Metareview - The Last Remnant (Xbox 360)

I'm dissapointed. I was looking at the game's box the other day, and thought it looks pretty cool.

Still, I'm not that surprised after watching a gameplay video of it. Horrible texture pop-in, horrible animations, and a horrible frame-rate just sort of kill what could be an awesome game.

Hopefully these issues will be fixed for the PS3 and PC release, but my hopes aren't that high.

What they say is true, but I still have fun playing it. The fps issues without install make the game unplayable. With the new install on 360 it plays a bit better, makes it playable but still a lot of issues. So far i would give it an 8. Im still on disk one though. 2 disks total. I would wait for PS3/PC release if you are thinking about getting the game.

Graphical issues? It's a JRPG... 99% of them look like a decade behind.

Hmm the game is getting even worse scres than I predicted it would when the first videos and articles were released. I was guessing it would get in the low 70s but I guess it's in the 60s as of now.

This was easy to predict though. It's way too easy to pick up on a mediocre jrpg and this looked like one from the day it was announced.

Funny how critics didn't seem to mind the missing textures and loooooong load times of Mass Effect. They also didn't seem to mind that it locked up regularly for many players. I guess they loved the hours upon hours of mundane dialog and the ever so original story of a space marine having to save his planet, and with the epic plot twist of having to save the galaxy. Gee, its too bad other games don't have such original storylines.

Then again, if ME was a JRPG then everyone would say it sucked and was stuck in the 1990s.

Isn't this the first turn-based RPG with Live enabled multiplayer? I wonder how the co-op is integrated?

Aww.. I was hoping this would be an amazing title.. it looked great.

Woah that's sad...Well there's Star Ocean coming up, good thing the 360 stills has more "killer apps" RPG's.

Yeah review scores don't mean shit to me. Everybody was crying about how Lost Odyssey wasn't the perfect FFXII clone but I enjoyed the hell out of it.

Better question is do I get Infinite Undiscovery or The Last Remnant first, since I haven't gotten around to playing either yet.

Both the IGN and Eurogamer reviews are whining because it's an RPG. Duh. What were they expecting? At least the Gametrailers and GameSpot reviews are fair and accurate.

Also, TLR has noticeable technical issues, yes. However, there is NO IMPACT on gameplay. It shouldn't affect the score, nor be such a massive talking point. So many other games have worse issues this generation.

Is it just me, or have reviews lately been going all over the place for games? Going from crap 5/10, to decent 8/10 like this game.

i like it, although i do hate the frame rate drop when the characters do their attack animation & the mat popping

The sad reality is, no western reviewer ever gives a jrpg a good review or a fair one. Lost Odyssey was a fantastic jrpg yet it didn't really receive great reviews. Does that make it a bad game? Far from it. Ign saying its behind the curve is just so typical of just about any review on a jrpg. Unless the gameplay is totally different, its always called "behind the curve", which is total crap.

Basically, play the game yourself before going by reviewers, most of which don't even like the genre on a serious level. Most of them still consider FF7 to be the greatest jrpg since slice bread which it just wasn't. A good game thats been totally over rated as time has past.

If any of you get the chance to pick Lost Odyssey on the cheap, i really recommend it, its a good game that many over looked.

And people call the 360, king of jrpgs.

lol

I hope they fix the issues in the PS3/PC port.

An IGN score UNDER 7.0? I didn't think it was possible.

well i had been considering this one as an after christmas pick up but i may wanna rethink that. maybe they'll fix it for the PS3 release whenever that drops. with reviews that consistent, it's clear cut the technical issues overshadow the good stuff it does.

no use getting down about it though, there are plenty of good JRPG's out now as is (and im starting to sour on Squenix anyway...). ill just pass on this and keep an eye out for a patch or something.

Me say westerners taste different.

Me think Japanese taste good in The Remnant.

Different taste, different good.

That me say.

I'm sure no one is reading this anymore, but I must say I finally played the game and I have this to say. The game does lag during battle scenes sometimes (well, rather often) but it's not that bad and it's NOT IMPORTANT TO ACTUAL GAMEPLAY. You will not win or lose a fight because the frames dropped for a second or two. The texture pop-up everyone is complaining about is no worse than Halo 3 and NO ONE can say that that game is at ALL graphically intense or anything of the sort. this game is far better looking than halo 3 with the same amount/frequency of pop-up, (if you'd like you can add the comparison to mass effect). Anyway, the rest of game is actually fairly good so far. It's hard though. And it's not a typical "gain XP and level up" kind of system. It's actually refreshing to have a game that is outside the norm. So long as you're not a complainer and can look past simple flaws that don't really detract from the game, I'd recommend fans of the genre to pick up this game. It's worth it.

I've played the game for about 30 hours so far and I have to say it's by far the most revolutionary and forward thinking JRPG to date. The game is incredibly rewarding, you can challenge huge numbers of enemies, and it's your choice if you want to play it on the safe side and challenge 1 mob and beat it easily for small rewards, or risk it all and do the impossible and reap the huge rewards and character skill & item gains. I've never died as much in an RPG as I have in this one. Hell, I've beaten some epic 60 hour plus RPG's only dying a handfull of times. Not this game though. I use the manual timing system, and that is incredibly rewarding as well because I can nail almost 4 out of every 5 quick time events and it changes the outcome of the battle, they are that significant. The music is absolutely epic, as is the game and the atmosphere it conveys. If you like deep, challenging, and rewarding JRPG's, then look no further.