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Good game, but MAKE HULK MAD

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the first game I've bought for the GBA, but I've played enough systems to have a decent opinion on it...
PROS: This game is a lot of fun for those who love to advance, gaining abilities and levels and statistics. There's an awful lot of stuff to get and learn in FFTA, and with such a large team, you get new abilities and levels in almost every battle. Graphics are entertaining enough, music doesn't get as annoying as you'd think, and the strategic roles of the jobs and races make for some great battlefield moments. It's pretty addictive at the beginning, and pretty satisfying to knock your first Bangaa over a cliff.
CONS: I have played for 95 hours, according to the game clock, and have not finished the game. It's been 60 hours since I even went on a plot-related mission. Soon, all my characters will max out at level 50, and I will still have not have finished the game because I was never offered the final missions! This doesn't seem to happen to everyone, but MAN is it annoying.
After a while, battles feel pretty slow. The screen centers on an enemy, wait, then goes to your character, then back, then the attack is announced, then the sky darkens, then a spell is cast, then the sky lightens, and after the 9000th time it's like AAAAAUGH. JUST HIT ME ALREADY.
And finally, there's the FF issue: for a game as shallow and slow-paced as FFTA, this game has an AWFUL lot of secrets. Reading an Walkthrough will make your head spin; there are dozens of objects you should NEVER throw out, difficult abilities you should be cultivating from the first battle, objects that "you will rarely find in a single game of play," and enemy-gathering trips that can take days of your life, all for the tiniest little perks and advantages! Right now, I have 90% of the spells, abilities and skills....but if I want to get all 100, and I reeeeally do, I'll have to potentially play for another 60 frickin' hours, and frankly, the abilities I'm missing aren't as good as the ones I have. This isn't like FF7 with the Weapons being a fun side-challenge, or FF8 with the Research Lab being a difficult quest to achieve an almighty power. This is hours upon hours of trying your luck at silly little side-stuff that requires no skill, just rolls of the dice.
OVERALL: I had a lot of fun, then I had a lot of annoyance. Play this game with a good attitude, leave it when you're done, and you won't be nearly as bothered as some of us are.

LIKE A BROKEN RECORD

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game, like a broken record, skips from pointless missions, to, well, more pointless missions that seem to be important to the story line. FFTA, however, doesn't really have a storyline, you never have straight forward objectives which i find very annoying. I have put this game down after countless hours. Well, acutally, i gave it to a friend who now doesnt even play it anymore for the same reasons. We have moved on to Fire Emblem which i would highly reccomend(i will write a review after this about fire emblem.)because it is much more fun and has a story line. I hope that you will consider my review and go check out some of these good rpg's

fire emblem

advance wars 1&2

zelda, a link to the past

Fantasy Hit

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

FFT is a really addicting game. Why? It has fabulous graphics, and great attack scenes. It also has realistic situations, not those cheesy, faky ones. In FFT you are allowed to select your clan members at the beginning of each battle. You then go with your clan against another clan in competition. Also what makes it interesting is that at first it is hard to defeat certain clans but finally you getting the hang of defeating other clans and feeling the joy of victory( and the smell). Ok, that's all I haven't written any other reviews so don't go searching anymore for my great advice.

Just Kidding!!!! Hope this helps!

Oh yeah, I never really finished the game, a friend showed it but with my short few hours the experience was mind-blowing.

Good game but plagued by flaws.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game a great deal and put in over 30 hours of time into it before i completed it... but im still only 1/3 finished with all the missions.

The battles are simple yet fun but take way too long.
You have to click about 7 times just to have a character fight.
And waiting for the enemies to move is even slower.
Sometimes an enemies portrait will just stay on screen as if the computer is 'thinking' of what to do next.
This gets annoying after about the 500th battle...

And the card and law system? It hinders the game so much and is what really hurts the game.

Sometimes things like Magic and Fight will be outlawed totally for a fight. Which means you cant Fight or use Magic for the whole fight!!
If you do use an outlawed command then you are penalized by things like taking away 5000 gold or taking away the battles reward which really stinks. And if you use an outlawed command twice in a battle than your character goes to prison and is taken away from the fight. Fun stuff...

And what penalties do the enemies get for using outlawed things? Nothing! They are free to do whatever they want without consequence. Wheres the fun in that?

All in all the game is still fun with its millions of classes, weapons, skills, characters, and gameplay but it couldve been perfect without its slow, tedious gameplay and without its flawed law system.

amazingly addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is a very engaging game, one which i managed to easily play for more than twenty hours in the first week i had it, and i'm not even that avid of a gamer! the universe is just so absorbing

REAL TESTIMONY

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: July 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Being a person who has played and BEATEN this game (in japanese of course), I can ASSURE you that this game is almost COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from Tactics Ogre (which i have also played). Sure, it may have the same isometric view, but the combat system is definitely original to its series. You should get this game. Tactics Ogre may be cheaper, but it's just not the same.

been there; done that

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: August 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is awesome. i have played through the japanese version of the game. there is so much to do. those who have played the original playstation version or this version would say that it is not a sequel. it is a good follow-up type game. saying that i mean that for what the gba can do it really is a good game. For those who keep track in japan this is Square-Enix's first game after the companies merged. not the first one in the states. the first in the states was final fantasy orgins but in japan it wasn't. anyway the game has a lot of the play mechanics from the orignal. then again a lot of things are new. although i don't want to give story away. i imagine a lot of people have seen some english screen shots. the game is like other games, is just a story while a story is being told. i recommend this game for those who enjoyed the original. if you haven't played the first game, i have a feeling that if you enjoyed this one, then it will make you try out the original.

Frickin' Sweet!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This Game is totally awesome!! This is the best RPG on the GBA!!

It was Cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was confusing at first, and at times... frustrating. But once I got the hang of it I just couldn't put it down! This is the first Final Fantasy game I've ever played, so I had my doubts about this one, but I loved it! Plain and simple!

misunderstood games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I first wish to clear the air around the missgivings of a certain group of imbeciles that don't realize what they have gotten themselves into. The RPGs they are talking about do not have the same battle engine as what this game has. Tactics games focus on just that "tactics," but there are those that just can't appreciate a game for what it is simply because the little babies can't gat out of their comfort zones and enjoy something different. Tactics games focus on moving the characters around to advantageous position against the enemies and do battle and in the process of attacking attempt to have some sort of defense built from the environment to protect when the enemy has their chance at the offensive. Not the I hit you now you get a chance to hit me game. They're just different types of gameplay and as said before one can't criticize a game simplyt because it does play like what they are use to. It's just innovation which is what makes gaming fun.

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