The Longest Five Minutes: a JRPG that starts at the final boss

The Longest Five Minutes

A hero faces his greatest foe, the Overlord. But there's one problem: Why can't he remember anything!? In the midst of battle, his allies' words and the Overlord's taunting trigger flashbacks, slowly rebuilding his memories. Will our hero remember everything before he falls to the Overlord?

The Longest Five Minutes

The Longest Five Minutes begins where most games end: the final boss. Plonked in front of an unholy baddie, the hero of this quaintly old-fashioned JRPG has only five minutes with which to pummel them off the face of the earth. It sounds like a pretty short game, but thanks to the awesome power of extended, time-dilating flashbacks, those five minutes are soon blown wide open. Essentially this is a standard-ish JRPG told out of order, and that’s a novel enough hook for me to look at the Steam page and not dismiss this retro-styled adventure out of hand. It helps that it’s the work of Disgaea developers Nippon Ichi.

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