If you think you're drowning in advertising with the Star Ocean: The Last Hope ads you're seeing all over this fine network of Web sites, you ain't seen nothing yet.
The above picture shows an escalator of Square Enix advertising power. In Hong Kong's popular shopping district Causeway Bay, this Star Ocean 4 escalator drives the point home all the way up (or down): you need to buy this game, too.
Siliconera says that the whole ride is scattered with LCD monitors showing a Star Ocean: The Last Hope trailer. What a huge marketing push. This seriously rivals some of the big pushes we've seen in Tokyo's Akihabara.
After all of this, Star Ocean 4 had better be good!
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9:40 AM on 02.06.2009
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Paraparaking, did you check the new SO4 trailer at the SE youtube channel??
Well i'm not to familier with Star Ocean so maybe this is the standard style they use?
If you mean JRPG's in general I can't say I've ssen anything as doll like in this game.
Maybe they are pushing this hard because the past two Star Oceans have been exclusive to Sony's PS1 and PS2. I'm glad to see that they moved to Xbox360 to launch the title. This is one of the many gambles I took when I decided to stick to Microsoft.