Showing posts with label Final Fantasy XII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Final Fantasy XII. Show all posts
Monday, March 21, 2011
Final Fantasy XII review
I finally got around to posting my review of Final Fantasy XII over on GamersVantage. Go read it.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
June 2010 in Review
Another month has come and gone. I'm really late getting this post up tho. I'll try to do better next time. Anyway, time to take a look at damages and accomplishments!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Gambits...I think I like them
Years ago when I first heard of the Gambit system employed by Final Fantasy XII, I thought that the world as we know it had stop spinning, and everything would come to a crashing end. The gambit system seemed like the worst thing to happen to a Final Fantasy game since Final Fantasy II was released*. "You want me to give up control of my characters?" I thought. "No way!"
So here I am, a good 4 years after it's release and I'm finally giving the game the time it deserves. And, to my surprise, I think I like Gambits.
The reason? Gambits don't do anything, I wouldn't do anyway. In other words, rather than controlling my characters in real time and telling them exactly what I want them to do, using the Gambit system I tell them exactly what I want them to do, outside of the battle, and then, they do it. And should I want to issue commands directly, no problem, in real time, I just do it and whatever command I've given, overrides the Gambit.
The reason it works so well, is because it's so dang flexible. It's not a simple, be a healer, be aggressive, be defensive system, there's so many commands and so many things you can build into your gambit system that I could see myself spend a lot of time tweaking it until it's 'just right'.
I'm only about 10 hours in but so far, Gambit seems good to me, and thankfully, the world is still spinning.
*For the record I actually quite like Final Fantasy II and I'm playing it for the third time on my PSP. I've already played the PS1 and GBA releases of it.
So here I am, a good 4 years after it's release and I'm finally giving the game the time it deserves. And, to my surprise, I think I like Gambits.
The reason? Gambits don't do anything, I wouldn't do anyway. In other words, rather than controlling my characters in real time and telling them exactly what I want them to do, using the Gambit system I tell them exactly what I want them to do, outside of the battle, and then, they do it. And should I want to issue commands directly, no problem, in real time, I just do it and whatever command I've given, overrides the Gambit.
The reason it works so well, is because it's so dang flexible. It's not a simple, be a healer, be aggressive, be defensive system, there's so many commands and so many things you can build into your gambit system that I could see myself spend a lot of time tweaking it until it's 'just right'.
I'm only about 10 hours in but so far, Gambit seems good to me, and thankfully, the world is still spinning.
*For the record I actually quite like Final Fantasy II and I'm playing it for the third time on my PSP. I've already played the PS1 and GBA releases of it.
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