The first meaningful advancements in turn-based battles since Final Fantasy X. The brave and default system is genius. It drives me crazy that Square Enix was so surprised by this game's success. Nobody stopped wanting turn-based RPGs, they were just starting to get stale and needed to be iterated on, not abandoned entirely.
The end of the game is monotonous and highly questionable, as anyone will tell you. The biggest offense in my mind is that in order to get what one would consider the "true" ending, one has to completely ignore everything the game is telling you about its themes. The game was more or less asking me to both do something extremely monotonous, AND be oblivious. I refused.
The end of the game is monotonous and highly questionable, as anyone will tell you. The biggest offense in my mind is that in order to get what one would consider the "true" ending, one has to completely ignore everything the game is telling you about its themes. The game was more or less asking me to both do something extremely monotonous, AND be oblivious. I refused.