Noisy Pixel - Gaming, Etc.Star Ocean The Second Story R Reveals New Years 2026 Artwork
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maijiWow happy 2 year anniversary of Star Ocean The Second Story R!! Interview with producer Kei Komaki and two new illustrations by Yukihiro Kajimoto:
https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_US/news/star-ocean-the-second-story-r-anniversary
The part about the biggest lessons they learned 🥹 IMO they accomplished all of them!
Star Ocean The Second Story R Producer Reflects on 2-Year Anniversary
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Star Ocean The Second Story R Celebrates 2nd Anniversary With New Leon & Dias Artwork
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gamer55551What a lovely father & daughter moment lol.
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This is basically what happened at the beginning of the game, isn't it?
Full transcript of comic and more commentary at https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5776169
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maiji: low effort SO2R comic
[image: very scribbly pencil-like digital doodles. Transcript below.] Ronixis (laughing and cheering with crew and then pointing authoritatively at Claude): let's check this planet out! whoo whoo claude you're coming with meClaude (concerned): with all due respect Admiral I don't think that's a good ideaRonixis (sad and pouty and pointing his index fingers together, with Kurtzman and other crew members unruffled behind him): boohoo but I'm old let me have my funClaude (unamused): .........[several hours later]Ronixis (sobbing): CLAUDE!! CLAUDE!!! IT'S ALL MY FAULT...!!Science Officer: With all due respect Admiral it sort of is [sometime later in the Shingo Forest](Equipment Menu showing Claude has nothing equipped except for an Ugly Accessory. Next to it is Claude in the Shingo Forest wearing nothing but a belt and holster with the phase gun, looking down at himself and screaming in alarm, with a mandrake-like Ugly Accessory acting like a censor for his lower half. There is also note saying that he must still have his phase gun.) [much later in Arlia Village]Claude (lying face down on the ground and either crying or drooling): oof... oogh... my stomach...Westa: Rena. quick, while the Hero of Light is stuffed and can't escape!! we'll make sure he saves Expel!!Rena: Got it, Mom!! Yes, I started another SO2R game to fill in some gaps in the Flavour Text documentation.1) I was saying to my friend who is an orange, you know, the opening of Claude's story does seem like Claude's recklessness is what transports him from Milocinia/Milokeenia to Expel, but it's also interesting that you later discover (in flashback) that he actually didn't want to go down and recommended against it. The conversation between him and his dad is pretty much what I summarized above. I'm not even kidding.2) I was going through the menu to make sure Claude came with Dexterity/Nimble Fingers and was like "oh yeah [because this isn't New Game+ anymore], I'm completely naked." Then I found an Ugly Accessory after a battle. This accessory does nothing, but I equipped it on him anyways since I was in the screen and had nothing to do. It seemed like it could provide some level of modesty.3) While adding to my Flavour Text notes, I laughed at how I had captured this Camp Menu reminder-hint from the equivalent part of Rena's story on what to do at this point of the game.[Screenshot of Ellipsus text doc that reads: After stuffing Claude full of food - Rena is running! Rena: I need to tell the village chief about the Hero of Light!chat message at 3:39PM: it's like they stuffed him so he can't get away]Westa's brilliant plan all along. I do believe my sis and I used to periodically crack this kind of joke back in the olden days of PS1 SO2, actually.I can't believe this is my first art post of 2025, haha.
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原作版ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーリクエストはマシュマロに投げてねhttps://marshmallow-qa.com/9ezo18chl9kfk7aSO2Rの検証依頼やネタの提供は質問箱までお願いします。https://peing.net/ja/nekomimi_maid当チャンネルではスターオーシャンの動画を投稿しています。よろしければチャンネル登録をお願いします。ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー他投稿動画●【#SO2R】別キャラの必殺技が使える！衝撃のバグ技を紹介します。【スターオーシャン2 リメイク】https://youtu.be/TbBAL3yzQgAーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー#スターオーシャン #スターオーシャン2 #SO2 #so2r © 1998, 2023 SQUARE ENIX Original version developed by tri-Ace Inc記載されている会社名・製品名・システム名などは、各社の商標、または登録商標です。
Ashton, Gyoro and Ururun; Dias and Claude for qmy and Peko 😊 Ink and water are so fun to work with! These were done with a Sailor Fude de Mannen and a waterbrush for blobbing the ink for shading.
