The Last Story is like an opera played through smartphone speakers — a magnificent, galloping stampede of a game with a memorable story, exquisite battles, lively tactics, grand vistas and elegant tableaus somehow running on Nintendo’s antiquated hardware. It’s as if someone took developer Mistwalker’s stunning Lost Odyssey engine, glued that onto a completely different game, then crammed everything into a console with the heart of a computer half a decade old. You’ll play little that looks as dated this year, but only one roleplaying game that’s better (Xenoblade Chronicles), and even then, it’s a close thing.