Not Final Fantasy! (The Last Remnant (Xbox 360))

Member Name: heekeer

Product:	The Last Remnant (Xbox 360)
Date:	02/08/09 (31 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Interesting spin on turn based combat

Disadvantages: Difficulty, bad story, slowdown, poor graphics

The Last Remnant is a RPG developed by Square Enix, the company that brought you the magnificent Final Fantasy series.

The lead character here is Rush Sykes and he is your stereotypical RPG hero, his sister is kidnapped due to his parents involvement in research with the magical entities known as Remnants. Rush must rescue his sister and on the way he has to save the world as well! The story here didn't really hook me at all and I found Rush to be a slightly boring character.

The battle system in this game is one of the most unique spins on the turn based formula, you can create unions with up to five characters per union, you can recruit more at guilds. Instead of giving your units direct commands you give them a kind of guideline of what to do like attack with magick arts, attack with full force, heal your allies and so on. This is a little strange because sometimes you want to do something but the command is not available for you to select.

The battle system also suffers from horrible slowdown even when installed to the Xbox 360 hard drive, this makes what would be slow battles even slower. The game isn't even that impressive visually, it reminds me of Final Fantasy 12 which was on the Playstation 2, so I don't know why it chugs along.

The games difficulty is all over the place too, without you grinding out the sidequests and enemies, which will take you numerous hours to do, you will be bound to lose at points in the game as there are some extremely tough boss fights here.

I didn't really have much fun with this game, the lacklustre clichéd story was lame, the battle system was interesting but to random and the game suffers from slowdown.

Summary: A poor RPG.