Grab it from the bargin bin in a little while if you MUST play every Star Ocean game.
922264
Some points...

-Battle system is unrewarding. You will spend the majority of this short game spamming the same battle skill over and over. The boss battles do not make proper use of the rock paper scissor mechanic.

- No Battle arena is basically proof that this game was running on a short budget as this has been a staple feature of the star ocean series and amounts to hours of fun climbing ranking ladders and getting great rewards when you triumph.

- Item creation isn't terrible although the incredibly random nature of synthesis just didn't do it for me.

- Roles were a decent mechanic and a way to boost the competence of the game A.I over time. Many of the roles i found to be pretty useless or redundant and just clogged up the system.

- the storyline is incredibly boring even on your first playthrough and utterly forgettable. the fact that you cant skip basically makes this game almost unplayable for any subsequent playthroughs.

- Clunky movement with no collision detection with other characters. You simply walk right through them and they do this weird trip animation. Distracting, unrealistic and low budget.

- Music and enemy models are almost completely recycled from the past two titles. They used some of the better tracks but it really made me feel like i was playing a low budget PSP port rather than a full fledged Star Ocean game.

- game is wayyy to short for a JRPG. You spend most of your time backtracking the same 7 maps on the same planet. This game screams low budget as they completely reversed the expanding feel of the Star Ocean series as you visited more worlds and gave a larger feel to the games. You will feel very claustrophobic playing this game after SO3 and 4. Even Star Ocean 2 felt like a much larger game and that was 3 console generations ago. The short story line makes the equipment progression rushed and silly. You will buy a weapon only to use it in one small map then a new one is already available when you return to town. You can craft a powerful weapon only to watch it be obsolete only a few game hours in.

Overall - An extremely lazy/low budget Star Ocean game that is missing many of the elements that made the series enjoyable for me. I could not finish this game a second time for the harder difficulties out of sheer boredom. I recommend passing on this unless you're a die hard fan and must play every star ocean game. otherwise save your time and money for better titles.
4704176
The game kinda sucks. It doesn't have a very fleshed out universe so there's not much to do besides running from planet to planet completing the same tasks of stealing a crap ton of materials and jetting back off into space. There's so much potential for this game, now if only the developers would see this and actually take action to improve this failure of a game.
4031696
SEAGA!!!!WHY????? If your looking at this item here at amazon around 12/9 your wodering why this item is not only out of stock but may be discontinued. The answer lies in SEGA's incredibly stupid marketing plans by not making nearly enough games to meet demand. This game had been totally soled out across the entire country! There isn't a single one left. Its just like the idiotic mistake of sony to not even come close to making enough PS2's on release. Its gonna be at least a month until this game becomes easy to find! ... YOU SEGA! Yea it sounds corny but its true!
173623
Another game that I find it amazing that is made available in this hi-tech age we live in. As a kid, I thought this game was okay. Purpose is to remove these tiny plastic parts from the operating board. Comes with twelve parts that's to be 'professionally' removed with a pair of tweezers. Don't lose the parts and this game should last awhile. Anyone else remember the TV ad for this game way back when as the girl in pigtails reads off the instructions on the card, "Take out wrenched ankle..."? That commercial may have done more damage than Milton Bradley knows. Requires two size AA batteries.
4762716
Oh how I wish I could say this was a good game... I have absolutely loved ever Star Ocean game that came out before this one. I even loved Star Ocean 4, which is considered one of the weakest in the series. Unfortunately Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness now gets to claim that ignoble throne. Not only does the game never take you off the original planet, only a mild sin in the end, it doesn't introduce fast-travel to the absolutely sprawling maps until you are more than half-way through the game! It gets WORSE: It then takes that away from you again. This game is what happens when a publish demands something fast from a developer and throws a bit of money at them. Tri-Ace is my favorite games company and still is even after this steaming disappointment plopped out from behind, but I can't warn people away from this travesty enough... and that's the worst part of it. I wanted to love it so badly. :(
2024456
bought my system RIGHT before Toys R Us started selling them for a dollar and fifty cents.  Kind of a bummer.  With the game now dead, you can sometimes find the pieces for next to nothing, but other times, people have jacked the prices up to try and force them to "collector" status.
4474494
Walk It Out is proving to be lots of fun for me.  Once I get started, I find it hard to stop until I've absolutely worn myself out.  Today, I walked for 2 1/2 hours and was exhausted...but I had to find the last rainbow sphere so I kept going!  By the time I was done walking, I'd built two hotels, 3 apartment buildings, a hut, a few stands, a couple luxury homes, a boutique, flower store, 2 surfing stores, a boat, benches, streetlights, a sign, a lighthouse, cars, some cherry trees, hay bales & a suspension bridge, windmill & managed to unlock 100% of the island..oh..and I got my rainbow. It was a fun day on Rhythm Island.

