Rejoice! Sea Of Stars Is Getting 3-Player Couch Co-Op

Co-op in an RPG? That’s something you don’t see everyday.

@Greatluigi I think that was the major gimmick of classic Mana series (they kinda lost their identity as time and online games went on). Cool to see it coming back in one way or another.

Remember when the super nintendo final fantasy games were two player?

@mudmask I do. FF6 was, anyway. I think FF4’s “2-player” was just that the game accepted inputs from both controllers, right?

Every time I see articles on this game, it moves up my "to buy" list! It is now officially on top! Next purchase: Sea of Stars

I wish something like this could be incorporated into Xenoblade

@Greatluigi Co-op has been apart of the Tales Series by Bandai for years.

More RPGs should do this. Even if other players only take part in battles its still a fun option and better than AI partners in real time games

@DrJoson Hmm, I don't know personally. Partial co-op just doesn't sound like much a fun time. Outside of battles, the second player would be regulated to just sitting there watching you experience the story.

Um excuse me what?

Wow, nice feature.

Awesome! I'll definitely try that. One of the best games I've played in years. Looking forward to the dlc

Wow it's not since Final Fantasy VI for the Super NES that we finally had couch co-op multiplayer in a turn based RPG again. Even modern action based RPG like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Trials of Mana doesn't had couch co-op multiplayer at all. Square Enix is going completely single player on all their RPG, even the upcoming Visions of Mana (which is not coming to Switch or its successor btw) is just going to be single player only losing that Mana multiplayer charm of the original Nintendo series.

5 million. The appetite for a good old RPG is still here. Make Chrono Trigger HD-2D already Square. You're literally sitting on free money.

Damn, I wish I still had people to play with. Makes me appreciate days long gone by with me and friends playing Secret of Mana together.

@Ultimapunch I find it disrespectful that they didn't even acknowledge Akira Toriyama when the news of his passing had been announced. Square Enix literally ignored his passing by not giving us a remake of Chrono Trigger in his honor. All they had to do was announced that in honor of Akira Toriyama's legacy we will be remaking Chrono Trigger for all platforms in 2025 to all Akira Toriyama fans of the world. It's the perfect time to announce a CT remake and they just poop all over it. Such a disgusting company.

While I enjoyed and completed this game, I don't think multi-player would be that fun. The fighting is mostly static with some timed button presses for extra benefits (like super Mario rpg).

@Serpenterror I find it disrespectful using a dead man's name to shame Square Enix for not giving you what you want.

I will immediately buy the physical version, when it comes out. Guess it will be on XBox.

@Quiet2down It's not me, it's you. You're one of the fans who kept wanting it and now that I mention it you turn on me. You disgust me the most which is why I won't feel sorry for you if a corp like Square Enix screw you over..

I try to keep it positive on here but boy I did not like this game. The graphics were stunning but no other part of the game clicked with me and by the end I felt like I was just going through the motions. It’s one of the few games where I look at the scores it got compared to my experience playing it and feel like I’m taking crazy pills

@Serpenterror Exactly. Mana IS multiplayer. Or, should be, at least. But they have long since left that behind. Even though the vast majority of the titles are not actually, it still feels like part of the identity because they did it so well with Secret of Mana. Weirdly, they never set out to do it. It was first built single player, but three players were present. It was almost an after thought they wondered if it could be done and tried it.

As for why they never repeated it for Secret of Evermore....I am at a loss. Even though the box said 1-player, I looked at the screen shots and thought "Nah, it WILL be 2 player really. How could it not? A boy AND a dog...and the set up is the same as SOM!" I digress.

Never played this game, but any 3-player co-op RPG inclusions will get a thumbs up from me.

Sounds really boring. Why would anyone want co-op in a turn-based JRPG? Players 2 and 3 will spend 95% of the time just watching and occasionally use a potion or choose attack from a menu.

Ok having played through about 15 hours of this I’m going to be honest I was getting bored due to the characters and whatnot, but this is really cool! You don’t see this in a rpg everyday! And heck maybe it will actually make me playthrough it if I can do it with friends!

Kinda hard to buy when there are no physical copys and im anti digital

THIS IS AWESOME

Full Metal Furies enters the chat.

@Serpenterror you know what I like? The way you just take things in stride.

@Quiet2down yuuuuuuuuuup

@Vexx234 Arise got rid of Co-Op play. First "Tales of" game that lacks it.

I don't really care about co-op, but that's cool for other people. Wake me up when it gets a proper discount.

@Serpenterror they did acknowledge his passing and sent a message from their dragon quest twitter (x) account from March the 8th 2024.

@VoidofLight not really, since there been other tales of games that don't have it.

@LastFootnote I think you're right. For some reason, as a kid in the 90's, it made both of those games even more fun.