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i really liked it when i first played it back in the day because i appreciated the narrative deviations from your standard JRPGs into more mature themes and political intrigue. i didn't realize it at the time, because i had never really played any WRPGs at that point, but coming back to it later i realized that a lot of those deviations was Square trying to make a JRPG that was more like a WRPG.

of course, coming back to the Zodiac edition on Steam years later, after having played many many real WRPGs, i realized that FF12 mostly came up short on many of these ways they tried to make it more like a WRPG, and still had many overdone JRPG trappings as well, so it just didn't measure up now that i had some solid things to compare it to.

i did enjoy the Gambit system though. i'm not sure why it was so hated by so many. to me, it is really similar to the Tactics system in Dragon Age: Origins, which is pretty much my favorite combat system ever, and to my knowledge is pretty universally hailed as one of the best parts of the game.