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One of the top 3 worst FF games ever made if not number 1. The story is bland, the voice acting is bland, the combat is non existent, the music is forgettable, is this even FF? Thank God for x4 speed otherwise I wouldn't have made it through. The gambit system is a problem. A mechanic that takes all the gameplay away from you? I beat every boss without pressing a single button which is absolutely bonkers for a single player JRPG. And if you say, "Just don't use gambits." that's like saying don't use any of the unique gameplay mechanics of any FF game. It's a core mechanic and I used it as intended. I did have a little bit of fun setting up the gambits and testing them when I got more tactics options, but once you get your white mage's gambits locked in, the game plays itself. Just have your white mage heal and cure status effects and you'll never lose. If the characters and story were interesting it would soften the blow from the boring gameplay. Vaan is useless, why is he the main character? He does nothing to drive the plot forward. People like to dunk on Tidus from FFX but at least he drives the plot forward. At least the story evolves and unfolds as he does. The story almost gets interesting right at the final confrontation, but it ends abruptly. Such an incredibly boring game on all fronts.

Un JRPG classico rivisitato in chiave moderna, che migliora l’esperienza originale di Final Fantasy XII con grafica rimasterizzata, audio aggiornato e il sistema Zodiac Job che aggiunge profondità e strategia al gameplay. La storia di Vaan, Ashe e dei regni di Ivalice è epica e ben strutturata, con intrighi politici, battaglie per il potere e **** **** sistema di combattimento, basato su Active Dimension Battle con licenze e job, permette grande libertà tattica, premiando pianificazione e scelte strategiche. Le esplorazioni, le missioni secondarie e i dungeon sono ben progettati, con varietà e sfide stimolanti. La colonna sonora rimasterizzata esalta i momenti epici e crea un’atmosfera coinvolgente.Alcuni cali di ritmo e la complessità del sistema di job possono risultare inizialmente ostici ai nuovi giocatori, ma gli appassionati del genere troveranno un titolo profondo e gratificante.

For me, Final Fantasy is at its best when it has a compelling character-driven story. For that reason Final Fantasy XII is already on shaky ground due to its politically-driven story and generally weak characters. After the first couple of hours the story becomes a snoozefest, and even the more interesting characters couldn't keep me invested. Prior entries had fun combat systems, but XII falls short here. The Gambit system is neat, but progression and battles feel like a bit of a chore that you automate away. Thankfully this version has 4x speed so I was able to power through. Speaking of powering through, the game's environments and dungeons feel MMORPG-like and padded. At first the large scope is cool compared to prior entries, but it gets old fast. Overall I found myself playing this on 4x speed just to finish it, but I don't remember much. The side quest hunts were kind of fun, and the cities had some charm but it's not enough for me to recommend this to anyone but the most diehard RPG fans who let the story take a back seat.

Na minha opinião, o MELHOR final fantasy lançado, foi o jogo da minha infância, joguei cerca de 250 horas de muita diversas, jogo com uma história fantástica e jogabilidade muito inovadoras na época e até hoje. O sistema de GF foi o que mais gostei, o fato de você invocar eles e andar com os mesmos em batalhas e fora de série !!

It's incredibly strange. The systems (gambits and licenses) overly complicate the game if you don't understand them well. The combat didn't convince me; I prefer turn-based or action-based, but not a hybrid. The story is interesting at first, but then it declines significantly, and by the end, you just don't care anymore. The characters are very inconsistent, especially the protagonists, who are the worst I can remember in a video game. Quite disappointed after coming from XVI.

Ce final fantasy est sûrement mal aimé parce qu'il fait le pont entre l'aspect rpg et a-rpg des final fantasy récent, ce qui est dommage, le jeu a tellement à offrir à celui qui lui donne sa chance.

