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Let me begin by saying I am a HUGE Final Fantasy fan, ever since the really crappy ones on the Nintendo. I've been through it all. I cried when Airis died, I laughed when Wakka said funny stuff, I masturbated when Rikku jumped up and down. Cloud and Squall from VII were my heroes, and I've spent more of my lifetime levelling up than doing homework.
The last two FF games (the X series) have been absolutely wonderful, and I loved the idea that they FINALLY continued a storyline! (What's the point of a sequel if one doesn't have anything to do with the other?) But the second sequel of the X game, XII, so far has nothing to do with the characters we know and love. I'm only 20 hours into it, but so far there's no Titus, Yuna, Rikku, Lulu and all the rest. (The only friendly faces are the chocobos and moogs!)
Instead, you're introduced to a young street ruffian named Vaan. He lives in a desert town and most of your time is going to be spent first getting lost in his town and then getting lost in the desert. Now I love big areas to explore, but this is ridiculous!
The story follows Vaan as he runs some errands and gets into trouble. The story is actually pretty slow so far, but it doesn't seem all that interesting. There's obviously something going on with warring kingdoms and the bad guys are "The Empire" (gee, where have I heard THAT before? *rolls eyes*)
Since the story hasn't really got going yet, let's talk about everything else. The graphics are great, but a slight step down from the other X's. Still, there are some amazing cut scenes, although they are far and in between. The voice acting is very strange - for some reason they got British people to do the voices. It's very strange and makes it difficult to hear what's going on. (Note: be sure to select the subtitle option in the menu!)
The gameplay... it's awful. I have never been so disappointed by a Final Fantasy game in my life. They spent all their time on graphics and the simple things like moving around and fighting are all screwed up.
When you fight, there's nothing to tell you that you've entered a fight. It used to be that there would be a cool sound and the screen would shatter, and you knew you were fighting. Now, you're suddenly fighting. And it's impossible to fight! You hit X and can choose an action. But nothing happens and you just stand there. So you keep hitting X and it keeps repeating itself. Luckily, the other characters do the fighting for you so you don't die, but that's bad too, because what's the point of not doing anything? And it really, really sucks that you can't choose options for the other players. To complicate things, there are blue and red lines that appear when you fight - I haven't figured out what to do with them, and if anyone knows, I'd appreciate your telling me. (elguapo@readjunk.com or leave comment)
Levelling up is also very strange and difficult. When you kill monsters, you get LP points. You can use them on a License Board, which is a weird game where you have to uncover tiles to gain abilities and powers. But some of the stuff doesn't work - you have to actually buy the abilities first, and you have to buy them for each character. It's horrible because it gets really expensive to do anything. And here's the crazy thing - monsters don't drop gill! (money) You can only find gill in pots and treasure chests in the desert, and even then it's only like 5-10 gill at a time. Luckily the pots reappear, but most of your time will be spent going back to the same screen and finding pots just for a little chump change.
These factors make FFXII one of the worst games I've ever played. You can't fight, the storyline makes no sense, and there's no way to make money to buy things you need. What were they thinking?
I'm still wondering the desert, and I'm beginning to feel like the Jews. They too wondered the desert for a very long time and for no good reason. They should've just called this game "Genesis!" lol
Save your money and buy Kingdom Hearts 2. That at least has the real Final Fantasy characters and the game makes sense. Final Fantasy XII sucks and should never have been made. If I wasn't getting paid for writing this review, I would've given up on the game after the first hour.
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Worst Game Ever. Bring back RIKU!!!
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Reviewer: Adamo el Guapo |
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