One of the most anime games I've seen in my life, I laughed a lot mentally while playing it. I wouldn't recommend starting to play it despite it being chronologically the first game in the series not only because of the partial spoiler-final for the other games in the series, but also because it answers more fan questions than letting you just play yourself and enjoy the story, I'd even say it ranks alongside Dream Drop Distance in terms of importance of understanding the plot of the other installments.
Terrible combat system, forcing to grind, lack of combat dynamics (seriously, the parts of Nintendo DS were much better in this respect, and the PSP "can do more" than DS, because of which all the fights looked very scripted, and some of them are objectively unfair.
It's unlikely that Nomura was inspired by Nier 2010 (Simply because BBS came out 3.5 months before Nier 2010) when he created BBS, when he came up with an idea like, "Let's go through the same thing 3 times with some minor changes?". It's objectively a dumb way to present the story. What was the difficulty of giving the opportunity to pass for each character different locations and make these runs shorter, more succinctly integrated into the narrative? Meh.
The phrase "Everyone in this game is an idiot" fits this game perfectly. Idiot Terra, no comment, idiot+infantile Ventus, self-sacrificing idiot Aqua, blind idiot Erakus, corrupt idiot Braig, generic-anime-evil-villain because "I wonder what would happen if the world was plunged into darkness again" Xeanort, yeah, that's funny.
One of the most graphically perfect games for the PSP? Yes.
I think I've said all I need to say.
Terrible combat system, forcing to grind, lack of combat dynamics (seriously, the parts of Nintendo DS were much better in this respect, and the PSP "can do more" than DS, because of which all the fights looked very scripted, and some of them are objectively unfair.
It's unlikely that Nomura was inspired by Nier 2010 (Simply because BBS came out 3.5 months before Nier 2010) when he created BBS, when he came up with an idea like, "Let's go through the same thing 3 times with some minor changes?". It's objectively a dumb way to present the story. What was the difficulty of giving the opportunity to pass for each character different locations and make these runs shorter, more succinctly integrated into the narrative? Meh.
The phrase "Everyone in this game is an idiot" fits this game perfectly. Idiot Terra, no comment, idiot+infantile Ventus, self-sacrificing idiot Aqua, blind idiot Erakus, corrupt idiot Braig, generic-anime-evil-villain because "I wonder what would happen if the world was plunged into darkness again" Xeanort, yeah, that's funny.
One of the most graphically perfect games for the PSP? Yes.
I think I've said all I need to say.