Quote Originally Posted by Heartless Angel View Post
The characters were the worst part of the XII story. Best two words I can think of to describe them would be bland and forgettable. Not to say they were completely horrible, but by no means up to FF standards. When playing any of the earlier FF fr the first time, I'd miss a night or two of sleep, just because I needed to know what happened next. In XII, I really didn't care, the story just completely failed to wrap my interest. It wasn't straight up bad, but again nowhere near what I've come to expect from a Final Fantasy.

Gameplay, that's mostly just personal preference, and personally, I thought it was ****ing terrible. Not to say I'm totally against any and all changes to the system, I-X I loves every one of, because they changes were good. There is a tremendous difference between change and improvement. Recent FF's have certainly been changes, but not improvements.
I agree, the characters weren't much believeable and it wasn't the same as earlier games, changes but not improvement.
I don't even consider this game like a FF actually, more like a spin-off.
That helps playing the game.
I actually think XI,XII and XIV shoulda been left out of the serie, in my opinion.
With all those extra FF games (Tactics etc), those shoulda been one of them,a different serie if you will (Maybe Ivalice serie) simply because they don't have the same feel to it as the others.