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FF12

Beat it.

All in all I was satisfied, but that was it.

The controls were alright, there really isn’t much to complain about here. The camera behaved and doing things wasn’t too bad.

The battle system was nice, but I fail to see how it takes several seconds for a person to use their weapon, maybe for guns and bows but to give every weapon a charge time is a little weird. <_< I’m not sure though it may have just been because I played Rogue Galaxy before this, where attacks were instantaneous(albeit that game degrades to button mashing fairly quickly). Maybe if I played FF12 before rogue galaxy I wouldn’t be complaining about it as much. It helps to turn the battle speed up or whatever, but i did still find it annoying. I did have a problem with casting spells at time, things degraded to a true turn-based setup if you cast too many high level ones in a row. Though it doesn’t seem to apply to your foe who is beating your face in while your characters stand around staring at each other wondering why they even bothered casting flare. <_< Not that spells are all that great, with a few exceptions, I typically only used ’attack’. Running around the world is a little annoying, since there didn’t seem to be any free warp thing. The teleporting save crystals are nice, but in some places they weren’t in very good locations and you still needed to run a little bit to get to where you want to be.

I thought the gambits were going to be stupid and annoying, but they’re actually very useful and make playing a little more enjoyable. At first I wanted to control at least one character and had them off for whoever i was controlling, but i eventually gave in and set everyone up. I was glad I didn’t have to go into the menu every time to recast my buffs and other things. The characters did it themselves whenever said buff wore out. Still had to pay attention and assign orders and stuff, because I didn’t bother to ’perfect’ them

The license board is the thingy you use to learn moves and stuff and I didn’t like that either. It makes every single the character the same. There is really nothing major that sets them apart from one another. I’d prefer to have people with specific tasks, but whatever. It isn’t very restrictive when it comes to the weapon/armor part. I never really needed to get a specific location to use a weapon(then again I only used like 4 weapons throughout the entire game.)

The story really isn’t that great. It starts off very slow and there’s a slight increase in it at the end of the game, but it really wasn’t enough to save it. Also, it seems that most of the characters traveling with you could easily be dropped and have no effect on the story whatsoever. Honestly, only one of the characters made sense to be running around, maybe 2. Most of the characters were enjoyable, even if the story they were involved in was sub-par.
All in all it was ok and nothing more. <_<

7/10

FFTA2

I have completed 30 quests. I am trying to unlock some classes, but it’s hard when the white mages don’t seem to have any abilities aside from cure. <_< NEED ONE MORE ABILITY FOR SAGE.

I love moogles D:

The Simspons game

Played the first level or two.

Camera is shit, jumping is sometimes a little shoddy.

It’s ok so far.