Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age Review 

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183 copies and counting 7 years later lol

A year later, but I disagree with you. To many allegories and inside joke symbology.. he needs to talk normal and stop taking queues from his creative writing class. In other words.. he clouded his points with bullshit information.

@ШИРИШ रमैया weird the comment above me says 2 years ago now. so idk.. I think I was responding to someone else. youtube does all that

DigimonVids nobody talks about XIII…

DigimonVids I know I will get roasted, but XIII became my favorite. It used to be VIII, cuz squall is so cool, but damn I just felt in love with lightning. And besides, a game that has 2 lesbian lovers is a win in my book.

@DIgimon Vids, this game is what made XIII look like an indie game if you ask me, you cant go from massive sky cities and and giant free roaming dungeons to "corridors the game" in less than one iteration, XIII will always be the inferior of XII no matter what you say.

I feel sick just looking at this game. Worst Final Fantasy of all.

lol, eyyy to each his own, cant help it if you have poor taste.

KrazyBean14 youll fall in love mate

KrazyBean14 good rpg with wonderful diverse environments. But the story and the characters are missing. Very bland at best.

TheJR7360 Only Vaan and Penelo is bland for me. The story is great imo... It just doesn't feel like a final fantasy story

Pros: -gambit sytem is a beast. because it encourages trial and error. when u thought u already mapped out ur gambit, and when u go try it out, there are things u missed, status ailment u didnt cover. so u learn from that battle and prepare back the gambit (tactics) for next encounter. because of this learn by mistakes approach, late in the game ur gambit is a masterpiece, covering all probabilities and can cleared up enemies while making sure ur party are all in nearly full health. its a good lunch discussion among ur peers who played the same game on how each other can improve their gambits (tactics). so no, it is not action oriented because u usually prepare ur fight way before the actual fight takes place -hunt monsters. in the game u have this side quests where u can hunt monsters. u go to a hunting board in the town, where u can take job of hunting one specific monster. the monster has grades (level of difficulty) and u earn sigil (money) by killing them and reporting back. i still remmber one of the few jobs are hunting a rogue tomato. basically a tomato has gone rogue so u need to kill it (hilarious!). the hunting job is so satisfying, that i dont bother progressing the storyline. after finish my current hunt, i cant wait to take another job and another. but ofc at certain point u'll be underlevel so the story must be continue first -the world is beautiful. one of the cities that later u visit is a city on the sky. it is beautiful, with the town layout and sky view. u'll also visit fran's (the sexy chewbacca) city. it is a lushful forest with treetop houses. yup, the world that they created is magnificent. -much more i want to talk about but just 3 pros already takes alot of space Cons: -like any other japanese rpgs, it is SLOW. u'll have this few stages that act as tutorial and it is LONG. not to mention cutscenes and storytelling. if u're the kind of guy who put on a game and directly wanted action, nope this is not the game for u. but if u're ready to invest ur time and being immersed in the world, u'll come to a right place.

KrazyBean14 I really love the combat system on XIII/XIII-2 the best. I haven't played this game before but I love final fantasy so I'll try it out. I'm absolutely in love with the music in Final Fantasy games

ME TOO BRO

you haven't played FFX then

yes i have. one of my favorite ones.

marda379 For me, FFX isn't even in my top 5. Honestly I enjoyed playing FF4, FF5, FF6, FF7, FF9, and maybe FF12 (need to go back and replay it to be sure) better than FFX. FFX has one of the best battle systems though, no doubt about that.

Austin Theng FF 2 and FF3 were amazing

More interesting and is well developed as well. Definitely a breed of The Lord of the Rings + Star Wars.

imagine

FF15 is only a map. The older Final Fantasy games are all whole planets, except FF10 which is linear

FF15 has a world called eos with i think 4 or 5 kingdoms. Lucis, Niflheim, Tenebrae, Solheim....it is actually really big, but the game only showed pieces of three of those kingdoms. (Solheim wasn't even in the game)

it also is a copy and past jobs for deserts and dungeons, that being said the largest area of ff15 is duscae and that although not copy and paste is very much a similar looking zone through and through

DaRkLoRd1061 I love how the game plays itself.... said nobody ever....

ExuberantOne except me... I love how the game plays.

ExuberantOne you literally jump around to every ff12 video and comment this. Get a life dude. You clearly love this game if you having nothing better to do then watch RU-vid videos for it

ExuberantOne i love how you walk using your own feet. and eating using your own mouth. and sleeping closing your own eyes.

ExuberantOne You comment this on every single FFXII vid, welp, you got your attention alright coz Gambits are "optional"

Didn't touch one treasure in the beginning till I reach Necrohol of Nabudis, I came back and spear T-Rex.

You did it for nothing you dont have to ignore chests anymore to get the spear

Yup, that green bar reptile is not gonna be happy if you poke it....comeback and greet once you learned a special attack.

Steve Ozone Underrated? It got really high scores back in the day including a 40 from Famitsu if I remember correctly.

underrated by the users, a lot of people bashed this game because of the gambit sistem and the story, them square did the opposite with XIII and we all suffered the consecuences

55ib343gdw You're missing the point.

