"Last Armageddon is a very, very long grinding RPG. The three parties of demons must all be separately levelled up, all switching out automatically. There aren't any NPCs to converse with or towns to visit, only plot events that are triggered. Items and weapons are created by party members using "jin" harvested like money from enemies.
Combat involves a four man squad, turn based combat common to RPGs. One thing unique about combat is that defending always completely nullifies an enemy's attack. So if you attack with one demon and defend with three, there's a 75% percent chance each enemy's attack will fail outright. Of course this tactic draws out combat time to a teetering crawl.
Originally Last Armageddon was created for the MSX-2 and then ported to the Famicom with a stripped down color palette and a surf rock soundtrack which is the most jamming music ever played on a 8-bit system. A final PC-Engine version was made which runs the quickest, has the nicest graphics and CD quality sound and adds an automatic fighting option."
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"There's a very unique character setup in Last Armageddon. You control two parties of four demons that switch off during day and night shifts every 144 turns. Then, once a game month, you control a third party of demons for 1440 turns. In the MSX version you start with a fighting oriented demon and a flyer in each party and get to choose two more demons for each. In the Famicon and PC Engine versions, the parties are pre-selected for you.
Characters each get a special attack, some spells, and some skills. Skills include viewing the world map, item creation, and flying. Each of your attributes are individually leveled, sort of like Final Fantasy II, except that your statistics can never go down. After so many levels, each demon will choose to err... merge their DNA with another demon's, which will increase their skills and change their form."
Topic: Last Armageddon (translation?) (Read 432 times)
