TicTacs
Just finished Final Fantasy Tactics! Yay!Wow!
I mean...
Wow!
I'm sorry I have to get positive for a change here, but this is really one of the best games I've ever played in my whole life! Squaresoft really knew what they were doing back then.
I mean, everything about the game just SCREAMS quality. You could put this game in a room filled with 500 Chinese, and it would still drown out their voices!
Great FMV, superb special effects, incredibly imaginative Map Design, beautiful majestic music, a quick, easy to get into, intuitive battle system, lots of variation in jobs, plenty of subquests, an intelligent (albeit overly complicated) plot, challenging gameplay, a great and satisfying ending, hell even some FF7 cameo's!
THIS GAME HAS IT ALL!
I don't care if you don't like Tactical RPG's, if you don't like this, you're an idiot and you should be shot. Until you die!
"But Ingen, you have to bitch about something! You whore!"
Well, lemme see then....
Okay, if there's one thing that slightly bothered me, it's that the game has Random Encounters. A game like this really doesn't need Random Encounters. Sometimes you just want to get from one city to the other on the map, just to buy some stuff, and you can get drawn into battle at every battle site you cross. This felt a bit unnecessary to me. I mean, you need to fight anyway, to build up your character and job levels, and fighting is fun, but if would be better if you had more control. Just being able to select a "Fight!" option at every site, or have enemy symbols running around the map (like they did for the GBA sequel) would have saved some slight frustration perhaps.
And secondly, the game is HARD. HARD HARD HARD.
Sometimes really a bit too hard. Now this is only, like 3 battles out of a total of 53 (there are 53 Event Battles in the game, the rest are random and/or optional).
Difficulty in general is rather high, but there are 3 battles which can really start to get annoying if you have to try them for the umpteenth time.
The first is against Wiegraf, as mentioned before, the Second against Marquis "let's turn everyone into an undead" Elmdor and his sidekicks "we have instant death attacks" Celia and Lede and the Third against some guy named Balk and his horde of Three-headed Superstrong Hydra's.
Sometimes you can really feel very overpowered, but in general there's always multiple solutions for dealing with a certain situation and you're never really forced into taking a specific job or using a specific ability over and over.
Very well-balanced, so I guess I shouldn't be whining too much.
Anyway, Fantastic game, shame about the Random encounters, comes Highly Recommended to anyone who has even a remote sense of taste and basically noone should miss out on this one. A 9.6!
posted by Ingen! @ 5:02 PM
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