Phantasy Star Nova (Ocean)?

[ChaosAngel92]

Star Ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Ocean

And then watch at least the trailer of the biggest game:



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I was attracted to the Star Ocean franchise (namely Star Ocean: The Last Hope) back on the days of PSU when the so called "sci fi" games went on decline. It was full of colorful environments, and rocky music, but trough my gameplay I couldn't stop compare it to PSO in so many levels.
Of course, this is nothing like PSO in terms of gameplay, its a more traditional RPG that kinda sits between timed attack and action.

The style, the character design, even races.
There is also an alien evil type of thing that looks awfully reminiscent to the seed.

What this has to be with PSO2? It's actually about Phantasy Star Nova, beign produced by the same company that created Star Ocean.
Now it has been reveled that is Tri-Ace who is going to do the complete game, and that SEGA and Sakai Team will only be the watchful eye to guide them trough the process.

Motoi Sakuraba (one of the most underrated composers in gaming history) is going to do the music, and its a complete different genre to what PS franchise has used all this years. Prepare yourself for good old hard rock with gigantic Hammond organs.

Anyway, the point of this topic is...
Star Ocean team finally stopped trying to copy Coca Cola, and where actually hired by Coca Cola to produce the original product?