The Last Sovereign

There are reasons you should play this game, but they're not what the game is selling itself on. 1) The music and set pieces from midgame on are far better than they have any right to be. Kudos! 2) This unironically might be the most depth, balance, and challenge we've seen in a turn based RPG. We've never seen another RPG where you actually NEED every class you're given even when you optimize. Balance here goes hand in hand with challenge, and the puzzle boss fights were expertly designed. We went into this game expecting tedious fights to pad out a visual novel. It was very much the opposite. 3) The attention to detail and worldbuilding does surpass the standard of mainstream JRPGs. This is a good game and it has accomplished much. Here are some reasons you might not enjoy it. 1) The political strategy aspects are unique and praiseworthy, but also overly ambitious. Proper management of an Empire becomes... realistically tiresome. As you expand, your responsibilities grow exponentially. A single 100% playthrough of this game took us over 250 hours. At least 100 of that was in Act 5 (out of 5). 2) You simultaneously have too many choices and yet not enough. More choices mean mo…

One of the best RPGs I have ever played in terms of writing and world building. Full dislaimer, give it an hour. The game has a fake-out intro where you start the game as a douchey horny chosen one 'protagonist'. 30 minutes later, he dies and the story then reveals the true protagonist is the 55 year old grizzled veteran who guides the chosen one. I think one of the game's strongest world building elements in incorporating sex and porn logic seamlessly into the world. Sex magic is treated as its own field of magic alongside divine and arcane magic. The game also frequently has major political and war segments. The political segments usually involve alot of sabotage, secret deals and alliances. Some of which hinge on your past decisions and invetments. (Yeah, the game has an investment mechanic) Chose to invest in building the dwarven embassy? The dwarven ambassador will agree to support your vote in a political summit 10 hours later into the game. Mot of the main characters are pretty interesting. I love the main character alot. He has a very clearly defined personality and character. The main heroines are all also very endearing. The game has them regularly chime in and c…

The best word I can use to describe The Last Sovereign would be... voluminous. This is a Game of the Year worthy title that is only held back because of our pearl clutching societal norms on sex. The shear bulk of material can be enough to give pause to anyone looking for a simple experience. The story, characters, plot, setting, and combat mechanics all have huge amounts of options and depth. Not only that, each piece has been meticulously designed to be well balanced and never out of place. I can go on and on in praising all of the different elements of this game. As I reflect on my own experience, There is one thing in particular that I am left with. As children, we create our own imaginary worlds filled with the fantastical and the nonsensical. People, places, things, and idea's that only exist in our young minds to fulfill our own little fantasies. Once we grow up a little, the hard truths of reality grind against these playful tales of make believe and they inevitably disappear. This is what The Last Sovereign feels like to me. That childhood whimsy that never went away. A silly girls dream that was captured, developed for decades, then ensconced into a highly…

I don't really know if my words can do justice to how much I love this game, but I feel that I have to try. I honestly think it deserves to be held up as one of the best RPGs around. A clever deconstruction and reconstruction of the concept of the "adult game", it presents a fantasy world full of common tropes from these sorts of games, but which insists on taking all of those aspects seriously, and by dint of that it turns potentially ridiculous features into something genuinely believable, compelling, and honestly quite moving at times. It gives you a protagonist who is, faced with the question of 'what to do with power', pledges to use it to make the world better - and never falters from that goal, no matter how great his power grows. It's incredibly well-written. The writing is sharp, clever, deep, bitingly funny when it wants to be (which is a lot), yet also moving and emotional when needed. It is mature in every sense of the word, a game clearly written for adults by adults where the characters actually act like adults. I believed in the world of TLS and all the people in it without question, so much so that after I beat the final boss and completed the 'true' epilogue…

This game is too good to be free

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