That's where my time ended with the game... I did so much side content, and like farming mobs on the way, that the game just got too hard, I'd start any random battle and get completely wiped out in the opening turn. Just brutal.
No shame in giving up on this game. When I first played it, it was on the 360, where mindlessly grinding was the worst possible thing you could do. I gave up halfway through and didn't revisit it until years later.
@@RushHourWeekend yeah same, I'd totally give it another chance if it was available on pc. A game that might interest you is Soul Nomad and the World Eaters.
Super underrated game. If anyone is a trophy completionist, DO YOUR RESEARCH. There is a branching quest chain where choice A has 3 subsequent quests and choice B only has 2, and if you don't take choice A, you FAIL THE COMPLETE ALL QUESTS ACHIEVEMENT. I hate-played this game twice cuz of that
Fun Fact, originally the Main Character was going to differ in Each Region. Japan would get Rush, North America would get The Conqueror, Europe and everyone else would get ???.
I have a somewhat annual tradition of intalling The Last Remnant and seeing how far I can get before I quit. I've never beaten it, or gotten close. It's got such a rich world and cool lore, I love the gameplay, but something drives me away from sticking with it.
I have a similar love hate relationship with this game, it's even worse for me because I'm a completionist, everytime I try to replay it I learn something new that usually means I locked myself out of a more optimal option or out of a certain guild task or something, it's both a compliment that I'm still learning new things about it even now and an indictment of just how impossible it is to fully complete. It's basically become the White Whale to my Captain Ahab. One day I will finally 100% though if it's the last thing I do.
well... there is one thing that requires you to choose one of two things, that will lead to a diferent outcome. you can't do both in one playthrough, it has to be two 😭
@@savalaner2086 Oh yeah I remember that, it really depends on what version of the game you play too, PC and PS4 there's basically no reason not to side with Roberto objectively better and more rewards with no real downside, it still counts as all quests completed and won't penalize you for missing Ophelia's exclusive quest. But if you play on Xbox 360 the original like I do then you have to side with Ophelia if you want credit for all quests completed and by extension to fight The Absolute Conqueror and worse the official strategy guide does not mention this trade off at all and even suggests siding with Roberto which is the wrong choice for completionists on that version which actually led to one of my many restarts.
as someone who 100% this game on 360 and replayed it numerous times on PC. It holds a special place in my heart, the formation system is still an enigma to me though. The great soundtrack helps elevate my love for it a lot.
(go to read more for a shorter version) my main tip for people who are just starting out on the game, is to not grind AT ALL, until you get all 18 character slots. the reason for this is because when you beat enemies, you get closer and closer to getting a higher br (battle rank), and when that happens enemies get stronger. it's not a problem if you only use the characters that you will be using for the rest of the game, but you won't be able to do that until you have all 18 party member slots (shortly after disk two if you're playing on xbox 360). so if you start grinding early in the game, you will make enemies stronger, but you'll only have access to party members who are basically useless (excluding the generals, david, and a few party leaders you can recruit, and even that won't matter much on 360 because you can have a limited amount of payer leaders) meaning you'll only level up party members that will be outclassed within a boss battle or two | so basically, if you grind early, you will gain br, but the party members that get levels, are ones that are bad in general, making you gain br, but not gain much power in return. higher br = stronger enemies. wait until you get all 18 party member slots to use during battle (shortly after the start of disk two) then you can grind, but it will still be hard to beat bosses because you will still be gaining br while grinding. bosses have a minimum br, and I think they have a maximum br, so if you grind so much that you get 1k br or something, you'll most likely be fine. on that note, try not to be below boss's minimum br because then the boss just has extra stats and you are left with below par stats
It's not like his games don't have interesting mechanics if you understand them. Although sometimes it's frustrating to look something up and realize there was basically no chance you were going to figure it out. What even is the point of hiding stuff like that?
Yeah, I have a similar feeling with the game as well. I absolutely adore the battle system. It’s not explained much, but you can sort of trial and error your way through it. You can manipulate the randomness to be in your favor to the point that it doesn’t feel like randomness. I like that, the gameplay is a combination of JRPG and strategy, it was genuinely cool. What I really hate though, is the fact that you have to skip almost 70% of the game in order to play it properly. Yes, you have to dodge ALL of those random small critters on the map (and only fight mandatory battles for quests and such), because you don’t want to have a high BR so that you won’t get so much lower stat gains down the line. I hated this, it really just wants you to not play the game in order to play the game. It’s absurd.
