Final Fantasy XII Comments by Luke Albiges
'Final' for this generation, at least.
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Always considered the late final fantasy games to have slightly eccentric designs for their main characters.
Almost so much that it steals a bit of the charm just because they look so extravagant while fighting monsters. Almost like there is too much focus on the style and not on the substance underneath and then when they do focus on the substance they do it with style so it becomes a needlessly complex mess. Well that was FFX. This might be better and well reading the review it sort of does sound like it.
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Cosmopolitan
18/04/06 @ 11:52
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Is that the main protagonist on that picture? Gay-looking characters FTW.
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>Gay-looking characters FTW
Welcome to FF. Where you play an emo teenager, a cross dressing weirdo or a cute fluffy animal :) or sometimes even the three combined. Tried this a bit in japan and it looks like it will be well worth it for the FF fan so that 9 will be about right. In my case the game just makes me puke. -5 if you hate JRPG cliches! |
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killyourtv
18/04/06 @ 12:16
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not read the review yet, does the guy talk about story or just the way the game plays, I dont wanna know any story
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returning to the somewhat underused source material of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
And the original (and vastly superior) Final Fantasy Tactics, remember. I'm surmising this is a return to the hard-faced, politics-heavy original storyline rather than Advance's slightly kiddified 'dream world' thing, yes? |
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gamesb*tch
18/04/06 @ 12:30
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My advice to anyone considering DQVIII would be to rent it if I was you - I am BIG JRPG fan and found it very slow in many technical and narrative areas - voice file loading, animations in general, battle completion animation sequences, and plot progression in general. I was gutted to say the least, but I've always got FFV on a SNES EMU :)
All the above, IMNSHO, of course ;0)
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TwistidChimp
18/04/06 @ 12:37
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To those asking, no there are no more random battles anymore. Its like an mmorpg, you can see the monsters skulking about and choose to attack them. (or so I understand)
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gamesb*tch
18/04/06 @ 12:38
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Current wisdom states that VIII to XI are a beeet iffy, does it not Blerk :P
/cunningly walks away from trap, but misses bear trap behind him #snap# trapped and at the mercy of Spanish lala villagers :/ |
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Triggerhappytel
18/04/06 @ 12:43
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Quite a short review. Will we see a US review, then subsequently a PAL review of this too? I hope so. I'd like to know more of the story and characterisation - always my favourite part of a FF game.
It looks a lot like Vagrant Story (I know, it's by the same team), which is great news. How does the fighting system work exactly? It sounds a little bit like V. Story crossed with KotOR. Which sounds okay, but I prefer real-time. Also, how is the music? That's always been one of the strongest parts of any FF game. In particular, the title music from IV, VI and VII, Sephiroth's music from VII, Rufus' music from VII and (both) Kuja's music from IX. Anyway, can't wait for this. Just gotta finish FFIX and DQVIII and I'm right there. |
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"DQ sells far, FAR more than this does."
Not if you go by worldwide sales. So your claim is wrong unless you're Japanese, live in Japan, and don't give a shit about the rest of the world. Whoever said this should have been released on the PS3 needs to realize they've been working on FF12 since at least 2002, and that the PS2's user base is currently infinitely larger than the PS3's.
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THERE IT IS! No Final Fantasy thread/comments section is complete without the requisite FFX-2 bashing, and I for one am glad it's underway. I'm squarely on the fence, so find it all thoroughly entertaining.
Anyway, no random battles is good and all, but gives me less to complain about. Oh what a frightful quandry! |
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gamesb*tch
18/04/06 @ 13:03
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Any good, Decoded? It appeals to me cos a) sci-fi fantasy :), b) grid turn based system \o/
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moore25: "Is it me, or are EG's reviews getting a little too short? I know that Luke Albiges used to write for GamesTM but here on the good old interweb you don't have to worry about running out of page space.
Make 'em longer, EG." NO NO NO! the one criticism I have of Eurogamer is the length of reviews - they're too long. Keep em short and sweet, quality not quantity etc... |
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So, no Ifrit or Shiva, and XII plays like a simu-MMO? (Did I get that right...)
Anyway, I found with X-2 that at first it's a curious game. It took a while for me to get into it. But the thing is that it's really just "The Continuing Adventures of FFX's Summoner Yuna!" You can almost imagine the whole thing being told as a cartoon series. I guess it's fanservice for the most part, but I found it enjoyable. Out of the recent FF's, at some point I'm going to return to IX (AGAIN.) XI doesn't mean a thing to me. I'll wait for more info on XII before I decide whether to bite or not, but I'm not overly enthusiatic about this.
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"Not if you go by worldwide sales. So your claim is wrong unless you're Japanese, live in Japan, and don't give a shit about the rest of the world."
Tiny matter of them not really bothering to release many DQ games outside of Japan previous to this one, no? Oh, and to anyone else entirely missing the point of my pointing out that DQ is more popular in Japan than FF is: I was pointing out that FF is seen more as a girl-gamer RPG there, and STRANGELY, since they're made in Japan, that's the audience they focus on when designing the characters ;p I know: madness! :o |
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I guess I should (or maybe I shouldn't) add my voice to those calling for a bit more detail in these kind of reviews - I know it's an import review, but since a new Final Fantasy game is likely to be pretty high up on any console-RPG fan's radar, I feel this deserved a bit more coverage. I suppose we will get the obligatory euro-version revisitation, but still... some details about the characters / setting (for those who haven't played FFTA) / music / story (sans spoilers) and battle mechanics would be welcome. Having read the review, I'm as much in the dark as I was before...
Then again, I'm bound to rush out to buy it the moment it's released, so what do I care!? And since we're laying into FFX-2, I suppose I should say I enjoyed it more than VIII but not as much as X, IX or VII. So there you go. :) |
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I really enjoyed FFX-2 for the simple reason it was a fun game with lots to do. That's all I want from any game.
From what I've played of FFXII, it seems pretty damn spiffy. The combat system is going to take some adjusting to considering how different it is to previous FFs, but it looks to be pretty good on the whole. Can't wait for the english language release so I can stuck into it. --- "Dizzy: In my case the game just makes me puke." So why are you even in this thread at all? Oh yes, it's a Playstation game and you're a troll. Silly me.
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"And since we're laying into FFX-2, I suppose I should say I enjoyed it more than VIII but not as much as X, IX or VII. So there you go. :)"
Argh. Why does everyone hate VIII. :( I liked that one more than X, which i never finished. Though that was more down to irritating voice acting (and the fact that the ending and half the important plot points were spoiled for me >_< ). "We should go that way!" *5 minute pause* "ok!" etc.... Anyway, i've played the XII demo and the combat seemed interesting, it's a nice change from the whole random battle thing that everyone must be getting tired of by now (at least i am). Here's hoping the rest of the game is just as good.
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absolutezero
18/04/06 @ 16:06
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1 thing, do the characters yell out the move names as they perform them ala Star Ocean 3 and the Tales series?
Cos theres only so much "SPHERE OF MIGHT" I could take before I threw the disc out the window.
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