I do love ogre battle.

I agree with you. However, you are ignorant, simply because you haven't played all of the jrpgs on the Xbox 360, yet you've generalized them based on a console. Tales of Vesperia is one of the best games on the console. Yes sir, it is. To be clear, I've probably played double the jrpgs you have, and my opinion is certainly much more refined, to say the least....imho, that is.

Now, I don't know you very well, but I'm just generalizing everyone on this forum. Ya know, like you did on the Xbox 360 and its jrpg lineup.

There's always people who think they know things. You know these guys. The ones who played a tales game on the PS1 and think the series sucks. These people who played RE3, and think that RE4 is pretty much the same. These people who haven't played a Tekken since Tag and think they know the series.

Most people, probably even you, whoever you are, reading this...you don't really know much about gaming. You have your opinions and you have a right to them, but most of the time they are full of flawed logic.

You need to change your approach. Take a more Zen attitude about the subject. Realize that there are things which are good that you simply have never experienced. Realize that your first impressions aren't always indicative of an entire product, and realize that generalizations are a human element. Generalizations are always ignorant. Nothing is ever uniform, and your opinion is never fully wrong, however it is also never nearly right. If you can work that out, you'll immediately know more about what you're talking about thatn 95 percent of those around you. These things come with age, though. PM me, let's chat.

Probably the smartest post since I've seen that guy who has an avatar with a cat yawning.

The Last Remnant, IMO is the least like ANY JRPG you've probably played in quite some time.

The storyline is a very typical JRPG, but has good production values with it (think LO or FFXII for most aspects)

The battle system & class system is heavily from SRPGs such as Final Fantasy Tactics and Ogre Battle

The level system & character progression system is certainly Western - Very similar to Morrowind/Oblivion (ie, the more you use certain skills, the better they become, and your character begins to gravitate toward that skillset). No XP is involved in the game whatsoever. You do have a global level called a 'battle rank' that is the aggregate standing of all your characters, but it's very vague. Also, like most of my WRPG characters, the lead guy - Rush - is becoming a jack of all trades - he has skills for virtually every aspect of the game - one & two handed sword arts, magic, items, potions, and limit breaks.

Oh, and the cash system is certainly WRPG-esque, and probably the BEST I've seen from a JRPG. No more 'kill the slime and find 10 gold pieces'. Instead, gold is VERY rare to get, even in treasure chests. To get money, you must either capture the enemies you fight, live, and sell them, or butcher them for synthesis pieces. It's probably the most difficult game I've played when it comes to getting gold, because it's so rare, and trade-in rates on items is like 1/8th of the purchase value...As opposed to the standard 1/2 we see in all JRPGs.

At least give it a rent. TLR, I believe, is a very polarizing game. It has it's flaws, and some may hate the game for it. However, it's far from the status quo of standard JRPGs, and I really like the depth the game offers.

I still don't agree Mr. Stickball it's probably because I have some pretty bad luck in games. There's times in Last Remnant that just screams "Strategery?! More like LUCK!" (in caps because I'm really frustrated when things like this happen)

Take for example one time fighting a boss, after fighting a big battle that took half an hour I get to the boss without the option to save. First turn what happens? Their group synergizes black hole...I'd never even heard of it before and I was 20 hours into the game, this crap isn't even in the booklet. They cast a giant black hole and my whole team wipes instantly. What amount of strategy can protect me from this? Other times a union is downed and for some odd reason despite having 2 healers in each of my 4 unions none of them will get the revive command...

Search for youtube videos of Last Remnant strats you'll find a bunch of them exploit the synergy option -_-. So now if I want to make the game easy all I have to do is get 4 unions of casters, make sure the leader can cast an attack spell and hope I get lucky and synergize constantly. A synergized Black Hole hits everything on screen ridiculous...This game is so broken and I blame the fact that Square kept the guy working on FF12 I hate him with a passion.

I'm thinking of getting this game. After playing fable and fallout I just want to keep on playing RPG's.