Final FantasyBy Ence on January 19th, 2010
Let me once again point out that I never played this game. I always wanted to, but never got around to it. It’s one of those games that everyone seems to have nostalgic memories for. I don’t have any of those for this game, so I’m going to just plain tell you what I thought about it. Because the world must know! Overall, I really liked it. Every character has a great backstory, and the main plot itself was entertaining. The combat uses the traditional ATB system, which is always fun. The game really started getting good when you get Espers. Once you get these little guys, you can really start customizing all of your characters, which is my favorite part. My only real complaint lies with the difficulty. It’s pretty easy, but I heard that the GBA version was made to be slightly easier than the other versions on purpose. So I guess that’s okay. BUT, it’s gets crazy hard at the end. You suddenly find yourself in an open world with little direction to your next objective. At this point, I had to bring out the strategy guide, just so I could figure out what to do next. Now, I guess that’s supposed to be part of the fun, finding out what to do on your own, and what order you want to do everything, but I don’t know. Sometimes I don’t want to wander aimlessly. Anyway, the only thing that stopped me from finishing this game was the very last dungeon. It basically requires you to level and equip twelve different characters. Realizing that this would most likely require hours of grinding, I decided to call it quits. I really hate leaving a game unfinished like this, especially when I’m so close to the end, but I don’t have the time to finish it. Otherwise I’ll never get to the next Final Fantasy game on my list, a newer one, Crisis Core. I’m hoping on playing Final Fantasy IX after that, but we’ll see. And how are you supposed to know to wait until the timer ALMOST runs out for Shadow to come back?! He said to leave him behind! He said he’d be fine! |
I find that when I’ve gone so far in a game and want to finish it without grinding heavily that my moral dilemma versus cheat codes and such goes right out the window. Sure, it’s nice to say I’ve finished something on my own… but when I’ve gotten all the enjoyment out of the playing and simply want closure to the story, all’s fair. That said, I really do hope you find the time to someday complete FFVI.
Yeah, hopefully I’ll get back to it someday and beat it. I actually ended up watching the ending sequences on youtube though, haha.
The Japanese version for the SNES called FFIV was Hardtype, in America they released it as Final Fantasy 2, that was done in Easytype because I guess the Japanese game designers felt Americans were stupid.
That happens.