Final Fantasy XII

First of all, AWESOME AMAZING ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT GRAPHICS. Get my point? Back in the FFX days, the gameplay graphics were very rough... and sometimes, the character's hand or foot, sometimes even half the body, would get "stuck" within a cliff, mountain, tree, whatever... and you'd go... O_o

But there's none of that in FFXII. The gameplay graphics are amazing. They're almost up to bat with the cutscene graphics, which is saying something. The character designs are pretty different from before, too, but they're not bad. They're very... European?

The setting is interesting too. Kind of a Star Wars-like feeling, with the whole Empire thing... and especially with those creatures walking around. I actually started laughing at some of them, until they grunted some things at me. (Something along the lines of, "What do you want, human?") The new battle system was interesting, too. Except it scared me *poop*less whenever I saw the red line on me (the OMG I'm being targeted! line) and it was hard to run away. T_T But I enjoyed the fact that unnecessary time wasn't wasted by battling, since there wasn't the whole "VICTORY POSE + MELODY" and the window with the experience points/money/items earned. Instead, they just directly showed on the gameplay screen, and you could just go on.

The English voice acting was GREAT, for a change. Nothing to say there. Though I wish they put in a more... catchier and followable song as the theme, you know? Something like "To Zanarkand," "1000 words," or something. But since the graphics were so fricking good, I'll let them off the hook.

Bottom line is, you love good graphics and storylines? Get this game.

This is now a Greatest Hits game and can be found for $19.99 Canadian at major retailers. Not worth the higher price if you can buy it new. I bought mine still in the shrinkwrap! The game is awesome and if you cannot find it at the regular price, it is still worth at a reasonable price. Graphics are good and game time will last you a while.

J'aimerais savoir si le jeu est NTSC, PAL. Si il est en francais ou anglais ou p-e les 2. Et aussi les sous-titres si il y en a, il n'y a pas assez de détails je trouve et c'est ca qui fait que je n'achete pas le jeu. Il a l'air génial mais le fait de ne pas savoir si je vais comprendre le jeu ne m'interesse pas. Je ne me plaint peut-etre pas a la bonne place mais on sais jamais peut-etre que je serai entendu un jour.

First off you should know I've played the majority of the FF games out there, all the way back from the Super Nintendo days. This by far is my new favorite from the company. The story and dialogue is very mature, which is a welcome change and kept me glued and addicted to see more. So mature it could be written as a play along the likes of Hamlet or some other Shakespearian work, no joke! The setting of the game takes place in Ivalice, which is the same world that the popular Final Fantasy Tactics takes place in, and the equally if not more excellent game, Vagrant Story on PSone.

There is more textures on all of the games environments and characters than were in FFX or it's sequel, which makes for a stunning and more realistic look to the game overall. In past games you would run through static environments. However that is not the case this time around, you are able to move the camera around freely as all the environments are in 3D. I haven't played FFXI but I imagine that is where the camera system came from. Before I get into gameplay I just want to state first that this game is long! I've been playing for over 40 hours and I feel like I'm still quiet away from the end, but 40 hours of fun! Ahem, anyway, the gameplay and combat system have completely been revamped, you don't randomly teleport into a different screen to fight enemies for example, as all the enemies are running around in the environments and you can see them! This is very nice, besides it being more realistic you can choose to avoid or to fight easier than past games. The thing is, you'll WANT to fight the enemies, because the combat system is more intuitive and more fun than it has ever been in the past with the new "Gambit System," in a way it streamlines the fighting and at the same time it adds depth to game play that was growing stale, you'll have to play to see what I mean. The character building is more open, and customizable which is also very welcome! I don't want to go on too long so I'll stop there. Oh, and one last thing I want to mention, some of the environments are just massive, almost ridicously so, which is a good thing!

Ok, let's do a brief recap, great mature engaging story, interesting characters, nicely detailed and gorgeous environments and graphics, fresh and engaging game play, hours and hours of game play, massive environments and deeper more intuitive battle system. What is there not to like? I'm very hard to get praise out of, but this game impressed me, this makes previous Final Fantasies look just silly and not worth my time.

For PS2 it is a must own for all RPG fanatics.

I love this game, its my favorite ff so far, and whoever said 13 is going on the 360, the actual ff series (not online or crystal) is ps exclusive so i dont know where your getting your info from.

This game is so much fun