Skills YOU NEED To Learn In Star Ocean 2 Remake! 

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Throw some points in Art Speciality - get Magical Clay in Krosse, then make "strange objects" until you get Goodie Boxes. Save game, keep opening them until you get something nice and broken like Marvel Sword or Sorceress Gloves

Writing has been massively buffed in the remake. Get one person to max out writing and you can get enough skill books to have everyone in your party achieve rank 7 in about 10 different skills. It is almost as important as perseverance.

Haven't even gone to Krosse Cave yet and already got the Bunny Call, Sword of Marvels, a ton of Fol, and the Thief's Gloves. So happy the remake still allows for breaking it in half for your leisure. Thanks for the guide!

I also love how this video starts out “ dude this could be you” and yes I definitely want to be riding around on a bunny and decimate all my foes. Your trails of zero guide helped me out so much I don’t know what I would have done without you.

Tips: 1) One of the tips everyone should know is. Once You acquire a Talent on each char that char gets 100 SP and BP so most chars can get at least 500 BP SP for free for just unlocking talents. You can see under each speciality what talent its associated with. To unlock a talent get lvl 3-4 to not lose to much SP points. and use the given skill. if you havent aquired the talent after using 20 clays on ART speciality? just load before you started and repeat. simple and effective. 2) I think some1 mentioned this already but. to save a lot of SP /BP have one char learn some skills to lvl 7 , have that one char learn writting. and start writing skill books. Which you can either PUBLISH< For cash in game :) or use on other chars to lvl up their skills which saves TONS of SP points and BP, yes its possible to learn some battle skill books as well. 3) Utilize the Practice speciality and fight mob combinations to your adventage. each consecutive battle increases the EXP and FOL aquired And you can get quite a few consecutive battles here with the mobs chasing You. The power lvling here is real :D or set it to avoid enemies to cruise through the game without fighting any enemy except bosses as I did for one of the runs :D was fun ;) 4) Orchestra is OP Super speciality, same for Blacksmith. just getting the armors from Blacksmith early not gives huge adventage. then once you get orchestra you berly lose resources but get decent equips until Cave of Trials

Effort is more than just reducing exp needed for next level. It’s required for Training; more EXP per battle, and Enlightenment; more SP and BP. The higher these levels the bigger to boost, which you need to level effort for. Also to save on SP, use one character to max writing specialty then create books for others. It will save you about 20k SP per character

Oh, the music.....the music is so beautiful...hits the nostalgia button hard

Yo David thanks for the tips. This has been super helpful. I had no idea about any of these kinds of things when I played Star Ocean 2 back in the day

ENLIGHTENMENT & TRAIN makes my life so easy

I'd argue that the Sprite Bracelet has been nerfed somewhat - You get barely any low-tier items every now and then. I actually got more use out of the reworked "Survival"-skill in comparison. But until we get a new item-list of what the Sprite Bracelet generates I guess it remains the same old "want to grab, because why not". Still, feels like the item might be highly overrated, especially with all the new QoL changes that makes FOL a non-factor. If I'd have to give hints/tips to newer players I'd recommend grabbing the "Deadly Edge" after the Lacour-tournament. It's a "must-have" if you 'actually' want to break the game early. tl;dr, if you customize the "Deadly Edge" with Claude with a Mithril, you should get a "Blade Of Minos", customize this one with a Mithril again and you get the Aeterna for Claude which is en par with 2 of the weapons from the bonus-dungeon. The other hint would be to actually teach everyone "Train" ASAP in order to unlock "Enlightenment" for everyone, which gives you more BP and SP per level up and battle. It'll save you a lot of time later on, which in turn let's you sooner invest into power-stat when you actually need them. Due to the Achievement-system and other QoL-changes the game gives you plenty of goodies and items to make the early part of the game very easy and comfortable to play, so I reckon you are better off making some early investments for the later stages of the game. Oh, and you can absolutely level up all your active combat-skills. They barely cost anything to upgrade most of the time and you get pleeenty of BP to play around with. It's actually recommened even for casters because a lot of spells simply get new properties which make them quite useful throughout the game, so don't hesitate.

