While the narrative is easily The Last Story’s best aspect, the combat and gameplay is equally interesting, but where the game gets held back the most by the Wii’s hardware. The game is also similar to the original Xenoblade Chronicles, with a British English localization that helps give the story an extra dramatic flair. Like most Sakaguchi games, The Last Story is very character-driven and there’s a real sense of camaraderie between the group that develops immediately. These are all incredibly complex characters that have their own arcs to see, and everyone continues to play a role in the main narrative until the very end. Dagran is like a brother to Zael and has help raise him since childhood, Yuric is a cold and calculating youth with a tragic past, and Syrenne puts forth a flirtatious personality to mask her trauma. There’s a strong love story that The Last Story’s narrative revolves around, but the other members of Zael’s mercenary group also have their own roles to play. The Last Story’s narrative feels deliberately tropey at first, but uses that to create some fascinating characters and twists.

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