Game to be reviewed today is one of the games I enjoyed playing the most in PPSSPP. I always loved challenges beating the ranks
And last Ranker did it. I can remember when I finally became no.1 and was like in your face loosers😂😅😅.
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About
Last Ranker[a] is a 2010 role-playing video game developed by Imageepoch and published by Capcom for the PlayStation Portable. Set in a fantasy world where warriors are ranked by Bazalta, the world's ruling military and government who are dedicated to fighting hostile beings called the Evinos. Zig, a young man from the nomadic Cantalera tribe, decides to enter Bazalta and reach its top ranks. He ends up allied with a rebel group and fighting against both Bazalta and the Evinos. Gameplay combines mission-based explorations, and combat featuring players controlling Zig in real-time during turn-based battles.
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Features
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Unique ranking system that has a tournament style and gives a sense of competition. The higher your rank the higher respect you get and have more privileges. You can also challenge bad accept rank battles.
A great City to explore with many sectors and good design and presentation. Explore markets , local streets, train stations, army barracks. And more natural landscapes on missions.
A unique turn based fighting style that utilizes an SP bar to determine and create mix-ups of attacks. As skills have a specific XP they cost.
You get to use both melee and ranged weapons.
Missions and quests that take you to many locations and a great storyline to go with.
Features also real time battles.
This amongst many more.
Gameplay
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The gameplay is an interesting one indeed it's turn based but utilizing your so effectively is the major key.
One is allowed to equiped a main weapon and can also equity subweapons. Your main weapon is generally a sword but your sub weapons can be guns , daggers, guanlets, e.t.c
Being of a higher rank is important in the game and the best tip is never challenge someone with as far as 10 ranks above you if you are not heavily equiped. Because you have a high probability of loosing. It's has a partial open world play as one is allowed to explore the town but with much limitation, the only way to explore other areas is if they are part of a mission or quest.
As you level up your stamina points SP will increase and you also get access to special moves. It's all about how you manage your SP guage.
It may be turn based but as I played through the game it barely felt like it's turn based. And doesn't feel like a repeated action all the time.
Mostly you fight monster and enemies in real time and as you walk you can be ambushed. personally I dislike being ambushed in games were am trying to go to a certain location and keep getting interrupted by enemies, fairly it's meant so to help gain XP but personally I am not a fan of much of it. However this game does fairly well in keeping things just right.
Advancing to a higher rank unlocks features and skill set and also if you beat amongst the top 7 you get to learn some of their ultimate skills.
Also the story was great and went well with the battle system and idea for the game.
I really enjoyed paying it and also seeing more of the world and town locations with.
There is an English patch of the game and most text translated, I was able to complete the game playing that so it's an okay patch.
One good thing about the game is it reflects also equipments appearances.
Storyline
Zig, dissatisfied with the repetition of Cantalera's rituals without knowledge of its origins, leaves despite Faz's attempt to stop him. Found by Makis, he is taken to Ghandoar and inducted into Bazalta alongside Ren. After some initial missions, Zig is coerced into becoming a subordinate of Tylong, whom Ren initially hates, as part of Tylong's goal to become one of the Seven Knights. Zig is sent on a mission to discipline his own tribe, who defy Bazalta's rule and are suspected of aiding Anti-Bazalta. He arrives to find the entire tribe slaughtered by Bazalta forces before he arrived, later revealed to be the work of Yuli; Faz and Missy are the only ones to have escaped. He later clashes with Igorida and Galgano, learning from them of the Knights' corruption and a greater threat posed by the Evinos. He is also attacked by an embittered Faz, who was saved by Yuli and told that Zig betrayed the tribe's location. Faz now acts as Yuli's subordinate, later going on Yuli's orders to kill a small faction gathering around Ren's attempts to reclaim her family's status. Tylong also vanishes, and is branded as a traitor by Bazalta.
Zig and Ren are lured by Igorida into a meeting. There they find Makis, Tylong and Harth have defected to Anti-Bazalta to oppose the Knights' corruption. Igorida reveals that the Cantalera erected a magical barrier around the current inhabited world keeping the Evinos at bay, though a time of catastrophe when the Evinos will attack in strength is fast approaching; her forbidden knowledge came from Norma's unsuccessfully attempt to take over her body. They are briefly ambushed by Yuli and Galgano, who turns on Anti-Bazalta to help save his father Barbaro from imprisonment. Galgano is killed by Yuli after he reveals Barbaro committed suicide while imprisoned. Zig continues to operate within Bazalta, raising his rank and covertly helping Anti-Bazalta, hoping to bring Faz over to their side and find out if Missy is alive. Eventually found out, Zig reunites with Anti-Bazalta and they face the Seven Knights' forces; he in turn defeats Sengoku and Rosa, and kills Norma. He then fights Faz, who reveals Yuli is holding Missy hostage as leverage over him. Faz defects, and eventually Zig defeats Yuli and saves Missy.
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If you search with the keyword Last Ranker English patch you will find a link to the translated game.
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