NameIsRobertPaulson said:
Major questions must be answered:
1) How much skill customization are we given? Eight's level of change your stats? Seven's equipping of abilities from items? Ten's giant grid of skills? Twelve's EVEN LARGE grid of skills? Or 13's strictly linear path (worst option)
2) If your leader dies, is it Game Over? If that's the case, the game can go screw itself.
3) Are there side quests or mini-games before 25 hours? Is there stuff to do when the story gets boring? Is grinding possible to power over the bosses?
4) Can we play as Lightning at some point?
If these questions are answered correctly, I'll try the game. If not, no thank you.
FF is NOT A HARD FORMULA.
1)From what I understand skill customization is still not great but you do learn roles faster and the monster customization will allow you to break the game if you wanted and were diligent enough same as with the sphere grid in X, Materia in VII and junction system in VIII.
2)Apparently not I havent tried it personally but I have been told if youre leader dies you are given control of the other still standing character and have a chance to revive.
3)It seems to be the case yes but I am only taking this info from the few reviews I have read so will have to wait and see I suppose for confirmation oh and it seems you can power level if you want to as well, there are no artificial restrictions this time.
4)From what I understand the amount of time you spend playing as Lightning is very little
Not sure why FF is not a hard formula making anything is always a lot harder than it first appears once you try and hammer everything out then again if you want to generalise everything nothing is a hard formula.
I have played the demo and it seems ok I did finish and even got my plat on XIII so I got some enjoyment out of it the combat seems ok but im just worried it will take ages to come to fruition again so it will just be auto attack for the first 20 hours or so because it isnt worth manually selecting commands and timing their execution until you are up against the really strong enemies if it gets to that stage faster though I will be happy as eventually XIIIs combat was quite possibly the strongest in the series.
I wont be getting the game on release because Soul Calibur V takes precedence but it will be a purchase at some point although news that Snow and Hope (my two most hated characters in XIII) have prominant roles in this game as well (especially Snow damn I hope he dies in this one) doesnt make me that happy, still at least I can have chocobos and tonberrys in my team this time so that should make up for it.
