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I wish The Last Story would make a comeback.I played it years before I got around to Xenoblade. Mainly because of the scalping going on because of Xeno's limited run. It took me a few tries to get into it but once I did I couldn't put it down. A Wii hidden gem for sure.
I wish the Last Story get a Switch remaster or remake. That game deserves a second chance
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I'm 12 hours into this game and not overly impressed. Its just not what i expected.
xenoblade was epic... this last story is linear and has a very small vision in comparison.
Its hardly an rpg either. its just a hack and slash with a levelling system draped over it.
there is no real exploration, the game sections are forced on you in chapters... so you can't explore different areas at your own leisure.
it is a 'good' game, just not the game i thought it would be, or the game these reviews make it out to be.
"The linear style with detailed character development is great, but because i was expecting a game with sprawling landscapes and epic scale similar to xenoblade... I was always going to be disappointed."
Sounds to me like you completely had the wrong idea of what TLS is like. Did you do any research at all? If you had, you would have known that TLS is a much, much more local tale and is more character and story driven. It's not like TLS' trailers showed characters running through endless fields like how the Xenoblade trailer did. How did you get the idea that the two would be the same? Just because they're both jrpgs?
Also, I don't think it's entirely correct to say TLS has a much smaller vision. While it's true that Xenoblade does cover the entirety of a world(or 2), TLS explores its setting in much, much greater detail. Therefore, when you're referring to which game had the "bigger vision", it depends on whether you're referring to the amount of land present or the amount of detail that's present. While Xenoblade covers more space, TLS is kind of like taking a section of the world and putting it under a microscope.