IGN'S Erik Brudvig writes: The Last Remnant is a game I wanted to like. If you like turn-based role-playing games, you probably will want to like it too. The longer you play it, though, the less appetizing it becomes. The Last Remnant is a game that falls short in nearly every way it can. While playing I occasionally found myself having fun, only to run into frustration, technical flaws, and confused game design. This is not a good JRPG.
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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.
I personally have not played any game below 80 and thought wow this should have been 80-90 game. The only game I thought should have been 90 was Shadow Hearts II: Covenant. I am pretty sure there will be some games but average score usually is pretty good indication.
do you recommend any JRPG which you think were good/amazing but it didn't score well? I just purchased Tokyo xanadu but it seems way too slow like trails game but trail at least has good story. I will give it a shot
I think there were quite a few JRPG games that got hit with lower meta scores last gen when all these reviewers were on their anti-anime tropes kick. Not that they should get up there into the high 80s or 90s, but they weren't 60-70 games either.
That's mostly died off this gen, thankfully
I think Ni No Kuni 2 combat is pretty generic but if you add all DLCs then its combat is pretty awesome. I purchased the complete edition so I can say DLC changes the combat completely
Useless to argument troll, but e.g. Eat Lead is hilarious and extremely funny, yet mediocre on metastupids.... Lords of the Fallen, Strange brigade... I could name hundreds
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.
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.
Ouch.
C'mon Squeenix, you can do better than that.
Well thats it bye-bye square enix. Hello Level 5 and Mistwalker.
Dear Square Enix,
Making multiplatform games only increases revenues when they DON'T suck. If FF13 is ass, I'll never forgive you.
How low can you go, How low can you go!! Seriously though, Square-Enix is failing Hard. they used to be so good, but now they became greedy. the proof is right there, the Use of the UE engine, cutting dev time short, I dont understand how Famitsu gave this game a High score in the first place.
I would not be surprised if FFXIII, FFVXIII,and SO4 become mediocre as well. RIP square-enix. Funny how it all started with them developing games on the 360.