Wii hurries its last days almost becoming a different console than it has been for most of its life. Faced with the casual, his last year and a half of life is being crowned with absolutely hardcore titles, for lifelong players and, also, of great quality.
‘ The Last Story ‘ is one of the last blows, an RPG that we have been slow to see arrive in Europe but that, together with ‘Zelda: Skyward Sword’ and ‘Xenoblade Chronicles’ among others, become excellent reasons to play in the Nintendo console. Or to buy it, if its casual scent had put you off.
Creation and the (last) story
When Mystwalker closed ‘Lost Odyssey’ and ‘Blue Dragon’ it fulfilled part of its mission by giving Microsoft a great game that justified the giant’s financial support for the company. Receiving that money, however, was not synonymous with exclusivity and despite the fact that both were released for XBox 360, Mystwalker reached an agreement with Nintendo to develop other games.
Most of them have served to sustain the genre of J-RPGs on Nintendo DS , a machine that has become, thanks to the ‘Blue Dragon’, among others, a small oasis for those who enjoy this type of game. But there have been more joint projects, the last of which is ‘The Last Story’ which a year ago debuted in Japan with critical success and which we will soon have in Spain.
There is little to say about Hironobu Sakaguchi . His name is one of the greats of the genre and he is one of those creators who has a handful of role fans eating out of his hand. Even before ‘The Last Story’ he was interested in turning the concept of Japanese RPGs upside down. And shortly after editing his last game, he assured that there was no other choice but to change:
“We use too many conventions and the same predefined schemes in each game. (…) It is a subject in which, we, the creators of games of Japan, have to advance to move forward “
In spite of everything, one does not change so radically just like that and ‘The Last Story’ has an air of pure J-RPG . Not a few will have enough with that alone. And it is clear that the air to ‘Final Fantasy’ that the game has carried from the title and from the first statements of Sakaguchi (“it could be my last work”) have helped raise interest in a game that is no longer a great promise , but has all the ballots to become one of the classics.
The game
Nothing in the approach to the history of the game delves into that “change of schemes and ideas” that Sakaguchi asked for. The déjà vu that you have to get used to when you are a fan of J-RPGs does not disappear in ‘The Last Story’, which will nevertheless incorporate elements further away from the genre and that, in addition, work well in the game.
In any case, Sakaguchi says that, on this occasion, he decided to return to the same creative process that he used in the original ‘Final Fantasy’ and in ‘FF VII’: first think about what the game mechanics would be and, once developed , introduce the story.
The most striking thing about ‘The Last Story’ was that it decided to be an Action-RPG . Not only because of his own position and for making it clear that, right now, the role in consoles has already been absorbed by that way of playing, but especially because of what is shown in the previews and what has come to us from the Japanese edition: Very lively and dynamic combat and a great coverage system .
Of course, do not expect excessive secondary missions : ‘The Last Story’ is announced as a linear game (which is not the same as corridor) in which all the weight is loaded on the central story and the love between the hero and a princess while two nations tear each other apart in a war.
‘The Last Story’ also has an online part, either in cooperative or competitive mode , with battles in which up to six players are incorporated and in which we can form teams to hunt down enemies. Of course, we can use the character that we have created in our individual campaign.
When it comes to the technical side, ‘The Last Story’ there are many big names apart from Sakaguchi. For example, he composes the soundtrack Nobuo Uematsu , the musician linked to the history of the most emblematic saga, ‘Final Fantasy’.
‘The Last Story’: Release Date, Trailer, Edits, and Image Gallery
‘The Last Story’ will go on sale in our country on February 24 , more than a year after its debut in Japan. It will do so in the form of two editions, the normal and the special one that will include:
- The game in a metal box.
- A CD with the soundtrack of seven songs composed by Nobuo Uematsu.
- An art book of the world in which the story unfolds.
The limited one is even more appealing considering that its price has remained at 54.95 euros , somewhat below what we are used to in this type of edition.
Here you can see the one that was chosen as the European trailer:
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