Glad you got our backs! I knew to hold back thanks to the first Star Ocean, now I know how to save the points for the good stuff!

Got my copy in the mail today. Hyped as well. Thank you for the tips DavidVinc!

Thanks, yo. Picking up mgs collection and star ocean 2 in the morning. Was gonna put this in the backlog but I think I'll get it started. The demo was tight.

I bought it after i played the demo and loved the art style. This is my first star ocean game thanks for getting me excited to play it!

I just started the game today and this gave me such a leg up starting out. Thank you so much!

wow this is more intricate than i had imagined, but have no fear David to the rescue! thanks for the tips i'm going to be giving this one a whirl this weekend i can't wait!

This game has been on my list to play for years. Can’t believe I finally can. Now I just have my fingers crossed for Tales of Eternia

Didnt learn how helpful some of the skills were till like my 8th play through back in the day haha so many ways to play this amazing game

I appreciate your videos in helping out the community, thank you. This may sound weird but it puts a smile on my face to see someone with such a great physique as yourself share the same love and passion for gaming as I do, kinda inspiring actually. :-)

Thank you David I’ll use all tips you’ve given when game arrives 😊

So useful, thank you! Totally in love with SO2 all over again. I played it in my youth, but never beat it. Now I see it's because I wasn't playing it right AT ALL! I'd love a series of these tips videos for the remake!

I haven't started the game yet but def plan on doing a deep dive into it. All of these are Boss type tips! Thank you for making this vid!

Thank you thank you!! Love the channel been subscribed for awhile!! This tidbit of info really helped me because I was !😅

Thank you! I was really summoning this video earlier! I'm glad it came from you!

Great video as always! I haven’t slept since last night - I’ve clocked 15 hours so far (on top of my 3 hrs in the demo 😅)

Thank you for this guide David!!! I am now riding around on the back of a bunny before going to Kurik, just working towards that thief glove! I fucking love this game so much. I love how you can just get busted powerful just by knowing how to play the game. And this was before things like "gameplay balance" were concrete, when you would swap stories with your friends on the playground about the crazy shit you can do. It's crazy how old stuff is coming back and beating the shit out of modern stuff. Like even that new Beatles song is straight fire

All great advice! In addition to what David said, you want to make sure your character starts with the talent nimble fingers, if they don't have it, restart. You can't learn that talent until after the earthquake in Clik, so you can't get that amazing sprite bracelet he mentions, or it's insanley hard to (less then 1% to pickpocket I believe). Another great item to steal is the goodie box in Marze. Gives you three random items including one really powerful sword. That's another save scum situation. Also, right after the intro story with Claude and Rena, you can get a lot of money even earlier in that little dessert patch west of Lasgus Mountains area (hope it's still there). There are strong enemies there but they drop high level metals you can sell for a ton, and gain twenty levels in the process. By the time you get to Lingua you have enough money to start (and hopefully high enough group skills for reverse side) to start forging experience medals, then copying them using replication and magic film, while playing the violin song under muscal talent for increased accuracy, and copy 20 at a time. You can get to level 100 right away. Im not to this point yet so don't hold me to it, was in the previous versions.

You know, it took me about 8 hrs to figure out this system even 2%. I’m loving it. Excellent tips here! I’ll have to use them on the NG+ playthrough

Hi David! This video will definitely be a help when I get SO2R. Been a looooong time since I played the original game, so this refresher (and a few new tips) is most welcome. Thanks and have a blessed day!

Scouting is a good skill too, especially if you want to attract more monsters and build up experience faster. There's another super skill where you can sacrifice your fol to get extra BP and SP.

i got the sword of marvels right after leaving salva... yea not using it yet lol

I can feel your enthousiasm David haha great it feels like back to the future. This game is the amazing of the amazings in all senses.

