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Ving_Rhames posted...

It's because the series on the whole is just the laziest Sci-Fi ever, your main characters all come from advanced civilizations, but you only ever get morsels of interacting with said advanced civilizations, while the majority of your playtime is always spent in some backwater medieval mudhut shit hole. >_>

The problem is far more based on the justification for said low-science interactions. In something like Till the end of Time they justify it by not wanting to cause too much of a stir with powered weaponry, something that is mostly acceptable if you ignore the fact that they didn't do things like change their clothes and that would give them away instantly as well. Here they have you drop your railguns because the first enemy is immune to them and then the game just assumes that the player is a moron and has already forgotten about them, thus meaning that the characters don't have any reason to move back to modern weaponry.

Legato-and-Vash posted...

There's one character that's REALLY bad. Annoying as fuck really. You'll know her when you see her.

It's okay because once TC gets around her extremely grating voice acting he'll have to deal with the fact that she's just an offensive stereotype!

In any case The Last Hope is a game with terrible writing. Not the FFX "Hur hur, he make da silly laugh!!!!", where the entire complaint stems from one directorial decision that the voice acting portrayed exactly as it was supposed to be and is only brought up because it's early on, but actually bad. Every new cutscene will introduce worse writing until every scene creates massive plotholes by the end and even slightly thinking about what is going on or what is said completely annihilates the narrative. It isn't like Till the end of Time where the problem stems from the idea that the twist just cannot work in a video game narrative positively, the writers in TLH just suck. I legitimately just walked away during the ending cutscene I had written the game off so much, something I have flat out never done in any other game.