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Not Cliched'd; A Predecessor To The Greats!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is by far my most enjoyable experience when it comes to combat.

1. You can develop every character you have into whatever you want; women don't have to necessarily be healers this time around!

2. You have the ability to also combine a mastered skill to another skill; in such a way your black mage can have white mage abilities, and your thief can have blue mage abilities as well!

3. Equipment is restricted by class, but by the time you are at the end of the game, that changes with certain classes...

4. In this version of the game, they have added many more classes to the mix.

This game has a great storyline, but at times can be bland, but is still awesome.

1. This also sports one of the most memorable good cop/bad cop villain of all time: Gilgamesh! He also has one of the most memorable themes of any Final Fantasy (that is, if you've played many different FF games).

2. This game is also very comedic (at least in my opinion).

The music is alright, but none of them stick out very much; it must be because they're all good! Nah, it's not the most memorable music-wise, except for the few such as "battle on the bridge," but it also isn't bad, like in FF 3.

Graphic-wise, it's updated from it's past-updates. Don't compare it with PS2 FF's because, of course, they don't compare, but appreciate it as a close interpretation from the original.

TL;DR, any RPG fan will LOVE this game! Any newcomers to RPG's will find the transgression from learning different combat aspects of this game very easy to swallow (but hard to master). A great game for all!

"I am Neo Exdeath..."

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game, though not quite as great as IV was, is still an extremely fun game to play.

Alright, I will get the bad stuff out of the way first because the good outweigh the bad by far. It's basically the storyline and characters that made this game weak. First off, we have Bartz, the Class S Retard and one of the stupidest line-sayers ever. For instance, after Cid said (loosely), "We certainly served that overgrown cray fish," Bartz immediately responds, "With some mashed potatoes and cheese biscuits!" Okay, what the hell does that have to do with cray fish? Anyway, then we have Lenna the Class A Naive Princess, Galuf the Class A Retard, Faris the Class A Insecure Female, and Krile the Class S Ditz. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE EVIL THAT STALKS THE EARTH AND WISHES FOR POWER...Exdeath. Yeah, I built up the suspense on purpose. He's probably the worst villain in Final Fantasy I've ever played against (exactly, played against, I've never played Final Fantasy VIII yet so don't bother me about Ultimecia). His part in the storyline is to destroy all of the Crystals (yet again another recurring storyline).

Alright, now that that's out of the way, onto the good stuff. First of all, the ATB system (it is just that good to keep mentioning). Now, we have the more fluent job system. III did not have a very good job system. This one does. First of all, there are more jobs to pick from as you progress through the game. Second, every job has at least one valuable trait to it so that another job will not take its place. Third, when you learn an ability, you can take that ability and stick it on an unlikely job. For example (this is a classic example), a Black Mage who can Jump. There are literally hundreds of possibilities to customize a single person and the entire group. Try what feels best to you.

I feel that this game has some of the hardest superbosses anyone will ever meet in a Final Fantasy game. Omega and Shinryu are frighteningly more powerful than the final boss. And to add insult to injury, in the new Sealed Temple, they have more powerful counterparts, Omega Mk. II and Neo Shinryu. But, I think of this as exciting. I love to play difficult games with difficult bosses, and this is one of those games.

The music, though still as great as always, doesn't match up to the standards of IV or VI. But, the Boss Battle music BEFORE the last boss is awesome to listen to and is a very catchy tune.

This game is the first one to start the recurring boss trend. Gilgamesh fits this role perfectly and provides the comic relief some people want. His best phrase is, "Hasta la bye bye!" How's that for kooky comic relief?

To summarize, except for the storyline and the characters, this game is a great game to play. It is one of the most customizable games in the series, allowing hours of fun with those battles that make you grind your teeth.

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