Longtemps resté dans un tiroir, j’ai enfin pris le temps de me plonger dans Final Fantasy XII avec sa version The Zodiac Age.Pour parler de cette version, je commencerai par évoquer les nouveaux paramètres et l’ajout du mode vitesse x2/x4, qui a été pour moi une aubaine pour parcourir le jeu et en profiter malgré un temps limité.Graphiquement, ce remaster ne révolutionne pas les yeux. Il n’y a pas de refonte majeure, mais rien de choquant non plus pour nous sortir de l’immersion ou nous rappeler les années passées. Mention spéciale aux cinématiques, comme toujours, qui restent simplement magnifiques.Quant au jeu en lui-même, même en 2025, j’ai passé un excellent moment à le découvrir. Son univers et son scénario m’ont particulièrement marqué. J’ai été surpris par l’écriture des personnages, qu’ils soient alliés ou ennemis : chacun a un intérêt, un objectif et un vécu qui justifie ses actions, à quelques exceptions près.Là où le jeu m’a un peu déçu, c’est au niveau du gameplay. Comparé à d’autres Final Fantasy, même si je ne suis pas spécialement friand du tour par tour, ce système dynamique manque d’interactivité de notre part. Une fois les gambits bien paramétrés, il ne reste finalement que peu de choses à **** n’ai pas exploré l’endgame, qui semble bien plus complexe.Bref, j’ai passé un très bon moment sur ce jeu.

Awful, grindy MMO combat, ugly recycled environments, area uploads every two minutes. And don't even start me on the whole "It's a PS2 game!". There are numerous PS2 games that still look good today thanks to strong artistic vision and style, and FFXII has neither. Almost every single mission is "Go there, kill X enemies / collect Y amount of something, go back". And of course you have to kill 25 million generic enemies in the process, because this is just SO. MUCH. FUN. I really wanted to revisit Ivalice because I'm a big fan of the FF Tactics games, but this barely even felt like the same setting. Everything is now 100% Middle East-inspired, even though there were almost no signs of this in the previous titles. People get killed left and right, even though there were no killings in the Tactics games. Skill progression is needlessly convoluted. I understand that they tried to call back to the Tactics titles, but the Zodiac system feels out of place here. It's bad enough I have to buy a license to wear or use every tiny thing, because apparently wearing a bracelet or a hat is some kind of an extraordinary skill you need to learn. The only two things I was totally satisfied with were music and voice over. I liked the rearranged older themes, as well as the new music, and the quality voice over really brings life to these otherwise pretty ugly character models. I know FF series is known for its variety and experimentation. Over the course of history, some experiments were successful, while others were not. FF XII is definitely among the latter. The plot is actually not that bad, but in order to follow it you'll have to endure through countless grind-heavy locations that are as visually appealing as a barf puddle.

Most under appreciated ff, imo way better than 10 which I know is a minority opinion. The story and 2 main young protagonists are bland but the gameplay is excellent. I find the characters in 10 to be also annoying with much worse gameplay.

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The MMORPG like real-time combat is a neat spin on things and encourages different strategical thinking. Characters are a bit dry for a game in this series, but the overarching plot about an evil empire encroaching on its neighbors is good stuff.

I would have given the original for PS2 a 7/10, but this remaster makes significant improvements to the gameplay and gets an 8/10 from me. Only the story and characters remain the same: a tad flawed. Worth playing by both fans and newcomers.

The Story, the battle system and the Characters are all great, except for two, Vaan and Penelo considerably drag down the rest of the cast. Vaan is quite possibly the worst protagonist in the FF franchise and Penelo really doesn't offer anything to the story or party besides being Vaan's childhood friend/love interest. Even with the original game I thought it would've been better had Reks been the protagonist instead of killing him off.

A masterpiece. I usually write long reviews but I think just saying that to my taste It's the best FF Story, Lore and Gameplay and the remaster for PS4/PS5, PC, Xbox, and Switch is doing the game real justice. The graphics and resolution is great, the freedom and free-roaming vibes are amazing, the music like in every FF game is remarkable and great and the story worth re watching on youtube I went and watched it as a movie in 4K and it was amazing, Love it almost as much as I like A song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones) and other memorable stories. I won't give spoilers but I'll just say that at first I loved the other characters but there's a time when the protagonist says he was running from himself and now become true to himself and I grew to love him as well, all the characters are very very cool and interesting, To sum it up: Story: 10/10 Graphics: 8.8/10 (and that's right after playing VII Rebirth) Characters: 10/10 Gameplay: 10/10 Combat: 10/10 Free Roam: 10/10 The game is a 10/10 and the graphics are amazing they don't look next gen in the sense of what we are used to but the high resolution frame rate and colors still looks amazing I don't care.

