The Last Story Review! - Destructoid ("If The Last Story is the Wii's swan song, it is a miserable dirge, full of regret and remorse.")

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d21lewis on 15 August 2012

Thought it released yesterday but I guess Wikipedia was wrong. Gamestop told me I could get it on Friday. I'll read the review after I beat it.

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mike_intellivision on 15 August 2012

http://kotaku.com/5933599/the-last-story-is-one-of-the-best-rpgs-ive-played-in-years

Completely different opinion -- with explanation for what the Game Informer reviewer didn't understand -- from Kotaku.

In other words, Sterling's score is looking for some attention.

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DigitalDevilSummoner on 15 August 2012

i have to agree he sounds like the patcher of reviews, trying to be "controversial" in order to get attention.
Gaming journalism just got another kick in the nuts

from wikipedia

Aggregator Score
GameStats 9.0 of 10

Publication Score
Computer and Video Games 8.5 of 10
Edge 8 of 10
Eurogamer 9 of 10 (Germany)
9 of 10 (Italy)
9 of 10 (Sweden)
7 of 10 (UK)
Famitsu 38 of 40
GameSpot 9 of 10
IGN 8.5 of 10
Official Nintendo Magazine 86%
Cubed3 9 of 10
The Guardian 4/5
MeriStation 9 of 10
Metro GameCentral 8 of 10
Nintendo Gamer 85%
Vandal Online 9.2 of 10
XGN 9 of 10

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mothman on 15 August 2012

I'll play myself and draw my own conclusions. I don't pay too much attention to real game journalists (with exceptions) and I'm definitely not concerned what some wannabe with a wild hair up his ass has to say. He shouldn't quit his day job.

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Pavolink on 15 August 2012

brendude13 said:
He's a troll, he loves the attention. Same with FFXIII and AC2's 4/10. (!!!)

Do you mean Assassins Creed II? The one released in 2009? That beautiful and great game?

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RolStoppable said:
The game is a 6/10 at best, so Jim Sterling hasn't been overly harsh. It's hard to say how this game got so many good scores, but it was probably because Sakaguchi and Uematsu worked on it. Two legendary figures in the industry, so you can't give one of their games anything but a good score.

Anyway, the game is lacking on all ends. An average to good soundtrack, quite frequent framerate problems, extremely limited battle mechanics, gameplay being seen as something that had to be done ("Let's get this over with, so that we can continue telling our average to lame story.") and lack of content. It's a JRPG that has trouble to reach the 25 hours mark, including the unsatisfying sidequests.

Anyone who buys this game should set their expectations very low. You are better off by not buying it at all though.

Woah, so much low key hatred for this game.

I thought this game was fantastic and "frequent" frame rate problems? There are very few and they happen in big battles that I could name on one hand.

"It's a JRPG that has trouble to reach the 25 hours mark" What? The game was intentionally made to be only around 30-40 hours. Its not struggling. Its doing what its suppose to.

I say anyone who isn't biased against RPGs that come from Japan and NIntendo will enjoy this game greatly, especially if they are tired of the same of thing that you get over and over again on the PS3. Some people are really burnt about all these games being Nintendo only.

I loved the battle system for this game and I am looking foward to its next iteration.

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MDMAlliance on 15 August 2012

It's freaking Jim Sterling. He gave Kid Icarus a low score. He gave Mario Kart 7 a low score for being just like Mario Kart. Most of his reviews are much lower than they should be, and he's way too polar. He LOVES to say things like "This was both great in some places, but in other HORRENDOUS" or "If it weren't for _____ this game would be great, instead it's a piece of shit." Stuff like that. There's no "neutral" for him, he always has to be dramatic.

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lilbroex on 15 August 2012

pezus said:

lilbroex said:

RolStoppable said:
The game is a 6/10 at best, so Jim Sterling hasn't been overly harsh. It's hard to say how this game got so many good scores, but it was probably because Sakaguchi and Uematsu worked on it. Two legendary figures in the industry, so you can't give one of their games anything but a good score.

Anyway, the game is lacking on all ends. An average to good soundtrack, quite frequent framerate problems, extremely limited battle mechanics, gameplay being seen as something that had to be done ("Let's get this over with, so that we can continue telling our average to lame story.") and lack of content. It's a JRPG that has trouble to reach the 25 hours mark, including the unsatisfying sidequests.

Anyone who buys this game should set their expectations very low. You are better off by not buying it at all though.

Woah, so much low key hatred for this game.

I thought this game was fantastic and "frequent" frame rate problems? There are very few and they happen in big battles that I could name on one hand.

"It's a JRPG that has trouble to reach the 25 hours mark" What? The game was intentionally made to be only around 30-40 hours. Its not struggling. Its doing what its suppose to.

I say anyone who isn't biased against RPGs that come from Japan and NIntendo will enjoy this game greatly, especially if they are tired of the same of thing that you get over and over again on the PS3. Some people are really burnt about all these games being Nintendo only.

I loved the battle system for this game and I am looking foward to its next iteration.

I'm sure those are Rol's reasons lol

I wouldn't know what his reasons are, but I saw it a lot and still see it. I remember for a good while you find a single mention of the Last Story without some dude whining about it being on a Nintendo system and not on the PS3.