FFXII

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FFXII is awesome. Mum hired for me from Blockbuster, and I want it for my 16th.

I like using Fran the most, because I love Vieras.

And the characters have such awesome voices. ;0;

I agree, FFXII is a great game!! Hard, but fair and fun to play. The graphics, gameplay, and music are awesome!! It is something I would recommend if the person has the time and skill to play it. The way you develop your characters is very open ended.

The game just keeps on going, and I love a long, challenging game with a good storyline. Simply a masterpiece.

I am using Basch, Ashe, and Balthier at the moment, my highest levelled characters. I don't know how far I am exactly, but it's under 50%, and I've been playing it for at least 2 weeks, 3-8 hours a day, sometimes longer.

I love Fran's accent. ;0;

I played this game.

I'm not a video game addict but I like this game in particular.

I'm at the paharos' - second ascent.. Its the most difficult place to be. This game is such a b***h.. I also have Reddas on my team.

Wow, sounds like I'm nowhere near there. It's a long game

I want everyone in this thread to know that Balthier is the star of this game, not Vaan. Vaan isn't all that great a character, but Balthier is easily one of my favorite video game characters after just the first 15 minutes of his appearance. Besides, he even calls himself "the leading man" throughout the game.

Oh, and he wins points for using a gun to fight all these unholy monsters instead of going at them with a big knife or something equally silly.

I am currently at Nam-Yensa Sandsea and I have all my characters at lvl 20 or above, and I currently have about 90k also, my current time spent on the game is 9 hours. real fun game

I bought it for my 17 year old sister Natasha for £15, she is playing it right now.

That was a nice thing to do.

I got all the way to the end basically (where Rabanastre is about to be attacked), and then I just kinda lost interest. Here's my basic lowdown so far:


The Bad
The storyline had potential, but it definately took a blow from the awful character development and lack of a true villian (Sephiroth, Kefka, Kuja, Sin, ect.). The Judges were cool, but they could have been some of the best FF Villians yet had they been more developed and featured more in the game. And, as for Vayne, he was a horrible villian... I could care less seeing him die off or not. And don't even get me started on Vaan. He makes Tidus look like Samuel L. Jackson. Heck, the only character that was interesting was Balthier. Everyone else was very supbar IMO.

The Good
As for the good stuff, the graphics are great as usual, but one thing I welcomed was the increased difficulty. That was one thing Square messed up on with FFX (making it too easy), and it's actually refreshing to see you die for once and having to exhale when you finally beat a boss. The new battle system is easily the best addition to the game. Gambits add another dimension to the game itself, and the ease of use to attack and cast spells without while the battle is paused will please any of the old school FF fans. The hunts are a nice break from the main storyline and a good way to level up and get items, as opposed to the usual level grinding. People might disagree with me on this part, but I thought the new summons were very cool, and I thought it was awesome that most of them were made after the old FF villians (Zeromus especially, he was always kickass). As for something a little less known, I personally thought the optional battle with Gilgamesh made the game. *SPOILER*It was so kick ass to see him pull out all of the previous FF Hero's weapons and use them on you! The battle music was as awesome as it was in FF5 as well!*SPOILER*


Overall, I think this Final Fantasy focused more on the flashy stuff such as graphics and the battle system than it did on the more traditional stuff such the storyline and character development. That did dissapoint me some, especially since the game had such monster expectations, but all-in-all, it wasn't that bad. If they would have hired a more competent Storyline and Character Developer, this could have been a masterpiece, but without those two key elements, this Final Fantasy falls a bit short against most of the others. Still though, it's definately worth your money if you are debating on whether to get it or not, and I recommend it to anyone that is in to RPGs (and, of course, it's an obvious must have for FF Fans). 7/10

I hate the baddies in it, so lame compared to the ones in X-2.

I actually didn't play much of X-2. I got into it a little, but then I got caught up in the masterpiece that is known as Final Fantasy VI. Kefka is one of the most memorable villians ever and is one of the reasons that the game is so good. If Kefka was in charge, he would poison that stream of water that runs in the undercity in Rabanastre and all hell would break loose (and hopefully, Vaan would be the first one to die with them )

I have never played FFVI.

Why is it that Japanese villeins always come over as a bit of a pansy. Half of them have human league her styles. I bet the rest do their nails too.

LOL, I was kinda sad when Rassler died because I loved his hair.

Well, since everything isn't going so well right now with you judging from a few other threads, I highly recommend picking up this game. It just came out for GBA a month ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Game-Boy ... 857&sr=8-1

Or, if you don't have a GBA and got a Playstation 1 or 2, go with this:

http://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-Ant ... 857&sr=8-4

Seriously, it's one of the best Final Fantasy's ever. You may have to scrape up some change if you don't have a job, and you may have to go out of your way to get a copy perhaps, but the experience (for me at least) is worth it.