A new preview by GameSpot shows some features of the battle system in Star Ocean: The Last Hope for the Xbox 360 as well as the beginning story. After the SRF is assembled, Edge and Reimi land on a planet resembling Earth in its Jurassic time where they run into some bug baddies. That’s where they meet Faize, who’s civilization is technologically advanced than that of Earth’s.

The battle system looks simply awesome. A new feature in the system is blindsiding, which basically allows you to go into slow-motion as an enemy is attacking you and run behind them launching a critical strike. Once you get the timing right, it’s quite useful. Hit the jump for the video preview showing some brand new gameplay.