Once you've learned all the information about this game, it's beyond amazing. This game is so special and there will never be another game like this in 100 years because no one has the audacity to do what Square did. I can really say that this game came out way before its time.
The gameplay is one-of-a-kind and it has a high skill floor, which are very appealing qualities. Square really took a gamble with this one, making a big budget rpg that isn’t accessible, which - in this era of “focus tested” products - I don’t know if we’ll ever see again.
I remember playing this game knowing next to nothing about the mechanic, I just grind for the highest rank arts, lock everything but the art for rush, and healing for the other filler chars. My Rush probably do around 70-80% of the damage so any battle that didn't have him is total hell. All of my boss fights is pretty much RNG if rush union survived so he can do the work. The most disappointing thing I remembered about this game is recruiting the twin, as bosses they kicked my ass but when recruited they're garbage 🤣
Mistwalker unfortunately pulled the same stunt with Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, and Sakaguchi stated in an interview with Bloomberg that he has no intention on porting or remastering any of his games. Giant shame, since Lost Odyssey is an excellent game.
Weird, I don't remember this game having any issues on PC, then again I haven't tried running it above 60 FPS like you're mentioning the issue with it might be.
i remember playing this on the 360, i spent many months figuring out the systems of the game, it consisted of trial and error but i eventually figured it out. I used to love old games being opaque, when there was something to discover, now every game has a wiki.
Eh they were top tier in the PlayStation 1 and to a somewhat lesser extent PS2 era. It seemed like once they got into HD development and they were needing to make money more than anything they started to really just fall apart
12:50 bro gave me vietnam flashbacks. at least it's possible to cheese this thing. take emma out of your party, it automatically gives you a union with emma that has 700 health and and you can just use rush to spam heals on emma, and have emma tank damage and deal damage. still based on luck tho
I've always considered The Last Remnant to be the true FF12. Lost Odyssey is the true FF11, with the actual 12 being 13, and 13 being the true FF14. (Mmo's should've never been mainline)
We're very lucky to have a port of Fantasian coming later this year, finally escaping the apple arcade hellhole. Mistwalker has done a much better job at creating Final Fantasy games than modern day Square Enix, which isn't surprising considering Sakaguchi knows what he's doing.
Square Enix is publishing it for Playstation, Xbox, Switch, and Steam this Winter, and they're adding both Japanese and English voice acting. Should be a real treat.
0:56 Valkyrie Profile begs to differ, I swear to god The Last Remnant is so much more forgiving than Valkyrie Profile... and that's saying something The Last Remnant was definitely an experience I do not regret whatsoever, it has one of the greatest soundtracks in gaming (second only to Valkyrie Profile 2 to me), an awesome world and setting with tonnes of lore and detail, a really unique combat system, there's so much to love about this game but... it has way too many flaws like you bring up in this video. I hate how you can only equip Rush and nobody else, you get so many weapons and equipment but you can't use them, let me manage everyone!!!! Apparantly the PC version lets you do that but I only played it on 360 and Square-Enix being the bellends that they are took the game down from steam!!! I think the problem with this game ultimately is that they didn't go all in with the management, like you said, if you could equip everyone, sure it might be time consuming to optimize but some people actually really like that sort of thing, so why limit it to just rush!? It makes it feel like no matter what I do I'm not improving or getting better by doing sidequests and getting new gear, it's jsut sat there im my inventory completely unused, which makes the game feel underwhelming in regards to rewards, so only rush's group is going to benefit from all the investments I put in, all thhe other groups are fixed. I will say though, this was one of the most satisfying JRPGs I ever beat because of how challenging it was but man it is a train wreck and a half. Then again, at least this game actually tried to do something different which I do respect, most games are just the same shit over and over again which is getting lame, we need more games like this that break the mold and dare to take the risk, so even though it's a trainwreck it is one that I respect. Wasted potential is the best way to describe The Last Remnant in every single meaning of the word. The soundtrack though... man it goes hard.
