Friday 4 November 2011

I'm back!!!

Yeah so my depression didn't last too long. Still annoyed as hell at uni, but what can you do? So I'm currently full time at my part time job and had been busy arranging Ponycon and attending the London Expo. So October was a pretty busy month for me :)

Anywho, at the Expo I managed to play on Final Fantasy XIII-2 (yes that game that has almost taken over my blog) And here is my review on it thus far.

Firstly it is no secret that I am excited for this game. Gameplay seems pretty close to the original game with the paradigm shifts and job roles. The crystarium is still around too. However a new feature is the introduction of on screen battle prompts to alter the way a battle can be played out. Pretty much a cinematic sequence might occur (mine was in battle with Atlas) and depending on whether or not you hit the right button, the event will alter slightly. At one point i missed it and Noel and Serah got smacked by him, the second time though I nailed it and both managed to avoid the attack. Not going to lie, I'm somewhat looking forward to it :)

However my main gripe comes from the fact that there are only two playable characters??? What??? In a Final Fantasy game I have two playable characters??? I'm not going to lie, I'm slightly confused by that. Rather than having other characters, you use monsters to fight for you. Square Enix, that is possibly the lamest idea ever. This is Final Fantasy, not Pokemon. I don't want to catch them all.

Also, where the heck is Lightning? This whole game has been hyped up about her but she doesn't seem to be playable? Hopefully this isn't right and things will change before the game is released, but it really seems stupid. Why make a sequel if none of the characters from the original are available to play?

Will reserve judgement for now.