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Monday 22 January, 2007
Ok apparently I need another second entry (?) so I'm going to write this one evaluating the storyline and juxtaposing this and other games in the series.
The story, as I'm pretty sure I mentioned in my first gamelog, is that you're the warriors of light, and at the outset of the game you find out that you have orbs that can help save the world. There isn't much of a story except what happens as you reinstill light into the orbs. At the end you fight the ultimate evil and defeat it with the power of the orbs, and that's the end. I think it's pretty obvious how much improved the story of later games was. Stories weren't really a big part of the Final Fantasy series until around the third game, but the light warrior motif wasn't really dropped until the fourth game, where storytelling became the main motivator for the games.
As for gameplay, the only "major" alteration in gameplay happens when characters basically get a name change (Fighter becomes Knight, Thief to Ninja, etc.) and some slight ability boosts that only just match the obnoxious difficulty of encounter after encounter.
I think that about covers it, not a great game but at least it paved the way for an excellent series.
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