I picked this up yesterday. I have to say I cant stand it. I havent played a JRPG in a few years, so maybe its the genera I dont like. But the dialog is horrible, I mean really bad. I want to personally kill every character except one so far. The combat is frustrating and uninspired and for me down right boring. I have been using the auto combat, but that just makes the game even more boring. The characters talk to you like your an idiot. "To climb a ladder, walk up to it and press "A" you will then climb the ladder. You can use the stick to move up and down the ladder. Do you understand?" Then you click I understand and they say "Ok so you understand. To climb the ladder you press "A" and then use the controll stick to move up and down. Im glad you go it." This would be ok if it was in the first 10 or 15 minutes of the game, but this is several hours in. And every action you take you have to press "A". And they go through this explanation every time you encounter some thing. Not to mention when you get close, it pops up on the screen. "Press A to climb ladder" Ugh.
Im going to stick it out a bit more and see if maybe it gets better, but right now, im about 5 hours in, and it is driving me crazy. This is the first Xbox360 game I bought that I wish I didnt.
Heh, my roommate beat it in 4 days. He liked it. It does pick up a bit and some of the environments later on (and some of the golems) are graphically STUNNING. A lot of the spell effects get fantabulous too.
Also, yea. It's a bog standard JRPG. I'm kinda excited about PSU. I think Fabricated is also. I COULD BE WRONG.
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