| Qays said: Qays your 0/10 for FF8 in its thread was BS You still haven't given a decent justification for that, so why do you demand one from Twesterm? I don't take issue with the exact numerical score he gave XII - it's OK to dislike a game that I like. I take issue with the fact that none of his reasons make any sense. Seriously, who doesn't like Balthier? |
As I already stated in my main post, both Balthier and Basch were probably the best characters in the game. However, their connections to the plot were undermined greatly to other characters (see Vaan and Ashe) and they were essentially just tag-alongs. Basch becomes essentially useless with virtually no speaking parts after Ashe joins your party and Balthier has no direct point in the plot until near the very end to the game. And his 'partner in crime' (Fran) only seems to be in the game as a plot trigger for when you arrive in Eruyt Village, despite multiple random cutscenes where she appears to tie into the 'mist' (which doesn't lead to anything).
In all, the game seems to have been plagued by a lot of misdirection during development. Were they trying to make either Basch or Balthier the main character and just switched to Vaan at the last second? Or did entire bits of story get cut somewhere during development and that's why characters seem to go strangely silent for entire sections of the game. Or maybe its just a simple case of them trying to do too much with one game.
In any case, I think we can all agree that Vaan was unnecessary and took away a lot of focus on the other characters. And that FFXII is the most 'Star Wars' of all the FF titles.
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