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Darc Requiem on 11 July 2010
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Wagram said:
poroporo said:
Wagram said:

XIII is my 2nd best game of the gen. The Last Remnant is the first for me. It felt the most like a JRPG, and I LOVED the challenge. Tech issues and all!

Give me more JRPG square!

I played TLR on a fairly powerful machine and had a blast, but I had a very hard time to get passed certain parts. How (FF-like) frustrating! Depending on your ranking, bosses can be a real pain. Big minus for me.

I ended up beating the true version of the final boss. OMG he is a PRICK!

 

You have to do every quest in order to unlock him. and some of those quests are evil. Sadly some are missable so you have to always keep an eye on it.


The Last Remnant is an awesome game. I wish SE would have given it FFXIII's production values because TLR is the far better game. I liked it on 360 but the PC version is flat out awesome. Although the PC version is even harder than the 360 version since they had to compensate for removing the leader limits. Anyway, let me get back on topic.

FFXIII was a huge disappointment. Given the length of it's development time, I expected a far more engrossing experience. FFXIII played like a game on limited budget. JRPG's are linear but FFXIII takes it to a new level. It takes away the illusion of choice and exploration that most JRPG's provide. By trimming off the fat, they cut out the fun. FFXIII is extremely monotonous. You fight towards the cutscene, watch it, and fight towards the cut scene again.

In order to get away with the structure they chose for FFXIII, the development team needed a far stronger cast. Since there are no towns or little to nothing to distract you from the main objective, FFXIII needed a strong cast of characters. Outside of Sazh none of the characters are exceptional. While on the opposite side of the spectrum, Hope and Vanille were atrocious. Hope's unjustifiable bitching and moaning was flat out annoying. Don't blame Snow for your lack of a backbone. Vanille has no redeemable qualities what so ever. She was too cheery for no reason, her walk/run animation even annoyed me, and given who she gets paired with for the initial part of the game her character makes no damned sense. Don't get me started on the fact that the whole game before Pulse is freaking tutorial....

Before FFXIII was release they said the game was a lot like FFX, no FFX was a far better game. FFXIII is not very good. I didn't like FFXII but I could at least see why others enjoyed that game. I had low expectations for FFXIII and it didn't even meet those. The Final Fantasy franchise is sorely missing Sakaguchi...