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Character sprites are pretty bad, but aren't as ridiculous as their FF5/FF6 remakes where they replaced perfectly good character sprites with minor edits to FF Dimensions sprites for no good reason. Enemy sprites are good. Battle system is actually really drat fun and well-made if you're into the mix-and-match job systems. Story and characterization are pretty bad even for a Final Fantasy game. They may have been going for the same sort of early '90s retro story simplicity we saw in the FF4/FF5 era (which the game kinda evokes), but my guess is that it's less of an intentional stylistic choice and more just that they couldn't write anything better. (This is, after all, the same team that made After Years.) Having to play it with a touchscreen interface, and not having it on any platform with civilized things like controllers or even keyboard controls, can be a downer. It is for me; YMMV. Much like 5 and 10-2, it's something where the gameplay will largely outshine the rest of the game.
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I'm almost done with Lightning Returns. The entire 13 trilogy is like the Star Wars trilogy. Only instead of starting with A New Hope and ending it with ROTJ, you watch Brazil instead of Return of the Jedi. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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Instant Grat posted:Also, am I crazy, or were the DLC scenarios not supposed to be included in the PC version of XIII-2? There's nothing to the left of New Bodhum 3 AF in the Historia Crux. Works fine for me. Don't you have to beat the game for them to become available though?
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Jan 26, 2015 18:34
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The Taint Reaper posted:The entire 13 trilogy is like the Star Wars trilogy. Only instead of starting with A New Hope you and ending it with ROTJ, you watch Brazil instead of Return of the Jedi. This post is worthy of using in the OP to describe the trilogy.
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Jan 26, 2015 18:36
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begedin posted:What's the general opinion on Final Fantasy Dimensions? The mechanics are solid but the writing is terribly Myspace fanfic-grade garbage. The writers are about on par with what you'd find in the Kemco RPG Maker games on mobile. Overall the team that did FFD and the mobile remakes make decent engines but are lazy/terrible at everything else and SE likely only uses them because they're cheap (and if they aren't cheap, SE is getting ripped off).
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 could have probably been a proper sequel to Chrono Trigger if they didn't feel the need to bog it down with tying everything to Final Fantasy. Same with Lightning Returns, they could have been entirely different games and would have probably fared better. Because Lightning Returns doesn't even have the whole monster training thing that was pretty important in 13-2. Hell it was one of the secret magical powers that was granted and yet Lightning somehow loses it and it's never mentioned again. She used to be able to command entire armies of beasts, atleast God of War bothered to explain why kratos kept losing his magical poo poo all the time.
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Jan 26, 2015 19:14
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The Taint Reaper posted:Final Fantasy XIII-2 could have probably been a proper sequel to Chrono Trigger if they didn't feel the need to bog it down with tying everything to Final Fantasy. Lightning doesn't lose it she just doesn't need it.
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Jan 26, 2015 19:22
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The animal-command thing was an Etro thing. You know who is dead?
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Vil posted:Battle system is actually really drat fun and well-made if you're into the mix-and-match job systems. Yeah, I actually really wanted to get into FFD, but the forced touchscreen controls were a big dealbreaker for me. I guess I'm just not a phonegame kinda guy.
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Jan 26, 2015 19:25
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Fister Roboto posted:Works fine for me. Don't you have to beat the game for them to become available though? Huh. I could've sworn they were available right off the bat in the console versions. Welp, guess I'll have to put the whoop-rear end on some purple dragon motherfucker if I want to play Chronobind 
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ImpAtom posted:The animal-command thing was an Etro thing. You know who is dead? That's not how Godess given powers work dude, I've played Skyrim.
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Jan 26, 2015 19:26
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Lightning doesn't lose it she just doesn't need it. This is a good post. Lightning Returns is probably the best Final Fantasy game in years. Game loving owns.
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FFD is a decent game. Story isn't awful but meh, characters are meh with the exception of a few, for better (Aigis) or worse (gently caress Alba), gameplay is good in the context of Final Fantasy's. I think I gave it a 6/10, and I'll stand by that, maybe a 5/10.
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Dubious posted:This is a good post. I can't speak for the game proper but judging by the tracks on Curtain Call, it has the best music of the 13 trilogy.
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I really hate Sazh because he has served no purpose other than to be a wet blanket in two games and to show up at the last minute in another one. They could have entirely cut him and it would have been a net positive.