Great game, now with new mechanics that really change your gameplay. You really need to think what equips/special moves you need, especially for end game, to build your party. And the 4x speed reeeally makes the grinding sessions a walk in the park, create a tournessol required at least a full day on ps2, now in a few hours you can farm the ingredients.

A perfect remaster for a perfect game! This game is already amazing and the gambit system is already one of the series best, but this somehow perfects it even more! <3

An excellent game. Characters are not all kids for once. The main character, is not the character you start the game with. Once you understand this and how the story plays out, the characters become a lot more endearing. this is not explicitly stated in the game. But once you play into it a ways, you will also realize this. The game has aged very well. Ivalice is a great background for FF games.

It’s everything I want from a final fantasy game. Zodiac Age makes some good quality of life improvements over the original.

I didn't like the combat system and the leveling system. The Ost is beautiful, but that is all.

For me FF12 feels like the game of the empty corridors and characters who don't care for each other, like really all interior levels are a set of soulless empty squares with enemies in it. The towns look great at the first glance, but then you realise that you cannot do anything there: no sidequests, no minigames, no puzzles to solve, no optional characters to obtain, thus loose all interest quickly. Same goes for open areas, they look promising first but really don't hold any secrets to uncover so exploration soon feels unrewarding. I really liked design of characters (except Penelo) but their stories are never to be discovered on a deep personal level (like in prior FFs with cleverly placed sidequests, intermission dialogues and personal interaction cutscenes that don't touch big main storyline), and so you cannot fully connect to them. Apart from that the whole plot is a political sci fi drama observed by your "don't know what I'm doing here" main protagonist Vaan. Idea that your hero is a random chap who got accidentally caught up in big political game is OK, but at some point he needed to get special purpose or attachment to more significant characters. I can easily see all royalty related characters waving goodbyes to Vaan and Penelo and the end of the game: "Thank you for your service guys, it's highly unlikely We'll ever see each other again, bye!" And yes, often story reminds you a Star Wars fan fiction. There will not be any love stories, challenging friendships, characters origins to be discovered, double agents, characters development and plot twists - yes, all these are cliches that will nevertheless thrill us for as long as storytelling exists. People and their destinies evoke emotions, not solely kingdoms fighting each other for power. Balthier and Fran's introduction (basically Han Solo and sexy Chewbaka) was pretty cool and I expected these two charming rogues-lovers to amuse me with their moraly ambiguos behavior and witty arguments for the rest of the game but that was it, couple of good scenes and basta. No random accounters was a big step forward in the genre, gets high five here. Fighting system is ok, gambits though not nessesary to use until you get deeper into the game are themselves no fun and really rob you of combat diversity, disencouraging you from using different abilities, support magic etc. That's the biggest dealbreaker - because of battle speed you're forced to build these boring gambits and then just watch how they are being executed in battle without your active participation. And of course as enemies change on your way you have to constantly optimize gambits - wich is so tiresome. I prefere to do my decisions on the spot, not thoroughly thinking in advance "Ok what else would I do if...?" Licence Board is confusing, it's easy to spend all your points for nothing good till you learn what it's for. Idea that in order to equip some advanced gear you need to get a permission in Licence Board first is irritating. Job System again does detaches you from characters, depriving them of unique characteristics that match theit backstory and personas. Job Synergy is unnessesary headache. And it's easy to constantly forget that chain attacks work only on killing enemies of one type. When FF12 first came out on PS2 I beat it and exhaled Oh Gosh finally it has ended, felt like a lot of work has been put in it and that deservse a big respect, but eventually I got unamusing and forgetable experience. But ever since I was bewildered cause everyone loves it so much and it got highest rankings from Metacritic and Famitsu. Massive respect to all FF12 fans though, maybe be one day I give it another shot and will discover the same joy you guys did, Cheers!

