It is, I mean I havent personally had a chance to play this game yet so I should reserve judgement a little bit and will still most likely purchase this game because I love final fantasy and most square-enix games, but not having towns in a final fantasy or very few is not acceptable, I know its good for developers to innovate and shake things up a bit, but there are different ways to go about doing this, not cutting out what I see as essential parts of the experience. Instead of just having 3 or 4 people to talk to in town, they could add plenty of other quests to accomplish, fully flesh out each city to make it seem like its lived in and give plenty for the player to do, more than they ever have before, maybe even allowing you to purchase your own property ala fable and set up shop. Instead, they do away with towns altogether and to make it worse its due to laziness. After typing this, im beginning to wonder if I even want to play this game, maybe I should wait for versus XIII or some other rpg to make things right. Dissappointing to say the least.
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