Saturday 26 January, 2008

Game play: I continued to play Final Fantasy 12 for about another two hours. During this time not much happened except towards the end of my game play time. Most of the whole time I have been playing I have been playing as only one of the main characters because the others have not come in yet. This character is Vaan he is not my favorite character but I am sure he will be developed more later on. Another main character who has been introduced and has made a few appearances is Penelo. She makes me happy, and I think she is absolutely adorable. Near the end of my second two hours two more main characters were introduced, Balthier and Fran. Since they have just come into the story, I really do not know how i fell about them yet, but they look pretty cool.

I am still have a lot of fun playing, and i am even more excited in continuing. I feel the story is really starting to take off now. Still nothing really exciting has happened, but I can tell it is going to get much better as the story continues so I am very excited about that. I am still enjoying the battle system much more then previous Final Fantasy battle systems.

Design: I really like the game design a lot. The graphics of the game are amazing during the good graphic cut scenes and even the regular cut scenes are good. I also like the design of the battling system. It was in some ways very similar to previous Final Fantasy game and in some ways it was quite different. The leveling is very basic and only necessary to make later battles and boss battles easier. There is no set required level for anything which I think is nice. What i do is keep going till an enemy is to difficult to beat then I go and level my characters.

One thing I really liked were the cut scenes. they are what makes the story. There are a lot of them and they are quite long. This does not bother me because I play Final Fantasy games for the stories and good characters. I do not play so much for the actual playing. Since there are so many cut scenes quite frequently, some people might not like it if they only play for the game play and not for the story with the frequent cut scenes. To me the cut scenes are the best part of any Final Fantasy game and i love watching them especially the good graphic ones.

This is perfectly acceptable, but could use more details. You never really talk about the gameplay in the second gameplay section, and design could use more details about how the battle system is similar and different from the previous FFs. In general this could use a lot more detail and thinking about the game.

Amy Leek (grader)