remote
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 6:56 pm |
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yeah, i bought this, but since i've been pretty busy and/or hanging out with my gf and/or playing bravely default instead, i haven't spent much time with this yet. i think the schemata and battle system are a lot of fun, the music sounds great, and i even like the look of the game a lot — especially the ark, where you meet hope — until you leave the ark and go do fetch quests talking to weird/goofy npcs that don't really look like they belong in this game. pretty anticlimactic after the game has barely provided an introduction to the apocalyptic plot.
the main reason i was drawn to this is that, basically, i played the demo and found myself excited for what could be a weird and yet very cool square rpg in the vein of things like ff12, chrono cross, the saga series, etc. i expect it to make very little sense in terms of actual storytelling, but with tri-ace behind development i can't help but feel like this is some bizarre valkyrie profile + majora's mask laid out in fragments of cool and strange in a way that is equally experimental and inept — not exactly finnegans wake, but still wild and fun in that particular square way. lightning herself is some kind of emotionless "savior" in this one, and as a newcomer to this series featuring such a bland character it kind of makes too much sense and endears me to the game as a whole. maybe it'll turn out to be one of those games like ff12, as i mentioned, where some of us play it and go, "i really love this, but explaining exactly why is a bit of a challenge..."
that's what i hope for, anyway, but i realize it seems like an odd thing to be excited about for some.
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