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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. So talking of scores... by Walkiry · · Score: 5, Funny

    How does it score at the real important list?

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  2. Dupe by theNOTO · · Score: 4, Funny
    Japanese...really likes Final Fantasy
    The dupes are getting out of hand, this is the 12th one.
  3. Isn't the blurb a little too negative? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  4. "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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  5. 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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  6. Re:Perfect score? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    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?