Gameplayer has gone live with a look at the next RPG for Final Fantasy developer Square Enix entitled The Last Remnant. The article focuses on the amazing new combat experience.
"While Koei's long-running hack 'n' slash series isn't the direct influence on Square-Enix's new direction, the similarities are easy to see. Remnant scales out the 'three versus three' clashes that have been the genre's standard since the original Final Fantasy in the '80s. Combatants now flow across the fields of battle in their hundreds, as central characters are supported by armoured legions (soldiers enlisted from Remnant's four main humanoid races)."
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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.
sounds vaguely like bladestorm 100 years war. sort of. kinda.
i'll reserve judgement until i see more of it.
though i'm pretty sure that square's vision of "the future of the rpg" is something akin to FFXIII. that free flowing, advent children-esque combat. but only time will tell what they do.
Whens this coming out ? was it delayed I need a good rpg already and mass effect is 16 days away thats too long :(.
PS3 owner.
From what I've seen of it, it doesn't look too interesting. My top RPGs for 2008 are White Knight Chronicles, Fallout 3, and hopefully one of the FFXIII (just a hopeful wish though).
I am sort of interest in this game but I would like to see more till then I set my eyes on Lost Odyssey as my JRPG of choice for my 360