LogFAQs > #932330304

I'm tempted to say FF12 is the best designed jrpg. It kind of nails everything for me. It's got fantastic wilderness, fantastic towns/npc, fantastic party customization, the fucking gambit system which every game should have, a pretty solid story, mostly interesting party members, and a shitload of side content. Theres really nothing it doesn't do well.

The sort of divisive part of the game is the combat though. It's similar to xenoblade if you could tell your party members exactly how to respond to any situation. You basically have an ordered list of AI lines for each character. Stuff like If ally hp < 50%, use cure. It executes the highest line that meets the criteria so at the bottom you probably have something like Always, nearest enemy, attack. You can manually choose actions in combat that will override that but the fun of the game is designing a party setup and gambit list that will handle the enemies in the current zone as well as quickly figuring out a way to counter something that isn't handled by your gambit set up.

I love it but plenty of people absolutely despite it. Also the main character is just kind of along for the ride. Ashe or baltheir are really the main characters but they didn't think that'd be relateable enough so they added in a teen protagonist that has very little connection to the plot. He's not a bad character or anything, just feels like he is far less relevant to whats going on than some of the other party members.

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