| darkknightkryta said: My biggest problem with Final Fantasy XII was actually gameplay/style issues. Most of the game takes place in these dark, barren dungeons. And while the combat system wasn't bad, and it was thought out, there just wasn't any strategy. Mist charges were a BIG mistake, it made me not summon cause I'd rather waste my charges on the quickens. They gave you so many magicks, yet they were all useless cause melee is a better option. As far as the story goes, the dialogue itself was well written, but the overall plot was lacking in focus. We find out that Ashe wants to get revenge on Vayne and get her kingdom back, which is good... until they completely loose focus and start focusing on these elder gods and their war against the fallen god who was helping Vayne. They didn't build up Vayne at all and the worse I've seen of him was killing his father. The judges were wasted as most of them died with no build up. Vaan and Penelo were unfortunately shoehorned into the story, which wouldn't have been so bad had they developed the plot point of Vaan seeing Ashe's husband just to say he never saw him and it was his brother... and that still didn't lead anywhere other than Ashe being controlled by the elder gods vs Vayne being controlled by the fallen god. You know what would have been a good idea? Cutting out the "gods" from the story. Like there's a lot there, the fall of Nabudice (However it's spelled), Cid being Balthier's father, the manufactured nethicite, etc. It's just all these plot points play second fiddle half way through the game for the god story arc. Last point on the subject, but I think this game is where Square's problems starting showing. Their inability to understand their fanbase, I'm sure iMatsuno was forced off the project cause Wada/Kitase/Toriyama don't understand their fanbase and assume the contrived writing in their current games is what is wanted. I mean Final Fantasy XII could have had the most mature and well written story of them all, but it was never meant to be. |
I agree in pretty much everything you wrote, most of all with the bolded, in fact, for me the biggest let down was how the story was narrated.
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