Enix killed Square, Square Enix is a sad husk of Squaresoft

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Godot said:
I agree with the OP completely. SE really sucks now. I have little faith for FFXIII now after playing FFXII. This game sucked so much. I can't believe it got the reviews it got.

 

There was excellence in FFXII, it was just harder to find. The FF series has a tendency to not give you what you expect. People wanted FFVIII to be FFVII-2, but they took another direction with the series.

This was especially true with FFXII. It's a very intricate game. It honestly isn't fun unless you're in on all its little secrets right from the start.

Fans booted the game up, left town, and played the game without any guides, like it was just an ordinary jrpg, when it is exactly the opposite. Fans hated the game for it. Most never finished. The story was admittedly boring, and the characters weren't that great, but the game had style, and a very, very deep combat system.

A lot of people just never dug deep enough to find it. Most who did, found they would have to start over their 20 hours game to have any kind of maxxed out characters.

Reviewers were forced to dig deep. They were forced to play the whole thing and understand its concepts.

They discovered that the game wasn't what it appeared at first glance, and when you do understand its concepts, and delve its depths, it's actually a much better game.

 

The real game, the FFXII I played, the one reviewers were forced to discover, most fans never played.

 

That's why I recommend you go guide heavy with the game, and study. It's like learning all the intracasies of PVP in world of warcraft. You can't do it over-night. You should also start a trial game and play it to 20 hours, first, before you restart on a new save. In that game, 20 hours is nothing. My final save had over 160.

If you understand the game, its random Diablo 2 esque drops, its battle system depth and innumerable sidequests, it will own you. IMO, it was a fantastic and evolutionary entry in the series, and that is why i have faith in FFXIII. I've never played a bad Final Fantasy.