Steve Ozone how does a ff game ever be a gem

Blessed are the champions who conquer the Great Crystal. Shall the weak fall and crumble under its puzzles

Willis Allen Jr same even though I put close to 70 hrs into it.

well it IS a big ass world and a long and glorious story

Willis Allen Jr have you beat it ....😂😂😂😂excited to know lol

Haha btw I already beat this game 3 times 😂 lol.... 1 of my favorites actually

I can tell u that it's such a great game that I've played it 8 times (cus someone kept deleting my shit) almost 100% and 200+ hours on each one

agreed

Syber-VHS xv is way better wtf

Jesse Helt it's not though.

nmacinnesnm it's amazing bro playing it is way better than watching someone play it. It's a day and night difference

nmacinnesnm the gambit system is so good! if you are a fan of mmo's you will love this, plus the new zodiac job system looks really fun

It actually ages very well, especially with the improvements. I for one enjoyed the gambit system back then, and I fell in love even more with the game now that I've matured and improved when it comes to strategies and tactics with gambits.

I actually love the combat system in ff12.

I wonder if that t-rex is still in the first area, fuck that thing

yeah i rember being in high school and talking to a class ment about stragety about the game

You had to have patience and really like the LEADING MAN.

The cat lady in high heels was my waifu.

Going Off Topic it still exist.

Jacob Prescott This isn't a new thing. There was a time when FFVII was widely bashed by fans of the first six FF games for being different.

phantomjf121 remaster not remake totally different, but i get what u mean

jdrobin1 My favourite game is ffxii too.

jdrobin1 12 deserves to be up there. I guess 8 and 10 are decent enough...

This is my favorite FF. I agree with you that it has the best combat system in the series.

Waiting on ff8 remake that was my first ff game so im bias

then get on the hype train for tommorrow :-D

AncientFury FF10 is the best in my eyes, but it's his opinion, one that I totally understand. Get over it dude.

AncientFury FFX is overrated as fuck. It was just as linear as XIII so stop it

MrRyus101 Agreed, Basch Lives!!

MrRyus101 I love X and XIII lol

AncientFury I never said that. X is a great game and has a great story But is so overrated like XIII has the same problem as X and everyone complains about it. And sorry I don't play that type games FF fan since I have memory :} And definitely the best FF is VI But hey everyone has their own opinion

Ola Sarcasm lmao I still remember going around town screaming those words 😂

DON'T LISTEN TO ONDORE'S LIES

Lul i just did that shizz 2 days ago

Don't be silly Kupo, he's dead.

LOL

XD

Prove it

best valvier ever

Minh Quan Cao i never thoug i would ever hear that sentence.

Elusive Trickster no it ain’t

I will be...

kodemasterx you will be?

meme you savage 😂😂😂

^ We know it has been on PC for years via emulation. I'd still want this version of Zodiac Age on PC one day. Not that it matters much to me since I have this on PS4 and I wouldn't dare buy it a second time just to have a better version, but it's good to have the option.

Thats why we got a massive modding community for... take a look at most FF games on steam they have mods that make the game way better... I am going to replay FF8 with all those HD TEXTURE PACKS along with remastered music

AncientFury Not really. I guess the reviewer is a different person this time around. Which means, it's just a different OPINION.

+Iris Dimero I don't understand IGN. The game only IMPROVED from the ps2 version, so how did the older one get a better score? Makes no type of logical sense to me. IGN complained about how hard it was to find hunts, I mean seriously? Do we always have to have a skyrim quest marker everywhere we go? geeeezz....

In The Beginning Different reviewers maybe.

The hipsters at IGN are not good gamers at all. But I'm there everyday to see how idiotic they can be. They always manage to outdo themselves.

People need to understand that they're reviewing it as a remaster, not as the same game. If they didn't add anything substantial to the game it shouldn't deserve the same score.

most likely a bot

Gamespot is shit

I don't dislike the game, i dislike the channel. It's full of bullcrap

& they just made a video complaining about crash staying true to its original yet ff12 did the same & nothing but praise

+Ayoub P You say you dislike the channel, but by clicking their videos, leaving comments, and even clicking "dislike," you are actually supporting them and raising the profile of their content. +AstroCyborg Their criticism of Crash Bandicoot is that the gameplay hasn't aged well since the PS1 era, and doesn't hold up today as anything special. With FFXII, the gameplay is still engaging and a lot of fun. I don't see why you can't understand the difference of opinion on two completely different products. One they think is very good, the other not so good. Also there are several major changes to FFXII's game mechanics in this remake, so no, they aren't even merely praising it for staying the same as the original.

I hope so too. I can think of a lot of mods for this game, including the ability to play as a Seeq or Viera.

The Groundskeeper it will but probably in 2years

The Groundskeeper you're in luck in less than two weeks now on steam!

exactly

I hated the original license board. Unless you specifically went out of your way, by the end, basically everyone was the same.