Star Ocean The Second Story R Voice Acting Options Detailed

Square Enix offered new details about the Star Ocean: The Second Story R English and Japanese voice acting. The new version of the game will offer three options. Two pull from Star Ocean: Second Evolution on the PSP. The third is an entirely new recording from the Japanese cast.

Here’s the official announcement. It confirmed that you aren’t locked into a voice acting option in Star Ocean: The Second Story R. You can go into the settings and switch if you’d prefer a different one.

#StarOcean The Second Story R will include three options of voice acting to choose from:

🗨️ EN voice acting from the PSP version
🗨️ New JP voice recordings from the original PS1 cast
🗨️ JP voice acting from the PSP version

You can switch these any time throughout the game! pic.twitter.com/L6ADd6Y9BO

— STAR OCEAN (@StarOcean) July 18, 2023

Ahead of this, we’d already gotten a chance to hear some of the English Star Ocean: The Second Story R voice acting. Claude and Rena teaser trailers appeared. Each one showed them in and out of battles.

We’ve also gotten a chance to see some other characters. Official art for Ashton, Celine, and Dias showed up. These images let us see the official portraits alongside their sprites.

Star Ocean: The Second Story R will come to the Switch, PS4, PS5, and PC on November 2, 2023. A collector’s edition will be available, but it already sold out online.