I got it on release day.

Honestly though, I'm not a big fan of this Final Fantasy. Don't get me wrong, it was fun and I enjoyed some of the characters. The story though... It just didn't do much for me. I didn't even realise I was at the final stage of the game at first. I was still waiting for the story to make some amazing turn and develop the characters more. I often felt like I could read the same story from a history book. It doesn't seem like some aspects were explained as much as other FFs too. Where did this come from, or why doesn't this do this? Sorry, I'm being vague to avoid using spoiler tags. It was just a very shallow game story wise.

It also seems like the characters don't interact with anyone besides their "buddies" throughout the story. How often did Basch talk to Penelo really? Or Ashe to Fran? It seems like Vaan talks to everyone, but the others don't. Penelo talks to Balthier, Fran, and Vaan. Ashe talks to Balthier and Basch. Basch talks to Ashe. The characters never seem to bond. Now, I know there are times when the characters interact more, but this is just a general feel of the game. Who knows, maybe I am use to the most recent FFs on console (X and X-2) where there was a cutscene every five minutes, but it seems that there were more character bondings in the predecessors as well.

Oh well, I still enjoyed it. I was just hoping for a fun, interesting story. I guess maybe I'm just numbed down to ordinary "save the kingdom" games because of all these extravagant story lines people push out these days. Like...dreams comming to life...or time traveling witches. Even alien life forms from meteors who make crazy babies with silver hair (I know, thats off a bit, don't kill me). The MAGIC is what was missing from this game. The magicite appearently had this awesome power of magic...but all I ever saw magicite doing is blowing up like a nuclear bomb. It just seemed like reading the pages of a history book, which I think is what they intended to a degree. I've just repeated myself for the last 5 minutes, so I'll shut up now.

Laters. Oh, and I'm one of those crazy kids who enjoyed FFX... So you'll probably ignore my post now :P