14 Page US FFXII Review by PSM

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...go get ure reading glasses out....

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I thought this game came out in like november, how do they have a reviewable copy already?

I guess I' ll have to bust out the old SDTV one more time to play this.

I' ll give it a try one way or another once it releases... hope the game is better than the demo...

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Thanks Bish - great post.

I thought this game came out in like november, how do they have a reviewable copy already?

....it' s released October 31st, but all big game magazines get special pre-release copies of titles to review....

One of the best written reviews of a game that i have ever read... ...in fact it might be THE best game review ever written... .....i doubt even Edge could write a review that long without making it boring...

...actually, i' m a little miffed that they didn' t give it the full 10/10 like Famitsu did....

...no matter... ...proves that cutting-edge technology is absolutely no substitute for true creativity or art... ...well in my book anyway....

...highly likely to be the most often declared best game of 2006 (Okami might come close, but perhaps will prove to be a little too unusual?....it also failed to receive full marks in Famitsu and is selling quite poorly in japan)

Importers take note that this version has Widescreen, Pro Logic II audio and features more voice acting than the original Japanese release...

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Widescreen!!! :)

....it also failed to receive full marks in Famitsu and is selling quite poorly in japan)

Okami received 39/40 so it' s not that bad :)

It' s strange that it isn' t selling well... Anyway Shenmue sold like shit while presenting the next generation of story telling and experiencing games.

I' m definitely (EVEN) more excited about FF12 now.Thankfully by the time I' m done with it , all next gen systems will be out and with good games.

FF12 really looks good.
Might be the one ff game that really delivers after ff7.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Every FF game after FF7 has delivered. Except for X-2.

FFX aka- walk on a road with lame/plot story that also has no worldmap or an airship you can control?

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

FFX had an excellent story. World Maps are stupid, why do I want to control a ship, if I want to control aircraft I' ll play Ace Combat, not a fucking RPG.

FF without airships?
Wtf are you retarded?

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

There was an airship in FFX dumbass.

OH THERE WAS ONE,OH OKAY.

THAT REALLY MADE UP FOR A SERIE WHO HEAVLY HAD BEEN REALYING ON AIRSHIPS/MAGIC/CHOCOBOS.'

YOU CANT FUCKING CONTROL THE AIRSHIP,JUST TELL IT WHERE TO GO OWN A WORLDMAP THEN YOU GET TELEPORTED ON THE MAP.
HOW RETARDED IS THAT.
NO EXPLORATION WHATSOEVER.

FUCK KITASE.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

hmmm psm? i tend to not listen to mags dedicated to cetain consoles, writeing reviews about certain games that happen to be one of the major titles of the year.

Read most of it though, sounds good.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Yeah I just got my issue a week ago, that massive review took me almost 25mins to over-take, I' m a pretty fast reader but reading and useing the bathroom at the same time makes you forget what number' s to use one or two, anyway I pre-orderd the Limited-Edition $60 version from Gamestop, and they told me that the game had been push all the way to Oct 31, or November, man for us unlucky fan' s, the Japanese fan' s have already beaten the game, I have the import FFXll, but it' s for my collection only and not for playing.

FFX had an excellent story. World Maps are stupid, why do I want to control a ship, if I want to control aircraft I' ll play Ace Combat, not a fucking RPG.

FFX is the worst FF game ever.

The lack of airship control means lack of exploration and that means the lack of optional hard to find quests that are extremely satisfying when found.

Without the free world exploration RPGs feel much more linear.

FF9 had a mediocre story , but was a great FF game in overall.
FF8 totally delivered - it was a bit different than FF7, but just as good.

Yeah I just got my issue a week ago, that massive review took me almost 25mins to over-take, I' m a pretty fast reader but reading and useing the bathroom at the same time makes you forget what number' s to use one or two, anyway I pre-orderd the Limited-Edition $60 version from Gamestop, and they told me that the game had been push all the way to Oct 31, or November, man for us unlucky fan' s, the Japanese fan' s have already beaten the game, I have the import FFXll, but it' s for my collection only and not for playing.

You mean you import japanese games just to ...keep them for no reason? and then you buy the US version to play them?