Always appreciate your tips and tricks

Great video. Haven't been able to get into the game yet cuz work and everything's been crazy but really filled like that will help a lot🎉

Pickpocket the old dude in Mars for the treasure chest to get that Marvel Sword :) Great video thank you

I havent seen your videos in awhile but you were buff before but now you are super buff. Keep it up!

just bought Star Ocean 2 for Switch bc of your videos. excited to get started

Just bought the game today and was dreading figuring out the skills! Thx

I'm at work wishing I was home to play this right now.

All these things I forgot about over the years. You're the greatest for posting this, and reminding me. I completely forgot about Bunny Call. haha

Took notes, thx, can't wait to start the game!!!

A quick money makers for the thief gloves for me was fishing the marlin in the sea, every 3 can be sold for 10k and there is a fishing spot right outside town where they are sold!

Thanks might have missed one of the items that braclet but definitely still can get skill layout for the characters for pickpocket and as just left that one cave thanks

Thank you so much! Ive heard great things about this game and decided to pick it up, but there is so much depth to the IC system i was getting a little overwhelmed lol

😂😂😂 the intro to this video! Appreciate the video man, saving this one for when I get the game!

Thank you buddy for making this awesome guide 😊

Preordered it last month. Release day is today and I still have to wait about two more hours since I live in the Eastern Time Zone. Steam, btw. Thanks for these tips!

Dang these are really helpful tips thanks david 😊😊

A good skill combo is Training, Enlightenment, Bodyguard, Scouting, and Survival. Training and Enlightenment will help level faster. Scouting will spawn mobs at an absurd rate. Bodyguard will allow your companions to just run over and kill them without a fight if they're high enough level. And Survival will give free items as you wander and spawn mobs. Just chain battle all the enemies that won't instant die. Doing this, I'm level 52 and I just got to the Lacour Castle on the second continent.

So glad I watched this when I did. I'm currently save scumming a goodie box I just got. But I am also right at the part with the private action where that lady there and I can steal from her. Just need to go get the gloves. Such a helpful video. Thank you.

Star Ocean 2 where you steal the best rare items from randos and NPCs to save the world.

Thanks! Managed to do this within one hour. Make sure to have your character start with nimble finger stat at the beginning of the game. If not restart game until main character has it to make pickpocketing chances higher. 😊

I absolutely feel into the effort trap in First Departure. They really should have made that more clear.

Picked up this game and started playing it. Wanted to get more tips and stumbled upon this channel. Favorite new channel!

Great vid didnt know about the bunny call. I got all the best weapons from farm i ng magic clay n goodie boxes. Took awhile but finally got thw sword of marvels. N the best weapons so far for the other 3 ppl i have

Sooooo theres actually a tub you can fish in the right side of the mansion at the top of the map in harley port every fish worth 500fol......had the gloves with only selling the fish out that barrel

Would have been funnier if you could just ride Celine as a mount!

I have learned that I need to start a new playthrough 😂. First time playing this series and I’m HOOKED already! 🍻

Great video, Super funny also love your sense of humour, (skill mule, old bag, SAVE YOUR GAME) classic

I made the 40k to buy the gloves pretty fast by fishing. There's a colorful fishing spot with an exploration trigger that can get you rare fishes I could sell for 11k each and most being worth between a few hundreds and a thousand ish

Best guide thank you man

I cracked up when you said “hoeish little wizard” too funny! 😂 Thanks for the video!

Started playing the game today, the music brought me to tears as it has been 25 years......

David, two requests! 1. Can you do an overview video covering the whole IC/crafting system? It’s… crazy. 2. As a fellow JRPG nerd in the 40+ crowd, I need you to do a video on how you got your traps popping like that!

VERY helpful, thank you very much! 😊

My Copy is on it's way and will be here with a couple hours just waiting for that damn mailman. Thanks for the tip I always screw up the skills in this game and need a guide on what to level up.

Playing on the hardest difficulty! Thanks David! I'm messing this game up now.

Just started this game last night, and I've been really impressed. A little slow to start, but I love the customization.

Hi David, I’m a newer subscriber. Love your content, also a huge Dragon Quest fan. Thanks for the tips, I just applied Sprite’s Bracelet on my current play-through. I use to own Star Ocean 2 for PS1 many years ago. Excited to replay this classic again. Cheers!

