You Should Play: Last Train Home
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Before the StarCraft filled summer begins, I wanted to take a look at Last Train Home, a game I really enjoyed playing earlier this year.
I like trains.
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Trains
Wait this isn't The Great Train Robbery
It is, but YOU'RE the trains!
Is it Conviction then?
In Soviet Russia, the train robs YOU 🤣
He did fail the mission to escort a vehicle by running ahead of it and letting it get sniped from behind, so at least we got that mission covered.
Also, they went with Live-Action Cutscenes, real people and A FUCKING STEAM LOCOMOTIVE! Something that is very, very rare these days but since they got actors that look like the painted portraits - or the other way around - it gives them even more depth because it creates the feeling that those people at some point really existed and those live action cutscenes might have happened in real life, even tho all those characters are just invented for the adaptation of the real story.
I'm glad people still appreciate live action cutscenes. When you're a big moviehead, you tend to learn about the complex processes involved in filming even a simple short clip. To film using a real train is impressive, not to mention the costume detail which must have been incredibly time consuming. I wish there were more crossover between film and gaming beyond vague "the game is cinematic" type statements
I'm not very familiar with military uniforms but i do admire many I see in movies. I've also learned to spot poorly implemented or anachronistic elements in a uniform costume. The ones being used here look quite realistic although I'm not sure if the insignia and other decorations are accurate. Still very detailed
Oh trust me 😅As a Czech i can confirm we have lots of muzeums with stuff like these locomotives. 🙂And many of that stuff could be used again if given a chance, or so my dad says...
@@Tridetuschad tier lack of elaboration!!
@@ThommyofThenn Im not here to write in detail about charcoal stoves, baths, gas lamps and old tanks and planes.
At Grant - as someone who considers himself pretty good at this specific game - improving living quarters is the go to strategy. Early on there is no need to rush, unless you choose so/want to go for speed run/Steam achievement. It's better to be methodical, get bigger living quarters to get as many troops as you can, soldiers are your greatest asset. And having good living quarters gives you the options to use your best soldiers (Zámecká, Dráp for example) more without completely draining their energy. And it also solves the morale issue.
So when is "Can you beat Last Train Home Without Scouts?"
Using only scout-cooks*
Nah nah nah: have it be a 'no build' mission 😁
Day 10 of asking ggg to play /speedrun the starcraft 2 beginner tutorial hidden in the Main Menu near settings
That would be easier than beating the game normally lmao
Hello there, I'm the Game designer who worked on the Train. It's great to hear you like the game!
It was very much a passion project, many of us had family who served in the legions - so the story is quite personal.
You can even meet my character later on - a lone wolf sniper with passion for stories.
Oh a note, we wanted flame throwers, and gas grenades... but being a smaller studio, we had to make some tough choices.
I guess that explains why White Czechs weren't depicted as a band of murderers and marauders that they were in real life. We remember their crimes. How many russian families were robbed and killed by White Czechs? Do you even care to know about those black pages of your history?
White Czechs were criminals. We in Russia still remember history, unlike some.
@communist754 There really are enough games that allow you to do that, let them have their own thing.
We hope you make enough money to fund the Warcrimes DLC! (What about dogs? Battlepets needed here!)
@@randomguy6822 By their own thing you mean rewriting history to make their ancestors look a bit better? Why not make the same game about german soldiers in USSR in 1941-1942, while they are at it?
Grant requesting a firebat was not the ending I expected
Jayborino taught him well.
Grant was so into firebat that he forgot theyre like the last thing you want in reosource starved Siberian train.
I am proud to see that Giant grant games is a firebomb academy scholar…
Factorio, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Last Train Home, Machinarium, Mafia, Arma, Space Engineers, DayZ... Czech games are really well done.
We don’t talk about medieval engineers.
Wait... they're all Czech?
I love Czechia
this game kinda looks like Frostpunk crossed with Red Solstice 2
...you know it's dire times when "hope" is getting to _Siberia_
This brings up a question I've had since the beginning of the video: Why would anyone _want_ to go to Satan's Icebox? Maybe this is something I'm just too far south to understand (Sunny California, baby!) but I simply can't comprehend why people willingly live in, well, Russia in general. Of course, I also ask why anyone would willingly live in the Middle East or, say, Palm Springs without amazing climate control.
@@bluesbest1 I'm sure there are plenty of people that are confused why anyone would want to live in cali. As for the story here, As noted in the video, the game is based on real events just over a hundred years ago. The Czechoslovak Legion was charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian railway, a major asset for moving goods and people across the whole of Russia. Getting to Siberia was hope, because it was where the rest of their forces were, where steady supplies of food were, and where a path of escape back home was.
