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- White Giant RPG Studios
- White Giant RPG Studios
- White Giant RPG Studios
- White Giant RPG Studios
Last Dream
Released On: Jul 31, 2013
Metascore
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7.6
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There is so much here that goes far beyond nostalgia. Last Dream is a masterpiece of applying modern concepts to classic NES-era games. Do yourself a favor and play this game - it's practically free now on Steam at something like $5.
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Last Dream is stunning and keeps getting better (e.g. full screen mode is now enabled). I love the NPCs, the game world is immersive, vast and open, the music is absolutely incredible (incredible!!), and I found the story interesting to the very end. I have now replayed multiples times because you can select from 8 different characters on various difficulty levels with hundreds of achievements... I don't know, maybe 200 hours (not kidding). It's funny... I would pay more than a dollar per hour to enjoy a brilliant RPG and thus, I really think this game is worth $200+. Give it a try - just the best RPG I've played since... forever! Absolutely love it!
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I would wait a bit before diving in to this one. It looks pretty deep and offers some interesting customization options, but is still quite rough around the edges. A day after the game was released, they released a new patch that had the magnificent effect of deleting your game saves. An obviously large amount of work was put into this game though, so perhaps it would be worth buying in a few months once they've worked out the problems.
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Last Dream impressed me in some ways but disappointed me in many others. I love how you can customize the difficulty. Instead of picking just a difficulty level you can also choose the encounter rate for enemies as well as changing the save system to suit you. I also liked the character upgrade system. You can learn a variety of skills that gives you a wide variety of play styles. The story is very deep, even for a JRPG. Past that though begins the bad. First off the game has no quest log. As I said the story is pretty deep and you’re given no way to keep track of quests or keep track of story updates. Another issue that ties in to this is the poor map system. Even if you are diligent and write down all details on paper the map hinders you by not having much detail outside and zero detail indoors. I found certain places such as the Forest Tower to be almost maze like and all the map would show is that I was in the tower itself. Even outside certain locations such as the Forest of Despair didn’t show up. Other times the vague instructions on where to find certain creatures for a quest seemed way off where I actually found them. Another issue I had was that there is almost no way to regain MP for your characters. You can fish but I only know this from forums as this is never mentioned in game during my play through. I found a couple MP potions but only two and after eight hours of game play. Basically it makes any long excursion into a hostile cave or area a chore as often I have to retreat to go use a Tent or find an Inn so that my Mage can actually do their job. Considering there are tons of different potions and other items at shops any town I go to I don’t see why MP potions weren’t an option or even having an MP regeneration skill. The issue that finally broke me was the fact that there are areas, such as Mt Gerra, where you are forced to walk across lava or other surfaces that actively hurt your characters. This is expected behaviour and you’re just supposed to keep healing as you go which is such a bad idea. The puzzles in game were a mixed bag. Some were pretty decent and others I found annoying. My last gripe is that you can’t access the main menu during a battle. So for instance if I know that I am going to lose a fight I can’t just load a save or even quit to the main menu. My only two options are play it out and reload after or hit Alt-F4 and exit the game then relaunch.
I played Last Dream on Linux. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any bugs or spelling errors. You can choose to manually save or save at specific points in game. If you choose manually saving there are twenty save slots. There are no graphics options at all aside from v-sync. Regardless of whether you enable v-sync or not the frame rate is capped at 60 FPS so it’s kind of pointless. That being said it runs at a constant 60 FPS even on my Intel onboard graphics. I used my Logitech game pad without any issues.
Game Engine: Mkxp
Graphics API: OpenGL
Disk Space Used: 926 MB
Input Used: Logitech F310
CPU Usage: 2-14 %
RAM Usage: 3.6-4.4 GB
Frame Rate: Constant 60 FPS
There are some good elements to Last Dream but they’re buried under the mountain of design choices I didn’t like. I played through ten hours and forty four minutes of the campaign. This was enough time to get a ship and make it to the Eastern Continent to start doing various missions there. I paid $3.29 CAD for the game but even that steep discount didn’t make up for the shortcomings.