(Old post about my tools and techniques here: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/623322)
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maiji: How I got into/work with ink (an artist's perspective)
This is a cleaned-up version of a post from November 14, 2018 on tumblr in response to a question about how I use inks in my artwork. Sharing in case it is helpful for others interested in this medium!How I got into itIt’s only been in the last maybe five or so years that I’ve actually started to pay more attention to art supplies. In the case of ink, it really started with fountain pens.Long story short, one of my professors was really into them and let me try one of his vintage pens, and I was vaguely interested. Then my best friend really got into them, and I tagged along to a fountain pen show (shoutout to Scriptus Toronto!!). From there it was a slow burn over a period of months from “this is neat” to “WOWWW OKAY I GUESS I’M REALLY INTO THIS NOW”.It was a (relatively, for me) quick entry once I discovered the online fountain pen community. These people are incredibly passionate, highly articulate, and best of all, document EVERYTHING. I found the ink reviews especially spectacular and that’s probably what hooked me the most.A few other things that helped in the appeal factor:I have a tendency to grip writing implements excessively hard, which is bad for my hands. A number of people mentioned that fountain pens helped them to alleviate this because generally you don’t need/want to apply pressure when using them. I’ve found it has helped, and also has enabled me to reduce unnecessary pressure even when writing or drawing with more conventional pens (ballpoints etc.).I’ve always been interested in forms that combine words and images. This merges literary and artistic worlds in a very clear way.I’ve been on a long personal journey of wanting to incorporate much more Chinese/Taiwanese/East Asian heritage and cultural traditions into my work. Thus, I’ve been gravitating towards things emphasizing brush, ink, water, elements of calligraphy and… not sure if spontaneity is the word I want, but things that help me overthink less when I draw, and get better at letting go. How I work with inkMy (main) toolsFude de mannen: This is basically a fountain pen that mimics a brush for Asian calligraphy. It has a bent nib that enables you to change stroke thickness by varying your hand angle. I love this pen so much I got a second one so I could have a different colour (I use washi tape to help me tell the pens apart). You can see more of it in the video interview I did with PindotPress.Brush pen: A pen that is a brush. A number of companies make them; I use the Pentel Pocket Brush because it’s the first one I tried and I liked it a lot. It’s smooth, has great line variation, and the tip has yet to fail me. (Although the cap started falling apart, hence all the tape on my first one.) I currently have three: one for permanent black, one for permanent red, and one because I couldn’t resist buying a coloured version of the pen.Glass dip pen: These dip pens are pretty, but what's awesome is that they are super easy and fast to clean. I can quickly switch between multiple colours of bottled inks. The grooves in the nib hold ink, so you need to slightly turn the pen as you go to access all the ink. You can also get a wider stroke by slanting the pen and using the side of the glass nib. It’s not that easy to control your lines, but I actually like this because it creates a lot of happy accidents. And “oops well damn" accidents, but like I said I’m trying to cultivate the whole “learn to let go" mindset.Waterbrush: Basically a brush that carries its own water reservoir. I’ve used a few different brands but I find I like the Pentel Aquash (small brush tip) the best. Some people fill them with ink like a brush pen, but I’ve not really done that. (I did it once with a different brand that was harder to open/refill and I got mad.) I use it to paint with the inks.Pencil I got for free: Unless I'm doodling, I usually draw base pencils of some sort. Even if it’s just a very rough, light sketch or a quick thumbnail on another sheet of paper. Every so often I get an inquiry asking what special kind of pencil I use, but I’m afraid they’re just normal pencils rolled with recycled newsprint. I got free samples like a million years ago and I have been using them forever. (I think I’m finally down to my last three.)Eraser: I’ve been trying