The Bodyguard skill is also pretty nutty as well.

So if anyone start with sixth sense....SAVE IT!!!! It was the hardest skill to learn.

I don't know if you talked about this yet but at the same has you are talking about. You get a ''goodie box'' those box can also be created via Art - Magical clay. Save your game and open those box because you get random item and weapon. I got a Force sword just now. This is a trick that was in the previous star ocean 2 on ps back in the days

Great vid love the energy

4:56 I normally used cooking to work up to getting the glove.

I did some research before starting my play through, even though I played this before for ps1 when I was a kid, its been awhile. Though I wish I watched your video a little earlier cause I think I would of organized my SP spend a little better. I'm not to far, I just got to bowman. SO at least I can be a little smarter about it now. Luckily my bp has mostly been on battle skills, not abilities, cause I had the same thoughts. Thanks for the vid.

great tips David! personally I kinda hate how you cant get Dias as a permanent party member unless you start as Reina lol... it's a different game once you get to the post-game dungeons

If you have enough cooking skill and bunny call you can create a magnificent hare feast. The downside is you no longer have your ride.

So great time to be alive ❤ Love from Belgium 🇧🇪 ❤

You saved my ass from a few pitfalls. First, I was pouring tons of points into effort. Second, I felt an obligation to spend BP on special arts/skills even tho I felt it unwise since they keep learning better stuff as they level up. Thanks for confirming my suspicions and also setting me straight on “effort.” Top notch video!

I knew something was "off" about Effort the last time I played through the PsP version . I researched online AFTER getting it to 10 with 3 of my main characters very early 😮 and realizing after the initial boost it seemed like it was back to normal. I don't know just how big of a difference Training makes, but I feel like you level very quickly in this game anyway/the game quickly ramps up the XP you gain. Though Enlightenment seems to make a big difference through most of the game, and there's something so satisfying about spending your SP 😊.

Ahhh bringing back my youth! You always have such wonderful videos David. :D who's your favorite character?

Intense strategies with David

"SKILL MULE" is a great band name! Thanks for the info tho. Had to

I just got the Platinum trophy for this on PS5! I had a great time playing the game.

I found a fol print exploit early on, all you need to do is be able to customize flame swords with Claude. If you go to salva and buy long swords and rubies you can make the flame sword and sell it for more than you spent on materials. You can make a bit more per batch if you have alchemy level 3 since you can turn iron into rubies. Only costs 8000-12000 fol to fill your inventory up depending on if you buy or craft your rubies. I'm sure there are other crafts you can do, but this is the first one I found.

ty david i just bought this game gonna give it a go i didnt get to play it as a kid so this is my first play through ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good tips!

Pickpocket for the camera, familiar to buy film, and grab some of the items from the pirates and other thugs (or the occasional crooked innkeeper) is a nice start too. A little bit of effort is lovely, because you can use training. Don't spent more then 100 on each person though, it ain't worth it. And only buy one per level.

So I’m having fun just playing and experimenting and exploring. I don’t wanna get too crazy too early. But what would be a good “landmark/time” to start watching out for things or doing things. Kinda how he mentioned about the pickpocket and the other guy with the sword.

Your videos make me happy

Does it retain the talent unlocking mechanic that got you 100sp per talent unlocked?

David knowing all of this just shows his deep understanding of how JRPGs work lol

If you need money, without spending too much skill points, I would advise to just fish and sell the big fishes from the ocean right outside Harley town. Use small fish for baits, use the item that double your number of fishes caught, get the big ones, sell them for 4k or so. Takes 10min top, maybe even less. Will also get you fishes to trade for items, and complete achievements for easy money.

Amazing - thank you.

Installing it now. Played the demo an hour before release, got sold on it and bought it 30 minutes into the game. I hope I still get the pre-order rewards. 🤣

And i still cant believe this buffed dude is talking about a video game 😁

Also, you should have a video for most useless skills, also helpful

6:41 I hope the forged medal still drops.

"Hoe-ish little wizard" 😂😂