@@bluesbest1 I mean I think in context it was hope also because it's the furthest away from "front lines" they could
related also I was born and raised just a bit south of the equator line so my blood can't tolerate temperature below say 16 degC. living anywhere with cold winter - or god forbid _snow_ would be absolutely impossible to me
@@rigen97It's all in how you dress mate. I could have you feeling warm and cozy in a snow storm
@@bluesbest1 They're not trying to get to Siberia for Siberia, they're trying to get to Vladivostok to get a ship home.
"So making sure your snipers can make some really good soup is a good build"
You'll be glad to know that Petsuchos are called Petsobek in AOM retold.
Related to the VA is how attentive devs were making sure there is balanced cast of both Czechs and Slovaks voice acting in this game. We are brothers and we stand together.
Slovak Woman VA brought a tear to my eye (I am CZE, but my Wife is SVK)
@@mattender8323 Were they real?
@@rosameltrozo5889 tears? The voice acting? Specify.
@@mattender8323 the women legionnaires
@@rosameltrozo5889 No not really.
When someone boasts about his/her winrate always ask from how many encounters it was.
Czechoslovakia has 100% naval battle winrate against Russia. The catch is, that there was only one naval battle vs Russia.
Some legionaries (probably trying to get home) stole three ships and blew up a port. Destroing one ship and caputring another in the process.
Why is youtube telling me your comment is a day old on a 7 minute old video?
@@gabrielreinalter2269 he's likely a patreon member
Since then everyone was too afraid to face our mighty navy.
@@TheArklyte Or a time traveler, you never know
im pretty sure its also a 100% naval victory rate in total too
Was that little thing about the RTS controls actually working a dig at Homeworld 3? I feel like it was and honestly, I agree 100%.
Frankly it was a dig at a _lot_ of RTS controls.
Age of empires 4, age of empires 2 DE, war craft 3 refunded, dawn of war, star craft 1 and a million other games I can't think of without my morning coffee 😂
@@JJJBunney001 I love AoE 2 DE deeply. But sometimes units just do... weird shit.
Classic RTS has jank controls, but that's normal, you just gotta live with it. But basically every RTS from the past 10 years still controls like crap even though Starcraft 2 figured out how to do it right. We should be past this by now but we aren't, the bar is still so low that "pretty much mostly works well enough" is better than 99% in the genre.
@@JackFrosthawk I’d say it’s effectively on par with SC2. Never had issues with pathing.
What a coincidence, I picked this up recently while it was on sale and all of a sudden I see a GGG video about this game uploaded not even 5 minutes ago.
Hope you have fun. Played it 5 times to get all achievements + the DLC missions. That being said, I am Czech so I have positive bias towards the game.
"Coincidence"
The armored train was always a bad idea, but it is one of the coolest military vehicles ever.
15:31 I was so shoked for moment to see my old hometown xD
A:
Bayonette charge is amazing if you're a stealth focused player. Which I am. If you combo a takedown of 2-3 dudes with a rifle charge then you can take out a group of 6 dudes before any of them can open fire. It is, however, a bit clunky, and you'll want to make sure that each targetting circle only has one dude in it.
B: Expand your living quarters, expand your storage, and go all in on anything that saves you resources. Insulation, more efficient engine, cheaper repairs. If you're stealth focused you'll never have to worry about bullets much anyway.
Here in Russia many criticize this game because we again shown as bad guys. But I think it's actually correct, civil war was very dark moment in our country history and we must remember it well.
P.s it actually really fun to see on the map places where you've been. Can imagine it even more interesting if you're Czechoslovakian
I guess the problem is that both russian factions are shown with no grey area while our game faction is literally saint. Both Reds and Whites indiscriminately pillage and burn every settlement they come across even though their own troops originate from these villages. And the Legion is portrayed as this one little train of desperate outcasts who trade with locals and gather strawberries in the forest, whereas the Legion was actually many times larger and mainly got supplies... well, not from trade.
Ive heard of this a few times but this is the first real analysis i've watched of it. The mix of styles is definitely a very interesting prospect. I like how you frame it as almost a "grown up" version of OT. It also seems like a game that isn't going to coddle you and rewards thoughtful gameplay and mastery over mechanics but also allows a degree of freeform play.
