[Multiplatform] The Last Remnant: Life at 12 frames a second is a beautiful thing.

Didn't this game just come out last week, how is it $40 already?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yes, but it is still just $40, uh postorder.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Just Amazon I guess. That is pretty much the only place I buy my games now, unless somewhere else has a special deal going or something. Yeah, I guess Infinite Underscore has dropped to $30 now, hasn't that game only been out for like a month? The JRPGs must be struggling.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I don't really have the problem of not getting the options as much as usually my guys don't get a chance to use their healing item/spell before they get killed off. That's ok though, as I've not really come into any really difficult fights yet, that weren't my own doing from linking too many bad guys together and triggering a battle.

And the graphical issues that everyone are complaining about are helped by installing the game to the hard drive. Sure, there is still slowdown during battle, but the overall performance of the engine is better. It is almost as though UE3 was not designed to run off of optical media. Oh wait.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Kagosin

Honestly though, not everyone has the ability to install to the hard drive. Some are sitting at 20gig (which was a hassle to delete things we didn't want), and those without a hard drive period (those with a mem card).

I realize that. I'm just saying that if you have the option, you might want to do it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Don't lie, you hate this game too.

I think the never revive a dead union in battle one would be ok. I mean, I have been playing for a while and don't think I even have the ability to do that yet, so I don't know any different. The other one is pretty silly though. Never going to get that one.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Rotorblade

Also, to anyone who cares about the story enough to talk about it, I had a flashback to Beerfest after the last story mission I played:

Spoiler:

I liked Emma a lot as a character... so why they decided to make it obvious they're going to kill her, do so, and then replace her with a far more annoying sounding look alike, is beyond me. Wagrum and his boss also strike as typical Saturday morning cartoon villains, just to round out the disappointments. The story is pretty typical, but those are things I really don't care to see in my RPGs. I get that it's simple, but some things shouldn't be THAT simple.

Spoiler:

Yeah, who didn't see that one coming? The thing that bothered me is that my Emma was my most powerful character, and Emmy came into the group a lot less powerful than Emma was. My Emma had a lot of arts learned and leveled up, had the highest strength stat in my party, and had 75/76 atk weapons. At least Emmy doesn't wear that goofy hat though, I can be thankful for that much.

Right now, I am battle rank 60~, can use 6 leaders per battle, and 5 unions. Until the most recent story event, I had been using a Rush+Emma union, a Loki union, a Nora union, and a David union. Now that I can use 6 leaders and 5 unions, I have added a Caedmon union, in addition to a small adjustment to a previous unit, referenced in the spoiler. Caedmon is powerful, but enemies seem to dodge or block his attacks more frequently than anyone else's. Loki is extremely powerful, and knows a poison gas spell that is awesome. Nora is basically a girl version of Loki at this point, and David is well rounded, with good attack, good mystic, and good recovery skills. I dominate battles for the most part, with the only exceptions being some boss fights or rare monster fights, but I haven't lost one of those in a long time. I did just scrape by with one union alive, with under 300 hp in a big quest boss fight though.

Since my groups are powerful enough to basically be able to one hit kill enemy unions when I use a combat art, I am having difficulty improving certain characters' arts, so it seems that I am at the point where I need to scale down my battle party and do a little grinding, just to get a couple of people caught up.

Most amazing jew boots

Yeah, I knew about the battle chain piece. I very rarely get ambushed. Like maybe twice the entire time I've been playing, so it was not uncommon for me to regularly finish dungeons with the chain count over 150, with half of my characters getting some form of stat growth after each fight.

Apparently, if you complete all three of Caedmon's quests, you unlock another special guild, in Elysion this time. His first quest was the one that got me the 30 enemies in one battle achievement too. I think the second fight was over 35 bad guys, this time throwing in a couple of giant, powerful birds at the end, instead of just the little, soft jhanas.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I got part one, then I ran around doing a whole bunch of other quests and eventually was given the opportunity to do part two. It may have been triggered by advancing the story, but I'm not 100% sure. It took a while for the second part to show up, at any rate. I'm still waiting on part three right now.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Elfstar

Even though the team is rather over-powered, I was still picking up a lot of advances while nosing around the lower levels of the Numor mines although the monsters there didn't seem all that tough (With the exception of the Greater Demons I accidentally ran into that wiped me out in three turns). I found the Dominator after about 40 minutes of running in and out of Blackdale and handed him his arse but apart from him I've not gone out of my way to complete any guild tasks, you seem to pass most of them just through playing the game and completing quests anyway.

I thought my team was overpowered at that point as well. Unfortunately, shortly beyond the point where you are currently, the game laughed in my face. What kind of stats do your characters have right now at BR 75? The reason I ask is because my party at BR 80~ basically got obliterated during a certain boss fight, and I eventually just started the game over from scratch, armed with a better understanding of how the game works, and now at BR 40~, my characters have stats equal to their BR 80~ counterparts. And in Caedmon's case, his BR 40 stats dwarf the stats of my BR 80 Caedmon.

I have to complete a couple of side quests in my restart, but otherwise, I am about to assault the Nagapur aquaducts (which means I am knocking on the door of disc 2). I fully expect to embarrass The Gates of Hell this time around.

There's nowhere I can't reach.