It’s on the Squarenix humble bumble ( https://www.humblebundle.com/ ) right now. I mistaked it for the Last Ranker and got excited but then remembered that never came out here.
So someone tell me about this game! Any good? What’s it about? How’s the battle system?
Actually, this trailer looks really boring, n/m.
Last Remnant is often regarded as a quasi-SaGa game, as Akitoshi Kawazu was the executive producer and scenario writer and it uses a lot of SaGa series mechanics (random skill learning by using weapons, etc.) and references (weapon and skill names, etc.). If you like the PS2 Romancing SaGa’s battle system, you might dig the rather similar system in Last Remnant.
If the preceding paragraph does nothing for you, it’s probably fine to skip this game. If that does catch your interest, the game is cheap enough that it’s worth checking out and the PC version is definitely the best way to play (360 version is a bit technically janky). I do love SaGa but never did give Last Remnant the time I’d like to. If you don’t end up getting it in the humble bundle, I’ve seen it dirt cheap on Steam sales multiple times.
I don’t know enough about the plot to speak with any authority, but IIRC it’s non-linear in typical SaGa fashion, and incomprehensible JRPG bullshit in the story department. This is definitely a game that lives or dies more on its battle mechanics than a particularly compelling story.
I think this was the one that had something to do with mass-battle formations, as well?
Yeaaah… that doesn’t sound appealing to me. I don’t have time to play RPGs in general these days anyway much less obtuse ones like a SaGa game.
Thanks for the info, firenze!
kimimi (who I would love to have posting on our delightful forum) likes it a lot.
Yep, from what little I played, there was a strange multi-party battle system with indirect control.
The thread’s got me interested in it, I have to admit. I might take it for a spin, since the graphics card I have now might be able to run it better.
It’s worth noting that the console versions and the PC version are, apparently, very different games.
It does that rare thing where you don’t actually control your parties directly, but instead you select general actions you want the group to (possibly) perform. It sounds terrible, but holy shit did famitsu give this a 38 out of 40 whoa i wonder how much that bribe cost
Last Remnant is to SaGa what SaGa is to Final Fantasy. It is a fucking mess. I liked it a lot and would not recommend it to anyone.
I played the 360 version. I don’t know if the pc version is different about it, but the 360 version highly punishes you (in the long term) for being high levelled, so the basic game strat is to try to stay very close to the power curve and kill the lowest amount of enemies that´s still enough to barely beat bosses.
That means you never get that RPG feeling of being properly levelled. The game is dangerous and stressful all the time and it is some 50+ hours monstrosity.
I remember Gamefaqs being full of the graves of people who grinded in that game and got hopelessly stuck on lategame bosses.
There are a bazillion characters, items and mechanics and you never get any direct control over your characters.
The PC version made the game much more forgiving and accessible. My favorite part about the 360 version is how your AI partners got their pick of end-battle loot, meaning it was very possible for one of your weak AI buddies to grab the unique weapon a boss just dropped before you could. The battle system is definitely very unique with its quasi-random battle commands and importance on the directional facing of your characters in spite of there being no real movement commands. I never got too far but I’ve been meaning to get back to it at some point. But I’m a SaGa guy who like Unlimited SaGa so I guess I’m a weird one anyway.
Ahh the true recommendation of any SaGa game.
This would have made me so incredibly salty in the moment, but I would have looked back on it fondly
Yeah, now the game is stating to sound appealing.
Is there a plot? Is it interesting? It looks real generic from that trailer.
Surrender all your expectations of a halfway decent plot. And unlike SaGa, the last remnant doesn’t even have the good sense to consider story as secondary.
The only bizarre/interesting part is that you meet this Gackt inspired tan blonde prince called Dave. You immediately become best friends forever/probably secret lovers, and from that moment on he’s the new center of attention for the rest of the game.
I liked the world a lot. Cities are inspired by FFXII: Full of life, detailed, hinting at a larger scale, full of weird creatures like feline warriors with four arms.
This is the first game that made me realize that vidcon stairs are ridiculous. Because I kept looking at the architecture.
(Vidcon stairs have like 45 degrees angles and no landings. No architect could ever get away with this. Bloodborne is the worst game about this: there are people in wheelchairs surrounded by stairs)
i feel like that is totally in keeping w/ bloodborne, haha.
(now i will look at all vidcon stairs. thanks, tux)
i’ve been playing this game. it’s quite good! it’s also completely alienating. it’s also quite bad!
i love it
i will share some screenshots
i have died to the same boss i think 10+ times now
this fucker
holy shit this game is cruel
after going in blind until now, i’ve started reading a few things about the game and it seems quite possible that my save file is already fucked beyond repair lmfao
TRUE KAWAZU HOURS
streaming it now. i might start a new save file if i can’t beat this boss with my current team because grinding doesn’t help in this game
Cool thread. I’m waiting for Dave to show up
This game sounds like it would be unplayable for me. It’s too bad I don’t have a means to record console games, reminds me I have a copy of Lost Odyssey that I’m also not playing