a few different ones but it takes me forever to work through an eraser. You want it to be able to pick up the lines without requiring you to scrub and take the ink too or destroying the fibres of your paper. This one actually works pretty well. If you’re really curious you can see the non-destroyed packaging here!Toilet or tissue paper: Something to pick up the water. This is my “undo button” in real life when I’m painting/using the waterbrush. Also I drown everything with water so it’s very important.Ink swatches: Every time I get a new ink I make a sample and add it here. It’s great for colour palettes and when I’m looking at other inks and trying to decide whether to get it or not - e.g., is it different from everything I already have? (Although my definition of “different” is very generous…) I don’t actually own all these inks; some were samples from friends. I’ve found I tend to gravitate towards very complex, nuanced neutrals. (This sounds so sophisticated but when you see them all it once it’s like. Oh. Apparently I like shades of grey, brown, and other hard to classify "muddy” or in-between colours lmao. But more on that in a bit.) Lately I’ve been getting glittery inks because they’re fun and they add a magical dimension to the physical piece.Here is my current selection of inks - on the shelf to the immediate left of my laptop and my head as I am typing this right now. The box at the bottom left is all the samples. My approachIn my mind, I broadly classify my approach into two categories: “dry” and “wet”.“Dry” - ink only, no water. I have pretty unsteady hands and hate “inking” - if we think of inking as an exercise in achieving a “clean”, controlled line drawing with consistent line width/stroke thickness, neatness, etc. So I love pens that support me in what I think of as "controlled loss of control" - wide variations in brush width and stroke character. Brush pens and fude de mannen pens are perfect for this. They have lines that offer a wide range of dynamic, organic, and textural opportunity. My Inktober illustrations fall into this category. A few examples below, followed by links to the full set.Inktober 2017 - fude de mannenInktober 2018 - brush pen“Wet” - Basically I blob water around. Depending on when I do it (before, with/during, after the application of the ink), you can get different results. The water causes the ink to bleed, semi-watercolour-like, and can be used for shading, environmental effects etc. For obvious reasons, this works best with non-waterproof inks (which the vast majority of fountain pen inks are), but you can do this even with waterproof inks. Just let the ink hit water before it has a chance to soak into the paper and you can get cool effects! And you can also do it with other pens too, not just fountain pen inks. Examples:Tiles of Toronto urban sketch seriesRaizen and Hokushin doodlesArikoto from OokuAs you might imagine, this is really great for on-the-go drawings, because you just need a pen (or a couple of pens) and a waterbrush.The “wet” approach is also where the very complex inks that look “boring” (greys, taupes etc.) are just complete magic. When the dye elements separate, other colours emerge, and you get really wonderful textural effects and rings of colour where the ink pools and dries. Diamine Earl Grey is a colour I’ve mentioned several times that I LOOOVE because it separates into blues, browns, purples, even pinkish tones. It’s a gorgeous ink. You can see some examples and closeups here.Another colour that does this really powerfully is Sailor Jentle Rikyucha. It’s a dark tea brown-green that separates very easily into pale blue-greens and more and has amazing tonal and textural qualities. The Tendril Wreath illustration here really shows this.For the most part I look at things I like and then experiment to figure out what happens. After working with the same tools for a while, you get a sense of how the different elements might react and respond naturally. The Genjimonogatari series employs both dry and wet extensively and is an example of the experimenting and playing I’m doing. I keep finding new aspects to the inks I thought I knew, and making “interesting” mistakes. And trying to fix them as I go with varying levels of success. But I’m always learning!One more thing about this hobbyI feel compelled to finish with some talk about the pure aesthetic appeal, or the MULTIPLE LEVELS OF FUN I get out of these inks. Not just the colour, not just how the ink