I didn't realise your npc companions had unique likes or dislikes. Nice touch really
Quick correction regarding the scene setting at 0:50, by this point in time the Red Revolutionaries were the closest thing to a government that Russia had. The Whites were a loose and disorganised alliance of factions who did not like the Reds taking power and who were trying to do something about that, but the Reds held most of the key central regions and cities of Russia for the entire duration of the Reds vs Whites war.
Also Russia had not been an empire for a year before the Czechoslovak legion revolted
It's not an hour long!
its not SC2!
When this game was released, the Czechoslovakian legionaries trains made a trip across the Czech Republic, don't know if it was thanks to sponsorship or deliberately waiting for the event, either way, I've toured one of the trains, you could basically say they were a mini-towns in their own right, they even had a goddamn post office.
Legiovlak tours around CZ regulairly for several years now, staying few weeks in every bigger city. It is a museum on rails, after all.
Hearing my native language in Grant's video warms my heart. Gotta try this beautiful game.
As a ukrainian i was pleasently surprised at how close is the chech language to ukrainian!
I teared up a bit.
Me too.🥲
It finally happened, I am subscribed to so many channels I like I legit forgot about an upload.
It just came to me, "wait, didn't GGG upload a video on that Czech legion game?"
I played this game when it first came out on Steam and I really enjoyed it. Glad to see you making a video and genuinely enjoying the game. Maximilian Drap in my game was the hero. Maxed out Scout was doing work.
Him and Zámecká are the most likely MVP candidates by definition of their traits.
Genuinely brought this game after your "10 RTS to look forward to" / w/e you made a few months back; fantastic game and so glad you recommended it back then.
last week the train was in my home town, just randomly came across it in the station =) (a recreation)
The way he says "soup" makes me think of the elder swear video
Mate thank you so much 😊 I have been looking at this game and now I really want to play it! Buying it today 😆 you're awesome
Funnily enough, a squad of 4 scouts can one shot light vehicles and do considerable damage to heavy tanks with their snipe ability
I played through this game a few months ago and really enjoyed it! I'm glad to see a bit of a spotlight out on it :)
Really sad, that this vid didnt get any traction. Keep it up even with niche videos!
I was hoping you'd cover this, I don't know why but I'm glad you did
I'm glad to see you playing this. I would love to see more videos them.
And dude, i thought i got mad when my units missed in turn based games.... holy hell, i get livid when the whole squad is burning ammo for one enemy rifleman that is hanging on by a thread anyway.
Aah yes I've been waiting for this video ever since I played through this game upon GGG's recommendation of it.
Also scouts are OP, my lategame team was 50% maxed lvl. snipers and it was busted. Snipe also works against tanks which I find a bit ridiculous.
I would love to watch a play through of this Grant!
Been playing Starcraft ever since I was a kid and been through lots of struggles playing Frostpunk 3 years ago, it is interesting for me to see a game that adapt both play style into a unique mechanism. Looking forward to try it out any time soon, thanks Grant.
*Hope rises. Discontent falls.*
You know, if I got a groshen every time I fell in love with Czech game related to Czech history, I'd have two groshen. God be with you, Grant!
1:50 Empires of the Undergrowth simulates ANTS so they were designed to not follow orders directly.
EotU is not a strategy game imo. It's a puzzle game with a strategy skin. And the focus on micro and value kinda conflicts with how unruly the ants are.
12:40 "cooks who.... erm ... they cook ?..." I am glad you figured that out, Grant 🤣
12:43 Faster stamina and morale replenishing ain't flashy, but it gets the job done. Anyone good at managing stamina and morale understands that.
Nice video, thanks for the review. I can understand czech and have a fun fact to share: when you played that dialogue from the commander, it is clear that devs first have written the game in English and only then decided to translate the lines for voice overs. Some sentences would only be understood by czechs who speak english as well, because while the words are perfect czech, the structure is completely english.
A wonderful game, played it on release and enjoyed the hell out of it.
And yes, scouts are absolutely busted. As soon as I got myself 3 scouts with camouflage and single shot kill ability, I was playing them like 80% of the time.
Sounds like a wonderful well crafted game that i got anxious about just hearing Grant talk about it.
18:00 the bayonet charge is really underrated though. N°1 your soldiers gain a defense buff while using it, making them almost impossible to hit during it and N°2 is also a OHKO. Weren't you the guy who had issues with MG nests? MG nest that, y'know, don't move? Also, n°3, despite the Legionary using it screaming at the top of his lungs, it's surprisingly stealthy AKA you can reliably take out patrols with it if you get used to it's quirks.
Really enjoyed the video Grant, glad to see you spotlighting a historical-fiction videogame. Although i cam empathise with your complaints about the squad system, they clearly expect you to form squads that will last for several missions, but for practical purposes forming rigid squads just kneecaps the rest of the systems you can have those soldiers engage with.
