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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 9104, member: 73"] Great opening post, IamHanik! I’ve actually never heard anyone give their firsthand opinion on The Last Story, and yours is certainly welcome. Unfortunately, I ain’t never done played any of these fancy city-folk JRPGs, so instead, I just wanted to ruminate on something that involves the first one you mentioned: I was just joining my first forum when Operation Rainfall was going on, and I remember what a big deal it seemed like at the time. There were a lot of naysayers, because internet petitions always failed, but there were just as many people who really, really wanted to play these games. At that time, there was a lot of pushback against JRPGs in general (I think because everyone was disappointed by FFXIII), so there was zero guarantee that Rainfall would succeed, but then… it did! The people — Nintendo’s audience — convinced them to put time and money into translating three separate games just by asking hard enough. Isn’t that crazy!? The Last Story and Pandora’s Friendship Parade have indeed become obscure, I think (though “forgotten” is a strong word, especially for the former), but I find it nuts that the third game in Rainfall was Xenoblade Chronicles. That’s a huge Nintendo franchise these days, with instalments on all major consoles and remakes out the wazoo, plus the lead characters in Smash Bros.! Would that have happened if it weren’t for an internet petition from 13 years ago!? How would Nintendo’s current game lineup have changed if Operation Rainfall hadn’t happened? That’s crazy, to me — some JRPG geeks on the Internet directly led to the creation of a major, international game franchise. Bless! [/QUOTE]

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