One of the best Final Fantasy. I love turn based FF. Good history, graphics, combat system. A true Final Fantasy game. If you liked to play the old ones, will love this game as well.

If you can, give it a try once its on sale. This is one of the best RPG to get into, even these days XII holds well. The battle system is very dynamic with and without the gambits active (i know, SHOCKING how people tend to criticize that "the AI plays for you" instead of just toggle the option OFF and play like a standard turn-based combat if you want to your choices to be precise as such). Lots of classes, weapons, armors, magicks and builds to make. The graphics on the ps2 versions was beautiful and pretty much the best you could get for that time; in the remaster its... fine, the art design in almost everything looks stunning, but what can hold you back if you are more into the modern ultra-realistic type of graphics its the character models, they look too animesque, but since i don't go for that, it doesn't bother me at all. The story, not get into spoilers, reads like if you ask for a star wars fan to recite the main conflicts in the original and prequel trilogy's to a fan-fic writer; it will be too serious for some people sometimes, and it won't get your attention unless you open up to endure the politics of the world. And its a big BIG world that seems so alive and interconnected in an amazing way that we don't see as much these days. Every enemy, every boss, heck, even non-hostile NPC's seems believable where they spawn live, with the weather conditions of the region, like when you visit an area that its completely dry, the mobs that will spawn there will be more desert type creatures that can live in those environment; if you come back later in the game to these same region when the rain season start, all the human npcs won't be there anymore and the enemies that you'll encounter will be stronger and amphibious-like creatures that can live in that conditions. And also if you spend more time inside those regions, the rain can get heavy, turning into a thunderstorm, and you will encounter something really bad.

No es el mejor juego de la historia ni el mejor final fantasy, pero aún así es mi juego favorito, tiene algo mágico para mi, aparte de todos los recuerdos que tengo de el. Es un juego al que tengo que volver cada cierto tiempo y siempre lo disfruto como cuando era niño, las cacerías me parecen muy satisfactorias, un mundo precioso de explorar a pie, un combate y tablero de licencias innovador para la época y muy bien implementado, y personajes que aunque criticados por muchos, muy reales en las situaciones que les toca vivir

Ya había jugado esta obra maestra en PS2, pero ante ayer comencé jugarlo en el PS5, lo vi en la suscripción ps premium y lo descargue y la verdad es que la mejoracion es bastante notable, desde el audio, los gráficos muy hermoso, la verdad hicieron un gran trabajo con este Remaster 10/10 sin duda.

I thought i won't like this one, but it turns out that i loved it ! Excellent Open World J-RPG

I recommend pick one up lot action and also song beautiful and excellent graphic and good day

A unique work, one of the best to date. This game will definitely enter the top, created by a diverse, experienced, versatile and not envious gamer. A legend for a real dreamer. From Gabranth with Love.

Graphics are awesome, even better than the original, that were already amazing. That's probably the best part of the game. As for the rest, thos might be one of the most forgattable Final Fantasy games ever. Gambit system is completely flawed, altered status mechanics are unbalanced, specially virus effect, traps just don't work propperly, espers are not charismatic, the story starts promising to be one of the bests stories of all the franchise and then goes worse and worse... It's sad, I really wanted to remember how it was to play a classic Final Fantasy before the XVI releases... I should have tried the 10th.

Best FF i've played. Ahead of its tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime

The game is wonderful, its Gameplay is very fun and despite its history you entertain yourself very well

Geate game. Beautiful music, a lot of main and guest characters, and a big world to explore. I have spent 50 hours on this game and I enjoyed every second of it.

worth it and glad to play this game again. so much memories and nostalgia within this eleventh game in the series. this collection is great.

El mismo juego sobresaliente de entonces, con sus fallas argumentales, remasterizado. Yo, más feliz que una perdiz.

Much more enjoyable with a guide. Without a guide, it can be very frustrating but with a guide it’s a 7,8 at the highest. Definitely far better than both 13 and 15 which were absolute garbage.

