So the idea of doing a speed run of Last Remnant has crossed my mind a few times before, but I don't know if it's possible to do so in a feasible amount of time with cutting down as much of the RNG as possible. The biggest issue is the exponential enemy growth starting from the second half onward. The game doesn't give you enough units to comfortably deal with that sudden level spike once the Six Bases comes into the picture. It's still possible to take it down with what's already available, although it will take some creative approaches (single unit revive unions, for one). A lot of the units are also locked away behind quests, so that's another issue to contend with. Using Mr. Diggs can end up wasting more time than just opening up new areas and looting them. Generic leaders cost money, which will affect funds for using IAs, so resorting to soldiers helps alleviate that... But then comes the issue of soldier stat growth: they're not very strong, and they take a lot longer to get up to par with the leaders. Equipment upgrades are also going to be sparse, so units will have to rely on using requested items. This can profoundly affect the sovani as the only request available to them is the Leraje Princeps from the Ivory Peaks for Torgal... but they can make do with what they start with. At least on Normal mode.
There's also the issue of any% vs. 100% completion. Going for 100% can be incredibly deadly to the team since the HP and stat spike is crazy. There's also when we start the timer. The Four Generals of Athlum actually get some EXP from the very first battle in the game, but it's a scripted fight. Depending on how powerful the rig is, there could also be a lot of slowdown just from the Gae Bolg's firing sequence. If going for 100%, what would be the fastest way to clear out quests? In a way, there isn't much you can do about it since you have to take them on one-by-one based on the client. About the only ones you can do concurrently are "Amnesia", "The Hero" + "The War of a Thousand Years", "Darien", "The Secret Letter", and several others. Those are the only ones off the top of my head...
Of course, there's also the issue of "100%". Probably the best definition of 100% of the game would be completion of all quests, which nets the player the "Dream Edge", which can be displayed from the inventory ("At Hatred's End" optional, but should be indicated whether or not it's been completed). Another definition would be 100% quest completion and 100% guild task completion. That one will definitely take a lot longer due to RNG for spawning rares. Wouldn't do that for a speed run. Ever. And then the absolute worst, which is what I've managed to accomplish, is 100% quests/guild tasks/rare monsters killed/all DLC completed. That too way too long... but I needed the data. Might settle on something soon-ish. But for now, I think we're going to work with draft runs.
In other news... Sunset Overdrive is probably the only X1 game that interests me so far, if only for the absurd colour palette and silly guns they have. Getting a mix of inFAMOUS (parkour and traversal speed aspects), Ratchet and Clank (from the same developers!), Borderlands (the crazy guns) from the trailers I've seen so far. Maybe a bit of Dead Rising and L4D because of the silly zombies and variety of them. I have this feeling that I'll have a PS4 and X1 before the generation is over... Not too sure about the Wii U yet. I'll have to gauge interest and other things. I'll probably end up picking one up for the Fire Emblem X MegaTen crossover. Just because. And I'm still going to make fun of the X1 because of its name. It'll be an interesting system, to say the least. We'll see how DX12 works out for it. If it can handle it.
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