Kresnik said:
Well, Final Fantasy XIII "opens up" in the final quarter (Gran Pulse), but that doesn't change the fact that 75% of the game is a corridor fest. Just like FFX was, but I often see people regard X as the "last great Final Fantasy" - which in my opinion, was IX.. |
This, except that Final Fantasy 10-2 is the last great Final Fantasy. The gameplay is more than good enough to save this game from the crappy story, and the game is open world from the very b eginning. The quest system works okay enough even if the game seems disjointed because of it. However, I am still going to give Final Fantasy 12 another chance. I played 10 hours of it and quit. I liked everything about the game except for the battle system and lack of easily being able to control your party, but with playing through Dragon Age Origins and it bassically having the same type of combat, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be bothered by just setting up gambits and letting the characters do their own thing most of the time.
The problem with Final Fantasy 10 though is that it's just point A to B from beginning to end. You walk along literally one straight path and only divege at very rare moments, then when you get into combat, the battle system is nothing more than viewing the battlefield, seeing that the enemy is a bird, magic enemy, and a shell e nemy, so your first turn is switch characters to Wakka, one hit kill, switch to Lulu, one hit kill, and switch to any armor piercing character which at first is Auron for a one hit kill and repeat until the end of the game.
Final Fantasy 10 was Squaresoft's way of making the game so obvious on what you had to do that it's practically playing itself, the same as Final Fantasy 13 with point A to B and how the game "recommends" auto battle.
That being said. Final Fantasy 10 is still much better than most JRPGs released this gen. Most RPGs this gen suck, especially those crappy Compile Heart games.
EA is easily one of the best developers this gen.
| arcane_chaos said: Castlevania: Lords of shadows is one of the best games of the 7th gen and ridiculously unerratted Skyrim is ridiculously overrated Vita is the greatest handheld yet JRPG>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>WRPG XBL fee is absolutely ridiculous Killzone 2= Best FPS this gen NISA are the best devs around(when is comes to localization...Xseed deserves a mention) Gamestop doesn't deserve all the hate it gets |
Agree with Lords of Shadow. As a Castlevania fan my first impression before playing the game was that it sucked, but obviously I was wrong, because after playing it I kept playing it until I platinumed the game. Amazing game and you have to take the game for what it is. "A completely different series." It says Castlevania game, but it's not Castlevania, it's Lords of Shadow, which they added Castlevania onto the title to boost interest. Now that they've started making it into Castlevania games with Mirror of Fate and Lords of Shadow 2, I don't see a propblem with it because every game is still labeled Castlevania Lords of Shadow,. Still two completely different series. It's not like the last few Castlevania games were any good. The Wii fighter, Harmony of Despair, and even Order of Ecclesia and Portait of Ruin(although they were "okay.") It's like the series went down hill starting with Curse of Darkness, which works since Dawn of Sorrow was really good and came out a month before.
I disagree with the JRPG > WRPG unless you mean "overall." While the handheld consoles have fared much b etter this gen, most console JRPGs this gen have been garbage.
Most of the WRPGs games are PC exclusive, but overall there's games like Dragon Age Origins, Dragon Age 2, Guild Wars(2005,) Guild Wars 2, Neverwinter Nights(2005,) Neverwinter Nights 2, Torchlight, Torchlight 2, Diablo 3, Legend of Grimrock, Cthulu Saves the World, Breath of Death VII, the Penny Arcade titles, and many many others. As crappy as the Penny Arcade titles are, they're better than most of the JRPGs released on consoles, that's for sure.
I'd like for the JRPG genre to make a comeback and it seems that it's doing so on portables only, which is atleast better than nothing.
