Sugoi SE! Graphics A+++! Great concept and execution of Japanese RPG to PC as of late, but nothing ground breaking.
~It's a fantasy world with a dash of kidnapping, a pinch of Mystical items the hero can use, and not to mention a four armed rabit/wolfman? I've just entered the world of The Last Remnant!
I am a SNES/PS1/PS2 RPG player in my days and the best IMHO are the oriental, lore or anime-ish art and story drama that make good RPG titles, well for me anyways. Seen the scene with R2D2/Princess Leah hologram? Lol
Anyhow, I love Japan RPGS imports!!! I am intrigued by the story so far about *spoiler spoiler* and can't wait for the next twist. hehe
LETS BATTLE!
~What won me over was the Battle system (reminiscent of Suikoden2, but this gots more 3on3 that a platoon on 50 feel, anybody understand what i'm trying to say?), sorta mixed COHwarhameri-ish unit w/o the RTS feel, o well. I just looove the stat,skill,equipment upgrading buy/sell, and char-lvl-uping aspects of RPGs and the action graphic sequences are dazzling!
Pretty Pretty Pictures! and nice Dialogue...
~I remember playing campaign of COD for the 1st time (and thats coming from me last thing i played was Doom1, ahhhh, oooh.... I was blown away in that same way. I had it playing on high on my so-so 8800GT512 OCed/C2D e6400@2.66 and i noticed little frame rate dropping, so i lowered setting to med on towns and dungeons, but high on the awesome battles mode(i think thats what i did.) The character's facial expressions in cutscenes where good, but becomes robotic and pauses a bit in those 3D rendered scenes in towns. i liked the Japanese lang set and eng subbing, but just noticed that the lips followed the english script more.
Awww, The Downside...
~The loading as others have mentioned is probably my biggest gripe, but story-wise,Voice acting and battle system/grfx make up for it. (Pretty stuff naturally affects the length of the loads so that's that.)
My VERDICT....
~I would recommend this game to those into the FF/Suikoden kinda titles on the PC. It gets yer fix for those epic Japanese RPG games. Try out the Demo if your wary, I dove head first and dd not regret coz lets face it, its Square Enix!
Arigatou for reading my review of The Last Remant! *bow*