Final Fantasy XII Review
ORIGINAL POST BY: AJRFOX
Humanity lives on a Artificial world called coccoon. Their the people live in a safe, secured and controlled exsistence thanks to the fal cie. These Fal cie are godlike machines that not only constructed the world coccoon but also grow food and maintain the weather. Coccoon floats over the lowerworld call Pulse. This world also is ruled by its own set of Fal cie though they do not nurture their human populace. Long ago the two sides faced off in a bitter war that ended with pulse defeat and the outter shell of coccoon shattered by a eidolon called Ragnarok. The story takes place several centuries later as it seems that a pulse fal cie has been found on coccoon. The story centers around six characters through fate are brought together as mythical beings called L'cie. These are servents of both fal cie factions and they are tasked with a mission called a focus. The characters struggle against government forces angry crowds and overwhelming hoplessness as they struggle to survive and undo their fate.
The battle system allows your characters to take on certain roles in battle. this allows you to counter your enemies spells and protection and to deal enormous amounts of damage. The classes you can take are ravager, commando, sentinel, saboteur, synergist, and medic. In the menus you can set several different combinations of these classes called Paradigms to use in battle. At first the characters can only access certain ones but later will have access to all of them. Your characters each have roles that they both excel and suffer in so experimentation with these classes is vital. Characters are upgraded in a system called crystarium. After a battle you get CP points and you spend these to get upgrades for each character. The crystarium is similar in function to final fantasy X's sphere grid.
As i played the game ive noticed only a few problems. One is that when the character you control is killed in battle then you get a game over. Regardless if your other two characters are still alive. This has caused me to lose several battles that shouldn't have. Another is that the monsters in the game have a tendancy to attack only one character heavily causing to waste time and turns keeping that character alive. The last is that when you switch your party up all the battle paradigms are gone and even when you switch back to the old party they are gone. So each time you change your party you haft to reset your paradigms. The last is that gill(currency of the game.) is very scarce.
Otherwise this game lives up to the final fantasy name. Amazing graphics and enviorments make every city and forest you visit a beautiful site to behold. A story line so compelling that you must play through to know how it all comes together. Your summons or eidolons are able to fight along side the caster in battle and can prove effective in saving your ass from a difficult fight. Weapons are numerous and each can be upgraded to become stronger than it was. This allows you keep any weapon you like and save you precious money on gill in the game which is scarce. I recommend this game to any FF fan that has waited a long time for a new and awesome Final Fantasy game.
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