Well I have now played about 10 hours of this game and although it has similar gameplay to the previous games but looks much much nicer (think cut scenes are like the Final Fantasy film and the ingame graphics aren't that far behind) it seems to be more like an interactive movie. You seem fated to follow a predetermined path unlike previous FF games that I have played where you can wander round the game world where ever you liked. I'm not saying I dislike the game but the level of immersion doesn't seem to be as high as you lack a control of where your going. Apart from this I don't really have any complaints. The levelling/stats system takes a bit of getting used to. In FFIIX you collected elemental magic from enemies and stored this up and linked it to your stats. I thought that was a weird system but X goes further. You get spheres from battles and use this to activate power, mana and ability nodes on your sphere grid. Its quite confusing as there is no clear path of advancement in abilities. I think I have a couple of characters going round in circles of low level stat increases. I suppose 10 hours of play isn't that large an amount and I may adjust to the system yet (even though MGS2, Headhunter and Onimusha were all finished in about 10 hours or less).
Anyone else playing this? (I know LNCPapa is cause I just had to suffer his latest set of additional pictures to the "Picture of you and where you post from" thread and saw it on his DVD stand)
Anyone else playing this? (I know LNCPapa is cause I just had to suffer his latest set of additional pictures to the "Picture of you and where you post from" thread and saw it on his DVD stand)