behaves, but… the name of the ink as well! Similar to how the presentation of a dish is part of the experience, the name of an ink adds so much to my enjoyment of it. My least favourite ink names are [standard adjective]+[standard colour name]. My favourite ones are really convoluted with literary and poetic references, I just love them. Asian fountain pen inks I find tend to do this especially well - partly because of how much you can pack into how few syllables, I suppose. It makes me sad that a lot of sites don’t include the original names, often referencing them with just a number, though I understand it is difficult to translate. But I learn a lot with these names as a starting point!For example, bookpenscom #25 Zhenjing is a gorgeous warm brown with generous gold flakes. To understand the name, it took a bit of back and forth with my parents to look it up and then interpret the complex line of poetry. It was a fun and fascinating exercise. The source is “18 Songs of a Nomad Flute” by Liu Shang about the poet Lady Wenji/Cai Yan/Tsai Yen. The phrase “zhenjing” conveys an internal tremor, shock/shudder. A great name can’t save an ink I don’t like, but a good name elevates an ink I do like even more. It can be really inspiring for making stuff. For example, take Pen BBS Mirrorflower Watermoon. I adore the colour of this ink - it’s a very subtle grey-pale green with silver flakes. I used it heavily in the Hokushin fanart “Northern Deity” (you can see it here with photos of the sparkly).The name is actually highly recognizable if you’re familiar with classic East Asian literature/poetry. I read it out loud to my parents with no context other than “this is the name of one of my favourite ink colours” while they were eating dinner and they both said at the same time, “I know this! DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER!” which cracked me up. It’s a very Buddhist idiom or phrase referring to the illusory nature of things, likening it to the reflection of a flower in a mirror or the reflection of the moon in water.I hope this helps others in exploring and playing with this lovely medium!
I suppose it was inevitable. I've started my first SO2 playthrough in over a decade! So much nostalgia, so much filling the memory card with random screenshots that amuse me 😂 I'm doing a very slow, relaxed playthrough, aiming to consume at a mindful pace so that I don't disappear and get zero creative projects done 🙏
Nostalgic thoughts, goals for this 248323th (exaggerated, but feels like it) time around: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5117211
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maiji: Wuh oh (Second Story R)
[2 screenshots from Star Ocean The Second Story R, of the status screen showing Friendship Level, Talents and Favourite Food when Rena and Claude have each just joined the party. 1) Rena has Nimble Fingers, Rhythm Sense, Love of Animals and Blessing of Mana. 2) Claude has Originality, Nimble Fingers, Rhythm Sense and Acoustic Sense.] This was the main reason I was working so hard to get This Remnant Light done and out before the long weekend. Thanks to my lovely friend who is an orange, I now have a new Star Ocean 2 machine secondhand Switch Lite! orange was telling me that she put the screen protector on crooked:[screenshot of a chat where person A is saying “Just slightly crooked.” and person B is replying “I didn't even notice. I was just like oooh claude” with a crying with joy emoji react from person A.]The last time I played SO2 was Second Evolution like decade ago! Thus far I've managed to mindfully consume and calmly pace myself to be very chill and take my time exploring the world and being silly, i.e., peering at all the beautiful new visual details in the environments, like characters' homes and other little touches; annoying NPCs (more on that in a bit); taking screenshots of random pointless things that amuse me; fiddling with the voices so that I can hear different actors' takes of various scenes, things like that. I'm moving very slowly, getting up to speed on many of the gameplay changes and upgrades (lots of amazing quality of life enhancements, so convenient!), but it's nice since I already know what happens 32947392472 times over, so it's just very lovely slow-paced nostalgia. In any case, hopefully this means I won't be lost to the world and not working on my projects. Something embarrassing (funny) to admit: there’s a big difference for me when playing Rena