I like the fact that there's no romance and that it focuses on Ashe more than Vaan - everything I'd always heard about the game up until it's release had Ashe as the main character, anyway, and the plot IS about Dalmasca and the Resistance, so why shouldn't it focus on her?
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I guess b/c Vaan was being force fed to us as the main character early on that people are put off b/c he's actually not, at least not in the portion I've played.
Yes, Vaan is plainly presented as the main character throughout most of the game. He should have more to do with the goings on of the story, as it is, he's just "along for the ride", which is admittedly weak.
Really, Balthier should be the main character, he's the only one that's remotely interesting or developed beyond a one dimensional character.
The plot itself is grand, but the storytelling is weak and sloppy, as is the character interaction and development.
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its not what i said, its what famitsu in japan stated. personally i prefer X
and yes i do agree that ashe seems more like the main character. But why bother to tag vaan along when all he does is beep like r2d2 and his parter c3po(penello) rambles along? Noticed that there are similarities to star wars, vayne(palpatine) and gabranth (vader) while balthier is very han solo and you all know who princess ashe is... its obvious, notice that vaan has alot of silver red blue? There he goes, r2d2
Though 12 does not focus much on the characters history and background unlike the others like vii and X
But i wonder can FFXIII be the next best one? What do you guys think
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the story is pretty much focus on the political issues in ivalice, not around the characters, and i have to say i like that alot. Because is a political history (set in a fantasy world) it takes longer to kick in and develope. Is about the whole Ivalice, and the effects politics has on all the people, not just your party, and how a few people can make a difference.
I don't know if it could top FF7, but it ranks high on my favourite list. It's and intricated plot, and I think everyone can compare it to Star Wars,not just quite, but it resembles it a lot
about post above: Fran and Balthier = Han and Chewie
Bhujerba = Cloud City
yensa sand people = tusken raider
Resistance = Rebels
I know Wedge and Biggs (regular characters in all FF)are like and homage to Star Wars, but this one could almost be a copy of SW
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well archades sounds like imperiel center on coruscant. And gabranth is very darth vader while balthier is han solo,
O and the millinieum falcon is like the strahl. Gamespot did mention that its the japanese version of star wars.
i kind of agree, star wars is like the western version of fantasy while final fantasy is the japanese type of fantasy
Lol lets not forget the "star destroyers" we see in FFXII and not to forget the "death star". And the name for leviathen also came from another star wars game. Darth malaks flag ship the "leviathen". i guess ghiss is another similarity to malak. brutal and brainless
I'm in the Ozmone Plain right now. I haven't been playing too much, and need to do some more leveling. Damn birds
Though I did give Vaan some licenses for bows and if I run into a Zu, I usually swap his weapons with Fran's, since Fran and Balthier are currently about 4-5 levels below everyone else.
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