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TLR

  • Oct. 20th, 2009 at 10:25 PM
almighty_frog: (hitoshura)
Soooooo. I have been playing quite a lot of The Last Remnant - I'm currently just about to head into the Aqueducts in Nagapur and I've done all but two of the sidequests available. I'm saving those ones for grinding purposes (Cosmos Maiden and Wisdom's Echo). Both Rush and David have randomly learnt Blackout II, skipping Blackout, without me even quite knowing how that happened. Huh.

But. EMMA. Stupid bloody Squenix and their Aeris-style whallops. (Warning: major spoilers in the video.) I am also now deeply afraid of the Conqueror. Is it wrong that I want to see Conqueror/Emma now?

It says something about the way my mind works, though, that I'm not yet at the end of the first disk and I've already daydreamed up a dystopian AU where Rush is on the Conqueror's side.

However, stupid bloody Windows Vista keeps taking exception to TLR. Among other things, it has a) randomly sped up the battle speed in the middle of one battle and now I can't get it back to normal so Rush & Co look like the Energiser Bunny on speed, b) has bluescreened TWICE while I was playing the game, and c) keeps freezing the game in the middle of fights. Sometimes it comes back, sometimes not.

It says something that in the eight-odd years that I used Windows prior to getting the new laptop with Vista, I never once had a computer bluescreen on me. Since getting Vista? Three times in a year. Twice in the last fortnight.

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[personal profile] myopicmirror04 wrote:
Nov. 10th, 2009 03:02 am (UTC)
I'm a few days late with this...
Finally, someone I know who is playing TLR! I've come close to buying it a few times, but I've never read any good reviews on it, are you enjoying it?
almighty_frog: (hitoshura)
[personal profile] almighty_frog wrote:
Nov. 11th, 2009 08:26 pm (UTC)
Re: I'm a few days late with this...
I've got the PC version, which apparently has ironed out quite a lot of the XBOX's bugs, so if you look up the PC one it gets some pretty decent reviews.

Anyway, it hasn't quite got to the FFVII place in my heart, but it's damned close. The graphics are excellent, the music is great, the voice-acting is fantastic (with a very few, easily-ignorable exceptions), and the main storyline is ... mostly explained through sidequests, heh.

So far, it is a pretty good and enjoyable game, although the battles can get a bit repetitive at times, but that's only because the game gets a lot harder as you go along. One of the best parts, though, is that you can hire an enormous number of characters to fight with you and a few of them will be unique with their own sidequests, histories and voice-acting.

I haven't finished the game yet, so I don't know if the conclusion lets it down in any way - at the moment, the storyline would be leaving me with a lot of questions if I hadn't jumped on anything that said "spoiler", and I don't know how well the game will tie everything together. So far, though, it's been really good fun!
[personal profile] myopicmirror04 wrote:
Nov. 12th, 2009 12:08 am (UTC)
Re: I'm a few days late with this...
I'm definitely going to try it now, if it's even half as good as FFVII, I'll enjoy it. Thanks for letting me know what you think!