FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE

One of my favorite games. 8.5+/10 world, 8.5/10 characters. Basch might be my favorite character out of any video game or movie. I really like the gambit combat system. I am not a fan of the job system since I can never decide what to pick. I constantly wrestle between lore and what I should do generally speaking. If you don't care about lore and just play to optimize and don't care who does what then this won't be a problem for you. Solid game overall and one of the better Final Fantasy's out there. I'd say 6, 7, and 10 are better than 12. 9 and 13 are worse than 12.

Among the best Final Fantasy games there is. Great music, amazing landscapes, probably the best of what the ATB system could evolve into, captivating world building, cool bosses and dungeons, and intuitive controls. On the opposite side, the eons are a bit better, but still not great, the game still requires quite some farming (like its predecessors) and I think is a cheap way to make a game last longer if abused of, which can easily happen in gaming unfortunately. Although some of it was fixed, it is still a reminder of an era when too many games needed guides so you could enjoy the whole content. Compared to its previous episode, the lack of extremely tear-jerking events might disappoint, sipping from how its characters were less emotionally involving, likely due to how more time is given to the events of the universe rather than to the characters themselves. It is extremely unfortunate that the next episode happening in this universe was not on the same console, when a second big game would have been a great and more deserving way of exploring and living in Ivalice. With that being said, those drawbacks shine due to how the rest of the game is awesome, I wanted more of it when I finished the story, I wish it were longer, and with a next episode in the same setting, at the same scale of a home console game, that game deserves recognition.