Friday, May 4, 2007

*blink blink* Where did the morning go?

I love the Final Fantasy RPG series - ever since I played FFII (which I think, in the Japanese line-up, is actually #3) on the SNES.

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:

Unknown said...

i have to get around to playing this one sooner or later...then again, i still have to get around to playing FF IX.