Tradução para português logo abaixo. This is the remaster to one of the amazing games ever made. To me, the best Final Fantasy. The combat mode é the perfect union between the homesick shift style and the "modern" active combat, whose can be still better with the Gambit systems. The 30 marks (quests) extend the gaming time in dozens of hours, which show itself as extremely funs. As the spers, which one with its own exclusive limitation on battle. It has a incredible story, as there's in every Final Fantasy Game. This is a game you'll want to get a platinum trophy, or how we used to say in PS2, complete the Sky Pirate's Den. Português: Esse é o remaster de um dos melhores jogos já feitos. Para mim, o melhor Final Fantasy. O modo de combate é a junção perfeita entre o saudoso estilo de turno e o "moderno" método de combate ativo, que pode ficar ainda melhor pelo sistema de Gambits. As marks (quests) aumentam o tempo de jogo deste título em dezenas de horas, que se mostram extremamente divertidas. Assim como os espers, cada um com sua limitação de batalha exclusiva. A história é incrível, como em todos os FF, e cada quest secundária é "bem paga" pelo seu desdobrar. Este é um jogo que com certeza vai te fazer querer platinar, ou como era no PS2, completar o Sky Pirate's Den.

Final Fantasy XII ist und bleibt der meines Erachtens beste Ableger des Final Fantasy Franchises bisher. Mit modifiziertem Job-System und aufpolierter Grafik wurde das erste Semi-Open-World Spiel der Final Fantasy Geschichte nun exklusiv für die PS4 neu aufgelegt. Und FFXII ist eines der Spiele, die wirklich in Würde gealtert sind. Noch immer fasziniert das großartige Artdesign der an Star Wars angelehnten Spielewelt. Noch immer begeistern die famosen Endgegner und Esper Battles, die man letztlich nur mit der richtigen Strategie und Vorbereitung effektiv bestehen kann. Noch immer lädt das taktische, halbautomatisierte Kampfsystem zum experimentieren und optimieren ein. Auch die Geschichte, die in toll präsentierten In Game Cut Scenes erzählt wird, zählt nach wie vor mit zum erwachsensten was das Final Fantasy Franchise hervorgebracht hat. Dank des hervorragend gemachten HD Remasters, kann man nun nochmals für mindestens 60 bis 70 Spielstunden in die fantastische Welt von FFXII zurückkehren. Um Monster zu jagen, Dungeons zu erforschen, Esper zu bezwingen oder einfach den spannenden Mainquests zu folgen. FFXII war zu seiner Zeit äußerst innovativ und optisch ein Kunstwerk und auch heute steht das Spiel immer noch für sich und hat über die Jahre kaum an Qualität und Reiz eingebüßt.

Where to start...... main character Who the **** is the main character? is it vahn or that ewan mcgregor sounding guy. Who knows? the story is boring with politics and war which FFXIV did amazingly. I don't even know what the story is about because I fell asleep after the first hour. revenge plot? maybe? the combat is like an MMO that has been developed by the laziest gamer ever because you just push the action button once and everyone fights for you. SOOOOOOOOO BORING. didn't finish penelope is annoying. nuf said.

The game is okay for switch players. :) if you getting lost or something just walking around the map.

I played this game originally on a PS2 years ago. Didn't quite finish it, so I picked the Zodiac Age version up to tick the game off of my unfinished games list. This review is more of an overall review of FF XII, not the "Zodiac Age" part. Am a huge FF fan. The FF XII left me wanting more though... The story - a classic Final Fantasy, but the characters weren't really that interesting sadly - the main bloke, Vaan - I didnt really feel a connection to the character. You can obviously focus on playing anybody else as your go-to guy (or a girl) but for me, nobody really held much interest. I was also not a big Gambit & License system fan. It just seems like overcomplicating the mechanics - not making them harder, but making it a chore system that really doesn't need that much tinkering (Had to buy a bazillion gambits, just the vendor click-and-buy everything was such a chore on it's own) I did enjoy my time in the game once it got going though. I put roughly 45hours into the game - doing some random side questing and just exploring around. By the time I got to the end I was a bit too overpowered. I basically did all the end battles on a gambits ON auto battle. My team was Vaan 65; Basch 50 & Penelo 50. Felt really underwhelming, but can't blame the game for this - I think my gambits and team just ended up working perfectly. It's a solid game, but since the FF bar is pretty high, I felt it didn't deliver the great Final Fantasy experience I was after. Probably not gonna tackle the New Game+ in the future.

