The Awesomest
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Oh yeah, what controllers can we use for this game?
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The Last Story (US) |OT| One of Wii's epic last breaths.
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So I just dropped by GameStop to see if they had any in, and (surprise surprise) they didn't. He said they should get some in this week, but he also showed me that there wasn't a street date listed for it in the system (as in there was nothing where it should say S/D: MM/DD/YYYY).
He was awesome enough to give me the soundtrack for going through the trouble though
He was awesome enough to give me the soundtrack for going through the trouble though
So GameStop Preorder comes with the artbook, or Amazon? Because I preordered from GameStop. I don't care if they're NOT offering anything, but if they are, I wanna be prepared to pick that up, too, while I'm there.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
I also recommend people turn on manual attacking. The auto attack can get really annoying later in the game if you're trying to get to a specific enemy, and you keep snapping to enemies in your area.
walking fiend
Member
I would say so too; one of the first things I did
RedNumberFive
Banned
I figured my Amazon order would have shipped by now. I'm starting to get the feeling that we're in for another delay.
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Deleted member 20415
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So I just dropped by GameStop to see if they had any in, and (surprise surprise) they didn't. He said they should get some in this week, but he also showed me that there wasn't a street date listed for it in the system (as in there was nothing where it should say S/D: MM/DD/YYYY).
He was awesome enough to give me the soundtrack for going through the trouble though
I just checked their website and it says the 16th - that's a change from the 14th I saw last week. I'm hoping it's this week... want to pick this thing up!
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Every copy of the game will be a "special edition" with the artbook and game a book-styled case. If it doesn't include the artbook and outer packaging, it was gutted.
There's a soundtrack sampler that was part of the PAL limited edition that's being given out as a preorder bonus.
Today was the ship date, not the release/street date. They should be available tomorrow or the day after, it will probably ship then.
RedNumberFive
Banned
It's hard to say. Like I said, I'm pretty surprised how easily available Xenoblade is, but my gut tells me this one may be harder to find.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Pretty cut and dry. Appreciate the heads up!
NewEgg is saying this as well.
Dark Octave
Banned
GameInformer gave this a 6/10 or something. I said "god damn" but I finished taking a shit before I finished reading the review. Said something about cliche story and bad camera and controls.
I will still give it a shot of course.
I will still give it a shot of course.
walking fiend
Member
Haven't read the review, but story is cliched and camera can be bad, though control is good; however, overall it is a game quite better than sum of its parts, any score below 7 is caused by a bad review; depending on personal and subjective expectations, it's something like 7-9
Mockingbird
Member
I did 30 offline and 30 online hours of this when I was in Japan. I plan to do it again for this U.S. release. Awesome game. Can't wait to get my copy!
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Destructoid Review - 4/10
In trying to get Nintendo to release The Last Story in North America, I count myself among the most vocal of petitioners. As a fan of Mistalker's work and a lover of Lost Odyssey, I considered it the perfect swan song for the Wii, the kind of game that could embody everything good about the Wii (and there was plenty of good) one last time. When Nintendo refused to release it, I was among the angry and the riotous.
So, what do you do when XSEED does what you wanted Nintendo to do ... but it turns out that what you wanted wasn't very good? Those who never cared will most certainly jump into the fray to laugh, because if there's one thing the gamer community loves, it's schadenfreude. Others will gladly spin it into a moral about being careful what you wish for. In any case, egg will be introduced to one's face.
To very vocally demand something, only to review it negatively when it comes out, is a tricky matter regardless of who turns up to crow -- a matter that involves putting pride on the line and preparing to deal with a torrent of smugness. However, the honest reviewer must bite the bullet and face the tormenting crowd with gritted teeth.
In the case of The Last Story, I can only admit that, yes, this is what I asked for ... and no, I don't want it.
In trying to get Nintendo to release The Last Story in North America, I count myself among the most vocal of petitioners. As a fan of Mistalker's work and a lover of Lost Odyssey, I considered it the perfect swan song for the Wii, the kind of game that could embody everything good about the Wii (and there was plenty of good) one last time. When Nintendo refused to release it, I was among the angry and the riotous.
So, what do you do when XSEED does what you wanted Nintendo to do ... but it turns out that what you wanted wasn't very good? Those who never cared will most certainly jump into the fray to laugh, because if there's one thing the gamer community loves, it's schadenfreude. Others will gladly spin it into a moral about being careful what you wish for. In any case, egg will be introduced to one's face.
