OMG, i could not believe it would score that, let' s agree, sometimes famitsu is a bit lunatic, according to 1up, only 5 games scored 40/40 which are :

1) Soul Calibur (might agree)
2) zelda : ocarina of time ( might agree)
3) wind waker (might agree)
4) Nintendo dogs (hell no)
5) Vagrant Story (HEEEEEELLLLL NOOOOOO)


so i don' t know what to believe guys, i played the demo and i would not give that game 40/40, you don' t feel like it , but that was just a demo i might be totaly wrong *crossing my fringers*

To be honest from what i played on the demo, it really doesn' t deserve 40/40.
I really dislike what they have done with the battle system.
The graphics haven' t really progressed much from FFX.
And it really seemed boring to play....

I will skip this iteration of the series, and wouldnt give the game (based on the demo) anything more than 30 tops. And then thats only if the story is good.... the demo to me felt really uninvolving

But that' s just a demo! For all you know, the full game could turn out muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better. After all, it' s wrong to base an entire game on a single demo- especially from a battle you may even get used to eventually and the graphics.

I remember once that many criticised the demo of a particular game(although, a name doesn' t spring to mind)but, in the end, the same people actually enjoyed the final game.

But ABO,im sure its a great game but if you saw the list 50% of all games of the topp 100 is rpgs,and even FF3 is before z64 in the famitsu readers opionion...
Their readers love FF like crazy,they doesnt dare saying anything else...

But that' s just a demo! For all you know, the full game could turn out muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better. After all, it' s wrong to base an entire game on a single demo- especially from a battle you may even get used to eventually and the graphics.

I hope for their sakes the game turns out much better, I really don' t think i can get into the battle system that seems a mix of real time and turn-based.
To be honest I wouldnt like to buy the game knowing i has a system i hate, sure it might not be so bad or even fun after sometime its a risk im not willing to venture the cost of a game on. I bought FFX-2 but really didnt like it i only played for an hour or so, horrible... playing as yuna with that annoying run of hers, mission based (like FFXII appears to be) to me takes away from the story, i like more linear story telling methods such as FFX.

Also the graphics comment doesn' t bother me (except the main characters nose) it' s just that for a game to get 40/40 it has to be a real achievement, and the graphics are hardly impressive in this day and age, so even for that simple fact it should lose points.

But Famitsu is bound to give it a perfect score, they are rpg whores who know no better than to slap a perfect or near perfect score on anything labelled Final Fantasy etc

i' m not saying the game will turn out to be bad but i don' t think it deserves 40/40, that' s perfect, and since the graphics didn' t impress me for a ps2, that should take away a point or two .... ok let' s forget famitsu language

in reference to IGN, the game will range from 9.2 to 9.6 .... that' s my guess

Its simple, famitsu; the largest gaming mag in Japan, a country mad for rpgs especially the ff series, isnt going to rate the lastest and long awaited ff game badly, many people would simply stop buying the mag because of their devotion to FF, famitsu would lose out, square enix would lose out in loss of potentail sales, and everybody would be stuck in a rut. Instead, they gave the game a good score to please all the fans.

but 40/40, .. what game is PERFECT?

Just because a game recieves 40/40 doesn' t neccessarily mean that they are suggesting that the game is perfect in every way. It' s just what some people rate a game that, they believe, stands out above the rest- and have a misunderstanding of the scoring system.

In reality, no game is perfect! There will always be a game that is just that little bit ' better' than the other. Athough, if you gave a game one score below the highest possible score; and then thought a particular game is better, then you would have to rate it higher wouldn' t you?

I, personally, don' t think that 40 is a sensible score limit- but then, they are Japanese...

They have 4 people that review a game,each of them write a score of 1-10 and some facts and thoughts about the game,and each 4 rpg experts at the magazine gaved it 10/10...

40/40 for FF12 is great news ...after playing that demo I thought it was about 7/10 , but maybe there have been some changes.

Its simple, famitsu; the largest gaming mag in Japan, a country mad for rpgs especially the ff series, isnt going to rate the lastest and long awaited ff game badly, many people would simply stop buying the mag because of their devotion to FF, famitsu would lose out, square enix would lose out in loss of potentail sales, and everybody would be stuck in a rut. Instead, they gave the game a good score to please all the fans.

LOL
Conspiracy theories are always fun to read.

but 40/40, .. what game is PERFECT?

The Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time
Soul Calibur (DC)

For the rest of those 5 titles I' m not so sure (but I' m not against 40/40 for them) , but these 2 are PERFECT in EVERY ASPECT.

Banjoe Tooie was perfect!

Shit I only played Banjo Kazooie ...

I' ve also heard recently of an amazing shooter for N64 from Treasure.
I hope it' s downloadable for Rev cause it never left Japan.
What a system that was ...quality over quantity.

But it' s squaresoft!

So that means the japanese press HAVE to kiss it' s butt, they even did that with that crappy, secret of evermore.

It' s famitsu, what can you say?

What a system that was ...quality over quantity.

that system was one of the worse in video game history, although it has some of the best games in the history, but there were so many crap^games, extremly bad games, and there were a lot oh yeah almost all games from 3rd parties ...

Banjoe Tooie was perfect!

one of the best games i ever played, just awesome, banjoo&kazooi as well, yeah that' s the gold age of rareware

that system was one of the worse in video game history

For me it was one of the best sysems in history - like I said QUALITY OVER QUANTITY - it had the best AAA titles I' ve ever played - but I can understand that it sux to own it as your only console - I bouht it when DC was out , so I just played the best of the best.

Secret of Evermore was way ahead of it' s times - there are many people who' ve enjoyed it a lot.

If Famitsu is kissing Square' s ass , why didn' t previous FF games get 40/40 Mr Spy? (especially since FF7 is a legend among Japanese gamers).

I bet Square is gatehering money to build worlds greatest ninja army and take over...take over...AMERICA

The Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time
Soul Calibur (DC)

I didnt like the menu in SC, so its isnt perfect. And OOT is eteremly outdated by todays standards which Sc has kept up. If a game is to be perfect, it should stand the test of time [no,no goldeneye ] and everybody should love it. So basicly the perfect game is impossible, but ' pretty darn good' games are very realisitc.

I didnt like the menu in SC, so its isnt perfect. And OOT is eteremly outdated by todays standards which Sc has kept up. If a game is to be perfect, it should stand the test of time [no,no goldeneye ] and everybody should love it. So basicly the perfect game is impossible, but ' pretty darn good' games are very realisitc.

Can' t say it' s smart of you to say something like that.

Check Ocarinas review (gamecube edition) on IGN - they gave it 9/10 and it came out with wind waker.

Graphics always get dated - Ocarina looks very good even today and it haven' t lost any of it' s values in terms of gameplay (it stands the test of time perfectly)- same for SC.

That' s just stupid to say that graphics have to look great 10 years later.

You didn' t like menu in SC? oh right but why would I care what you like? for me it was perfect and it seems for many others too.

Everyone should love it ?

Whatever ...

Yeah, I played OOT the first time last year and I still gave it a 10/10. The graphics are dated of course but the design makes everything look beautiful anyway. Few games of today can match OOTs gameplay.
I liked the menus in SC as they were arcade like.

FF7 is the best game ever :)

Actually FF7 looks even better than FF8 today - FF8 is much more pixelated , plus it' s the best RPG ever made :)