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When does this game get good? Seriously? It boggles the mind that it has a huge following. Do people love the combat so much that they just forget the pathetically boring storyline? I've streamed over 60 hours of this game and people who love it keep going oh this bits boring, oh this bit ****, oh yeah this bits annoying, and its like what do you enjoy about the game? Seriously? I think I'm ready to give up despite probably not being anywhere near the end. Nice music now and again but do not recommend anyone to play, please play Final Fantasy 7 8 9 or 10 if you want to get into the series, and avoid this one at all cost.

Whilst no where near as good as the previous Final fantasy games from 4-10, there's still a really interesting world to explore and an interesting setting to go with it. The graphics are top quality and the gameplay also feels very smooth at times. However when it comes to story it's just average. It doesn't have the engagement or emotion of the previous titles, instead it's just a little too hard to understand and get into. The cast is also relatively weak compared to previous titles. I'm also not a huge fan of the combat. It gets tiring real fast and it doesn't feel right mechanically to me. It also doesn't require very much strategy, unlike the previous games. But the combat does flow well and I will give it that. So overall it's a somewhat decent game that is somewhat enjoyable. It's just not good enough by final fantasy standards.

As always, came here to restore the truth about the game. The score it got on metacritic from professional reviewers and users is way too high, ppl are clearly not obbjectiv about the quality of this game. Graphics : 10/10 For the game age, they are pretty solid. Nothing to complain about. The remaster is also great, i didn't encounter any bug or glitch. Framerates are smooth. Musics : 7/10 Good enough but you won't remember any of them. Fight System : 4/10 Totally bad, it's auto mode 95% of the time. If you don't run away any fights and if you set your gambits properly (the option to make your character behaving depending of what is happening), you won't need to touch your gamepad during fights, even against bosses... You don't need magics, you don't need eons (invocations), you don't need to use objects (most of the time). Well the game doesn't need you at all. There is no strategy involved... well, the worst fight system i saw in a J-RPG... Story : 5/10 Nothing impressive, it is a standard story that we have seen multiple times in video games, movies and books. It's just good enough to make you continue to play the game till the end. Characters : 4/10 Their design is good but there is almost no development for them. Psychologically, there is nothing. Also there is no connexion between them despite they are having an adventure together but still, they rarely talk together and it seems like there is no bond between them. Like a bunch of ppl forced to be together to save the world. Really really bad when you compare them to the previous Final Fantasy games. World : 7/10 Great world BUT places to visit are way too big without any reasons, just to increase the game lengh... Most of the time you will be wandering in the world being a spectator of automated fights. It's a chance that the game has an option to move x2 or x4 faster... I don't know how the players who had played it on PS2 did to accept to loose so much time doing nothing... Well, overall it's an average (+) game and a really bad Final Fantasy... Good enough to go through it but not good enough to come back or to consider it as a classic. If you have other games to play, play them, FFXII is not worth your time.

L'ultimo Final Fantasy che ho giocato e anche il primo che non ho finito (Non per la difficoltà). Che dire, trama confusa e poco interessante, **** molto piatti e meccanica action bizzarra. Probabilmente troppi cambiamenti in un solo titolo che ha il peso del nome Final Fantasy. Un gioco così noioso che a metà della storia l'ho abbandonato. Forse sarà un buon action rpg, ma allo stesso tempo è un pessimo Final Fantasy.

This game is one of my all time favourites. I was very excited when it became available on the PS4. I’ve been chasing the platinum trophy off and one and the amount of content after the story is completed is fantastic. I really enjoy the gambit and job system and felt it was the perfect way to be creative with combat. The story is great, but in my opinion it wasn’t as good as a couple of the other final fantasy games I’ve played.