Still, I'm looking forward to playing the DLC missions at some point and i can't wait to see more from the dev team! They've clearly got some good passion and the creative chops to make some really cool stuff.
I would love to see a full playthrough of this in the archives! (Or watch the uncut vods a la archipelago)
Yeah, scouts are op to a degree that is difficult to quantity.
One bullet one kill per 20 seconds makes any mission where you're not defenting a point ridiculously easy. It also saves ammo and thus money and thus messes up the economy (I reached valdivostok with 2200 fuel and 550 food). It also makes the hospital cart next to useless as your forces don't take enough punishment to justify it or its upgrades.
The game has other issues too, with saving, and enemy ai, but overall an 8/10 at least for sure, worth at least 2 playthroughs, easily 40 hours.
This has been on my wishlist for a while. Missed the last sale but will definitely get it the next time I have a chance, thanks for giving me the push.
This game deserves full price buy :)
A comment for the algo, because I didn't know this came out and more people should see it.
Honestly think historical games have a lot of potential and this game confirms it. Having games in this style but during Napoleons era, or maybe during the western front during WW1/2
I played the Oregon Trail. My daughter died after crossing the missipi.
For anyone interested in finding out more about this game, the youtuber RimmyDownUnder streamed his playthrough and uploaded the highlights as a video on his channel. I highly recommend watching it if you dont plan on picking it up, as the gameplay and story is phenomenal.
This guy has a voice perfect for the deaf
This game has been on my steam wishlist for weeks, might have to move it up the priority list
The combat in this game reminds me of the Close Combat games. My favorite in that series was "A Bridge Too Far."
Dude this is sweet, not dissimilar to my great(great?) grandfather's experience, except he was coming from Central Asia and nobody blew up their train lmao
Also Pavel is my namesake and his surname kinda fits too lmao
dude yt literally didn't notify me abt this vid until now, what the h*ll
i always watch ur vids on release, frick this algorithm
One small correction for russian history: the whites did not form the government. At this point, the government was composed of mostly socialists already, but not socialist enough for the reds. The whites were created mostly as a reaction to the reds and composed of groups who were from the previous, previous Tsarist government, right wing reactionaries and people who never accepted the socialist government
seeing this brought back fond memories of playing FTL but also this looks like a totally different game
Fun listening to english speakers pronounce Czech names. If ya want a quick pronounciation guide then
read every 'j' as 'y'. Every ž,č,ř,š can be sortoff read as dj,cz,rz,sz. ě ~ ye. (This is not a hate, I just think that some can find it interesting side activity to try and decipher the names of legionares they play as.)
I really didn't expect it, but I will definitely try this game, sounds great
This game feels like xcom combat, mixed with valkyria chronicles individual characters. A blend of making the ace go-to squad, with the fear of losing a core member… Definitely gotta to pick this up when i get a chance
13:59 Soup turns herbs into food AKA infinite food! Not exactly a big secret if you can just work out some pretty easy maths.
I've been looking forward to this video. One sec while I'm getting my blanket.
I can't believe you would spoil real history for me like this! SMH My Head... =P
This game would probably stress me out more than I need right now, but it looks /excellent/. Hopefully I can get to a place where I'm less generally-stressed so I can play it and feel good about it. :)
zerg eddition of this mod would be called last Strain home
This is basically super tough xcom
Yes you will get thoughts of shooting your screen in anger after game ending for the fifth time
But in the end you will be coming back for more because this game really hooks you and then pulls it so hard you lose something important
I liked this game a lot, it was a really cool mixed experience between company of heroes and frostpunk, but i felt it lacked on both ends.
The story was great. Really enjoyed it.
The strategic layer was a bit too repetitive and I found it too easy to keep up on resources and save everyone. And I was paying on the hardest difficulty. Never got out of food or coal and mostly kept up with upgrades. Until the last stretch I had managed to clear the whole map on all areas and then I realized I had so much coal I could just full speed towards Vladvostok and end the game. Also, the train never broke out for me. Yeah it lost the ocasional health but just a few min of repairs solved it, never had to upgrade durability at all.
The tactical layer was better, but the upgrade system is kinda confusing and at the end I was just sending full scout squads to stealth clear the missions with ease.
