Even when you used the same attack, the camera would act differently. I was transfixed by the dynamic, cinematic action of the camera, that swooped and panned and zoomed. I remember when I played Final Fantasy VII for the first time. Those who did found that The Last Remnant does not deserve to be ignored.
Or was it Nobuo Uematsu’s stellar soundtrack, one of his best, that inspired them to keep going? Perhaps, like me, they had seen the trailer and considered Yusuke Naora’s invigorating character designs too exceptional to give up on.
But I don’t think anyone was prepared for the matrix of numbers and jargon they are hit with during their first battle, which Takai himself describes as dense, confusing and overwhelming for players.īeyond the middling reviews, baffling battle displays, graphical glitches, and even beyond an uninspiring main character, some players pressed on. Perhaps SaGa players were more comfortable gaining new skills based on how much you use them, stats increasing individually following a battle rather than during a level up, and having less guidance in where to travel to next. The director of The Last Remnant, Hiroshi Takai, came from working on the Romancing SaGa series, which played differently to the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quests games more of us are familiar with. Perhaps these are the reasons The Last Remnant hasn’t enjoyed the popularity and sequels it deserves - or perhaps it was just too different to what people were used to. Both this and the technical problems were fixed for the PC version. In additional to the technical issues (no doubt resulting from Square’s unfamiliarity with Unreal Engine), the most damning and lasting complaint is that grinding out fights can result in over-scaled enemies and potentially unwinnable scenarios. Today it is still considered the worst way to play the game.
The original XBox 360 release had a lukewarm reception.
The game has been released in three, somewhat distinct forms: The Last Remnant for XBox 360 The Last Remnant for PC, which rebalanced things somewhat dramatically ad The Last Remnant for PS4, remastered for Unreal Engine 4. If so, this attitude carried over to the gameplay as well. For these reasons and others, it’s easy to see The Last Remnant as a guinea-pig project, used to test the water for some ambitious future plans. It was also the first for which mouth animations were synced to the English, not Japanese, voice actors. The Last Remnant was the first Square Enix game to release in the east and west simultaneously.
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