How GOOD is Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age? [JamSac REVIEWS] 

The gambit system is still cool to this day

It was a cool idea setting up in advance but the combo system to get items was tedious and the 6 hour boss fights were boring

I played it years ago but I don’t remember too much about the story The gameplay was fun thought from what I remember!

Hard disagree, literally the best FF character is from this game, and the story is better than 8, or anything pre 6. It may not be the best story but every story since has been far far worse.

@@rowdyrobgaming8726 except FF14

totally fair, but she is kinda cute.

How is this irony? You would expect her to be easily remembered as the most useless character (plot wise) due to the fact that she is so inconsequential and unrelatable to the ploy. That's like the opposite of irony my dude

What a dumb take. If you would actually dive into the gambit system and world... And especially, if you would do the side content... Youbwould see why it gets so much great reviews.

@@Vayne_Solidor I've suffered this game up until Tomb bosses. It's constant deserts, bland mines, catacombs, corridors of nothingness and e.t.c. I've seen on RU-vid some snowy and forest locations but am I really that wrong if they consciously put beautiful locations just for the second part of the game? And this battle system does it no good. The game encourages you to play through gambits which is like saying "we couldn't do interesting battle system so we decided to make your life easier by giving you these AI scripts so that you would have no need to make decisions during battles". Like, for the first few hours you just constantly press Attack and watch these "awesome" battles in catacombs. Then you get enough gambits and magic to just literally do nothing during battles because AI will heal you if need be and spam attack for you forever. Peak gameplay. Ok, first Judge boss is kinda cool because it's the first somewhat hard fight but... Mist, guys. Mist is the cheapest way to kill bosses but I don't really think that watching AI fight for you is any better way to waste dozens of hours of my time. Like, you use Mist, gamble these skills and if you get at least 5 in a row then it's already minus 50% HP or even more. Prior to the first Judge I'd even one shot some bosses with Mist. And do I really have to mention licenses? It's dumb. Not only you have to wait rather long time before you can buy various spells, you have to get licenses for it! Even for your equipment! You just constantly look at the board and search for these "Swords 4" just to find out that you have to get like 6 more licenses before you can use this shitty sword and by the time you get enough LP you'll probably find a new one or maybe a new armor-type item which also requires corresponding license. So not only you basically grind LP just to equip something(and some weapons don't appear for a long time so you're mage will practically have no new weapon and everything like that) but you also need to find money to get these items or spells. Like, yeah, I get it, FF prologues are always pretty boring gameplay-wise but they usually end after like 5-10 hours? Reaching the Tomb is not 5-10 hours, it's literally like 1/3 of the game I guess? Perhaps even further in. Also the music is just bland. It's just... some epic fanfares? And not in a good way because SMT Strange Journey battle theme is an epic fanfare but it doesn't feel like just background ambient or something. Even ambients can get memorable and I've wasted dozens of hours on this game, like, I tried it not once, not twice and not even thrice. Also the plot gets just stupidly hilarious at times with these Vann mood swings. Like, one mineshaft corridor and he starts to trust his supposed brother's killer. And a few hours later happens the infamous "I'M CAPTAIN BASCH" scene. So, the game encourages you to use gambits not to engage in it's battle system most of the time, it's plot is about a stupid child preventing war along with some kind of a suicide squad, it's music... exists(sometimes), and it's level design get ok only in the second half (maybe). Surely it's 9/10, no doubt. And I have a problem with it's job system. Characters love to come and go in the first half, especially Penelo or whatever she's called. What if I wanted her to be my white mage? Should I really just suffer without a white mage or do I have to go and change my job? Well, the moment you step on Castle grounds you can't go back IIRC. I don't quite understand what boards characters had in the original PS2 version but I've heard that the original ps2 Zodiac had no option of changing one's job after selecting it which I think might end up pretty bad. Btw, it's not even that I hate MMORPG-like battle system, ironically I like MMORPGs including FF XIV but this game doesn't want to engage in it at all. You just... Watch. Yeah, I know that it gets more engaging by the end, obviously, but I repeat: do you really think it's wise to waste 60 hours of your life until that one game "engaging"? Ok, let's pretend it's not 60 but 20(literally just after the Tomb). Is it any better? Should I remind people that FF 13 almost killed the series because not so many people like it's corridors(which are beautiful) and because it takes like 10 hours before it gets engaging? I also heard that people think FF 15 is "empty" because it has nothing but beautiful open-world, hunter contracts, one button battle system and corridors in dungeons? Yeah, never happened before.

We’ll see maybe Jamsac has a low threshold for disliking. He might score FF7 a 6/10 for all we know. Generally I think most FF fans would score a bit higher.

I think it is just shows that you not interested in learning mechanics. Because ff15 is very easy game from gameplay perspective. Persona 4 is also more friendly experience in compare with SMT

@@Yuri-fs3es I'm the only man who thinks that FF 8 has the best yet unpolished battle system in the genre. So, no, the problem is not that I don't want to learn mechanics, they're just bad. The game urges you to use Gambits, so you can play without pressing buttons except for movement. That's just awful. I've wasted 70 hours on FF 13 just a week ago and I can say that it wasn't AS bad thanks to constant need to change paradigms if you want to speed things up. I'm not saying that FF 13 is good, perhaps 13-2 or Lightning Returns are but definitely not the first one. It's just that it has less battles in the first half, better art direction(why would you even like deserts, blank mines and catacombs?) and the OST is much-much better objectively. The story might be worse, not gonna argue but I can't say FF12's first half is any better. I mean, even FF 1 at least had a time loop and a paradox like in Terminator, pretty origin for a fantasy game in 80s.