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Several of the FF games - 6, 7, and 10 among them - are good at being "about things" in an impressionistic, broad sort of way and at conveying a theme without necessarily having a good, nuanced, original, or even comprehensible plot. The worst Final Fantasy is Final Fantasy 2.
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Nanomashoes posted:I heard 13-2 and 13-3 were OK but man, 13 was such a massive pile of poo poo that it turned me off the series forever after Matsuno's dismissal. 13-2 has some issues with things like difficulty curve, but it's way more of an RPG than 13 was in terms of like... stuff to find, systems to experiment with, and options. The core gameplay is nearly identical. If your biggest problem with 13 was that it felt like a series of hallways intermittently broken up by cutscenes, it may be worth playing. Lightning Returns is pretty much its own animal entirely, and is the best game of the three. You should try it. The story stuff in both is absolutely wackadoo batshit insanity that makes 13 look restrained and well-considered by comparison.
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Nov 17, 2016 07:51
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Aside from the completely different (arguably totally opposite) battle system, X really is a prototype of XIII. I didn't notice or remember that until I replayed X on the HD remake, and I saw exactly what you were talking about. Also it has the worst combination of unskippable cutscenes and bad cutscene checkpoints in the franchise. Don't die to Yunalesca.
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Nov 17, 2016 08:01
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raditts posted:This is an absolute truth, it combines poo poo mechanics with a garbage storyline to form a game that nobody should experience. Sometimes people defend it, and try to argue that 1 or 3 or 13 is worse, and those people are wrong. The Famicom version of 2 is effectively unplayable, and the remakes made it more approachable and the grind less punishing but left a lot of completely insane and backwards game mechanics (like how armor is pretty much always worthless because it tanks your evasion, which prevents your evasion from going up, which will make you paper-thin even in heavy armor at the end of the game).
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Nov 17, 2016 20:03
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Vagrant Story would be a dope game to get a sequel or even just an HD remake that cleaned up a bunch of janky poo poo, but I realize that isn't going to happen so hell
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Nov 21, 2016 08:28
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evangelion and atb are both good, actually final fantasy 4 is one of those games that seems really rudimentary and simple to modern people playing it for like the tenth time but relative to nes/famicom jrpgs that poo poo was loving nuts, the way bosses changed forms in real-time and all the gimmicks going on with stuff like the fiends and baigan and asura
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Nov 21, 2016 21:32
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I'm willing to bet very few contemporary/pre-launch reviewers got to the 2nd disc of Xenogears before writing their review
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Nov 21, 2016 21:37
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The Pulse thing in FF13 is weird because when I got there I was like "holy poo poo, this is the part goons were talking about when they said it gets good" and I thought it was going to be like Final Fantasy 6 or 7 where I still had like half a game to go somehow and the second half was going to have towns and optional areas to explore and poo poo like that. The game would've been way better if it was structured that way. It would've actually been a good twist to get down to Pulse where everything is supposed to be dangerous and terrible and it turns out there's thriving villages everywhere and people are mostly happy. The more I type about it the more I think somebody at some point probably intended that to happen before the game kept getting rebuilt and poo poo
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