I'm actually planning on making a video on Valkyrie Profile 2 next, so nice comparison there. And while I didn't mention it in the video, The Last Remnant is definitely in the top 10 best soundtracks in all of gaming.
@@RushHourWeekend You know Valkyrie Profile 2 turns 18 Years old in 11 days right? I'll be doing a video on it too to celebrate that. It's finally reached adulthood. I look forward to your video on it, it's my favorite game of all time.
10:45 this isn't entirely true, there is a minimap in the top right of the screen ofc, but generally what I find is that enemies attack the nearest union to them. this goes for guest unions and enemy unions. but I only found that out on my second playthrough, which completely proves your point lol
0:30 if you have no idea what you're doing, it's probably one of the hardest games for the average user. it can be so hard if you don't do a low br run...
1:30 no I gave up trying to beat the stuff after emma left party. emma was literaly what was ekeeping my party together then I was like "WHAT?" and then i restarted with a bit of a guide and beat it and got emmy. also emmy is amazing in low br runs because she starts with really good abilities and stats
tips : when you start playing the game, nevzer take a break, I take a 6 months break and i return i was lost ... (what was my "game plan", what i wanted to do with my party)
i'm actually in another break, i'm just before the boss fight before the CD 2 (i'm on steam but it's for a good reference), i did almost all the quests, i'm "capturing" all rare monsters, completed all that is completable before the boss fight (and yes, i'm "high" BR (14), but np, since i have grinded quite well with manies characters with landworms )
i love FF12 but FF12 vannilla (2006) was the same, you could miss the best weapon if you open the wrong chest. And you could miss many side quest if you didnt read a guide.
I had this game on the Xbox 360 loved it but never got far in it, when they did the remastered version I got it on ps4 and switch, according to my switch I’ve put 280 hours into and STILL HAVEN’T COMPLETED IT
I felt fairly competent when i first played this game... Then I hit a boss fight on disk 2. I was also today years old when I found out the bosses scale with your BR, and guess who often grinds a decent bit c: I was never certain if I was missing the key strat or if there was just a bs difficulty spike.
I didn’t see it in the game, but my experience in my 7-8 play throughs, you need to actually use the minimap and choose actions based on where your union is relative to enemy unions. You can use this to deliberately trade flanks sometimes. I’d have to draw a picture, but basically if you send a union at the closest enemy union to them, they will dead lock as planned, and then if you send another union to flank them, and your 3rd union to deadlock the closest union to your flanking union, you can trade flanks. This is valuable because if you kill the initial union, you get the flank morale and then your first deadlocked unit will just enter deadlock when the 3rd enemy union engages them. If you don’t kill the initial union, the enemy would get a flank at this point.
I suspected distance between units played a role in whether or not you get interferences/interceptions, but when the number of enemy unions outnumbers your own, it feels completely random. I'm sure it's not, there's probably a formula somewhere that explains everything, just like most systems in the game.
i tried this game years ago, seems like i have to stream it :D i feel like i've been playing this game from the beginning. I started it back then but didn't understand it
Yeah dude, I tried this game and the fire idol… man, it put a sour taste in my mouth and when I hit the wall and searched online to get an idea on how to progress and seen it was 100% luck i but the bullet, beat him and stopped playing haha
0:50 just saying, I have no idea how class systems work, but I still beat the game because low br. the only ways to beat the game are these insane luck during battle and/or with monster loot + skill low battle rank run + skill + some luck or spend a year grinding and getting max battle rank so that you can grind all characters to max stats without enemies getting stronger and that way you can do literally whatever you want + skill + some luck
I played this game around a year ago. I knew about the complexity of the battle system because I had heard about it. Ended up watching a video guide to assist me in getting through the game. Enjoyed it very much but fuck if you tryed grinding early or at all you would be punished unless you had the best team which you dont get till later on. Fun game but man that system abuses you.
one of the worst rpgs ever made. absolutely awful. 65 hours, just erased all saves and uninstalled. furthest ive ever made it in this garbage game. whoever designed this, i hope they never worked on a game after. what a terrible game.
