The Last Story for Wii Reviews by Gamers

If they make a sequel to this game, what will they call it? The Last Story: The Next Chapter?
The Last Story is an action oriented RPG that follows the story of a group of mercenaries out for money – and maybe for love – in a world with a war between two kingdoms.
The main character has a great power that he can use to diffuse enemies’ magical spheres, or use his friends magic spheres to upgrade their weapons or heal hit points.
Combat here is not like you find in a usual RPG. Most of the time I just ran up to the enemy, and my guy automatically swings his sword, beating up the enemy. There’s also an option to use a bow with the Wiimote (you aim it where you want to fire and press the A button to fire.)
But you get a whole lot of weapons, armor, and other goodies which you can use to improve your party’s fighting ability – like in an RPG.
And just like many RPGs out there, this game has a lot of content in it. It may take about twelve hours to get through the story mode (more if you want to take on side quests and challenges)
But the one thing this game needs badly is a better map system. I like exploring as much as the next guy, but sometimes it was tough to find the place I needed to go to in order to move on to the next story mission. The game makers needed to put in an arrow pointing to that location to avoid needless meandering.
And those of us looking for a pure RPG might get turned off by all the action in the combat scenarios.
Still, I really liked this RPG – it’s fun, the story is great, and it will take a while to get through the game. The Last Story is one of a few games out now that may actually be worth the $50 price tag. BUY IT.

To my surprise I wasn't expecting to like this game as much as I did. I just finished the game and set everything up for a future new game plus. First off, the music in the game is absolutely phenomenal and hits on every note, expected no less from Nobuo Uematsu. It's definitely a soundtrack I want to pick up.

The story which some say is predictable, I don't get at all..I've been completely enthralled in every twist and turn, there's been probably only one moment so far that I eventually saw coming. It does do a couple of cliche things that you'd expect of the genre but they still managed to bring a trickle to my eye and besides those the whole thing was pretty original throughout and went in a lot of interesting directions.

It is around a 25-30 hour game, however that's a good thing imo. Instead of it being drawn out with a bunch of filler none sense, the story that's being told is much more focused and engrossing moment to moment but that's not to say there isn't any side quests. There's plenty of stuff to go around doing in town and items to collect.

I love the simplified weapon and armor system. Instead of having hundreds of different armors and worrying about which one will give you the best stats or whether you missed one. There's more like eight in which you simply upgrade along the way and once you get things leveled up to the higher levels, your gear starts looking pretty awesome. Also, the customization is a neat little feature, mixing and matching different armors and coloring them using the dyes that you've collected is nifty.

The voice acting is sublime too, theres lots of clever and funny dialogue. BTW, can we have more games voice acted in the UK? A lot of the times when it's done stateside for RPGs, the english vo is generally awful and often overacted…or not acted enough.

My only real gripes with the game are that by having your attack be forward