Famitsu Magazine have had the chance to interview the producers and designers of The Last Remnant for PS3 and Xbox 360. The people interviewed were Hiroshi Takai (battle system director on Romancing Saga Minstrel Song), chief artist Kimihiko Miyamae (background director for FF and SaGa titles), art producer Yusuke Naora (art direction on FF and SaGa games) and producer Nobuyuki Ueda (project management for the SaGa series).
They discussed The Last Remnant's backgound and their personal involvement in the production of the game.
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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.
cant wait
You people realise the the current PS3 Sales in Japan are almost as bad as the 360's?
For the past 2 months it's been around:
Wii - 60k
PS3 - 9k
360 - 3k
Go look at the Japanese NPD numbers.
Anyway, more great games headed my way. Can't wait for the Achievements listing.
How I see it... SquareEnix will see the better sales numbers of the 360 vs the PS3... more and more games will be multi then exclusives will be showing up on the 360. It'll be a trend.
Anyways, this game looks decent. But I'm holding out for Lost Odyssey.