondStory #fanfics #fanart #fanfiction
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We came up with bios 😂
Closeups and full transcript of BFFs Ada Wong and Claude C. Kenni bios at https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/6222835
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Another day, another randomly closet-cosplaying favourite videogame characters with the bestie while running around the city. We went to a stationery show and did some other stuff too! (This is actually from the end of last month, but I didn't get around to finishing the comics till now.)
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/6212384
#MastoArt #CreativeToots #comics #SliceOfLife #ResidentEvil #StarOcean2 #Toronto
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Forgot to share my more detailed drawing of Ada Wong and Claude C. Kenni fending off zombies and aliens while getting end-of-day Asian bakery buns on sale. (This makes more sense if you read the post: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/6164122)
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I highly recommend closet cosplaying your favourite character with your bestie while the two of you run errands and shop all over the city.
More comics and stories from our outing, plus highlights of some cool Toronto small businesses! https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/6160215
#MastoArt #CreativeToots #comics #SliceOfLife #ResidentEvil #StarOcean2 #Toronto
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I highly recommend closet cosplaying your favourite character with your bestie while the two of you run errands and shop all over the city.
More comics and stories from our outing, plus highlights of some cool Toronto small businesses! https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/6160215
#MastoArt #CreativeToots #comics #SliceOfLife #ResidentEvil #StarOcean2 #Toronto
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I didn't feel like writing a whole fanfic for the melodramatic SO2 mobster AU my brain (literally) dreamed up, so I wrote an outline and drew some pictures and a few comic panels 😂 Also, complaining about colour correction and scanning.
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I didn't feel like writing a whole fanfic for the melodramatic SO2 mobster AU my brain (literally) dreamed up, so I wrote an outline and drew some pictures and a few comic panels 😂 Also, complaining about colour correction and scanning.
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Made a longer post on my Pillowfort about two fun pieces of official Japanese #StarOceanTheSecondStory media from 1999 and 2000: a drama CD and a short story collection!
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Made a longer post on my Pillowfort about two fun pieces of official Japanese #StarOceanTheSecondStory media from 1999 and 2000: a drama CD and a short story collection!
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Did you know: In 1999 after #StarOceanTheSecondStory came out, they released 2 drama CDs (this is the same OG main Japanese cast brought back for the 2023 SO2R remake)!
This one has 3 stories: "In Port Town Herlie/Harley", "Heraldic [Symbology, in the new translation] Weapon Love Story" and "Sudden Side Story" (my attempted translations). I'm using it for listening practice, it's super interesting! Also I'm very far from fluent so I'm struggling, but it's interesting haha.
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Did you know: In 1999 after #StarOceanTheSecondStory came out, they released 2 drama CDs (this is the same OG main Japanese cast brought back for the 2023 SO2R remake)!
This one has 3 stories: "In Port Town Herlie/Harley", "Heraldic [Symbology, in the new translation] Weapon Love Story" and "Sudden Side Story" (my attempted translations). I'm using it for listening practice, it's super interesting! Also I'm very far from fluent so I'm struggling, but it's interesting haha.
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Yesterday was International Fanworks Day! Here is my tale of Wobbly Claude, full of love.
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Yesterday was International Fanworks Day! Here is my tale of Wobbly Claude, full of love.
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:artpeek: Armory Fan Club? Armory Fan Club!! :abunhdowohop:
⚔️ Commentary and screenshots of the fan club NPCs from the game https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5852229
:ablobattentionreverse: Read the fic! :ablobattention:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62347540#fanfic #fanfiction #fanart #StarOcean2 #StarOceanTheSecondStory #StarOceanSecondStoryR
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The nonsense I've been up to recently :abunhdowohop:
Context and commentary on this technically canon-compliant magazine cover: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5800674
#StarOcean2 #PrecisFNeumann #ClaudeCKenni #ClaudeCKenny #fanart
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The fruit of my labours 😂
"Me and the Hero of Light"
Five year old Dias wants a best friend.Read it on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61501018
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Year-end art reflections: Remember these SO2 fashion illustrations I did with the goal of drawing everyone? I'd set up a scale to capture everyone's heights correctly. Now whenever I open the file, I go "Mon Dieu, that's a lot of people to draw", and then I close it. Strangely, the number of people I still need to draw does not change.
Moral of the story: don't draw your fave first, because motivation plummets. I knew this, but I was weak. Let this be a lesson to (me) us all.
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I have completed my 14K+word thesis on why Dias and Claude is a great pairing 😤😂
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5672392
Technically only ~1,100 words is the actual argument. The rest is me practicing translation sprinkled with commentary and silly jokes. I'm all about leveraging fandom for skills development! 💪
It's been really fascinating to do comparisons of the Japanese with both official English translations. Language is amazing! And my brain is :bunhdgoogly:
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I am vibrating with excitement, I finally got my hands on a copy of the Japanese SO2R collectors edition... which has a 3-vol collection of the voice actor scripts in the game organized by Expel / Nede / PAs. The labelling of the scenarios with numbers for every line is intense. If you're familiar with how many different combos and variations of scenes and randomized lines you can get in the game... file organization and also book layout must have been fun 😂
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Smile for the camera 📸 Oriana's screencap. An illustration for the final chapter of Along Theta's Fringe: The Most Beautiful Thing.
It's dooone! ✨ https://archiveofourown.org/works/59780053/chapters/152484025
Ah the feeling of completing a project to be savoured 😌 before returning to the pile of all my other neglected/deferred projects 😂
#StarOcean2 #StarOceanTheSecondStory #fanfic #fanfiction #fanart
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I did my best to capture their essence!! ...I miss Miitomo 🥺
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Had a good laugh the other day when I was making notes on work resourcing and realized I typoed someone's name into the name of a character in an RPG I've been obsessively (re)playing since August. Dias is looking close to overloaded! Are all these items really due Mon?? Please advise so we can get him some support before he Firebird Shockwave/Phoenix Blasts the office in a tirade!!
