I am actually being pretty honest here, I really hate this game and I really did walk away from it feeling like I wasted my money and my time on it. I may not be as bombastic about my opinion irl as I am on the forum but I'm dead serious that's it's the worst triple A title on the market right now. It's not just bad for an FF, it's just a bad game. While AC1 is certainly a poorly designed game (I don't know anyone, even die hard AC fans who would argue that AC1 is not the worst mainline entry in the series) I still appreciate it more cause it allowed me to explore the story more creatively, I still had the fun of running around and killing people by actually interacting with the world and the weak plot actually has a pretty big surprise at the end that made trudging through it feel a little more worth it (still not going to give it a second try) and got me to pick up AC2 the next day. In the end, AC1 was an actual game I interacted with and played.Originally Posted by Bolivar
As opposed to a title that restricted my movements, forced me to always move at it's discretion in only one direction, hampered me with a battle system where the game did most of the work, burdened me with a boring and even more dumbed down leveling system and poorly implemented equipment system so even customization feels mostly trivial so god know I gave up on opening the menu after awhile, and then forced me to experience a poorly paced Action sci-fi flick whose few cool themes and ideas were stolen from Persona 3 and then poorly implemented by having the whinest cast of characters who perpetually spewed the same nonsense for half the game until they got interrupted by the evil space pope who might as well be wearing a big smurfing neon sign that says "I'm the bad guy". It's plot is best summarized in a paragraph and then the game takes 40 hours to waste your goddamn time so your party could finally do what they said they weren't going to do 40 hours earlier at the beginning of the game, and then everything is resolved in an ass backwards literal Deus Ex Machina, I mean an actual Deus Ex Machina not just the literary variety, but the classical Greek definition where a god shows up and makes everything mostly right, who the smurf does that? That is the Xeno Team's territory. Maybe as a parody I could see how this title could be somewhat amusing, but it plays everything straight, and takes itself way too seriously, even trying to emulate various places and events from VII. What few good elements and ideas it may have come up with cannot atone for every other game design and writing sin the creators did to this title. XII was in a super long development but when you actually got to play it and see the technical marvel of the game and all the little things the developers did for it, it all made sense, XIII was in the same development period, and came out as a terrible pulp summer popcorn flick that you forget as quickly as you experience it.
That's cause you're afraid of the Compilation.And for the record, I've NEVER purchased or even played any of the Compilation titles. I've only downloaded an Asian file of Advent Children and patched it with English subtitles but that's as far as I've gone.
While I can appreciate the beauty of bringing an NES game to full cel shaded glory, I found the game mostly lacking in other parts, it was a fun ride but I feel once the technical marvels wore off, the actual story and mechanics couldn't hold my attention. I still haven't even finished the Dragon Dungeon and gotten the alternate ending. Though I may say it's normal ending is probably one of the best in the series.And I would say that Dragon Quest VIII came very close if not did on the PS2 what FFVII did on the PS1 for me. It was like a new day and I did think that it may be the best RPG ever. There's something about bringing an NES game into beautiful fully realized cell shading that made it such a huge game.
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