Star Ocean: The First Encounter – The Next 5 Hours

We continue with the “mini reality series” as… 

We join with Cyuss (Cius in Japan and DeJap) and do the job for the Haute (Japanese and DeJap Hot) merchant Badam. We head to a much different looking Mount Metrox, to go up to the city of Portsmith (Portmis Japanese and DeJap) to get… a strange…item, a bunny rabbit statue. They head back to Haute. (I dont think if you notice – but the Statue is in the start of the game 300 years after – its on top of the item store…)

You can keep Cyuss after words, or he can leave. In one save i kept Cyuss, and in the other save, I didn’t, but didn’t get the most secret chareator of the game: Ashlay (all translations) 

Before the crew gets to the Astral continent, we have to deal with the Pirates. These are huge men some with clubs, others with sticks, and some with axes. After they were defeated, a strange sound comes out – its another Felpool, but she has much bigger ears and much larger tail. They take her out of the jail, but she loses her ocarina and you can pick it up for a future use… Now we head to Enternaim (Otanimu in Japan and DeJap) there is a intresting section they may have cut out – I will have to do another play through but i think it might have been moved to another conversation between Millie, Ronyx, Ilia and Roderick in another city, and just Ronyx and llia in a town on Silvant. But anyway we head to Tatory (Tatoroy in Japan and DeJap) and this is the location of the large arena (the minigame of this RPG) and the Astral Kingdom (which uses a lot of imagery from the episode The Cage). We meet a woman named Phia (Japanese and DeJap Fear) and she is arguing with Cyuss (where in the other story arc, she joins the team in Enterheim.) About Lias (Ryus in Japanese and DeJap) the richest and most feared Astral (Dejap called them Dragoons) Knight – (also is the general).

They explore the town, and found new info about a race (The Featherfolk – Note, Star Trek Enterprise had mentioned a Featherfolk Race as part of the Xindi metarace, but they were wiped out… hmm…) As well as the Demon Wars, etc…

By the time the team gets into the inn, bells ring. Cyuss says there seems to be an attack. They head out and find out that Phia is running towards the Astral caves? (There was a cutseane where Fear killed two of the Astral soldiers)…but then… Phia appears? It turns out that the Fake Phia was really a Syllia (Spider Monster with a womans body). The team chases her down. After they beat her, Cyuss cuts her head off to give as evidence that the monster did it.

After Fear and Cyuss talk, the next day arrives and a astral soldier arrives giving them rewards for a job well done. Then the astral soldier tells them if your looking for some one, go to a place called The Purgatorium (Japanese – Parji Shinden, DeJap- Parji Temple) where the location of “The Eye of Truth” (Japanese – Shinjitsu no Hitomi) is found. There is a fake entrance and a real entrance.

Once they got to the (once turned out to be the Fake entrance) Purgatorium, they go in back to find the real entrance… then comes out a FeatherFolk. Cyuss (or Fear or Ashlay) reads his weapons - it turns out that Ioshua (Japanese, Based on the Latin/Aramaic/Hebrew I = J, Joshua, but is pronounced as Yoshua as in Yahweh, where you say YOD then VAH so its YEHO – SU-VA - Ironically, Jesus is Called Ioshua/Yeshua in certain translations of the new testament, since Jesus is actually the Greek given name for Him) is looking for his sister. So Cyuss opens the gate (or Phia with Roddick or Ashlay) and we finally enter the main Purgatorium. 

 After some battles we face the MEGABADASSWOLFSOFDOOM (i.e. the glowing attackers) and they some BAD BITCHES. After nearly 15 mins of swinging, missing and praying, we get to the main era…

ERR…what’s this? Looks like… Hmm, something tells me this is straight out of The Second Season Finale Episode of Star Trek, Assignment Earth… Then comes out, a strange being which is green, another which is red, and yet another which is yellow. They talk… Red one says leave…Green one says, dont be so mean… Red one says some of them are from another world (Here, Cyuss and Ioshua dont understand, but Roddick and Ilia do). The yellow one talks in a valley girl voice (DeJap used the same idea in there translation, but since this is dubbed, the actual valley girl voice is used.) and states that there temporal axes are sticking out like a sore thumb. (I.e. Dark Shadows rule about Time, since one doesn’t have a body in this Time Period, that person cannot die nessarlly, but if does have a counterpart body or is connected between time – i.e a tether, then that person dies.) Ioshua states are they the Runes (note – SOIII changed the Idea of the Runes, instead of using the symbols to call out the Runes to use the Magic the symbols represent - the Runes are a part of the symbols.) of lore. The yellow one is impressed since they are called the Source of All Magic (Japanese – Maryoku no Minamoto), Ioshua, then says that he is looking for her sister – but cannot find her. The Yellow Rune says she isnt here. Then Ioshua asks if the Eye Of Truth is here – the green and yellow runes are shocked the legends are being past down, but the yellow corrects her self and says the story has drifted. 

Then the Red rune, turns to Roddick and Ilia and states your looking for two like themselves. Roddick says yes and they show where they are located - Cyuss figures out the riddle that the Red Rune states, their in the Van Kingdom. The Red rune states they should never come back…

So they leave the shrine of the runes and in one save, Joshua leaves, in another save Phia leaves, and in one save Joshua stays. Time to head for Van.

But as they get there… some astroid appears out of nowhere and crashes down Roak… oh oh… bad news? Roddick states that could it be the Celestial Ship? Ilia states they have to go back. And so, we head all the way back to Muah. Once there, they couldn’t believe it. But they leave, but Ilia wonders if something is up… if it looks like a duck…could it quack like one? 

They return to Tropp (Japanese – Trop) and head to Eckdart (Japanese and DeJap – Ecdart) where they meet up with Millie again (yes) and we finally hear about Ronyx and a woman name Marvelle (Japanese and DeJap – Marvel) Millie tells them about the Crimson Shield (Japanese – Shinku No Tate) and they have gone after them. So they go to Ionis (all translations) and they find those two, with the one with the Crimson Shield… there was a bit of a fight… but then starts a major league cutsene with very important parts of the game story shown… (this is somewhat similar to the episode “The Empath” near the end of the Original Series Run) 

We now head to Van, and talk with the king. As they do- they will talk with the King and the king asks them to go through a test of sorts…as they past the test, they move on and the king tells them the story.  The Muah people are really the Old Race – and they seemed to have made a pact in order to open the Demon World in order to get back to paradise…that the Muah people just appeared out of nowhere and didn’t just grow from kids, but were grown adults. The Eye Of Truth was created to get back to “Paradise” but all they saw was “Hell”… The Muah left information to the 4 Kings of Roak; Themselfs, Van, Astral and Silvant. There mission is to find the Eye Of Truth. That night both Ronyx and Ilia talked about what the King stated… Ilia mentioned a Monster (Japanese and Dejap stated it was Kelberos which is close to Cerberus) that came with a roar and left without a trace – it was Thunder and Lighting. Ronyx wonders if this Symbology could have saved his dead wife…

So starts the next 5 hours… The journey to the Eye of Truth… More later.