by Sling » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:22 am
I - Ridiculously easy. I completed it 100% in 14 hours. Was remarkably fun, although it's not obvious where to go as nobody tells you directly where to go you just have to wander aimlessly and find out what to do by getting hints by talking to random people.
II - The hardest FF game I have ever played. You don't have levels. You're stats go up by bring attacked using your weapon etc. The magic is really awful to begin with, even Ultima, Holy and Flare. It takes ages to level each spell up to the maximum level. The final dungeon is insanely hard unless you don't mind getting to a certain point, warping back out saving and then walk all the way back and then proceed to the next point and so on. The final boss is also insanely hard unless you have the best equipment, which you have to beat a series of uber-hard mini-bosses to get and their is not enough for the whole party. But there is a trick to beating the boss in like 4 rounds or something which I have done.
III - Never played. and most likely never will unless I can be bothered to get a DS or they make a PS port.
IV - Was good. I really enjoyed the whole game and I really got into it. Was quite easy right until I got to the final dungeon where I had to level up from 30 something to 50+ to beat the final boss and all the mini-bosses guarding the ultimate equipment. I managed to get through the whole game whilst remaining about 20 levels below the recommended level in the stragegy guide.
V - Was really good. I really enjoyed every aspect of the game. I couldn't really fault it at all.
VI - See Above. The only faults being the characters of Gogo and Umaro were completely pointless and the Limit Breaks where awful as you need critical HP and even then you didn't always get one off.
VII - First FF game I ever played. One of my favourites. I loved the whole game. I liked the story, I loved the battle system and Limit Breaks. Although I think Sephiroth was actually cooler than Cloud.
VIII - I loved it. I liked most of the story, I loved the gameplay, I didn't really like the Magic system and so stuck to GFs and Physical Attacks. Whilst getting money for wandering around aimlessly was good it made the game way to easy and also when you got the the final dungeon you couldn't get back to any of the towns and cities.
IX - Amazing. 12/10 I will give headbutts to anyone who disses it.
X - Was alright. Was way too short and way too easy. Although, Blitzball. I have 110 hours of gameplay not through getting all the sidequess and ultimate weapons and beating the dark aeons. I liked the story although Tidus being dreamt up was a bit of a letdown and Auron being dead all along just broke the game for me. Compared to previous titles, awful, by itself it is pretty good though.
X-2 - Was pretty good. I thought Square making a sequel was pretty weak and to be honest most people bought it to see Yuna in short skirt. I thought the storyline was quite good though. Finding out there is machina that had more destructive power than Sin, sleeping under Bevelle was pretty good although all that crap with the dead soul of that guy who looked like Tidus and that woman who looked like Yuna in the past was quite shit. They could have come up with a better arch-enemy. Vegna-gun was quite awesome though.
XI - Never played. Never will unless they make a single-player version for the PS.
XII - At first I thought it was a bit off, but this FF game was really good. I just got put off by Vaan being a complete pussy and Balthier and Basch being far cooler. Even Fran was cooler than Vaan. I thought the storyline was quite good although the final bossfight and the cutscenes with it were bullshit. They could've made Vayne more evil and then it would be more believable. Vayne as a badguy and the whole deal with Occuria just put me off although the rest of the game was really good. The espers were badass but completely useless. There is nothing like training for hours to beat all the Espers only to find out they're really weak when they join you. And there is nothing like fighting a huge monster with 50 million HP. I mean standing there battering the crap out of a monster for hours is really entertaining. Other than that it is quite a good game and has loads of really fun sidequests to do if you get bored of the main storyline.
In this day and age, an era where there are people who actually throw shit at each other, anything, could be possible.