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?

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

"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).