Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
I find FFXII to be a great litmus test in evaluating a person's appreciation of all things 'Final Fantasy'. (it's the only main-series FF game that ever received a perfect Famitsu score, and one of 21 games in history that have.) The game was the most intricately crafted Final Fantasys at the time of it's release, and was created by one of the greatest fantasy visionaries of all time: Yasumi Matsuno. (Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions, Vagrant Story, Tactics Ogre, etc)

If you hate on FFXII (esp FFXII:International Zodiac), I'll disregard anything you say in the future in regards to feedback on this or any other FF games, as the series is clearly not for yo
Well, that's pretty narrow-minded of you. How about this, then?

In my opinion:

FFXII perfectly captured what FELT like a FF. The setting was fantastic, the music was great, the background lore was great. The gameplay and the combat were fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

As a GAME(which it is), FFXII was phenomenal. But as a story? It was atrocious. The first 10 hours of the story were so grand and incredible that it opened you up with "this will be the best FF ever made..." and then it quickly becomes a dull journey around the countryside with VERY little plot development and a lame lead character(Vaan). Seriously, have you read the information where they talk about WHY Vaan was made as the lead character? It was dumb. He serves ZERO purpose to the story. Basch and Ashe were cool, I thoroughly enjoyed them. So was Balthier. But even though the game had a lot of pluses, the thing I enjoy most about FF games(the story) was SEVERELY lacking in FFXII. I don't think anyone can deny that the plotline had nearly zero surprises or any kind of interesting plot development(except "He even made me a Judge..."). It's almost as if they didn't have a story planned. A lot of the characters were so one-dimensional. The game hardly had any surprises and surely didn't have a good story. The writing, when it was used, was good though. I'll give it that.

If you feel that FFXII had a great story, I have to seriously doubt that you even payed attention to it. Please, offer me the info as to why you enjoy the story. I'd seriously love to hear it.


On every other account? FFXII was fantastic, and embodied what FF games should feel like(unlike 7,8,10).