In this episode, we explore The History of The Last Remnant. A game the recently received a remastered release and had an interesting development cycle.
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Game Rant - "From Star Ocean to Final Fantasy, there have been a number of JRPG's that have been unfairly undervalued by their Metascores. Here are 10 examples."
While I agree that the combat in Star Ocean 5's combat is pretty fun, saying that its story is more enjoyable than its predecessors is highly debatable. Also, it's not just the technical issues the game suffers from.
Completely disagree the games I played from the list all deserve their scores (Star Ocean, Nier, Tales of Zesteria, Type-0). While there are certainly people that love these games, they have flaws in many categories, that justify those scores.
Star Ocean especially bored the hell out of me. Lame story and face roll battle system (I finished the game anyway). These games are really niche and when rated by a broader public, fall short. In my opinion even in their own genre.
The Last Remnant was one of the very few RPGs that Square Enix launched that was separate from the Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest franchises; when first released in 2008, that fact was enough to help garner some interest in the game. After all, Square Enix knew what it was doing when it came to turn based RPGs.
Truly A Lost Classic, not a chance, game was bland as fuck, plus terrible face expressions.
I liked it, but could not grasp the mechanics. I was reading if you grind for levels you actually make the game harder? Like, I'm not sure that's how it's supposed to work in these kinds of games, but yea aside from the mechanics I was getting into it.
Literally played it and thought it was completely bland and uninspired. The combat was utter garbage.
It's a good game, but the story is only okay. The gameplay is where the game really shines, but the game itself does an atrocious job of explaining it's own systems. Basically, you need to read a "what I wish I knew before I started" somewhere online, and then the game becomes great.