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The Taint Reaper posted:I really hate Sazh because he has served no purpose other than to be a wet blanket in two games and to show up at the last minute in another one. his role in 3 is kind of hilarious though, dude's had to deal with his kid suddenly going comatose so many times that he said gently caress it and went to live in an airplane instead
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Dubious posted:Lightning Returns is probably the best Final Fantasy game in years. I didn't realize that the state of Final Fantasy games was that dire.
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Andrast posted:I didn't realize that the state of Final Fantasy games was that dire. maybe, but he's absolutely right about it 
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Nah, Final Fantasy 14 is better.
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Jan 26, 2015 19:46
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The Taint Reaper posted:I'm almost done with Lightning Returns. Nah, it's more like the prequels. Starts with a hugely anticipated disappointment, followed by a dreadful low-effort sequel, and finished off with a somewhat tolerable entry.
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Jan 26, 2015 20:00
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That loving Sned posted:Nah, it's more like the prequels. Starts with a hugely anticipated disappointment, followed by a dreadful low-effort sequel, and finished off with a somewhat tolerable entry. FF13 may be dreadfully stupid, but it at least has a great battle system and some lovely visuals and music and Sazh. The Phantom Menace has no redeeming qualities.
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Devil Wears Wings posted:The Phantom Menace has no redeeming qualities. The Podracer arcade game. That is the redeeming quality of the Phantom Menace.
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Watching a bunch of nerds get angry about midichlorians was the redeeming quality of the Phantom Menace.
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Terper posted:Nah, Final Fantasy 14 is better. sorry, i thought we were talking about games instead of jobs you have to pay for
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corn in the bible posted:sorry, i thought we were talking about games instead of jobs you have to pay for You don't have to enjoy MMOs to at least appreciate that FF XIV has pretty good FF lore and a decent main story to go with it. There is no reason to dismiss it out of MMO hate.
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I played several chapters of FF Dimensions before stopping. Random battles were kinda tedious, the story was dumb, and the main character was such a giant idiot that half the other characters' dialogue was about how much of an idiot the main character was. Did they ever add the option to use controllers for Dimensions on iOS or Android? I'm pretty sure they did so for their other titles.
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Devil Wears Wings posted:FF13 may be dreadfully stupid, but it at least has a great battle system and some lovely visuals and music and Sazh. The Phantom Menace has no redeeming qualities. The only good thing about The Phantom Menace was that it at least used some real sets, not just horribly fake-looking CGI backgrounds. Mr. Fortitude posted:Watching a bunch of nerds get angry about midichlorians was the redeeming quality of the Phantom Menace. Same, but replace midichlorians with Etro.
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What's a midi chlorion
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fronz posted:What's a midi chlorion MP
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fronz posted:What's a midi chlorion They were replaced by MP3s sometime in the 2000s.
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Why doesn't Theatrythym have phantasy star music in it god
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That loving Sned posted:Same, but replace midichlorians with Etro. It's stupid how well this fits
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corn in the bible posted:sorry, i thought we were talking about games instead of jobs you have to pay for 
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Overbite posted:Why doesn't Theatrythym have phantasy star music in it god Same reason it doesn't have Skies of Arcadia music.
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Instead of Dragon quest the next Theatrhythm should be just Theatrhytm: All RPGs ever edition.
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That loving Sned posted:Same reason it doesn't have Skies of Arcadia music.  Seriously, though, people said the same stuff about Smash Bros. until it started getting Solid Snake and Sonic and poo poo. Just you wait... soon every RPG will have their musical cameo in Theatrythm.
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For a dead person, Etro sure did a lot of things.
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Level Slide posted:For a dead person, Etro sure did a lot of things. She did most of it before she was dead. Frankly the world is better off without her.
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Andrast posted:Instead of Dragon quest the next Theatrhythm should be just Theatrhytm: All RPGs ever edition. Imagine a quest where it just plays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUOOgNzOv4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEQuxQEOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XBlBPtQW6g on repeat.
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Gologle posted:FFD is a decent game. Story isn't awful but meh, characters are meh with the exception of a few, for better (Aigis) or worse (gently caress Alba), gameplay is good in the context of Final Fantasy's. I think I gave it a 6/10, and I'll stand by that, maybe a 5/10. If it was on Vita it would probably be much more tolerable. I got through about 9 hours of it, upgraded my phone and then found out square didnt put in the ability to migrate saves 
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