I really want FF12,i probably gonna buy it for my ps3 in 2008.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

FF12 really looks good.
Might be the one ff game that really delivers after ff7.

Every FF game after FF7 has delivered. Except for X-2.

...i agree with Quez, in saying that FFXII might actually turn out to be as good as, or better than FFVII..

....i don' t think that any final fantasy since FFVIII has been anywhere near as good as it should be.... ....FFIX was a backward step, appearing so babyish that i never bothered giving it a second glance...

But FFX is my all-time most hated FF.. i couldn' t stand the characters and the story was utter puke[:' (]..
...the character designs were TERRIBLE (apart from Auron).. ...the voice actor for the already ultra-crap tidus was a total d*ck, and sphere grid was a bunch of time wasting trash too.....

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Please dont remind me of FFX as a old school FF fan from the FF4 days it disgust me so fucking much.

I wanna pretend FFX was never made.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Well i' m gonna be all different and say i actually liked FFX. I liked the linear story telling method, Maps for me get tedious sometimes... I was at one point playing through ffVI (i think) and after leaving the game unplayed for some times (whilst on the wprld map) i forgot what i was supposed to be doing... I spent a good hour travelling over the map trying, unsuccessfully, to find where i was supposed to be going next... Otherwise i would probably went through the whole game...

NiGHTS into Dreamcast

anyway I pre-orderd the Limited-Edition $60 version

...congratulations (git)... ...expect this sexy shiny metal thing 2 months from now:



...also included on the bonus collector' s DVD is:

* Developer' s Interviews
* History of Final Fantasy featurettes
* Final Fantasy XII U.S. Trailers
* Final Fantasy XII Japan Trailers
* Final Fantasy Art Gallery

.... i want it sooobaadddd!!...

...

...because i' m feeling generous, here are some high rez scans of OPM' s recent FFXII feature.. ...check out the, like, totally awesome character designs for the new GF characters:


















....i also love the illustrator' s designs of the airships... has anyone else noticed the Star Wars influences which seem to underline everything about this new look for final fantasy?...

...i like the designs for the Judges too... does any of kikizo' s cultured *cough* staff members know which artist got the commission?...

I WANT THIS GAME SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!

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WOW it' s the best Limited Edition I' ve ever seen.I' m not reading anymore about it though- I want to be totally unaware of what is what when sit to play it.

I' ve stopped watching MGS4 trailers too (I didn' t see the GC one) ause they often show too much.

When is it coming to europe?

2007 sometimes?

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

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FFX had an excellent story. World Maps are stupid, why do I want to control a ship, if I want to control aircraft I' ll play Ace Combat, not a fucking RPG.

FFX is the worst FF game ever.

The lack of airship control means lack of exploration and that means the lack of optional hard to find quests that are extremely satisfying when found.

Without the free world exploration RPGs feel much more linear.

FF9 had a mediocre story , but was a great FF game in overall.
FF8 totally delivered - it was a bit different than FF7, but just as good.

Yeah I just got my issue a week ago, that massive review took me almost 25mins to over-take, I' m a pretty fast reader but reading and useing the bathroom at the same time makes you forget what number' s to use one or two, anyway I pre-orderd the Limited-Edition $60 version from Gamestop, and they told me that the game had been push all the way to Oct 31, or November, man for us unlucky fan' s, the Japanese fan' s have already beaten the game, I have the import FFXll, but it' s for my collection only and not for playing.

You mean you import japanese games just to ...keep them for no reason? and then you buy the US version to play them?

Well yeah, kinda wierd don' t you think, you see I collect Japanese game' s action figure, Anime' s, cards wall-scroll movies drama Jpop/rock OST..ect the list goes on. I' m into Japanese stuff, and it' s my hobby. When the US version of an import game is being release I do buy them and play them, while the Japanese version is still sealed and in mint condition, waste of money nah, it' s the hobby that count' s.


EDIT btw if you haven' t pre-order the Limited Edition yet do it now, it' s only preserve at GameStop and EB, the list of pre-order is massive just hope that you get one on launch day.

Europe is going for shittreatment again - I' m getting the US version.I should finish Okami till then.

When is it coming to europe?

2007 sometimes?

...Square have not yet given an official date for the European release, but it' s likely to come in February 2007...

