The latest installment, FFXII, is super fun and *so pretty*! Seriously, the landscape design, the cities, the people, all gorgeous. Half the fun of playing is watching the scenery. The other half is killing monsters :)
Typical plot: the world is at war, and it's up to a rag-tag bunch of people to sort things out. These include: two street urchins (Vaan and Penelo), a sky pirate (Balthier) and his outcast lingerie-wearing-bunny-eared viera partner (Fran), a usurped princess (Ashe), and her protector (Basch).
The battle structure takes time to get used to. It's not quite turn-based like the earlier RPGs, but relied heavily on this strange pre-programmed-fighting-moves system called gambits. If you don't watch it, your people will pre-program-fight themselves to death. People have told me they really like this system, but maybe I'm not just not a very good tactician.
The box (in case you haven't seen it in stores)
The Japanese artwork - the picture is of a Judge (the bad guys - they're hard to kill!)
Fran, the lingerie-wearing-bunny-eared viera
And, a staple in the FF world, CHOCOBO! (That's Basch riding it)
Also: it is a very addictive game. Not quite Sims 2 caliber, but pretty close :)
1 comment:
i have to get around to playing this one sooner or later...then again, i still have to get around to playing FF IX.
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