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SUCKAGE!
Don't waste your money, don't waste your time, don't support this epic failure on Square Enix's part. This game fails on so many levels that its disgusting.
The graphics are fantastic. The story is pretty decent as well. But I am an hour and a half to maybe two hours into the game and I'm just NOW gaining the form of experience that this game is calling leveling. Not only that, but I'm STILL IN THE FUCKING TUTORIAL! Yes thats right. About two hours into the game and its STILL teaching me about the game, and there are still parts that it hasn't even touched on yet. The fighting system is an action turn system, it has a bar that fills up and once its full, you get to attack/heal/spell/whatever. Your enemies have this exact bar as well. There is no turn base system. If you just sit there the enemy will attack you over and over again. Its turned the loveable Final Fantasy that was built on a turn based gameplay into nothing more than a button masher that you don't even have to pay attention to. Many times I would stop and have a conversation with Opty while all I did was mash the A button over and over again, and I would come out of the battle victorious every time. I've put the controller down and will not be playing this game again. Ever. This is by far the worst Final Fantasy I've ever played, and am sickened that Square Enix even calls this a Final Fantasy.
Dragonwhelp
03-21-2010, 09:39 AM
Our household is enjoying it immensely. The tutorial is very long, and early game play is easy to mindlessly muddle through. Later on you get to evolve and shift your fight techniques.
There is a fight speed that you can slow down, so if you're just wanting more time to think between actions, you can do it that way.
The leveling up is very linear, which can be disappointing. However, the higher up you get, the more tactics come into play.
It's true that this is not a game for everyone. It's typical Final Fantasy, in that it's got more story than game play. But that's one reason we love the Final Fantasy series.
We are enjoying the game more than a couple of the others. Nobody in my house has finished 9 or 12 and only half of them like X2.
Shandi is waiting to start Final Fantasy, but she won't start it until she finishes Assassin's Creed 2.
In short, the review from our house:
Graphics: Amazing (PS3)
Game Play: Slow to start, partially because of the tutorial being so long. However there is a lot to cover. It picks up the more you progress through the game. At to 20+ hour mark, several fights have been re-done trying to learn the tricks.
Story Line: As with most Final Fantasy, it really pulls you in. We really enjoy the way they're doing it this time. It's pretty unique and new to the Final Fantasy storyline process - they're jumping all over the time line to catch you up as the game progresses.
Our household is enjoying it immensely. The tutorial is very long, and early game play is easy to mindlessly muddle through. Later on you get to evolve and shift your fight techniques.
I had just reached the part of the game when they introduced the fighting techniques. And it was at this point that it was the proverbial straw that broke the back. The techniques were based in a way to where I again did nothing but button mashing. One person as the Sentinel(tank), one has the Medic(healer), and one as a Commando(scrapper), and it was a matter of just when the battle was over, not a matter of am I going to survive this one? I guess personally I want the game to be more difficult. But thats my opinion, not any factual statement about the game.
There is a fight speed that you can slow down, so if you're just wanting more time to think between actions, you can do it that way.
I'm not complaining that its not turn based. Some of the previous FF games had the option to make it turn based or not, and thats fine. This wasn't my complaint.
The leveling up is very linear, which can be disappointing. However, the higher up you get, the more tactics come into play.
Yes it is. They took the idea from FFX and just dumbed it down. Once I had gotten into a couple fights after I was actually earning "xp" I was waiting to be able to spend more. I had filled everything up that could be filled, and had nothing left to fill up. I know that more would unlock in the future, but the fact that I was still in the tutorial and not able to spend points on anything anymore was bad thinking.
It's true that this is not a game for everyone. It's typical Final Fantasy, in that it's got more story than game play. But that's one reason we love the Final Fantasy series.
I agree with you here. This wasn't one of the complaints I had about the game. I've always loved that the FF were a sort of interactive movie style of game.
Game Play: Slow to start, partially because of the tutorial being so long. However there is a lot to cover. It picks up the more you progress through the game. At to 20+ hour mark, several fights have been re-done trying to learn the tricks.
Very slow to start. The tutorial killed it for me personally. They failed to grab me and keep me entertained with the gameplay. And your saying that they change the gameplay later in the game? Thats another faux paux of gaming, you don't switch things up like that in a game, it pulls you out of the story by doing so.
Story Line: As with most Final Fantasy, it really pulls you in. We really enjoy the way they're doing it this time. It's pretty unique and new to the Final Fantasy storyline process - they're jumping all over the time line to catch you up as the game progresses.
The story was fantastic. I did enjoy that. No complaints about that aspect of it.
All said and done, I gave this "review" of mine when I had just put the controller down and was angry at the game for not living up to its counterparts. So its more of a rant than it is a review on my part.