I also just started this today thanks to the best buy sale. The battle system seems the same to me so far.
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I also just started this today thanks to the best buy sale. The battle system seems the same to me so far.
Well, it's not really the battle system, it's that the enemies are a lot easier to kill with fight-fight-fight, with some attack magic sometimes. There are a few buffs that were fun to use in the original that are missing from this one. I can't remember which, haste maybe? Anyway, the original battle system was great in the game it was in, and actually challenging. This one usually isn't.
I think this game is a lot easier to get into than FFXIII. And they don't hold your hand for the first 10 hours, which is nice.
I'm almost done. It's a mirror image of XIII. This time, it's wide open from the beginning, and as you get into the last few hours it's all story-story-story-gohere-notthere-story-story-story. It works better than its predecessor, but it's hardly perfect.
My favorite part so far involved looking for five invisible objects scattered throughout time and space in order to advance the story. Fun!
Fuck those clock puzzles.
i beat a battle with Sazh (DLC) and he said "Dads can be tough too"
GOTY forever and ever
and going back to this after playing Nier makes Oerba turn into Nier Land
interestingly enough, sazh is the reason i put down and returned FF13. i almost never get offended by game character, but there was something bout that grinning fool, using guns, with a chicken living in his afro that seriously pissed me off. than i saw his son also had a stupid ass afro, and i vowed to never touch a ff13 game ever. hopefully 15 does something worthwhile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
Sazh is the least offensive character in the entire game, so you made the right choice
Yeah, I'm with Finch. Sazh is one of the more positive portrayals of a Black character in games in a long while, especially if you compare him to other Black characters that are often presented as violent/thuggish/oafish/a minstrel (Balrog, C.J, Barrett, Zack (Dead or Alive), Cole Train, Mad Jack (Heavy Rain), Black Baron (Mad World). The chocobo in the afro was kinda dumb, and Dajh looked like some sort of cherub or doll rather than a human child, but I had no problem with Sazh at all. He was often the voice of reason and acted as the father figure/mentor of the group, and the rest of the party grew to respect him.
Admittedly, Japan does have a rather skewed view of [American] Blacks as not only are there very few living there, but most of the imagery is consumed from imported American cinema....but that's a discussion for another day.
Get past the chocobo afro thing which was completely horrible and he's easily the best character in the game. Once he starts to get into why he's there and got marked and all that he's a very sympathetic and interesting character, at least for the genre. Surprisingly fallible too.