The final mission was really interesting and a very large mission, but again, just spamming scouts made assaulting the fort and defending areas very trivial.
usually we see bad reviews where people say its the games fault that they are bad
here we see a bad review where someone says its the games fault they are too good
if you already knew a lot about the genre then why didnt you get a custom difficulty that made the game harder?(even if artificially)
I think the issue with games like these is that the genre is close enough to things like Commandos that the default response is save scumming if anything goes wrong with the stealth. But then you just stockpile resources and rarely spend them. And it's usually pretty obvious which upgrades to prioritize. So the strategic layer isn't particularly well balanced.
now we wait, for a challenge video of this
I finished the game 3 times already. The best RTS game for a long time. However if you plan in advance and take care about soldiers (and do the stealth fight everytime you can) it's not so difficult to manage through the journey without major punishments.
Loved the video!
Purely FYI and as someone from Eastern Europe I wanted to mention that the vowels in "Ivan" and "Pavel" are pronounced more similar to Spanish vowels than English ones. Think about the "a" and "e" in "abuela" for example, if you want to pronounce the names more closely to their original form.
Great review as always!
I assume it isn't your intention but I'm also pronouncing the v's like Spanish too. Eebaan and Paabel haha
Damn I'd love to watch Grant play through this game
Hey, Grant, if you lliked this game, I would recommend you to pay attention to Partisans 1941. Almost the same setting but in WW2, with more stealth mechanics and more characters uniqueness but with less base management
Rest in Peace, Ivan o7
Thanks for showcasing. ^^
Here's a fun Rts tower defence you should try grant. Creeper tower defence (NO it's not a minecraft creeper) it's a fun game I played and hoping for a better title in the series ever since. Best genre of games that mixes tower defence and Rte and even tries the ship variations with other titles
Have had this game on my wishlist so glad to see your positive review. Would be interested if you have played Partisans 1941 and if so how it compares with Last Train Home.
Did everyone just leave Ivan at the same part? I had the same thing happen to me where I didn't have the resources to upgrade the car for him, but if I don't leave the station, there should be the option to wait and upgrade the living space to take whoever was left. I think this might break some balancing of the game in the later sections (I'm only about less than 40% through the game). Also, the bayonet charge is kind of bad, but it breaks the stalemate trench battles. It also works EXTREMELY well with some of the other skills you get with other units. For example, I would use Suppressing Fire and Bayonet Charge to pin a unit done while the riflemen kill them.
It always feels good to listen about a good gamę.
Have you ever considered making videos about the Stronghold game series? I really love those games and I was wondering if you ever played them, since you have so much knowledge about strategy games, also considering that most of the games you make videos of are the ones I played during my childhood.
Man Grant I always love these types of videos you pop out now and then. The amount of details and information you give and in this case with how much it sounded like you enjoyed it makes me want to get the game lol. I'll note that I won't actually get the game as my enjoyment would be limited, Xcom being the closest thing I can compare it to that I've played I enjoy/hate the game. There were times where it was a blast and like you pointed out you eventually find a character you get attached to due to something that happened, but then times where things just constantly backfired or RNG just constantly bad that they'd just grind me down and set me off. So as curious as I am about the game I'll be avoiding it just so I don't put myself through hell like I did with Xcom lol
Awesome vid Grant. Love your work man.
as a czech i am glad Grant loves our history
...tool me a whole day to realize this was a main channel video
Though I haven't played this game because I'm not really a strategy player, I'm glad that there is a game showing my favourite part of our nation's history. Thanks for playing, Grant
And, apologies, but I need to make a small comment, no flamethrowers because they were usually used on the western front in the trench warfare. The journey of the Czechslovak legion was a lot of things, but definitely not trench warfare.
Always fun to watch, thanks for the review.
Lindybeige did great couple of videos about the Legion and their epic undertaking :)
I really enjoyed this game.
My biggest qualm was that combat was actually really fun, but man it was such a drain on your resources.
Stealth was just soo good, but soo time consuming.
18:45 I had to leave three guys at a station behind despite having the materials to upgrade every single living space.
Greetings from the "fertile Willamette River valley" haha 0:57
Sláva Československým legionářům! 🎉
Největší borci.
Bez nich bychom nezávislost nezískali.
Yeah no cap this a banger video
“Sorry IVAN”, felt that 😭
In my first run, I had no kitchen car so Ivan was saved, but he was effectively a passenger.
Thank you for review. I'm gonna go and get it.
Now I want grant to do a frostpunk review.
Siberia ain't frozen hellscape and has hot summers, right now quite a few Americans and westerners are moving there, Russia plans to move capital city there in 2040s
This is officially going on my wishlist.
The game really looks like a work of love
I would watch a play through of this or a challenge run of this game by you.