| mauve |
01-26-2010 02:11 AM |
The combat was amusing most of the time, although the time limits were a real pain in the ass when trying to figure out a certain monster's weakness, or alternately. trying to explore or play minigames between monster sessions. I got bored of trying to kill the giant clockwork monsters in the harvest fields pretty quickly. I don't think I ever figured out the "right" way to dispose of them because it really didn't seem worth the effort.
I did get a kick out of harassing innocent bystanders, especially the folks in the Lilty capital. You know- The city I'm not supposed to be able to enter because it's full of Lilty guards who have been told to arrest me on sight, yet never seem to realize that the weird blonde Clavat using magical powers to throw people around might possibly be the same blond Clavat with magical powers who's on every wanted poster in the city. But I digress.
I found the action time events and certain miniquests to be extremely annoying. The game did a very poor job of explaining what exactly it wanted. An illlustration of a bobbing wii remote would lead me to believe that I was supposed to move the remote up and down, yet I would consistantly fail until a point where I got mad and shook it side-to-side just to spite it. A vague command of "Shake the wii remote to gain power!" got me killed repeatedly no matter which way I shook the remote, until it randomly decided I did a good job by also hitting A on accident. It took ages for me to figure out how to catch fish, only to discover that there's apparently no reward for doing so.
There were also too many random characters that did stuff for no apparent reason. I mean, I'm sure there's some achievement involving the random kid who seems dead set on repeatedly blowing himself up with dynamite, or the Selkie lady who spends her time chasing down and beating up one particular Lilty gentleman, but I never figured out what to do. Artemecion the moogle confused me as well. I eventually stole a key from him, but that's about it.
Aside from that, I enjoyed the game well enough. I have to admit that the storyline (read: the parts of the story not involving Belle) was interesting enough to keep me involved, and I liked being able to go into first-person mode to look at the animation on the npc's and backgrounds. I wish that had been in ff12.
Not sure if I would have paid full price for it, but it was a decent game.
Also- Worst voice acting I've heard in ages.
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