Do you enjoy watching a good movie or playing a deep and immersive RPG? Yes? Don't play this game then. I never played the original 2006 FFXII game, but I have played around other 4 FF games (no MMOs) and many others RPGs and JRPGs and I can confidently say this is the worst thing I have laid my hands on from SE. Whereas the artwork and music (this one specially in the remaster, from what I have heard) is fantastic and distinct from previous FF titles, the positives ends there. Playing this game you can already feel the snowball effect that would make FFXIII the disaster that it was, mainly because of the boring story and completely forgettable, arbitrarily chosen and devoid of meaning names (places and characters) that make the boring political story hard to follow, specially when at various points the cutscenes consist of characters exposing plot points or other characters' actions rather than the game actually showing it to us. There's nothing attractive from the story-telling side, not even the protagonist, Vaan, or his interactions with the rest of the cast. The game has different prototypical characters that could interact with each other in many interesting ways, but the game is too afraid to make them talk to each other except when it comes to the soporific plot. Despite this, FFXV surprisingly ripped off half of its core plot concepts from this game, making a weird frankenstein from this game and the original concept of FFXIII Versus. As for the game itself, it can be described as a pointless grind. Yes, the game offers a fast-forward feature for you to skip any dragging moments you want, but that already points out the inherent flaw of the game: you don't play the game, the game plays itself. Except when you need something, then the grinding is on you. You have to spend too much time programming all of your characters' AI (no exceptions) for them to do simple things and then, when an enemy has a slight change in its attacks, like casting different de-buffs or absorbing an element, you have to pause the game mid-fight, change the Gambit system of your characters, and then resume watching. Adding to this, another big problem I have with the characters "independence" is that they move on their own once they're engaged in battle, even your leader, which makes them move around and sometimes go into a corner where the camera looks down and impedes you to see anything. This is the usual except, of course, when it comes to bosses: you may feel like you're grinding too much as you kill different basic enemies and they don't even damage you, but suddenly you'll face a boss that kills your entire party no matter the healing counter measures you apply to their AI, after which you'll be staring at the "Select the new leader of the group" or "Your party has been wiped out, select the back up members to fight" messages as you're left mouth opened and thinking you should just eject the disc and throw it out the window. What's more, when you eventually defeat a boss you are rewarded basically nothing whereas when you defeat a hunt objective (side missions' mini bosses) you are rewarded something, just not anything worth the time you put into going to the locations and defeating the special enemy. I have played a couple of the Souls series games and felt they were not difficult at all, and dying in them felt like a mild inconvenience and not like a time wasting scam. This game's unfair development of battles evokes in me a pure and unadulterated anger, as not only I am removed of any sense of agency one should be entitled to when playing a videogame, but the game also wants you to spend too much time grinding so that you can spend more time inside the menus unlocking things like what objects your characters can equip. If you haven't figured out why, the game actually wants you to do this as to avoid you realising you're not really doing anything except micro managing and grinding. This is, without a doubt, an unrewarding game. Usually JRPGs need you to invest a lot of time but the fun factor never disappears. Dragon Quest XI hooked me for 110 hours, and so did Persona 5 for other 100+ hours. And yes, they are newer games, but I also completed FF X-2 back in the day, a slightly older game than this one, and got the same fun out of it. I am sorry to all its lovers, but with FF XII, I have been unable to spend more than 2 or 3 hours playing it until I got mad or bored and had to stop playing it for a day or two. I usually play games to experience a good story, have a sense of accomplishment, complete challenges that force me to think or be skillful at the game, or for overall escapism. This game has given me none of that in the 20+ hours I dedicated to it. Instead, all I got was an uninteresting story, bland characters, a boring game loop and an unfair battle simulator. If you appreciate your time and like having fun, play any other FF game or any other game at all except this one.

Jogo incrivel ! Vale muito a pena se aventurar nessa história maravilhosa, com o melhor sistema de batalha de todos os Final Fantasys da franquia (minha opinião). Vale a pena joga-lo seja pela nostalgia ou para conhecer ! Não vai se arrepender

A Masterful piece in the FF Universe, gripping history and fun mechanics!. The job sistem is my favorite part!

The curtain call for the Golden Age of Final Fantasy.Matsuno Yasumi's magical fantasy

Great remaster of PS2 game. I have always wanted to play Final Fantasy XII. After I played it on PS4, I fell in love with Princess Ashe. She was such a great character.