Apropos of nothing, here's Dias complaining about a coworker.
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Having fun attempting a Dias-recruitment-only playthrough on New Game+ and my finest Tournament of Arms/Armory Contest performance ever 😂
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Blaarrgh = me doing anything with action :artsits:
Figured out the scifi thingy I was complaining about a few posts back, finished chapter 4 and squeezed in some doodles!
Comments and closeups of their faces https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5483883
Along Theta's Fringe https://archiveofourown.org/works/59780053/chapters/152484025
#StarOcean2 #StarOceanTheSecondStory #fanfic #fanfiction #fanart
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At last!! I mastered SO2R Cooking Master!! 😤 (~1week ago, but didn't collect screenshots/make post till now.)
Also saw an extended Seafood Battle commentary which I'd never (to my memory) seen because I never had the right audience in PS1 or SE to trigger the full thing. Some cute lore on Claude's family. Still delights me how much this game can offer with discoveries like this after all these years!
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5471612
#StarOcean2 #StarOceanSecondStoryR #translation #CookingMaster
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The random fic I made back in the summer exploded into its own little universe. I started a continuation, then got derailed with a spinoff AU.
Here's a design for the protagonist of the spinoff, an OC who is essentially AU Federation Dias Flac. I'm stupidly proud of his last name. I explain in the author's notes for ch 1 but if you figured it out in advance thank you. And I'm sorry 😂
📖 Along Theta's Fringe: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59780053/chapters/152484025
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:artpeek:
Let me tell you The Legend of Sporty Eyes :bunhduwu:
Explanation of convoluted joke: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5394052
Original post and scene from game with translations: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5397697#StarOcean2 #StarOceanSecondStoryR #SportyEyes #memes #Japanese #translation #comics #fanart #fancomics
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A round up of a selection of Star Ocean The Second Story R posts. Fun/interesting things I documented for reference, handy for ideas and inspiration for fanworks!
These are all specifically compilations of transcripts (sometimes with screenshots), translations. Plus my walls-of-text commentary.
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I don't have access to Dias, Ernest and Bowman in my current playthrough, so here's my alt dream team: Claude and his hyper, bossy sisters 😌 We're running the Cave of Trials/Maze of Tribulations right now! 🙌
Background variations and ink line art here, plus some thoughts on this team experience and these characters: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5380480
#StarOcean2 #StarOceanSecondStoryR #fanart #ClaudeCKenny #ClaudeCKenni #ChisatoMadison #PrecisFNeumann #WelchVineyard
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A deeper dive on one of Claude's epic story lines - VS Jophiel (Shigeo in the original PS1 game) boss battle, with notes on context, translation, voice acting.
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5356840
#StarOcean2 #StarOceanSecondStoryR #seiyuu #VoiceActing #translation #Japanese #NamikawaDaisuke #UedaYuuji
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Today's mini-project: learning how to use a basic video editor by making a simple comparison of emotional Japanese Claude voice lines ooh ahh. Love comparing CV performances/delivery choices!
Both Namikawa Daisuke and Ueda Yuuji are stellar, but boy does the latter ever (always) break out the distinct rasp and max intensity for epic moments.
Spoilers for first visit to Fienal/Phynal.
#StarOcean2 #StarOceanSecondStoryR #seiyuu #VoiceActing #NamikawaDaisuke #UedaYuuji
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⚔️ Destruction / Strength
I love making flippy compositions! Also while I was working on this I was told/reminded that it's #Swordtember so my timing is 💪
For closeups of the faces, wip sketches, and more commentary on cool sword names and translation: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5345770
#StarOcean2 #StarOceanSecondStoryR #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ClaudeCKenni #ClaudeCKenny #DiasFlac
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One of the silly things I’ve been doing is screencapping NPCs saying nice things about Claude. Sometimes the translation decisions make them funnier because of the voice I hear in my head.
If you've been tearing it up in the Tournament of Arms/Armory Contest and chat with this guy in between matches, the first time he's like "you looked pretty good!" and the second time he's transformed into your biggest fan (after Precis maybe).
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And here's (one of the reasons) why I was smacking everyone with Claude's books practically as soon as they were recruited.
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"Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about the Hero of Light?"
Anyways, considering he was carrying the entire party on his Bloody Armored shoulders in my last Rena game, this is his compensation I guess.
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Finished a comparison/translation of the Claude and the Prince of Cross PA! This PA is one of my favourites. It's extra cute and entertaining with their animated portraits now!
👑 🍻 💍 https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5253328
I already had it transcribed ages ago from both SO2 and SE, so now we can compare across English and Japanese. It's interesting to see how each translation approached things. There are actually differences across the Japanese versions too.
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Here's a thing I've been working on: a compilation of the new SO2R flavour text/character lines! Convos on the side of the screen and in camp menu!
It's just a start and there's a long ways to go, but there are already some super interesting and amusing nuggets in here!
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/552ebe0e-cd8d-4c4b-9580-cfe4e47311ef
Big thanks to Wallwalker and qmy for helping me to build this out :bunhdlurkaww: and to Wallwalker for playing around with the Ellipsus collab features with me 💖
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Star Ocean The Second Time.
Really more like Star Ocean The Fifty Bajillionth Time But The First Time With New Game Plus, And Anyways Who's Counting
Full transcript and commentary at https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5248550
#StarOcean2 #StarOceanSecondStoryR #comics #fanart #fancomics