Gameplayer has gone live with a postive review of the latest JRPG from Square Enix. In particular they praise the way the developer mixes up the usual turn-based gameplay with an awesome new battle system.
"There are some things in life that just belong together, like bikinis and the beach, or beer and beef jerky on a hot summer's day, or closer to home, Square Enix and turn-based RPGs. There's no other developer that has a richer or prouder history, or deeper pedigree in the genre. Many other developers in their position would be happy to rest on their laurels and churn out mediocre stock, but not our buddies at Enix. They're not happy until they've flipped the script and turned the genre on its head. That's just what they've done with The Last Remnant, by injecting something we never thought we'd see in the stop-start world of the JRPG, and that's a healthy dose of adrenaline."
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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.
At least some people like it. I hope I'm one of them!
Well to be honest I trust IGN more...
Hmm, a mediocre game that was for 360 and PS3 and got delayed only for PS3. Who's betting we will see The Last Remnant: Inferno for PS3 in 6 months?
Am I the only one left that only uses reviews as a guildline? The only person that buy the games he wants? The only gamer(on this website as least) That can decide what games he wants to buy on his own? I guess I am because from the looks of thinks it looks like I'm the only gamer here that buys the games he wants to play! I guess gamers (on N4G at least) have lost the abillty To buy a game without looking at reviews!
Reviews are all over the place with this one. Still not much above an 8. I really hope they got their best team working on the FF XIII saga. I really want them to be good. Especially Versus. That game looks dark and awesome.