This post helps identify what is wrong with this game, i.e. the story is GUFF.
The game is lazily written, lazily presented, lazily designed and over-wrought melodrama. For example
- Some characters only become playable shortly before the last disc. Not much time or opportunity to level them up.
- There's very few weapons to buy. Most characters have the same weapons.
- Every enemy has about two or three atacks and very lazy attack animations.
- You drive your boat to a shor and you can disembark anywhere in the world. Makes arsing about in the sea a bit redundant.
- Battle is quite repetitive.
- As for the story, it's full of made up nonsense and has a distinct 'making it up as we go along feel'.
- It's beyond melodrama. I swear at the end of disc 1, start of disc 2 there's a solid 15 mins of kids sobbing hysterically. Mum dies, sobbing, funeral, sobbing, family re-united, sobbing.
- Gongora is a typical sniggering smug grinning horse laughing funny bearded manga baddie. YAWN.
- Let's use magic to do this, oh no the magic has been reversed by some random magical event thingy, lets use our magic power to create more magic and nullify the reverse magic before Gongora can use his magic storage tanks to reverse the magic mirror effect of the our world - immortal world magic flux chaos effect. Bye Seth.
It's just a waste of 40 hours of my life. I can't believe Nobuo wossname helped make this dirge. It completely lacks any of the depth of characters, script, plot, bestiary, weapons, levelling process, battle system and inventory of Final Fantasy XII. You just CAN'T play this game and enjoy Lost Odyssey.
"Frankenstein was creator,not the monster.A common misconception held by all truly stupid people"
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silvercloudstrife
15 years ago
Well, I'm going to make a wager that you've never played any of the pre-FFXII JRPGs, because this game is pretty standard fare. It's a beautiful old style RPG, made just like all the FF games he made.
- Characters near the end you say? Ever heard of Ever heard of Yuffie or Vincent?
- Enemies with few attack animations? Play FFI-FFX. Pretty much the same.
- Battle repetitive? Well, it's the style of RPG. A turn-based game isn't going to have a whole lot of standard deviation. It was made for fans of the classic JRPGs, and it's done pretty well.
-Melodrama? This game contains a beautifully diverse group of characters. While the main story may be somewhat lacking, the characters themselves are well thought out, and are easy to connect with. And are you actually bothered that children would cry at their mother's funeral? You seem to be lacking the emotional capacity that the game requires.
This game was a fantastic representative of the traditional JRPG, and well worth 40 hours. And "Nobuo Uematsu" worked on the brilliant sountrack of this game because he and the founder of Mistwalker Studios worked together for years on the Final Fantasy projects. They're good friends.
Now beyond that, to what I've learned:
- In some families it's perfectly acceptable to refer to your grandfather by his first name.
- Queens can apparently actually be attractive.
- Humans need to rest every 14 seconds.
- If you wear rings, you can win any fight.
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