or Claude's story. I’m not talking about the recruitable characters, nor even the events unique to each story. I'm talking about how I interact with everyone in the game depending on who I am. You see, when I play as Claude, I’m extremely mild-mannered and very nice. When I play as Rena, I’m a complete terror. This is because I’m very particular about how people perceive Claude and his relationship values, so I’m super careful. With Rena I really don’t care, so I’m uninhibited and aggressive. Blatantly pickpocketing people left and right out in the open, saying whatever in PAs because it’s hilarious, blocking people and driving them bananas. It’s like (very mild) grand theft auto Expel Rena-style. Terrible, but it also means a Rena playthrough is much less stressful and laid back in some respects.Above are my newest Rena and Claude! Talents are a fun thing in Star Ocean; they're randomized, though characters have biases for certain ones often linked with their personalities and stories. Every playthrough you'll get slightly different people (orange said, "this is talent gacha", yes it is). Ultimately it doesn't really matter, at least in the old games, and I assume it's the same here. Not everyone can get every talent, but eventually everyone should be able to discover all the ones they can access. If you're playing a long haul game and not a speedrun it's actually better if a character starts with fewer talents, because when people discover hidden talents they get bonus points. The one I always try to get upfront, however, is Nimble Fingers (original translation: Dexterity) for the protagonist, since that one is super useful for the Pickpocketing skill. I was expecting to have to reset a few times, so I was pleased Rena appeared with it on my second try. Then when Claude finally offically joined my party after the lonnnnngg beginning events (I feel like I used to be able to check his much earlier in a Rena game...), I was surprised he had it too - he has a lower chance of starting with it than Rena. I was also surprised to find that I got a musical Claude! This is relatively uncommon; a more "normal" Claude is a writer/designer, and he has a less than 50% chance of starting with the two musical talents. It's cute because in my head I make up stories about the characters based on things like this. If he has musical skills and Nimble Fingers, he must play guitar! haha. There's no guitars on Expel though. So I guess he can play the lyre.Things I'm particularly keen on seeing/doing for this playthrough!Some minor gameplay/story spoilers. I’m sure more will occur to me as I go along but these are top of mind at the moment.[READ-MORE] Target recruitment: Rena, Claude, Celine, Opera, Bowman, Ernest, Dias, Noel. This is the adults playthrough, basically. Every time there’s a chance to choose someone, go with the older character. Bring my boys back together! My old dream team: Claude, Ernest, Dias, Bowman. And with their gameplay adjustments/upgrades it seems this party will be much more awesome than they were in previous iterations of SO2. The brand new fishing feature! Apparently very addictive, to the point where world-saving is being ignored. Food: Seeing all the new renderings of the food items and how they look. Mmmm. Being an absolute nightmare to all the NPCs: As mentioned above. Do not do this in real life. The “favourite kind of sky” PA: So I can retranscribe it, as I can’t seem to find a video of this. The full series of Yul PAs in Herlie: I don’t recall this one being voice acted in English Second Evolution, but my memory is also ??? So I'm assuming and hoping to be able to hear the Japanese voice acting. The hilarious/terrible Bowman and Claude girlwatching PA in Cross, Rena POV version: I am so curious to hear this with full Japanese voice acting! The post-Fienal Claude PA in Central City: So that I can re-grab the full English translation to compare with my translation attempt in this post. Frying Dias with a phase gun in the Fun City rematch. From what I know of the game updates, I am pretty sure I can do this now. I’m looking forward to trying in any case, haha. Claude AI, don’t let me down.[/READ-MORE]
"Mom!" 😭
Chief Science Officer and symbology scientist Silvestri-Kenni reunites with her son, Ensign Kenni.
More commentary on a relationship I feel deserves more appreciation 🥺 https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/4813267
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maiji: "Mom!"
