http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/1217192_1407.html

Famitsu Reports: Infinite Undiscovery borrows Star Ocean's Private Events



from VGCHARTZ

Below is a garbled excerpt from a babel-fish like translation of the page that talks about the new "private Event" segments in Infinite Undiscovery.  Private events in the Star Ocean series allowed you, under certain circumstances, to speak with other characters and learn more about their back story.  In other instances it was used to show what characters that had left the party were up to.



What the page seems to show are some examples of this in use, primarily a list of characters, and what they do while they are away from the party and what they do when they are speaking only with the main character privately. 

Sorry the the garbled language, but it was the best I could do with an entirely Japanese website.

"Towns and villages and into the party character is temporarily away from the party, each in his own actions here and there to make.  They found that the conversation can occur in a "private event (PE)".  The important thing is for this event and to see friends and Kapell, set between the "emotional value" changes. The emotional value of the Battle of peer influence the actions of important factors. ."

Sounds exactly like what is in Star Ocean or even the "Tales of..." series to me, this could really help establish the characters if done well.  what I gather that this is saying, is that these events lead to emotional changes between characters and helps their relationships, if you do enough, you could have things happen to influence battles or major story points.

Gametrailers Review:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38434.html?rdir=1&

Ogre battling gameplay:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38370.html