Well yeah, kinda wierd don' t you think, you see I collect Japanese game' s action figure, Anime' s, cards wall-scroll movies drama Jpop/rock OST..ect the list goes on. I' m into Japanese stuff, and it' s my hobby. When the US version of an import game is being release I do buy them and play them, while the Japanese version is still sealed and in mint condition, waste of money nah, it' s the hobby that count' s.

...yeah i' m into it too, but that' s pretty dedicated man......

Europe is going for shittreatment again.

I think Square treat ALL non-Japanese gamers like crap... ...the Japanese version was released in March!!!

....f*cking a$$holes.. ...you can' t seriously tell me that it takes 7 freaking months to localise a game!

...i guess releasing limited editions is their way of buttering up pi$$ed off fans who are still MAJORLY peeved with their " when we can be a$$ed" attitude towards us....

....the joke is on those morons though... ...first, square loose big sums of cash by idiotically missing Christmas in Europe & Australia (who the f*ck buys presents in February?) ...secondly, (and more importantly), the Japanese market is shrinking!! ....more and more smarter Jdev are taking these changing markets in to account and are tailoring their products to reflect this (like Capcom)... ...sooner or later those f*ckers are going to have no choice but sort this release date farce out properly or suffer the inevitable consequences....

...personally though, i' d really like someone to produce a serious rival to FF so that i could say " f*ck your m*****' s m-****" to square once and for all...

- I' m getting the US version.

...yknow there' s a good chance that the PAL version could have even more extra content than the US one? ...i would DEMAND extra-extra content for the PAL release or not buy it at all...
...although i imagine that there will be far more PAL special edition copies available (when it eventually gets released)...

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....f*cking a$$holes.. ...you can' t seriously tell me that it takes 7 freaking months to localise a game!

It takes too long , but to be honest , they do a great job with voices and tranlslations so it' s worth it.

Oh and fuck those extra features - I just want this game - when I' m done with it , I' m getting one of the next gen systems (unspecified at this time)

It takes too long , but to be honest , they do a great job with voices and tranlslations so it' s worth it.

..are you paying attention?... ...localisation of the 40-60hr okami took about a month... ...perhaps a FF might take double that, but that' s still reasonable...

...Square just don' t give a shit about the west.. ...THAT' S why it takes so long.... ...or do you really believe that it takes 7 months to localise for North America and 4 months to localise for the whole of Europe?......

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Okami has no voice acting - FF is all about text - and it has to be translated very well cause it could loose it' s quality.They needed to cast actors again, and so on.

The only thing I can say - is that they should be making it in Jap and Eng at the same time.They can' t treat Europe like shit forever.

I agree with both.
I dont think Square-enix dislike us or doesnt give a shit,but they hardly sweat at all to make their game come out earlier here.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

...nope, square simply don' t care. period.

...for example, the relatively tiny Team Ninja have recently confirmed DOAX:2 is to have a single simultaneous worldwide release, in which:

I have one very important announcement to make for the people in the US, and that is that unlike the first game, we' re going to have a full English voice-over. I really think that people are going to leap into the game and get even more involved when the characters are speaking their own language.

IGN: Will there also be Japanese voice-overs with English text, for those hardcore gamers?

Tomonobu Itagaki: Yes, it will have both Japanese and English voice tracks. As always, we don' t have enough space on own disc for what we want to do. But there will be both voice tracks.

....



...now if the comparatively tiny (but talented) Team Ninja can manage that, what' s Square' s excuse?....

...none. THEY JUST DON' T GIVE A F*CK....


...i really hope FFXIII gets crushed by LO...

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dude your comparing DOx2 with FF12 ? FF12 is a huuuge game in which there is huge amount of text and voice as well.

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dude your comparing DOx2 with FF12 ? FF12 is a huuuge game in which there is huge amount of text and voice as well.

Bethesda managed it. Why can' t the amightly Sqeenix?!

FF12 isn' t even 1/8th as big as Oblivion or Morrowind, Square Enix can' t manage it because they suck.

Oblivion had over 50 hours of recorded voice dialog.

In enchanted arms,so far its perhaps...1 hour at most,and im at the last boss.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.