[image: Digital ink brush and watercolour-style illustration of Claude C. Kenni from Star Ocean 2 hugging his mother, Ilia Silvestri. Claude’s back is to the viewer; Ilia is facing the viewer with eyes closed and has tears running down her face. Caption below the image reads “Mom!” in Japanese and English.]Chief Science Officer and symbology scientist Silvestri-Kenni reunites with her son, Ensign Kenni.Claude’s solo ending is rare to see unless you’re intentionally gunning for it and/or actively messing up relationship values. In this ending, (cut for spoilers) [READ-MORE]he finally arrives back on Earth and is reflecting on recent events. Then he spots his mom (unseen to the player), calls out to her, and runs off-screen. The assumption, of course, is that Ilia has come to the space port to welcome him home. It’s bittersweet because everyone thought he was lost and gone, and now he’s returned after helping to save the universe—but Ronixis (Claude’s dad/Ilia’s husband) is dead. Well, unless you reach for the lifeline the developers threw all the sad fans by saying they decided they will neither confirm nor deny Ronixis’ permanent death (I once saw someone aptly refer to this as “Schrödinger's Calnus”)... but it’s pretty clear what the story intent was.[/READ-MORE] Claude's relationship with Ronixis, the whole "son trying to escape the shadow of the famous father" thing, is a major focus of the story. But Ilia’s influence on Claude is everywhere in the game when you look. As I mentioned previously, when SO2 was first released, they didn’t explicitly state his mom’s identity, and in North America we didn’t even get an official SO1 translation till the 2008 PSP remake. The vast majority of NA SO2 players had no context for Claude’s Ilia references, nor any hint of the significances of him mentioning his mother. There were lively debates when First Departure came out (here's one I stumbled on while doublechecking Ilia's titles). Here are the main references we can see today within the first two games! [READ-MORE]Claude’s physical appearance resembles his mom, primarily due to both having blond hair and hairstyles that are parted in the middle. In the newest versions of Ilia, they look even more similar. Attacks: Neither Ronixis nor Ilia use swords, so it’s not surprising Claude has zero Ronixis-inspired moves (Phase Gun doesn’t count lol. And it’s only in Star Ocean Anamnesis that we got an archer Claude using some of Ronixis’ animations). But he shares 流星掌 (Shooting Stars/Meteor Fist/Meteor Palm) and 気功掌 (Palm of Destruction) with Ilia, and has several acrobatic martial arts-type animations similar to hers. Battle quotes: The most overt link, their iconic battle scoring lines! Here are Claude’s (with the official SO2 translations): これなら満点だな！ ("We have a full score with this!") 80点ってとこだな ("Well, that's somewhere around 80 points.") 50点ぐらいだよなぁ ("That was around...50 points?") Compared with Ilia’s (and my translation attempts): 50点てとこかしら？(“That’s something like 50 points?”) 80点くらいかしら？ (“That’s somewhere around 80 points?”) これなら満点よね？ (“That’s a full score, isn’t it?”) I think this one's really cute. It’s like he’s answering his mom’s questions!Talents: In general, Claude's talents look a lot more like Ilia's. The one that jumps out the most is that both of them have Composition (writing skill talent) as their highest one, 80%. Ronixis' Composition is quite low. (Ronixis in general doesn't seem very creative, haha.)Interestingly, if Claude dies, one of his death lines is “母さん･･･” (“Mother…”). Very touching—though also unintentionally hilarious in the original game thanks to a devastating combo of... memorable English language voice acting and questionable audio file quality. Without context, I imagine most people’s reactions upon hearing it the first time were probably “lol what? Haha-OH CRAP” since Claude dying may mean you just got, or are about to get, a game over. [/READ-MORE]Thus, my impression was always that Claude is super close to his mom and she taught him how to kick ass when he was little! Ilia, you did a good job raising your son! And all this adds extra fun undertones to the early part of the game when Claude is adamant that Rena has to get permission from her mom first to travel with him.So. We got to see the (future) husband and wife fighting together in SO1, we got to see the father and son in SO2. I would like to see a mother-son duo adventure please! This is 100% feasible with where they left off in the story! At present the closest thing we have to that is their cameos from Star Ocean Anamnesis. Here are some videos! I linked them near the end where we get the victory animation and line, and then the player kindly gives us nice turnarounds of their character models to see all the details. Everyone is in the prime of their adventuring life here. Ilia (she’s saying her 80 points line) original Claude (he’s saying his 80 points line) Blue Sphere Claude (he’s supposed to be 2 years older here per the direct sequel. Same line as above, but it's a different recording, sounds a little more confident/a little less excited.) Ceremonial Claude (he’s saying 意外に弱かったな - “[Those enemies were] surprisingly weak.”) And so that we have the whole family, here’s Ronixis (he’s saying 全員無事か？”Is everyone safe?”)