My Score: 4.5/10
My System:
Intel i5-12600K | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | Intel UHD 770 | Mesa 23.0.4 | Western Digital Black SN850 500GB | Trisquel 11 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.7.5-gnu
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I am just so unbelievably torn on this game. I want to love it, and there are parts that I do. As someone who spent a lot of childhood with NES and SNES RPGs, I appreciate the return to Final Fantasy 1 style classes (Knights, White Mages, Dark Mages, and some ones you may not have seen in a game before, such as Engineers), the ability to spend skill points earned in battle on new magic spells, and the tactics involved in forming a balanced party (including certain classes, such as the Hunter, which are useful out of battle moreso than in.)
But let me outline my beefs with this game... and no, none of them have to do with the use of default RPGMaker graphics (they have been implemented appropriately here... even though we've seen them many times before, they are used diversely to form lands of various sorts... grasslands, forests, mountains deserts, snow plains, and more.)
- If you play this game on a normal or harder mode, you're going to be rushing to inns time and time again like someone racing to the bathroom after contracting Montezuma's revenge. Like a lot of JRPGs, Last Dream makes the mistake of equating difficult with 'Oh, so you want longer battles, don't you?'. Sure, you can play through the game on very easy or easy mode instead, but the balance is off in that there are regular battles you'll be spending more time on than almost any of the boss battles.
- I appreciate a good story... actually, stories are my primary reason for playing as many JRPGs as I do... but this game throws walls of text at you about characters who do not have personalities that differentiate one from the other. The plight of that king or this townsperson or this or that warrior really doesn't grip you in any way when you have no way of identifying with any of them. I am not talking about the playable characters, because again, that aspect of the game is an ode to FF1--the characters are up to you, picked from classes, and given generic class titles as their names unless you choose to come up with your own--but the other characters in the game do not compensate for this.
- I'm going to keep this review spoiler free, but there is a major plot twist well over halfway through the main storyline that absolutely wrecked any fun I was having. There was no hint of it coming, and no need for it to exist.
- You'll spend way too much time on a ship, navigating the world using a map that, no matter how you zoom, does not show you the whole world.
- There are a variety of dungeons in which you'll find your health drained, with no item reasonably indicated that you can equip to avoid said damage. In one or two of these dungeons, it's a little more obvious, but otherwise, I hope you massively upped the MP of your party's healer. If you chose to have one, that is.
- There are a variety of game locations on small islands that are rather oddly placed. Why would the world's greatest casino be on a small icy island in the middle of nowhere with no towns around it and no major port that people dock at, for example? Perhaps the game designers wanted to play up the fantasy angle, but instead it's just... odd.
- This game is full of puzzles, which, upon completion, will reward you with treasure chests. This is somewhat engaging at first, but wait until you have to memorize a dozen or so digits, or repeat the wandering pattern of an NPC who wandered... maybe 50 or so tiles that you have to also memorize. I had to take pause at some of the mouse-maze ones and all of their dead ends, too. In short, these puzzles become memory games rather than true puzzles that challenge you to think in clever ways. I don't know whose idea of fun that is, but it isn't mine.
- Sooner or later, you will find a dungeon full of instant game overs that you'll have to be very, very fast to avoid.
With that said, I don't want you to think that Last Dream is one of those RPGMaker games that you'll beat in 3 hours that uses the default battle system, plays nothing but the typical built-in songs, and has little area to explore. In fact, people have reported hundreds of hours diving into this game's world, the battle system uses programming scripts that are regarded by the RPGMaker community as being good ones, and the game is chock full of beautiful, orchestrated versions of classical music staples. In short, this is a game with great expectations and a reasonable interface that fell victim to its tons of content not being engaging content (unless you are one of those folks who did plunge all those hours into this game--I respect what they found for themselves.) And if the sort of things that bogged this game down are mostly not present in Last Dream II (an RPGMaker game that has crowdfunded over $12,000 dollars) I will very much look forward to the sequel.
I wrote this review not to bury Last Dream, but to provide honest criticism that I hope will help motivate these obviously ambitious developers to create a truly brilliant sequel.
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Summary An Incredible Storyline... - Delve into a sprawling storyline spanning nearly one thousand years and experience the world of Terra through over an hour of flashback cutscenes. Uncover the destruction of the once grand Elven culture and the rise of Human civilization. Follow the path of a modest main character and companions on their asc...
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- PC
Initial Release Date: Jul 31, 2013
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- White Giant RPG Studios
Publisher: White Giant RPG Studios
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