I agree about strategy. The only thing you need to take in consideration really when fighting harder enemies, is what status effects they'll inflict on you. Just equip your characters immune to them, or set up fast gambits so that they will remove the negative status effects immediately. Keep up strong cure gambits. Keep up protect/shell/bravery/faith. Add some haste, and your enemy is going DOWNNNNN. They should've spiced up the characters abilities. You either attack, or use magic in FFXII. Things such as delay attack and dark buster simply doesn't exist. No personal areas of expertise. The mists are all the same, espers useless. I still like the battle system however, but I agree that it does get monotonous; FFXII has been the easiest game so far in the series when it comes to battles.
@Sephiroth Yat: I for one, love myself some political plots. But it could've had itself some more original elements to it, this was pretty much the basics of the basic. More character interaction would've lifted the game to a whole new level, I found myself wanting to see more of the characters just having fun or just conversating. Penelo and Vaan's pasts. How Balthier and Fran met. Basch and Noah in their younger days. Princess Ashe and Rasler. Flashbacks would've been nice, but perhaps it would be asking for a lot. FFX managed so well with it's cutscenes. Everybody interacted with eachothers somehow. In FFXII, I think that sentences exchanged between some characters can be counted on one hand.
The characters had so much potency. Balthier being the dandy fancy archadian gentleman that he is, but still some of his spoiled brat attitude leaked out vaguely at some points in the game. They've could've played more on that. And how awkward Basch somehow is socialy, after being caged away for quite some time, his knight pride added to that. Vaan could've been a greater comical relief than he was, and they should've just..had..more..sky pirating business. At least some more Vaan nagging at Balthier about it. I don't know. I want another FFXII game with more character focus. Blablabla, sorry.
@Locke4God: What are you doing in XII right now?
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks