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Well well...I never thought i may like Final Fantasy XII this much. Even still my favorite is Final Fantasy VIII, I admit Final Fantasy XII is the best Final Fantasy game to date. Square Enix really made such a great game with previous experiences and now they put a mature game before us. From graphics to musics, characters to story I dont see anything annoying in this game. Vaan and Penelo are 17-year-old kids and they act as they are. Story is not flowing fast nor slow, its going smoothly but it uses heavy language so I see so many people say the story is confusing while its so clear. Thats why its mature, not suitable for childish audience. Yes it may be not something so new, but is "saving the world" theme new ? Final Fantasy VIII didnt had "lets save the world" theme until its end, it was about mercenaries, war and the main point was the love. That is the reason i see Final Fantasy VIII so special and its story development was perfect, you were a mercenary and go out for mission, then another and the story goes smoothly. Also if you dont do any sidequests there is no break in the game unlike all other Final Fantasy games. All Final Fantasy games have a break point which makes me annoyed because it makes me wander around for nothing...

Final Fantasy XII offers a story about war and conspiracy, political games to seize the power. The different characters with amazing voice acting make everything alive and amazing in cutscenes. When you play the game if you can control yourself and stay with only the story you can enjoy the story but Final Fantasy XII offers something so great that makes everything in the game stay in shadows, Gameplay. Since Final Fantasy VIII, I never played a Final Fantasy game like this. I would probably go over 100 hours in FFXII ( the only game I played over 100 hours is Final Fantasy VIII ) if i would have time. I think I'm not in the middle of the game or maybe in the middle but i spent already 70+ hours. There is no head banging battle musics for the first time in a Final Fantasy game because all previous FF games had terrible battle music. In FFXII you can feel the greatness of Chrono series' musics and Vagrant Story musics' calmness. The musics may not be listenable outside the game but in the game, they are perfect match.

The best thing in Final Fantasy XII is obviously gameplay but the world size is something so great too. All places are linked together so you can walk from world's west end to east end except the sky city Bhujerba. All maps are so big and amazingly beautiful. Desert makes you feel you are really in desert, mystical forests are amazing and the architectural places greatly designed. They started this with FFX but they couldnt complete it and didnt make the world linked like in FFXII. Final Fantasy XII's huge world is definitely amazing...

The gameplay of Final Fantasy is no more random encounter based, now the game is presented us as a whole. Getting rid of fixed camera and letting player to watch the scenery was really good addition. In battles, instead of pressing X button even without looking at it, you can make it automated if you want. But still you can play it like old style by entering all commands as you wish each time. You can even cancel automatic commands by entering your own commands. In Final Fantasy XII, you have total control now, you can either make it automatic or manual or semi-automatic. You can run around bosses, set your characters to different spots and can avoid AoE attacks which is great. There are many different strategies in Final Fantasy XII and in this game, like early Final Fantasy games, status effects are really effective. Since Final Fantasy VII, status effects were was not threat nor effective, personally I never had problem in them except FFVIII Malboro fight because Malboro in FFVIII was huge... In Final Fantasy XII, now status effects are really pain, especially Oil and Disease... This puts some more challenge which is fun.

The foes you fight are at your level, you dont have problem if you face 1 foe with 3 people in your party but when they come with 3-4 people you try to defeat them while trying to survive. If they appear as higher levels, you have really hard time and if a rare game ( rare monster ) appears around you find yourself dead...While I was wandering in an area full of foes around my level, I didnt notice a rare game and when I killed a foe, I continued to my path but when that rare game attacked me all my 3 characters died, i changed the party and started to run but to dead end ... so game over. I was amazed, not frustrated because its good to see hardship and i just paid the price for not being careful.

There are many many sidequests in Final Fantasy XII. There are 80 rare games which are hard and it has a sidequest about it, like collecting trophies of them. This is already big enough there is a hunting sidequest too that gives you 45 mark huntings and most of them are harder than bosses, I bet it can be even rival to Monster Hunter as a non-online game. There is small Final Fantasy 1 game in Final Fantasy XII too. Final Fantasy 1's last boss Chaos can be obtainable as Esper ( summon ) in a sidequest with a story like; When Nabudis fell 3 strong beasts appeared. 3 Sages fought them and managed to seal them in ruins of Nabudis, but with each passing day the seals are getting weaker. The prophecy says "brave warriors will appear and slay the beasts". So in this sidequest after you obtain the medallions for seals you fight those 3 beasts and as the last one Chaos. Final Fantasy 1's story was about 4 brave warriors will appear to end the chaos in the world. So i find this sidequest amazing. There are many sidequests in Final Fantasy XII and these are really showing how Square Enix worked for FFXII to give players a huge game. Final Fantasy XII is really an idol RPG for its genre.

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The sad thing is I couldnt finish Final Fantasy XII yet and I wont be able to play any game for 6 months. Actually, I wont be able to do anything in next 6 months. There is something I must do, so I wont be around for 6 months. Who lives, who dies none of us can know it, so I just wanted to write this. I didnt plan to talk about Final Fantasy XII but when I sat on my computer, I just wrote it. I wanted to write a review about it but I couldnt even finish the game. Actually I wanted to write so many reviews but it just doesnt happen. I like to be here on Gamespot, reading people's ideas and giving my ideas. The funny or sad thing is there are so many young people here that think their thoughts, tastes are absolute and they cant listen each other. Funnier thing is when they cant understand something they think it as bad. This is beyond being childish...

Yes all of us think we are right but arguing about those stuffs are weird ? For example, FFXII was clear and the makers of it made it so people can understand it, if you cant understand it why do you blame the game or makers ? Yes you may not understand it, there are many people that dont understand many different things but they dont blame others because they cant understand. I just want to point that if you are at fault when you blame others you only make yourself look bad.

My first blog post was about same topics like overrated games, which FF game is the best etc. Nothing changed since then, same topics, so i got used to it. But trying to destroy a well known game is ridiculous, the last example was GoW is so overrated. Yes, when DMC appeared there was no such a game, so GoW is copy of DMC right ? then we should stop all RPGs ? we should stop all sports games ?

GoW is better than DMC because it is an epic adventure. You are not hero this time, you anti-hero that tries to kill a god but not to save others, to save yourself only. The gameplay was not copy of DMC, it was slower but it was still good and different. The environment, enemies were all very well done so it is praised alot. On the other hand, DMC had only great gameplay, its story was "a good devil closed the gates of demon world but now its open, the son of that good evil should close this gate now" = terrible but still it had great atmosphere in it and won most of people's heart. In DMC3, they made it better in storywise even they lost some atmosphere but still same old stuff in the core. I prefer DMC3 over GoW because of its gameplay but I admit GoW is better in overall. What is so hard to accept the facts ? This is stupid question I admit because the majority here includes kids.

When they ask GoW or DMC, you should just answer your favorite you dont need to show your fanboyism. For example FFXII vs FFX topics, some people say FFXII is confusing etc etc. thats to you, I find it pretty simple and easy because it is. Just say "I prefer FFX" dont give illogical reasons to make the other game look bad. Your capability is your own problem, not the game's nor the makers nor us. For example, moohmaytah says he didnt like FFXII much because of not enough character development. Thats true, but the reason is to point out the story over characters. I liked it and moohmaytah didnt, so instead of saying " FFXII has no character development so it has nothing, 0, crap etc" moohmaytah stated the reason why he didnt like FFXII but accepting other things while showing his taste. So he expects more detail in characters. You may say, so the other person expects simpler story whats wrong with that ? That would ruin the story by changing it. Do you think a book for "dummies" and for "normal" people would be the same ?

I'm writing these but the majority doesnt even read it, so no problem with attacking the defenseless ? Thats not true, thats showing facts about people in the forums. But meh, who am i ? The Judge Dredd of gamespot ? so again, it will be who cares...

Anyway...

I wont be here for 6 months or if I die, for ever. I'm not someone that makes easily friends, I dont track people unless they track me so maybe i should thank some people here. I thank here ;

kmertol, he is my real life friend here

AhuDJin for supporting me like always

kngdmhrts2 and seventies001, my first trackers, though I noticed that so late, thanks anyway

moohmaytah, first friend in gamespot even i was registered since 2003 lol

bartman999, raju111, TheLegendKnight, well thanks for adding me

ibiza563, thanks for your helps and nice blog activities

sohail1234, shatilov, umeer111, iboo01, thank you guys

thanks gamespot for giving us a huge space and letting us what we want to do ( I uploaded 500+ MB video here )

well, its not emotional thing or anything, just in case i should thank you people before I die, I think