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i finished it recently and i found it allright Yunalesca Send a noteboard - 25/09/2009 11:30:36 AM
I put down some good money on a PS2 (because for some unfathomable reason the PS3 doesn't play PS2 games) and bought Final Fantasy 12. I loved FF 7&8, 9 was to kiddy for me and I loved 10. And I haven't played a FF in game for so long. I was positively drooling to play a new one, which accounts for my regrettable decision of buying a PS2 just for one game.

So the verdict...bleh. What a letdown. I don't know if FF magic has dulled on me, but the storyline for FF 12 was boring as hell. I didn't care for any characters and thats saying something for a FF game. What am I missing here?


untill after mount bur thingamy bob. after that the pacing was fairly crappy. it was a very disapointing game, i hated ashe's costume, the espers and quickenings were bad aeon and over drive knockoffs and the bosses were eviliy hard and half the time had nothing to do with the story line. Firemane any one? the magicks (!) were fairly useless after you got your guys above a certain level. holy and sourge were let downs and the lack of watera and waterga was weird. plus loads of enemies were weak to earth attacks, but there wasn't a quake spell and earth aligned waepons were few and far between...

that being said it did have a few redeaming features, balthier for one (phwoar!), the necrohol was suitably creepy but damn hard, the tutorials wern't overly long and finaly you can skip the cut scenes.
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I love FF but I didn't even bother to finish 12 *NM* - 24/09/2009 10:45:55 PM 340 Views
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FF7?!?! You're a nutcase! - 25/09/2009 01:50:16 AM 677 Views
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Fair enough. Maybe I'm proving my own point. - 26/09/2009 06:46:26 AM 728 Views
I will have to disagree with this... - 26/09/2009 08:20:46 AM 634 Views
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I agree, with caveat. - 26/09/2009 11:54:25 PM 776 Views
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I disagree. Maybe you're playing the wrong games. *NM* - 28/09/2009 04:51:48 AM 332 Views
What is the videogame equivalent of The Godfather, The Wire, or Great Expectations? *NM* - 01/10/2009 03:31:37 AM 349 Views
Ah, I see. *NM* - 03/10/2009 08:02:28 PM 366 Views
Say what? - 04/10/2009 02:21:01 PM 640 Views
"Ah, I see" means "You haven't answered because there is no satisfactory answer." - 05/10/2009 07:06:03 AM 652 Views
So you expect me to reply within two days when it took you three? - 05/10/2009 10:29:27 PM 584 Views
I've used that escape from a debate I was losing, too. It's a good one - 06/10/2009 09:21:31 PM 703 Views
I... don't think you understand how this works. - 06/10/2009 11:41:12 PM 647 Views
Anything of worth? - 09/10/2009 03:24:42 AM 625 Views
Cymbaline is right. Some games have excellent stories. - 29/09/2009 10:44:16 AM 623 Views
And yet so many people claim to play them for their stories... - 25/09/2009 03:06:44 AM 735 Views
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That's basically what I meant. - 25/09/2009 05:05:19 AM 609 Views
Yeah I understand. - 25/09/2009 05:18:34 AM 686 Views
You are correct. But it sounds like semantics to me, since in practice... - 25/09/2009 06:00:41 AM 638 Views
I suppose it is, at that. - 25/09/2009 01:58:25 PM 681 Views
Well said. - 26/09/2009 06:48:10 AM 651 Views
I enjoyed 12 more than most of those you mentioned... - 25/09/2009 12:55:56 AM 623 Views
I agree. *NM* - 25/09/2009 02:44:08 AM 428 Views
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I am glad that at least one person here is with me on this. - 26/09/2009 05:53:42 AM 655 Views
It's interesting.... - 26/09/2009 06:55:18 PM 683 Views
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I partially agree with LoS, and I partially disagree with you. - 27/09/2009 12:07:07 AM 723 Views
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That was juvenile, TMJ. Also, he said best written FF. *NM* - 26/09/2009 06:58:12 PM 369 Views
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Ah, I must have missed the typo. - 26/09/2009 08:32:51 PM 713 Views
So much confusion everywhere! - 26/09/2009 11:48:32 PM 724 Views
Some of us --I'd even say MOST of us-- like that, though. - 26/09/2009 07:20:55 PM 688 Views
Agreed, I want to get into a magical whale's belly and fly through the air ... - 28/09/2009 05:03:14 AM 890 Views

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