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bookzombieSo I finally finished Final Fantasy XII yesterday...sort of. I've still got some side mission to complete (particularly some 'rare' kills) but after about 3 months of continuous play I decided to finish the main story. I've still kept the last couple of save games seeing as I would like to get the last few bits and pieces at some point.
By this point I was sufficiently high level that the final set of boss fights was pretty easy (i.e. I didn't have to restart!) and watched the pretty story end animation.
So how was it? Well the animation was pretty and the 'real time' combat system was not bad, though I don't understand why everyone seems to have a big hate on for turn-based combat. Most of the gaming critics seem to consider this to be automatically a bad thing. For those of us with the slower reactions skills turn-based is a good thing!
What lets the game down, compared with FF-X is the story. There's nothing wrong with the basics (deposed princess tries to get kingdom back) but somehow it just wasn't as involving as the previous games. Certainly the characters where not as interesting. The only one that I really like was Balthier, the Han Solo-esque sky pirate who gets all of the best lines (well, as he points out at one point, he is the leading man so he might have to do something heroic).
I enjoyed it, but need to play something else for a while.
That something for the moment being back to City of Heroes for the first time in some months. And I've been really enjoying getting back into the swing of it again. It's good to be back!
By this point I was sufficiently high level that the final set of boss fights was pretty easy (i.e. I didn't have to restart!) and watched the pretty story end animation.
So how was it? Well the animation was pretty and the 'real time' combat system was not bad, though I don't understand why everyone seems to have a big hate on for turn-based combat. Most of the gaming critics seem to consider this to be automatically a bad thing. For those of us with the slower reactions skills turn-based is a good thing!
What lets the game down, compared with FF-X is the story. There's nothing wrong with the basics (deposed princess tries to get kingdom back) but somehow it just wasn't as involving as the previous games. Certainly the characters where not as interesting. The only one that I really like was Balthier, the Han Solo-esque sky pirate who gets all of the best lines (well, as he points out at one point, he is the leading man so he might have to do something heroic).
I enjoyed it, but need to play something else for a while.
That something for the moment being back to City of Heroes for the first time in some months. And I've been really enjoying getting back into the swing of it again. It's good to be back!
