Final Fantasy XII Comments by Rob Fahey

Oblivion's 10 is a better 10 than this 10. Just so you know. ;p

"i'm playing now ffvii. first thing I did was random encounters=0
how can anyone play it with ran encs every 2 seconds??!! how impossibly annoying!"

Forgive me if I'm wrong but this review and comments sections is for FF XII and not FF VII.

FFVII = Random Encounters and turn based combat
FFXII = No Random Encounters and 'real time' combat

"after XII or more editions, doesn't it get you know, BORING? "

Does what get boring? The story?? The 'lack of' random encounters?

"Oblivion's 10 is a better 10 than this 10. Just so you know. ;p"

Oblivion was a good, even great game but it had it's issues, just as FFXII does.

In my opinion, the 'level balanced' nature of enemies in Oblivion totally destroyed it for me...in my mind there was basically no point trying to level as you can (and it has be done) complete the whole game while still at level 1.

FFXII has issues, but I don't believe any of them compare to the above.

Final Fantasy X was a great game - all the critics agree. Eurogamer don't just hand out 10/10s to any game and when they do, they are usuaully right. In this case, they most certainly are. Whatever way you want to put it, Final Fantasy XII is a truly fantastic game.

Citizengeek - did you find that the monster area was very difficult? Monsters dealing 99999 damage possibly hinting at a very difficult boss for the end, then find that the end of ffx totally simple? Fighting your own aeons pure simple and yes I had the rare weapons gathered and upgraded. I was dissapointed to find EG gave ffx a 9/10. This makes this 10/10 worthless to me.

Does anyone have a final playtime on this game?

I need to find out if I can fit it in before God of War 2 comes out.

Another wonderful game to the world. It definetly has that important Final Fantasy feeling! Been to long since the last FF game ( not counting FF X-2 because it wasn't a "real" FF game tbh ). 10/10 and I think its a must buy for the FF fan. :)

Rdysn,

A lot of people seem to be complaining about the lack of the story and lack of character development. I'm currently 24 hours in and at the Sandsea and I can say I'm loving the story. Perhaps it gets more boring later on, but I think the story is very good and very well-told and the characters are very interesting and intensely 'cool'. The story might not be as good as FFX or VIII or VII, but certainly just as well-told.

Xinch,

I found the Monster Arena incredibly difficult. So difficult that I just didn't bother. It;s really just for people who want to get the most of the game. I did get all of the extra aeons, though, which was great fun. THe final boss on FFX was pretty bad. Jecht was a good fight, but the aeons were merely theatrical and the final boss was just like a bug that I killed with Doom. Still, the ending was fantastic. And I think EG were spot on with 9/10 for FFX, though I'd probably give it nearer to a 10/10.

Riskbreaker_Ashley,

It's a very long game, apparently. So, I'd give yourself at least a full month to play through it.

Finished about an hour and a half ago. Over 87 hours in total - the longest an FF game has ever taken me to complete.

From start to epic finish, this was the best single player experience Square (either ~soft or ~Enix) have ever made. I can think of no higher praise, and the 10 score is the most justified I've ever seen on Eurogamer, based on the strength of my own experience with the game.

Just completed the game - 47hours.
I'm quite disappointed in the story not surrounding character developments, especially the main character, what is he even there for? - side /kick out of the story, thanks. Call the story more subtle/mature, call the older ones "stereo-type games", whatever. the point is VII, VIII and X which I've completed where a hell of alot better, if I wanted a story such as this I'd play a game like NWN2 or Oblivion where its all about the bigger picture.

The charm about FF games where the unique character developments of each games included with a well written story (especially FFVII). They've left it out completely this time, I hate it and thats that.

For whoever appriciates "a more subtle story" (again with no touch of character development - there's minor thou, but surely not worth mentioning) this game will surely prevail and make it worthwhile, 10/10 for sure.

Combine this story (with minor twists) and CDs, for me this would probably be the best RPG to date.
Or like FFX, make a sequal (X-2) - better one at that ofc - and I'll be satisfied.

I'll buy that 42" LCD TV and a PS3, and pray that FFXIII will make a comback.

From dadrester
cocking cocking cock! if i had to review this game it would recieve a big fat 0, simply because after all of the polish and presentation, they fucking forgot to put in an option to allow you to invert X and Y! cuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnts!!!

/weeps because he can't get the camera to do what he wants, and rather being filled with joy and wonder, is filled with anguish!

I wish I had read this comment. I wouldn't have wasted my money.

X and Y are already inverted. The camera is opposite to *every* single game I have ever played.

What a ripoff.

Square Enix give me my money back.

After finally having bought and completed the game recently, I have to say... this review is complete and utter bollocks. 10/10? ROFL!

This game is probably the worst Final Fantasy I've ever played. Worse than X and X-2, and that says something because I despised both of them. I thought I'd seen the worst of it, but playing FF12 has given me a newfound appreciation for both of those games. And no, it's not because of the changes in the battlesystem (which I'm fine with).

I think I'm gonna write my first reader review. Yup.

The game is like FFIV and FFV but just with amazing graphics and no random battles.

10/10 indeed!

Well so far it seems worth the 4.99 I paid :D

Although it looks pretty poor on the ps3 on a hdtv - but I expected that!

I've had this sitting in my pile for about a year - it's still in its cellophane. I'm not sure if I can bring myself to play it, just seems like too much effort. Mind you even wanking is these days.

Nearly 100% this game. So far i think its one of the greatest games ever made. At first i hated this game, but it slowly grew on me until the point of a full blown love affair, just wish it didnt have the FF moniker should have been a new title. Its like KOTOR meets Monster Hunter all wraped up in Square -(Enix) brilliance. Things i would mark this game down for is the story and no affinity with the characters. 9/10 :D