First Impressions of The Last Remnant

I've been playing the Last Remnant and so far it's pretty sweet. I did have to install the game onto my Xbox to get rid of choppiness during the battles, though. But, whatever, that ain't no big deal. The voice acting beats the crap out of Infinite Undiscovery and the battles are more to my liking, there's an example included later in this post. But first, here's a few screenshots to give you an impression of the graphics and characters, etc.


Protagonist standing in one of the earlier game environments.


Bizarrely dressed king David, one of your homies. That's you on the right...or half of you.


Super fruity bad guy who keeps covering his face with a fan.


A bit of in-game commentary from this random girl on the king's clothing.


That looks to be one of the main baddies, giving us all a valuable lesson about women.

I haven't played much so I can't really go too deep into the details of the battle system, but basically you fight in groups of 4-5, giving each group a command like "attack with combat arts" or "keep your hp up" and the group acts accordingly. The battles consist of many encounters between groups of enemies and your "troops" or "divisions", this allows for different modes of attacking like flank attacks, or interference, where your men get in the way of an oncoming enemy group. You'll notice in the video when 2 groups approach each other it says "Deadlock", meaning that these 2 groups will fight until one has been terminated, or until one breaks the deadlock which has adverse effects on their damage, stats, etc. I don't know if any of that made any sense...I'm not even sure it makes sense when you're playing it, but it's turn-based and fun. Here's a video of a rather long battle, I think it's around 3 minutes. It showcases the basics of the battle system. See if you can keep up with the chaos...



No, there isn't supposed to be sound, can't figure that out on my digital camera, and yes, I did videotape myself playing video games.

More on this later.

Alright, Infinite Undiscovery Gets Like a B or Something

So by the end the game picked up some steam, the last 10 hours were pretty tight. Just cooler environments, your protagonist finally grew a pair, and there was plenty of innuendo-induced dialogue to keep me happy. Here are some pictures so that we can share the experience together.


Aya, in-game companion looking towards the protagonist in a very starry-eyed manner.


Here's the final boss.


Here he is exploding!


I ate this before the last boss: turkey, lettuce, tomato, mayo, mustard and a balsamic vinegrette that I concocted.


Lunar palace, one of the cooler environments.


Same as above, different view.

Last Remnant is next...maybe after I finish GTA though.

Infinite Undiscovery is Fun, Not Amazing

That on the left is a picture of the chains that bind the moon to the earth that you are supposed to destroy in Infinite Undiscovery. I do not know why you have to destroy them except that they make bad things happen. I also don't really know who put them there or why, and I've played the game for 15 hours. With that said, my main problems with Infinite Undiscovery lie in relatively dull storyline, the lack of a comprehensive enemy that I could find except a very vague evil "Order" of some sort, and some personal issues I have with real-time-combat based RPGs. Also, the voice-acting is so comically bad it actually makes it enjoyable in a strange way. But hell, as I mentioned above, I've played 15 hours in 2 days so it can't be that bad...or I'm just really bored.


The sissy up front with the armor is your dude. Yes, the armor is cool, but it takes 10 hours of running around in another different and ridiculous outfit to get it. Also, notice the little kids because I find them disturbing to look at for some reason.

Seriously though, what's up with Square Enix and completely weak, pussytastic main characters? It pisses me off to watch the guy I just used to totally whup a whole bunch of demons and crap with a huge sword pussyfoot around making any decisions while complaining about how it's too much responsibility. Anyway, the combat is better than FF XII where you could just program in your actions and let your party fend for itself, I didn't touch the controller for the entire boss battle on that one. Which is boring.


That's what the fighting is like, target your guy and then you hit buttons for combos of different attacks or special attacks. You can also link your guy with another character and employ their help which is kinda cool. However, it comes out looking a lot more chaotic than that during most of your gameplay.

However, all those things aside, it actually comes out to a relatively enjoyable game in that the dialogue has funny little sexual asides and stupid jokes, the battles are mostly pretty fun and you can do some cool stuff like make your own items and armor. So I'd give it a C+ or something because it's fun while not being an amazing game overall.



Thanks for pictures IGN...don't sue.

I didn't Finish Lost Odyssey so I Made Tiny Sandwiches and Large Martinis

I just didn't have time! Actually, that's not true I just didn't play it much. The game has progressed to a point that occurs in many great RPGs, the "where the fuck do you go now" point. Yes, they give you a boat and some vague instructions and basically push you off without even a word of encouragement. I find it very rude.

As a consolation for my game-related troubles, I made myself a series of tiny PB and J sandwiches and Martinis with pickle juice (Pickletinis, if you will). Just delicious.

I Get to Finish Lost Odyssey!

Hooray for me! I'm back at my parent's house for the week so I can make delicious use of the High Definition wonderfulness that is their TV.
It's been a long 2 months...or something...since I've played Lost Odyssey after having been denied continued play just after reaching the final disk. But, be warned game, you will be defeated soon, and then I'll write about the crappy ending you will no doubt deliver to me.