To very vocally demand something, only to review it negatively when it comes out, is a tricky matter regardless of who turns up to crow -- a matter that involves putting pride on the line and preparing to deal with a torrent of smugness. However, the honest reviewer must bite the bullet and face the tormenting crowd with gritted teeth.
In the case of The Last Story, I can only admit that, yes, this is what I asked for ... and no, I don't want it.
Thanks for the bump!
For those who are not in context with the first page, I fucked up the release date and asked Duckroll to lock the thread...it happened twice. Sorry bout' that guys.
But hey, NOW ITS FOR REAL! So let's enjoy! I'm at my job but tonight there's chances that I upgrade the OT a little, it needs it.
EDIT: That review saddens me.
For those who are not in context with the first page, I fucked up the release date and asked Duckroll to lock the thread...it happened twice. Sorry bout' that guys.
But hey, NOW ITS FOR REAL! So let's enjoy!
I'm at my job but tonight there's chances that I upgrade the OT a little, it needs it.EDIT: That review saddens me.
Meatvillain
Banned
Pretty much completely disagree with Sterling's review, I really liked the game and the combat is extremely enjoyable. Not the first time I've disagreed with a Sterling review though, and it certainly won't be the last.
WHAT?!
Poorly implemented? Not really.
Gaming journalism at its best. There are different control options; I did not encounter any of these issues with a different control setup.
Then change it so that you attack with the A button!?
Some other criticisms are justified, while the score definitely isn't.
RedNumberFive
Banned
Pretty much completely disagree with Sterling's review, I really liked the game and the combat is extremely enjoyable. Not the first time I've disagreed with a Sterling review though, and it certainly won't be the last.
Sterling mostly complains about the controls, and how a lot of things are mapped to only a few buttons. Would using a classic controller change this?
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Jim Sterling review = LOL
Sterling has serious trouble figuring out how to actually control games, or investigate in-game configuration.
Sterling has serious trouble figuring out how to actually control games, or investigate in-game configuration.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Say, just how elaborate is the online portion? I was never clear on exactly what it does.
Karsticles
Member
Oh man, I almost clicked the review, too. I can't take anything he says seriously. The man must be terrible at videogames, or something.
Pyrrhus
Member
So his complaint is that the game is both too chaotic to plan out but also too easy to need to plan things out? Okay. There's no doubt that this is a light game. Or that it's a bit different in how it controls. But it's not nearly the hassle he says it is.
He's outright wrong that you can't direct your allies in battle or control who you're attacking, however. I don't know how much of his difficulty stemmed from using the nunchuk and remote instead of the classic control.
If he thought it was unchecked chaos it makes me doubt his faculties. It's usually a fight between your 6 combatants and perhaps 8 or 10 enemies. You point in the direction of the enemy you want to strike, hold a button when you want to block (and later tap it if you want to try to deflect an attack and auto-counter). You press another button to bring up a menu where you command your characters to use special attacks. Battles generally come down to being able to correctly prioritize targets and understand elemental strengths and weaknesses. In practice, that generally means "kill the mages first." I'm not sure where he could have gotten confused.
He's outright wrong that you can't direct your allies in battle or control who you're attacking, however. I don't know how much of his difficulty stemmed from using the nunchuk and remote instead of the classic control.
If he thought it was unchecked chaos it makes me doubt his faculties. It's usually a fight between your 6 combatants and perhaps 8 or 10 enemies. You point in the direction of the enemy you want to strike, hold a button when you want to block (and later tap it if you want to try to deflect an attack and auto-counter). You press another button to bring up a menu where you command your characters to use special attacks. Battles generally come down to being able to correctly prioritize targets and understand elemental strengths and weaknesses. In practice, that generally means "kill the mages first." I'm not sure where he could have gotten confused.
FlashbladeGAF
Member
news is first round shipments got delayed. Expected on the 16th
EDIT: GS around work says it will have there's tomorrow(the 15th)
SpaceBridge
Member
BOO!!
Called my Gamestop where I preordered and they said the game has been delayed to all Gamestops in Canada until Thursday. Oh well, we waited months for this, we can wait two days.
Called my Gamestop where I preordered and they said the game has been delayed to all Gamestops in Canada until Thursday.
Oh well, we waited months for this, we can wait two days.walking fiend
Member
What he is saying is bullshit, plain and simple; nothing is wrong with the controls when you turn off the auto-attack.
