AZWification said:
I personally disliked XII because of the awful battle system. I disliked FFX because it was linear, but it still had a better story, battle system, characters and soundtrack than XIII. |
I agree on both accounts.
Final Fantasy 12's problem wasn't its explorable world, the massive amounts of quests that can be taken, the great story, great music, etc. It was the pos battle system paired with massive amounts of grinding for money that made the game suck. Elemental magic was practically useless even when you hit the enemy with a weakness because melee damage almost always took off the same or similar amounts. The best magic spells in the game were spells like slow, blind, and demi which were pretty much required to assure less grinding for gil than would have otherwise been required. Pretty much setting your entire party on doing melee and then controlling spell casting manually was required because too often allies would cancel out their commands to do do a gambit setting, instead of completing the attack and then doing the action afterwards.
For Final Fantasy 10, I pointed out it was a straight hallway long before Final Fantasy 13 came out. Battles were too easy where except for boss battles, you had to do very little other than switch characters to one who was strong against one of the random enemy types and then attack, which would one shot them. Elemental enemy? Switch to Lulu and cast a spell. Flying enemy? Switch to Wakka and attack. Armored enemy? Anyone with weapon that has pierce, pretty much making Auron just as useless as Kimahri outside of boss battles.
Now. I've played and finished a lot of RPGs. Well beyond the range of 100, so when the PS2 was current gen, I thought Final Fantasy 10 was bad and while pretty, it was one of the worst console RPGs I've played. There are RPGs released last gen that make Final Fantasy 10 look good. That's how bad JRPGs have got.
