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Apollo's Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
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| [January 11, 2007 03:16:41 PM]
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So I sat down to play some more after I made my first post, and was once again sucked into side quest activities, but it seems that I've come to a stand still that I previously hadn't seen in the game. I'm not strong enough to survive in the areas that I have Marks for, and I'm not strong enough to advance in the storyline.
It seems like I'm going to be forced to farm experience, thought the amount that I did that doing side quests I didn't think I would have any problems for the rest of the game. It's kind of upsetting but I'll get past it. Gameplay wise, it's not that hard to farm levels since I've had Golden Amulets equipped for the majority of the game so I get double the licenses points, which allowed for my main party to have the entire top license board full. So at twelve gambits a pop there's a lot of actions I'm having it do on it's own. This allows me really to just run at monsters and watch my roommate play Castlevania on his Ds.
This is kind of a draw back to the game, but I'm a person whose not bothered by tedious things as long as I know the goal will be worth while, or if I can be occupied at the same time by something else nearby. I'm still really enjoying the game, and I can't wait to see what happens with the story line.
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| [January 10, 2007 09:13:43 PM]
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Side quests blasted side quests!
If there's something that developers want to add that will immediately make me trapped in a time sink, it's side quests, and FFXII is full of optional material. Being a completion whore, I must have 100% completion, which includes optional sidequest materials, and there's a ton of them. A good idea on how long I've spent doing side quest material is a quick comparison, a friend of mine who focuses nearly 100% on the main storyline is about 30 hours into the game, at about 68 hours, I just passed him in the main storyline.
Thus I've spent about 40 extra hours doing side quests. Let alone the fact that like half the side quest stuff, doesn't actually result in any sort of indication that you've done extra material, which confuses me cause I'm still walking around with a bottle of alcohol from Bhejurba that I've yet to find any use for. On a side note, I opened the four random chests your not supposed to open so that you can get the Zodiac Spear, and though I was close to 50 hours in, I was sorely tempted to start over, but common sense kicked in so I managed to continue on, mainly with the thought that I don't currently have anyone using spears anyway.
But besides this ranting on side quests, so far the game is excellent. I'm enjoying the new battle system, and while I thought Gambits were a bit cheap at first, I don't think I would have the microing skills to keep my party up with the way I just run into groups of monsters. However Quickening seem to be a bit overpowered and broken, in the fact that if your luck prevails you could chain Quickening four times on a single mob, though you'd have to get lucky with the Mist Charges.
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Apollo's Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Wednesday 27 December, 2006
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