I've been playing Last Remnant recently and I'm about ready to give up on it.  I've hit a boss battle that I just can't seem to beat.  I've spent over 10 hours and 8 attempts trying to beat a pair of twins and their insane battalion of backup.  One of the biggest frustrations is that I have to go through a pre-battle each time.  The pre-battle consists of wave after wave of soldiers.  This part is not too difficult but time consuming.  Then I hit the boss battle.

I guess my biggest frustration with this game is lack of control during the battles.  You can give your unions general directions from a list of options.  However, that list of options changes from round to round and sometimes makes no frapping sense.  Also, the special abilities that could mean the difference between winning and losing are so random as to be essentially useless. 

The same doesn't seem to hold true for the bad guys.  They religously use their montser moves turn after turn wiping out one or two entire unions each time.  I am usually running around with one live union trying to bring the other unions back to life.  It also usually doesn't give you the option to heal unless you are at half health.  I understand all the online griping now.  I don't mind the buggy framerate and animation.  But the battle system needs a serious overhaul. Once I finish this game once I seriously doubt I will play it ever again.