As 1UP sat down to write this preview, they reflected on the influence a major critical entity can have. In the case of White Knight Chronicles, their preconceived notions were strongly colored -- stained, really -- by a damning 29/40 review from Famitsu. The score seemed shockingly low, especially for a game coming from a major advertiser like Sony. Even the generally horrible Infinite Undiscovery did better (32/40), while the unfairly maligned The Last Remnant did much better (38/40). More alarmingly, Level-5's own disappointing Rogue Galaxy was considered the superior game (36/40). In short, they were expecting a disaster.
White Knight Chronicles is anything but. 1UP doesn't get the feeling the game is a vibrant masterpiece -- not yet, anyway -- but it is certainly superior to Infinite Undiscovery, and corrects most of the problems with the deeply flawed Rogue Galaxy.
Grab your longsword, shield and round up the fantasy archetypes - there are Ice Dragons afoot!
Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
I am kicking things off by going back to a familiar well here - with a song from the Neverwinter Nights soundtrack. This is still arguably one of my favorite music scores in a video game ever, but I decided to lead off with it and then create something of a theme as I decided to pull all of this edition's songs from RPG games.
Neverwinter Nights (PC) - Battle - Forest Boss
I touched on the somewhat mystical quality of another Neverwinter Nights song last week when discussing City Docks Day. There were a lot of really good battle tunes in this one, but the Forest Boss song always stood out in my mind. The battle itself was not even the most memorable one, but right around the one minute mark, it reaches an epic level that just stuck with me.
Digitally Downloaded writes: "Below are the ten games we'd like to see make their way to the new generation of consoles this year. Or, perhaps, game collections that could be pulled together into a single disc package for even better value as we have seen other recent HD/ Remaster releases."
B-But FFXII isn't last-gen. I'd love to see it remastered regardless though. Brilliantly fun game, I just disliked the story unfortunately.
story was ok, but very unlike the other ff storylines where there is a clear villian.
i just want the game for vita/ps4. international zodiac version would be interesting to play but i hope that the original glitches(?) are still there.
i had more fun breaking the game then playing the game properly.
would also be cool if they added dual wielding. would make some rare weapons actually useful.
I really would like to see a HD Remaster of both Twilight Princess & Skyward Sword. Those games deserve to be in HD
Are you saying that they could make Ni no Kuni look even better, because I would like to see that.
they could easily make that game look better. just make it as detailed as the animation. the 3d models had a lot less detail.
not saying it didnt look nice, just saying it could be improved a lot.
what i want to see:
Patapon HD Collection
FFIX & FFVII Remastered
MadWorld HD
Thrasher:Skate&Destroy HD
EA Skate series HD
Lumines Collection
VibRibbon remastered
Mario Galaxy 1&2 Remastered
BF1942 Remastered
man, i can't wait to get my hands on this game
Since when Rogue Galaxy is disappointing!?
I don't. I see this game and it my number 1 game for next year if God of War 3 isn't release next year.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but don't all RPG's usually have the same controls? Commands? Most have an open world? See where I'm going. So why all the Final Fantasy references. It kind of annoys me whenever a review or preview is put out for a RPG that they constantly compare it with Final Fantasy. As if it's the greatest RPG ever made. Every game isn't like Final Fantasy. Of course they move with the left stick but is FF the only game that does that, no. Of course most RPG's have similar commands and HUD. I don't mean to rant, but my point is please stop with the FF love affair, all their games were not that great, maybe only 5 were.
Sorry about that, now I can back to being my regular self.
and with that being said we could color this as the next highest rated RPG. and i hope They fix all those issues 1up put out in the previews and just to further state it.
"the generally horrible Infinite Undiscovery did better (32/40), while the unfairly maligned The Last Remnant did much better (38/40)" couldn't have said it better my self, Rogue Galaxy was nice too.
IU and TLR were gutter trash. and even in it's need fixing form This game already puts those trash games to shame. ^^ Bring on the epic WKC to the states