I hold the nunchuck in one hand and the wiimote in the other. I have terrible, terrible rhythm so I try to swing my arms in time to the music while I step around the house. When my leg starts hurting, I rest it for a while, continue to collect chips & get exercise by swinging my arms.

I gave up trying to collect the Zodiac stars. I'm still confused on that.  One evening I gathered as many stars as I could. When I was done that night, none of the stars counted for anything. *all those chips wasted!* I think I'll save the zodiac for after Rhythm Island is built up. I haven't done much with the magic clock either & have yet to play any of the games. Today I decided that I want to see a rainbow each time I play. So my goal is to collect all the spheres each day I walk. In all my hours of walking, I've only managed to see 2 rainbows!  My plan is to use the map to find out where they're hidden. Clicking on the event bubble at the bottom of the map, will hide all the event bubbles on the map (it's a little bubble with a house in it) making it easier to see where the rainbow spheres are hidden. ***the big map can be found by clicking on the rectangle at the bottom right of the screen; other useful items can be found there, too. When you click that rectangle, you will pause the game***

I hope that Konami will make some sort of alien, other world type, Walk It Out. I'd love to see the colors and imagination that could be used building a science fiction-like world.
2670054
If you are a fan of the game, it's good buy, but be ready too make some HDD space or get ext. drive
3572672
Everybody pretty much knows it is a great game. You just have to know what you are getting yourself into, as it really will take up 90 hours of your life. As much as I like it though, I probably won't play it again until the next game comes out and I know what choices will go into the next game. However, it is well worth the amount of hours you will play with how much the game cost.
4760813
Ive only played a couple of games, but Ive already purchased several other ships. A lot of fun. The hardest part will be to not blow a paycheck on every cool expansion pack you come across.
800969
This game is no longer playable. The online servers have been shut down, so it cannot be played. This game is only worth a plastic disc and the case it comes in. Don't spend any money on it.
3006909
Do yourself a favor, you gamers, and buy yourself a NES system and this game, Super Mario Bros. 3. It is indeed mandatory to your understanding of what 'Tanooki' refers to and to what a 'Hammer Suit' is and how tough and long the 'Dark World' is before reaching Bowser's castle. I suggest you watch some old commercials of Mario Bros. 3 on Youtube and see just how popular and anticipated this game was back in the day. In fact, an entire movie was made to advertise this game before it's initial release. The movie was called 'The Wizard', by the way, but that's just one example of how popular this game was and still is. Now, the product itself arrived in a very clean and in (practically) brand new condition. There's a slight glitch when putting it in my NES every now and then, but it's nothing disastrous. A little adjustment is all it needs before I can guide Mario (or Luigi) on his quest to save Princess Toadstool (now Peach) from Bowser and his 7 Koopaling children. The game is in fact very similar to Super Mario World on the SNES, so if you've played that awesome game, then you'll know that SMB 3 is just as fun. What I like about this game is that there is no 'save system', so you can't save the game, turn the power off, and come back later and begin where you left off. On the contrary, you must play the whole game in one sitting, which can be very quick or very long, depending on your knowledge of the various shortcuts and secrets this game has to offer. Or, you can simply pause the gameplay and come back later. But I would suggest making time to play this game, because you may end up playing through your lunch break out of sheer enjoyment. So what are you waiting for? This is one 8-bit Mario title you can't afford to miss out on.
2041390
It really got boring after playing for a few weeks. Great game though. But just wait till price drops more.
118171
This game is no longer playable on the PS2 via regular means due to the servers being shutdown. Still a neat game to have in any collection.
3422015
It should have been shipped with every game ever sold ... it is really that helpful in getting all the fun possible from the game.
3353532
Fantastic game, when not playing I am thinking about playing.  A perfect pick-up and play for 20 minutes or 4 hours.
3990787
O.K. But only to just pass the time or just for a collection.  BB