XboxOz360 writes: "The pedigree of titles Square Enix have developed is incredible. They and their separate entities are considered the premier Japanese Role Playing Game (JRPG) developers on the market. So with great anticipation I booted up my copy of The Last Remnant, but what ensued can only be described as the 'fall from grace' of Square Enix.
In terms of the story, The Last Remnant is certainly capable of holding its own against other recently released JRPG's. The young protagonist, Rush Sykes, is your typical melodramatic male teen, furiously devoted to those he loves, especially his sister."
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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.
It's a shame that Square Enix on the 360 is now looked at as a failed experiment because these games aren't up to FF standards.
You have the Sony fans jumping for joy about it, and the 360 fans saying the game is not up to scratch but it's okay because the next Final Fantasy will be on their console anyway.
I personally don't see too many exclusives in the future: it's about making money.
Well we know where THAT originated from, don't we (cough -sonyfanboisim-cough) . . Heaven help any company that tries to stay in business by expanding their position instead of closing their doors. After all, they are in business to serve the Sony gamers, NOT stay in business . . . remember ! (sarc btw ppl)
But on topic, I'm just NOT into the whole OTT Japanese RPG thing and turn-based games. Just do not do it for me, no matter which dev/pub house puts their name to it. Even Endwar from Ubi is not on my high list of must haves, even though it gets great scores.
Oh, and everyone seems to love the snow . . yeah . .
FF10 was the last real 'great' game from Square.. they really need to pick up the pace...
I think Square have drifted from their good times unfortunately, from what I've heard even FFXII was pretty bad, I've got high expectations for XIII but its not looking good.
Its not the platform its the genre and how long can one keep playing these boring games. We've all grown up from teh days of FF series on ps1. Nobody wants to play metrosexual characters with 10 hours of cutscenes and same turnbased fighting.