The walls are mostly climable. And of course the crossbow leaves you open for attack, it's so you don't freely disable the mages and archers.
DownWithTheShip
Member
My GS says they're expecting it today, but UPS doesn't arrive for a few more hours. I'll let you know if they actually do get it, although i'm not counting on it.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
The controls are fine if you opt to keep auto attack too imo. It's a decent convenience, with it on you'll never (or rarely, I wouldn't promise never, it's been a while since i played) attack someone out of range and so miss, you just adjust how you play a bit (for example hold block - or tap it at the right times - when you just wanna move around otherwise you'll be stalling and mashing on enemies while trying to escape them), it's up to you if you'll use it or not, I do fine with either setup and with either supported controller. The only real issues I had with the controls were in a handful of scenes where the frame rate is borderline unplayable and that they didn't use the pointer for the crossbow/fpv (which shouldn't be a problem for most multiplatform people I guess).
On the presentation side, again, the frame rate only really became an issue in certain scenes, like the very final bits, or certain city areas. Not that it was stable otherwise but eh, any console gamer has played games that didn't perform so well, it doesn't mean it's a constant annoyance. At least it was mostly smoother than The Witcher 2 on my aging PC, lol. I was more annoyed by some not so great cut scene animations and voice acting, which also weren't too frequent thankfully.
I think the game would have been better off with less focus on Final Fantasy style cut scenes, since they don't seem to have had the budget to make them all great, and more gameplay. More bosses and encounters requiring unique approaches, more dungeons, more large battles while on the run, more of everything. And leave the additional story development outside the important parts to simple character dialogue scenes, walking up to them and pressing A like you often do etc.
I also didn't like having lives. I'd prefer a longer health bar. Lives just don't seem to fit. I guess it's more of a presentation issue. Dying and instant retrying a battle is not that different to being knocked down, reviving and adjusting your strategy without an actual defeat. Some people could enjoy how much more instant it is this way, but it kinda makes it feel cheap to me.
That's it. Fun, unique in ways, cliche in others, flawed, more than the sum of its parts, worth playing & rooting for a sequel.
On the presentation side, again, the frame rate only really became an issue in certain scenes, like the very final bits, or certain city areas. Not that it was stable otherwise but eh, any console gamer has played games that didn't perform so well, it doesn't mean it's a constant annoyance. At least it was mostly smoother than The Witcher 2 on my aging PC, lol. I was more annoyed by some not so great cut scene animations and voice acting, which also weren't too frequent thankfully.
I think the game would have been better off with less focus on Final Fantasy style cut scenes, since they don't seem to have had the budget to make them all great, and more gameplay. More bosses and encounters requiring unique approaches, more dungeons, more large battles while on the run, more of everything. And leave the additional story development outside the important parts to simple character dialogue scenes, walking up to them and pressing A like you often do etc.
I also didn't like having lives. I'd prefer a longer health bar. Lives just don't seem to fit. I guess it's more of a presentation issue. Dying and instant retrying a battle is not that different to being knocked down, reviving and adjusting your strategy without an actual defeat. Some people could enjoy how much more instant it is this way, but it kinda makes it feel cheap to me.
That's it. Fun, unique in ways, cliche in others, flawed, more than the sum of its parts, worth playing & rooting for a sequel.
Karsticles
Member
And Kid Icarus.
What really drives me nuts is that he always seems to review the games I'm looking forward to. Oi.
This has been on my "To Buy" list for a while (I'm in the UK).
I was hoping the price would come down, but for well reviewed Wii titles the price doesn't seem to alter much. I don't know if they produce a limited number or something. I finally forked out £35 for Kirby's Adventure Wii after deciding it was never going to get cheaper.
I was hoping the price would come down, but for well reviewed Wii titles the price doesn't seem to alter much. I don't know if they produce a limited number or something. I finally forked out £35 for Kirby's Adventure Wii after deciding it was never going to get cheaper.
picklecannon
Member
Amazon.ca changed the release date to the 21st. I just want to play this game before summer ends.
Jim Sterling lost all credibility with me after his terrible Kid Icarus: Uprising review and calling a woman unspeakable names on Twitter.
Guys this game is one of the best games I ever played. The reviewers a complaining about some weird issues. I liked the voice acting, the story, the battle system is possible the best JRPG batltle system yet. There were some occasional framerate issues, but it doesnt ruin the enjoyment.
Constant framerate issues. There is pretty much no instant in the game where the game has a stable framerate.