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mrstickball on 09 February 2009
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Destiny Blade said:
Eternal Sonata isn't great, but it's certainly better The Last Remnant.

Last Remnant has so many issues holding it. I wouldn't even call it an average RPG. Eternal Sonata's biggest problems, in my opinion, are it's somewhat boring story and it gets repetitive. It was still a well put together game, though, unlike The Last Remnant. Eternal Sonata is technically superior.

Sorry my opinion is controversial, but Eternal Sonata is merely mediocre. It had so much going for it, but fell flat on it's face in so many areas (whereas something like Tales of Vesperia hit flawlessly).

The cons with Eternal Sonata were:

  • Storyline was GARBAGE. At the end of the 30hr game, my fiancee and I were litterally making up the dialogue. It was so incredibly horrible. Incomprehensible would be the world. It made no sense. Chopin died in real life to help out Polka Dot? WTF?!
  • Along with the storyline, the dialogue is horrible. Abysmal. Cutscenes in battle for high-echo combos are incredibly dumb 'Use the power of the melancholy rain of nothingness! Golden Shower attack, NOWWOWWOWSHAMWOW!
  • Gold/Economy system is abysmal. You can litterally gather all the gold needed for the ENTIRE GAME within 15 minutes of starting (10 photos of the first boss, FYI).
  • Viola is vastly overpowered.
  • Battle system is garbage later on. It starts out nice, thinking 'oh man, this is cool!' but once you learn Harmony Chains, it comes down to simple button mashing. The first playthrough becomes oh-so boring, being able to deal out 1,000,000 damage per round.

There are good points to it. I'm not saying it's worse than IU or EM. I'd put ES just below TLR around a 7.6-7.8 depending on my mood. The visuals, loading times, and music are all great. But what could have been a grand game fell flat on it's face thanks to a horrible translation, and poor gameplay decisions. When you can compare Tales of Vesperia to Eternal Sonata, it's hard to make a comparison: It's like comparing Beyond the Beyond to Final Fantasy VII. You just know which one did similar things, but tons better.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.