Star Ocean: The Second Story R is a story-driven JRPG with many playable characters and two main characters. Since players get to choose from seeing the story from either the female Rena's perspective or the male Claude's and get to choose between characters to get in their party, they might wonder if there is an option to romance their companions. There is a sort of romance system in this Star Ocean game, but it’s not like modern friendship and romance systems at all.