| Runa216 said: You were only slightly more generous to it than I was. I give it a 2.1 for pretty much the same reasons you do, though I go more into detail concerning the subtle ticks and shitballs that is the combat system...almost all of which could have been remedied - or at least alleviated - by NOT making it so that if your main character died, you get a game over. Seriously, I do not understand, for the life of me, how a game with something like an 85 million dollar budget like this could spend years in development, have literally hundreds of people involved in its creation, and not one person thought, "hey, maybe this gameplay mechanic is shit, let's take 5 minutes and fix that!" Seriously, If your partners have a Phoenix down, I like to think they're not retarded. if you absolutely MUST have full control of only one character, at least make the others know to use a fuckin phoenix down. |
You are spot on with this post. I was beyond frustrated when fighting the second form of the final boss when he would keep on instant killing my main character about half way through the battle. I did some research and found that I had to equip an item which increased my resistance to death. Mind you I never ran into an enemy with this ability in the prior 70 hours I spent on the game.
I would have been happy if we were at least given the choice to control all characters but I guess they wanted to push the action to the fore and the tradional jrpg elements to the background. Unfortunately they never really got the balance right IMHO.
On the plus side I loved the texture work on the characters and the music in this game was wonderful. Hopefully Square-Enix can redeem themselves with FF XV
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