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FFXII Scores Max In Famitsu

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-spicy-meatball dept.

Famitsu, the premiere Japanese videogame magazine, evidently really likes Final Fantasy XII. From the Insert Credit post: "Meanwhile, Final Fantasy XII has scored a perfect score of 40 -- all four reviewers scoring it 10 out of 10 -- from Japanese gaming bible Famitsu. It joins the club of five perfect-scoring games, one of which is a fighting game with a sequel that's better (Soul Calibur), two of which are Zelda games (Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker), and two of which (Nintendogs and Vagrant Story) didn't even make it onto Famitsu readers' top 100 list."

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  1. "Sequel that's better"? by Yosho · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It joins the club of five perfect-scoring games, one of which is a fighting game with a sequel that's better (Soul Calibur)

    Sure, if by "better" you mean "has a worse computer AI and more gimmicks." Not to say that SC2 is a bad game, but you'll find that there are many people out there that prefer the original as a technical fighter. Not to mention, of course, that reviewers are supposed to review games in the context of their competition -- the original SC blew everything in its generation and before it out of the water, but by the time SC2 came around, the rest of the genre had improved enough that it was a much closer competition.

    Bear in mind that the above is only my opinion (which is really the whole point of reviews).

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  2. They must get a better demo by Tridus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm playing Dragon Quest 8 right now (fun game), and it came with a demo of FF12.

    "Yech" is about the only word I can come up with for it. If that demo is an accurate representation of the final game, I want to know just how big a bribe it took to get the rating these reviewers gave it.

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    1. Re:They must get a better demo by keyne9 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Just out of curiousity, what didn't you like?

      It's a pretty large leap from the traditional interface (and possible scenario setup), which might irk some people. But, it is that sort of thing that is refreshing to others. Personally, I enjoyed it quite immensely, but then again I also very much enjoyed the archeypes for the system (presumably a variation of the FFT/A scenario system and a battle system akin to FFXI's).