Quote Originally Posted by Locke4God View Post
I posted a thread titled Best Game Ever over a year ago I think now, just after getting started with 12 and being extremely impressed, and I'd like to now offer a quick review of how,,, well it's not the Best Game Ever


I did love the Gambits actually, and the License board, probably a tad moreso than the Sphere Grid, but both were cool.

Problems?

1. Areas of Nothing! And this is what I'd like to hear comment on the most. Seriously after I started north from the Estersands, the Mosphoran Highwaste was OK, but then Salikawood, Nabudies, Nabrues Deadlands, The Phon Coast, the plains afterwards, and even the caverns immediately after that were about 10 hours of pure nothingness. They were totally dead. Nothing. I was bored off my ass for hours and hours and hours, and I'd like to know if anybody else felt the same way, or if there is something other than hunts I could have been doing in those areas?

2. Summons? WTF were these things? None were classic, and I was annoyed to use them. In fact I stopped and never used one of them again after getting into the westersands. I just didn't like them at all but maybe I'm missing something?


I do have the game ranked 5th in the all-time main series for me. Behind 7, 8, 10 and 6, so it does have a lot. I enjoyed chaining and the gambits, and I truly loved talking with all of the NPC's and most of the hunts and things like that. I found them all to be things I'd like to get more into on a replay, so I do like the game, but wanted to list those things for your comment on how it fell short, IMO, of an all-time best billing.
Yes, there were areas of nihility that kinda sucked.
Such a gap in story leaves the player dispatched from the story.
That's a common element in WRPG's.

Summons.
Well they were all clasic in a sense. More like Cameos. Mateus from FF2, Chaos from FF1, Ultima from numerous...
I will say that it sucked having random summons that serve NO PURPOSE to the story at all, literally. I summoned them and watched their limit and then never summoned them again.

Actually, from Bur Omisace all the way until archadis... nothing really... >.>
THough the Salika, and Phon coast were my favorite areas.