FFXII Scores Max In Famitsu

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."

Comments

So talking of scores...

[Walkiry]

How does it score at the real important list?

Re:So talking of scores...

[KDR_11k]

It's not about discrepancies, it's about similarities. Seriously, with that list you can see any plot turn in any japanese RPG coming from half the game away. "Gosh! Who'd a thunk the church I relied upon would betray me to control the dark powers/follow a misguided attempt at saving the world!" "What? The Mana tree is dead and my girlfriend must be sacrificed to make it regrow? I didn't expect that!" You could probably write an algorithm that selects a number of clichees, makes a story out of it and noone would be able to tell it from a normal jRPG.

Never mind that the japanese don't seem to be able to grasp the concept of foreshadowing needing to be subtle. They're about as subtle as "nudge nudge wink wink" most of the time and the main character must be plain retarded to not understand things until they are spelled out in short, simple words for him. Tidus should've noticed a few hours earlier that Yuna would have to sacrifice herself and that Auron is dead (come on, those aren't spoilers, they'll hammer the foreshadowing in your face after the first few hours!).

Dupe

[theNOTO]

Japanese...really likes Final Fantasy

The dupes are getting out of hand, this is the 12th one.

Re:Dupe

[Spy der Mann]

Japanese... The dupes are getting out of hand

konnichiwa! Wercome to srashdot.org.jp!

Why not link to the actual site?

[mgblst]

...rather than that bad blog->

http://www.ff12.com/

Or a more intersting site:

http://www.ffxii.net/

Isn't the blurb a little too negative?

[Anonymous Coward]

After all, this is the first FF to score this high in famitsu.
Previous famitsu scores:
FF: 8.25
FFII: 8.25
FFIII: 9
FFIV: 9
FFV: 8.5
FFVI: 9.25
FFVII: 39/40
FFVIII: 38/40
FFIX: 38/40
FFX: 38/40
FFX-2: 34/40
FFXI: 36/40

Re:Isn't the blurb a little too negative?

[Yosho]

It's totally awesome how your opinion is law, and clearly, any reviewer who disagrees with you is wrong.

I mean, while I didn't think 8 was fantastic, I thought 7 was the low point of the series. It's too bad that your word is divine law and nobody is allowed to disagree with you, eh?

"Sequel that's better"?

[Yosho]

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).

They must get a better demo

[Tridus]

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.

Re:They must get a better demo

[keyne9]

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).

Re:Perfect score?

[Anonymous Coward]

I realize the game is catered to a market where anyone over 18 is considered old, but still, I wish they'd stop making such feminine lead characters. At least stop making them all look like 14 year olds. These guys look like they spend more time doing their hair than training for battle. It looks like they've cast pop stars to play the lead roles.

You mean like Gackt?

But most importantly...

[voice_of_all_reason]

Here's to more bathing-suit hot spring cutscenes. //is asking for tentacles too much?

Re:But most importantly...

[SeeMyNuts!]

"is asking for tentacles too much?"

Well, wouldn't finding that the hot female lead character has a tentacle kind of spoil the mood?