its almost exactly like it.
just diff plot,and char, and so on.

It looks like it quite a bit at first glance. Of course, that is probably do to the space theme. I have never actually played Star Ocean, so I wouldn't be able to compare the looks of both games. ^^;

Well I think it looks like many games like

DQ,Dark Cloud, Shadow Of Rome, FF DOC...etc...

But it kinda remind me about star ocean even tho I don't have it >.<

A little bit, yes. The battles aren't that similar, though.

I get reminded of the city in the intro to play on Final Fantasy X. It's the cities that hold a similarity for me.

I thought the same thing when I first got access to the factory. I was like "Ya know, this is kinda like a twist on the whole Item Creation thing from Star Ocean!"

I actually don't really see the resemblance... =\

The only overlapping theme is just the space-travel thing. The battle system is muuuch slower than SO, the characters are a lot diverse than SO, and I actually liked this game's storyline better than SO3 (however, SO2's storyline is muuch superior).